Accounting, ERP & Business Management Software Built for Tanzania and Africa

That depends on whether you need accounting alone or a full ERP. Vitabu covers both: a complete accounting core (chart of accounts, journal entries, AR/AP, financial statements) that a growing business can extend into sales, inventory, POS, payroll and industry-specific add-ons without switching platforms. See the accounting software overview for the full module breakdown.

Yes. Vitabu is a cloud ERP — Finance & Accounting, Sales & CRM, Procurement, Inventory, POS, Banking & Payments, Payroll & HR, Tax & Compliance, Fixed Assets & Budgeting, and Reports & Analytics all run on one platform, accessible from any device. See the full ERP overview.

Tanzania is Vitabu's deepest localization — native TZS, full statutory payroll (NSSF/PAYE/WCF/SDL), and EFD-style receipt confirmation. Kenya and Uganda are also supported, with configurable tax bands standing in for statutory payroll calculations that aren't built in yet for those countries. Multi-currency accounts and the core ERP itself work for any business across the region.

Vitabu's School Management solution handles student and class registers, enrollment, fee structures and invoicing, and academic term tracking — connected directly to the same accounting core, so school finances don't live in a separate spreadsheet from the rest of the institution's books.

Yes — Vitabu is used by SMEs across Tanzania, not just Dar es Salaam, in retail, wholesale, professional services, hospitality, construction, manufacturing and agriculture. The core ERP (accounting, sales, inventory, POS, purchasing) fits any of these directly; construction, manufacturing, agriculture and hospitality also have purpose-built add-ons on top of it.

No accounting or ERP platform carries a blanket "TRA approved" status — TRA approval and certification in Tanzania apply to specific registered fiscal-device suppliers and their devices, not general business software. Vitabu is not a TRA-registered or certified fiscal device today. It generates a fiscal receipt number and verification code for every confirmed invoice, in the same shape TRA's EFD/VFD system produces — a receipt-confirmation workflow built into Vitabu, not a live connection to TRA's own systems. Confirm your business's actual filing obligations directly with TRA or a licensed tax professional.

Vitabu's Tax & Compliance module is built in the same shape as TRA's fiscal system — configurable tax rates, VAT-ready reporting, fiscal receipt numbers and verification codes, and a submission queue — so a move to a live government connection later shouldn't mean rebuilding your workflow. Tanzania's VFD (Virtual Fiscal Device) is a software-based system: since 2020, registered suppliers connect directly to TRA's API to request Government Control Numbers and issue digital fiscal receipts in real time, with no physical device required. Vitabu is not a registered VFD supplier or a certified integration with TRA's systems today. Regulatory terminology and requirements change — verify your current obligations with TRA.

Confirm a sent invoice inside Vitabu and it's assigned a fiscal receipt number and verification code, in the same format TRA's EFD system produces, tracked through a submission queue with validation errors surfaced clearly. See the full walkthrough on fiscal receipts in Tanzania.

Yes. A payroll run in Vitabu calculates NSSF, PAYE, WCF and SDL deductions for Tanzanian employers and posts them straight to your ledger as a balanced journal entry — no separate spreadsheet to keep current by hand.

Vitabu's Tax & Compliance module is VAT-ready — tax rates and returns are configured and tracked alongside the invoices and bills that generate them, so VAT stays reconciled against real transactions rather than a separate spreadsheet.

Vitabu is a Tanzania-built alternative to QuickBooks: double-entry accounting with EFD-style receipt confirmation, TZS pricing, and mobile money reconciliation, plus sales, inventory, POS, payroll and banking on the same ledger. See the full comparison and migration path.

Tally is desktop-first software with optional cloud add-ons; Vitabu is cloud-native, accessible from any device with no local install. Vitabu adds mobile money reconciliation and EFD-style receipts specific to Tanzania, and keeps multiple branches on one shared ledger rather than separate company files to merge later. See the full comparison for a feature-by-feature look — nothing here is a fabricated benchmark.

Vitabu's Free plan is TSh 0/month with no credit card required, scaling through Starter (TSh 29,000/month), Pro (TSh 79,000/month) and Enterprise (TSh 400,000/month) — priced for East African business sizes rather than converted from a US-dollar list. Kenya and Uganda are supported with configurable tax bands; Tanzania remains the deepest localization today.

Yes. Vodacom Lipa Namba and Airtel Lipa Namba transactions reconcile directly into accounting through the Banking & Payments module, alongside Mixx by Yas — see how mobile money reconciliation works in practice.

Yes. The SACCO Management add-on handles member registers, share classes and capital, savings and lending, dividend declarations and cooperative governance records, connected to the same accounting core as the rest of the platform.

Yes — spelled Vikoba in the product itself. The Vikoba (Savings Groups) add-on digitizes community savings groups: group and member registers, contribution schedules, loan issuance and repayment tracking, and meeting minutes, built around how savings groups actually operate rather than a generic loan ledger.

Yes. The Hotel & Hospitality solution covers room types and rate management, reservations and check-in/out, restaurant orders and guest folios, feeding directly into the same accounting and reporting as the rest of the platform.

Yes. The Mining Management solution covers mineral inventory, equipment and maintenance management, production and processing tracking, and mining-specific cost accounting, integrated with the same Inventory, Fixed Assets and Multi-Branch modules every other module uses.