Prospera · business software for African trade

Run the whole business on one ledger.

Prospera records the sale, moves the stock and posts the double entry in the same step. Your staff never open the accounting screen, and there is nothing waiting to be reconciled at the end of the month.

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Journal · INV-000077 September 2026

Hybrid Maize Seeds (25kg) × 5 · VAT 7.5%

CodeAccountAmount
  1. 1130Accounts ReceivableDr150,500.00
  2. 4000Sales RevenueCr140,000.00
  3. 2120VAT PayableCr10,500.00
  4. 5000Cost of Goods SoldDr90,000.00
  5. 1140InventoryCr90,000.00
Totals240,500.00

Balanced

What Prospera writes when invoice INV-00007 is issued. Worked from the sample catalogue: five bags of maize seed at ₦28,000 against a ₦18,000 cost, with Nigerian VAT at 7.5 per cent.
  • the invoice book
  • the stock card
  • the cash book
  • the spreadsheet
  • the shoebox of receipts
  • the month end catch up
  • → one ledger

What it posts

Five things your staff do. Ten sides of a ledger they never see.

Every money document in Prospera writes its own journal when it is issued, and reverses it if you void the document. That is the whole idea.

  • 01

    Issue an invoice

    One screen takes the order, prices it against the catalogue and applies the tax for the country the branch trades in.

    Stock leaves · receivable, revenue and tax post

  • 02

    Take the payment

    Cash, POS, mobile money or bank transfer, recorded against the payment channel the money actually landed in.

    Bank or cash rises · the receivable clears

  • 03

    Move the stock

    Goods received, branch transfers and stock counts, each one a single step rather than a document plus an adjustment.

    Quantities move · the variance posts at cost

  • 04

    Record the spend

    Salaries, fuel, rent. You choose what it was for and where it was paid from, and Prospera works out the two sides.

    Expense recognised · the account paid from falls

  • 05

    Read the month

    Profit and Loss, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow are assembled from those entries. Nothing is typed a second time.

    Statements built from the ledger itself

You keep selling the way you already sell. Prospera keeps the record, entry by entry, so the books are ready the day your accountant asks for them.

One sale, four places

Watch a sale post itself.

  1. 01Sales

    A salesperson issues invoice INV-00007

    Five bags of maize seed, priced from the catalogue, with Nigerian VAT applied because the branch trades in Nigeria.

    ₦150,500.00

    Invoiced

  2. 02Inventory

    The stock leaves the branch

    Issuing is what moves the goods. There is no second screen to remember, and the quantity on hand is right the moment the customer walks out.

    −5 bags

    Abuja Head Office

  3. 03Accounting

    One journal posts, balanced

    Receivable and cost of goods sold on the debit side. Revenue, tax payable and the inventory reduction on the credit side. Nobody typed it.

    ₦240,500.00

    Debits, and credits

  4. 04Reports

    The month moves

    Profit and Loss, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow are read from those entries, so the statement and the stock room describe the same business.

    ₦50,000.00

    Gross profit on this sale

Gross profit here is the ₦140,000 of revenue less the ₦90,000 the seed cost. The ₦10,500 of tax is owed onward, so it is never counted as earnings.

Getting started

Three things to do, then you are trading.

  1. 01

    Pick your country

    Currency, tax labels, the name for a region, date and number formatting all follow from it. 55 African countries and 41 currencies are set up already.

  2. 02

    Load what you sell

    Import a spreadsheet of products, customers and suppliers, or add them as you go. A starting chart of accounts is created with the company.

  3. 03

    Trade as you already trade

    Your staff work in Sales, Inventory and Banking. The bookkeeping happens behind those screens, in the same step, without anyone opening Accounting.

The software itself

Two screens, taken from a running Prospera.

Reports → OverviewSample company data
The Prospera reports overview showing revenue of 2,920,000 naira, 2,968,600 naira collected, 122,550 naira outstanding, 926,000 naira gross profit at a 31.7 per cent margin, 11 issued invoices and an average sale of 265,454.55 naira.
Revenue, collections, outstanding and margin for a trading month, read straight off the posted entries.
Inventory → ProductsSample company data
The Prospera product catalogue listing farm tools, irrigation kits, training services, soil analysis and hybrid maize seeds with their category, cost, price and active status.
The catalogue every invoice prices against, with the cost that the cost of goods sold entry uses.

Where it works

Built for the continent, not translated for it.

55African countries configured
Each one carries its own currency, tax identifier label, region wording, date format and number separators.
41Currencies
Symbol placement, decimal separator and thousands separator follow the country, so figures read the way people there write them.
4Ways to be paid
Cash, POS terminal, mobile money and bank transfer. Each channel is mapped to the ledger account the money actually lands in.

Questions

The things people ask before they move their books.

  • Do I need to understand double entry to use this?

    No. Your staff issue invoices, take payments, receive goods and record expenses in plain language. Prospera decides which accounts each of those touches and posts both sides. The Accounting screen is there for when your accountant wants to look, not for daily work.

  • What happens to the books when I issue an invoice?

    Issuing an invoice takes the goods out of stock at the branch you sold from, and posts one journal: the receivable and the cost of goods sold on the debit side, the revenue, the tax payable and the inventory reduction on the credit side. It is the entry shown at the top of this page.

  • Can I correct something after it has posted?

    Yes. Prospera reverses the original journal and posts the correction, so the audit trail keeps both. System generated entries are locked against hand editing for that reason, and a manual journal is always available when your accountant needs one.

  • Does it handle more than one branch?

    Yes. Branches each carry their own stock, their own document numbering and their own trading country. Reports run for one branch or across all of them.

  • Which countries and currencies are covered?

    55 African countries and 41 currencies ship with the product, each with its own currency symbol placement, decimal and thousands separators, date format, tax identifier label and region label.

  • How do payments get recorded?

    Against a payment channel you set up: cash, POS terminal, mobile money or a bank account. The channel decides which ledger account the money lands in, so the bank balance in Prospera and the bank balance at the bank describe the same thing.

  • Can I get my data out?

    Yes. Product and report tables export to CSV, and documents such as invoices and quotations generate as PDF.

  • What does it cost to try?

    Creating a company account is free and does not ask for a card. You can load your catalogue and issue real documents before deciding anything.

Open a set of books

Start with today’s first sale.

Apply, and once we have verified your business, load what you sell and issue a real invoice. The first entry posts itself, and you will see the whole idea in about ten minutes.

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