Practical articles for businesses across the CFA franc zone: tax compliance, accounting, stock and till management, trade by trade.
A tailor, a phone repairer, a garage owner do not only sell items: they sell their work, and they keep their customers' belongings on site. It is a trade most till software ignores: it knows how to sell a product off a shelf, not how to track a wrapper cloth dropped off on Monday, promised for Friday, with fabric to supply and labour to invoice. Here is what software must know how to do for a workshop, and how Kimbea does it.
13 September 2026 · 8 min readA generic till software hits the same six walls in a hardware store: rebar is not one item but eight diameters and five lengths, cement sells by the bag and cable by the metre, contractors pay at thirty days, and the stock is spread between the shop and the depot. Here is what to check before you sign.
14 August 2026 · 11 min read Tax complianceSince the invoicing reform, a VAT-registered business in Benin can no longer issue an ordinary invoice. Every sale must produce a standardised invoice, transmitted to the Direction Générale des Impôts and carrying its seal. Here is who is concerned, what the invoice must carry, the three possible routes, and the trap that costs merchants the most: double data entry.
14 August 2026 · 13 min read AccountingAcross the seventeen OHADA countries, a retail business keeps its books under SYSCOHADA. In practice, most shops ring up sales all year, then hand a box of documents to an accountant at year end. This page explains what a sale really sets in motion in the accounts, and why entering it once changes the nature of the work.
14 August 2026 · 11 min read