SikaBooks

Overview

SikaBooks is SmartQix's business platform for Ghanaian small and medium businesses. It started as accounting and invoicing in cedis and has grown into ten modules: accounting, payroll, asset management, CRM, point of sale, inventory, procurement, and industry extensions for restaurants and pharmacies. Every business runs in its own isolated database with multi-user permissions, GHS-native workflows, VAT and PAYE readiness, mobile money payments, and bank reconciliation. It is sold as a subscription with a 30-day free trial, and we build, host, and support it ourselves.

The challenge

Imported accounting software assumes a bank-first, dollar-denominated business with an accountant on staff. A Ghanaian shop, restaurant, or pharmacy runs on mobile money, cedis, and a small team wearing every hat, and needs stock, sales, and payroll in the same place as the books. The product had to feel simple on day one for a single-module starter, scale to a multi-branch retailer with POS, and keep tax-ready records without the owner thinking about tax.

What we built

We built SikaBooks as a modular Laravel platform where each business picks the modules it needs and adds more later. Accounting covers invoicing, expenses, bank reconciliation, and IFRS-aligned reports. Inventory and point of sale run retail checkout and stock together, procurement handles source-to-order buying, payroll runs approvals and disbursements with statutory readiness, and CRM tracks pipeline and deals. Restaurant and pharmacy extensions add tables, kitchen flow, prescriptions, and expiry tracking. Mobile money is a first-class payment method, every business has an isolated database, and teams work under role-based permissions. Pricing is in cedis with three bundles and à la carte modules, and a free trial with a guided walkthrough gets new businesses set up.