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Accounting software for South African SMEs
Free accounting for hard-working businesses.
Quote, invoice, get paid and stay SARS-ready. GoBooks gives South African small businesses VAT-correct documents, expense capture, bank statement matching and plain-language reports — free, in one simple dashboard.
No card needed · set up in a few minutes
- VAT 15% automated
- Free for small businesses
- SARS-ready documents
- ZAR native
- Bank statement matching
- AI advisor — no monthly cap
- iPhone & Android app coming soon
- Quotes → Invoices → Paid
- CIPC & B-BBEE on file
- Statements that reconcile
Who's behind GoBooks
Built on the KZN South Coast, not in Silicon Valley.
GoBooks is made by the same team that runs a local print studio and a compliance practice handling CIPC registrations and SARS returns for small businesses. We built it because the businesses we serve needed accounting that speaks rand, VAT and WhatsApp — and costs nothing.
- Company
- Bhodla Nkomo Technologies (Pty) Ltd
- Based in
- Port Shepstone, KZN South Coast
- Support
- A real person at hello@gobooks.co.za
From quote to cash
One clear path for every rand.
GoBooks follows the way money actually moves through a small business — and does the bookkeeping at every step.
1
Quote
Send a professional quote your customer can accept online.
2
Invoice
Convert it to a tax invoice in one click — VAT included.
3
Get paid
Share a payment link and record what comes in.
4
Capture expenses
Snap receipts and bills; GoBooks extracts the details.
5
Reconcile
Match your bank statement to invoices and expenses.
6
Understand
Reports and statements you can actually read.
— 01
Quote to invoice, without retyping a thing
A quote becomes a tax invoice in one click. Send it over WhatsApp or email with a public link your customer can open without logging in, and watch the status move from draft to paid.
- Sequential, audit-safe document numbering
- Quotes sent straight to a customer's WhatsApp
- Pro forma invoices, receipts and customer statements
— 02
Expenses captured, bank statements reconciled
Photograph a receipt or upload a bank statement and GoBooks reads it, stages every transaction for your review, and matches money in and out against invoices and expenses — so your books reflect what the bank says.
- AI document capture for statements, receipts and bills
- One-tap matching of payments to open invoices
- Expense categories that feed straight into reports
— 03
Reports a business owner can read
Cashflow, sales performance, expense breakdowns and a running VAT position — built from your real ledger and written in plain language, not accountant-speak.
- Cashflow and sales trends over the last six months
- Expense breakdown by category
- VAT estimate that tracks output and input VAT
Built for Mzansi
Software that knows where it lives.
Not a foreign tool with the currency switched. GoBooks is built around South African tax, compliance and the way SMMEs actually trade.
[VAT]
15% VAT, everywhere it matters
Line-level VAT on quotes and invoices, VAT-compliant document titles, and a running estimate of what you owe SARS.
[SARS]
SARS-ready by default
Tax PIN, registration details and return-ready summaries live in the Compliance Hub — no shoebox of paper.
[CIPC]
CIPC docs on file
Company registration documents stored alongside your books, ready whenever a tender or bank asks.
[B-BBEE]
B-BBEE affidavit tracking
Keep your affidavit current and close at hand — GoBooks tells you when something is missing.
[ZAR]
Rand native, en-ZA formatted
Amounts, dates and documents formatted the way South African customers and accountants expect.
[WA]
Quotes over WhatsApp
Send a quote to a customer's WhatsApp with a no-login link they can open, accept and pay from.
- Sawubona
- Molo
- Dumela
- Hallo
- Avuxeni
- Ndaa
- Lotjhani
- Sanibonani
- Thobela
Your paperwork, your brand
Documents that represent you well.
Every quote, invoice, receipt and statement leaves GoBooks looking like it came from a business that has its act together — because it does.
GoBooks Advisor
A finance advisor, not a magic trick
The advisor reads your own ledger — cash position, receivables, spending and VAT exposure — and turns it into a short daily briefing with practical next steps. It explains; you decide.
- Flags overdue invoices, ranked by what brings cash in fastest
- Explains your cashflow in plain language
- Points out spending that looks different from last month
- Suggests the next action — review, follow up, reconcile
Works from your real figures only. No predictions, no guesswork.
Pricing
R0 a month. Simple as that.
Everything a small business needs to quote, invoice and stay VAT-ready — free. Upgrade to Pro only if you need more AI scans.
R0
Free for South African small businesses
R0 per month
- Quotes, invoices, receipts and statements
- 15% VAT on every document
- Expenses, bills and receipt capture
- Bank statement import and matching
- Reports, and an AI finance advisor with no monthly cap
- 50 AI document scans a month
PRO
GoBooks Pro — optional
R79 per month incl. VAT
- Everything in Free
- 500 AI document scans a month
- Priority support from the GoBooks team
- Cancel any time — Pro stays on until the end of the month you paid for
Upgrade from inside GoBooks whenever you need it.
SEC
Your data is safe and yours
Your financial records are private to your business.
- Encrypted in transit (HTTPS) and at rest
- Hosted in a secure EU (Ireland) data centre
- Built with POPIA in mind — read our privacy policy
- Only people you invite can see your books
- Changes to invoices are recorded in an audit log
For accountants & bookkeepers
Bring your clients. We'll keep it free.
Most small businesses rely on an accountant or bookkeeper. GoBooks gives you your own login to their books — no shared passwords, no emailed spreadsheets.
One login, many sets of books
Every client you're invited to sits under the same GoBooks account.
The numbers you need
Reports, VAT summaries and customer statements in one place, built from the real ledger.
Nothing to pass on
GoBooks is free for your small-business clients — no per-client subscription to recover.
No rush — we're local
Ready when you are.
Create your free account in a couple of minutes, or book a demo and we'll set you up personally — your books, your numbers, no slideware.