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Bookkeeping on your own device. Import bank statements, send invoices, and get VAT201 and turnover-tax workings ready for eFiling. R899 once-off, less than two months of Xero Starter.*

R899 once-off · Works offline · 30-day money-back

  • Works with your bank's export
  • VAT201 workings
  • Books stay on your device
  • Once-off licence
fig. 01statement → books → tax
A pick-and-place cell sorting an M-PESA statement into the books: slips ride a roller conveyor through a scanner, a gantry claw sorts each into its bay (sales, stock, KPLC power, Fuliza), a kiosk flags purchases without eTIMS, and the finished month waits on a pallet.
one M-PESA line every 9 sline 28 of 38 · Stock · −KES 8,450 · no eTIMS

Inside Hesafi

Your bank export in. Clear answers out.

  1. How it works

    Available now

    From your bank's export to books you can trust.

    Three steps. Dates, descriptions and amounts are read on your device, including amounts written like 1 234,50. Built-in rules sort bank fees, SARS, Eskom and airtime lines.

    1. Download your statementFrom online banking, as CSV, Excel or OFX.
    2. Hesafi sorts itBuilt-in rules sort the common lines; you confirm the rest.
    3. See profit and VATProfit and loss for any period, and your VAT201 workings.
    A sheet-fed document converter with no cable: an M-PESA statement page feeds in from the sloped input tray and comes out onto the front tray as a spreadsheet grid.

  2. VAT and turnover tax

    Beta

    VAT201 and turnover-tax workings, prepared for you to check.

    The sums, done from your books. Hesafi does the sums for VAT201, turnover tax and IRP6 from your books, with the due dates.

    Output VAT
    R12,420
    Input VAT
    R8,240
    Payable
    R4,180
    Sample figures

    The tables are being checked by a tax practitioner.

    A receipt validator: a receipt slides under a brass loupe into the reader, and the needle of the meter on its front settles at 6 of this month's 12 purchases, the ones still missing their eTIMS details, as the clay lamp blinks.

  3. Moving from a spreadsheet

    Available now

    Leave the spreadsheet, keep the export.

    Bring opening balances and statement files. Import statement-style CSV or Excel files and enter opening balances by hand. A guided wizard for your old sheet is being built.

    A two-hole desk punch beside an open ring-binder ledger: a spreadsheet sheet is punched, slides out and drops onto the binder's rings, which close on it.

Private by design

Your books never leave your device.

  • Works offline

    Record, import and report with no connection.

  • A backup only you can open

    One tap saves an encrypted copy. Keep it on Drive, email or a flash drive.

  • Nothing on our servers

    We hold your licence key. Not one line of your books. Built with POPIA in mind.

How your books stay on your device
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On your device
Ledger · invoices · bank statements
On our servers
Licence key · random device id

The app

A month of your business, at a glance.

Money in and out, profit and VAT, sorted from your bank's export.

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[Overview]Search lines
Money in
R184,250
12.4%vs Sep(up)
Money out
R121,900
3.1%vs Sep(down)
Profit
R62,350
8.0%vs Sep(up)
VAT due
R4,180

VAT201 by 25 Nov

Money inYearly

R1,549,000

050k100k150k200kJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Money out↑ 12.4%

Once-off

R899 once-off. Not every month.

Less than two months of Xero Starter. 12 months of Hesafi Care included; after that, Care is optional.

Licence

Standard

R899

Standard · paid once-off

Licensed to
Your business

12 months of Hesafi Care · up to 3 devices · 30-day money-back

What three years cost
Hesafi, paid onceR899
Hesafi, with Care for years 2 and 3R1,797
Xero StarterR16,200
Xero StandardR28,620
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Xero: xero.com/za/pricing-plans, checked 21 Oct 2026. Regular list prices.

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Free, no sign-up, nothing uploaded.

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* Xero Starter R450/month incl. VAT, xero.com/za, checked 21 Oct 2026. Hesafi is not affiliated with SARS or Xero.