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Proper books, without the spreadsheet.

Import your bank's export, send free invoices, see your profit and back up your books, all on your own device. Every feature below carries a stamp: available now, beta or coming soon.

R899 once-offFree plan foreverBooks stay on your device

fig. 01 · how we mark featuresAvailable nowIn the app today.BetaWorks today, while an adviser checks its tax figures or its file format.Coming soonNot in the app yet. Where you can do it another way today, we say how.20 features in all.

Free and Standard

Free keeps the books. Standard reads your bank exports.

Standard is R899 once-off, not every month: 12 months of Hesafi Care, up to 3 devices and 30 days to change your mind.

Coming-soon features reach Standard as updates while Hesafi Care is on (12 months included). Pro (R2,199 once-off) isn't on sale yet. Tell me when Pro is ready

Plate by plate

Every feature, with its stamp.

Pick Free or Standard below. Anything outside that licence is cancelled with a fine hatch, never hidden.

Your licence

20 features 19 available now · 1 in beta

Pl. 01 · Bank and spreadsheet imports

A sheet-fed document converter: a bank statement page feeds in and comes out as a spreadsheet grid.
fig. 01 · sheet-fed converterIN CSV, Excel or OFX from online bankingOUT dated lines, amounts like 1 234,50 read right

Your bank statement in, every line read.

CSV, Excel or OFX exports from your bank, read on your device. Nothing connects to your bank.

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  1. Import bank exports

    CSV, Excel or OFX from online banking. Hesafi finds the date, description and amount columns, handles amounts like "1 234,50", and lets you point to the columns when an export is unusual.

    Available nowStandardNeeds Standard
  2. Your bank's export, recognised

    Drop in the CSV your bank gives you and Hesafi knows its layout: FNB, Standard Bank, Nedbank, Capitec and Absa.

    Available nowStandardNeeds Standard
  3. Bring your old spreadsheet

    Bring in the Excel cash book you keep today: pick the tabs, match your categories once, skip the totals rows, and start with your opening balances.

    Available nowStandardNeeds Standard

Pl. 02 · Sorting, with AI if you ask

A coin sorter: coins roll down a chute to a flip gate that sends one into the shop's cash drawer and the next into the round home tin.
fig. 02 · coin sorterIN lines no rule recognisedOUT a category you confirm, remembered for next time

Every rand in its place, with AI only if you ask.

Built-in rules sort bank fees, SARS payments, electricity, airtime and fuel. Answer once for each other name and Hesafi remembers it. For the hard ones, AI can suggest a category: you see the cost in credits before it runs.

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  1. Your own sorting rules

    Pick a category for a name once and tap "Always use this": Hesafi sorts that name's other lines the same way, now and in every later import.

    Available nowStandardNeeds Standard
  2. AI suggestions for unsorted lines

    Lines no rule recognised can be suggested by AI. You see the credit cost before it runs, and only the descriptions, dates and amounts are sent. You check every suggestion.

    Available nowStandardNeeds Standard
  3. Explain my report

    A plain-language read of your profit and loss: did you make money, what cost the most, and one thing to watch. Only the report's totals are sent, and you see the credit cost first.

    Available nowStandardNeeds Standard
  4. Snap a receipt

    Photograph a receipt and AI fills in the supplier, date, total and VAT for 1 credit. You check it before saving.

    Available nowStandardNeeds Standard

Pl. 03 · Invoices and money owed to you

A small invoice printer feeding out an invoice, and a self-inking stamp that marks it.
fig. 03 · invoice printer and stampIN a sale, paid now or laterOUT an invoice with VAT, printed or shared on WhatsApp

Send the invoice. See who still owes you.

Invoices are free forever, and so is seeing who still owes you.

3 of 3 work today

Invoices sent
12
Marked paid
8
Still owed
R18,600

Sample figures · October 2026

  1. Unlimited invoices

    Create invoices with VAT, download them as PDF, and share them on WhatsApp. Free invoices carry a small "made with Hesafi" footer.

    Available nowFree
  2. See who has paid

    Record full or part payments and see what each customer still owes you.

    Available nowFree
  3. One-tap PDF invoices

    A PDF file straight from the invoice or quote, ready to send on WhatsApp or email.

    Available nowFree

Pl. 04 · Reports and books you can trust

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.
fig. 04 · hole punch and ring binderIN your sorted monthOUT profit and loss, balance sheet, trial balance

Know if you made money this month.

Profit and loss, balance sheet and trial balance for any period, free. Every entry is chained to the one before it, so Verify books shows any change.

4 of 4 work today

Money in
R184,250
Money out
R121,900
Profit
R62,350

Sample figures · October 2026

  1. Record sales and expenses by hand

    Write any sale or expense yourself, with no statement needed, and attach a photo of the receipt if you have one.

    Available nowFree
  2. Profit and loss, balance sheet, trial balance

    Real double-entry reports for any period, with export to Excel.

    Available nowFree
  3. Verify books

    Every saved entry is chained to the one before it. "Verify books" shows if anything was changed, deleted or reordered. Mistakes are corrected with a reversal, never erased.

    Available nowFree
  4. More than one business

    Separate books for each business on the same device, each with its own backups. Switch in one tap.

    Available nowProNeeds Pro

Pl. 05 · Tax workings

A drafting board with a working sheet held under its parallel rule and a magnifier lamp clamped beside it: the lens walks down the sheet's column and stops on the total, then the checked sheet slides into the out-tray.
fig. 05 · drafting boardIN your booksOUT VAT201, turnover tax and IRP6 workings, to check

VAT201 workings ready for you to check.

VAT201, turnover tax and provisional tax, worked out from your books, with the due dates.

1 of 1 work today · 1 beta

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

Sample figures · October 2026 · beta

  1. VAT201, turnover tax and provisional tax workings

    Hesafi does the sums for VAT201, turnover tax and IRP6 from your books. You check them and submit them on SARS eFiling.

    Beta Tax figures are estimates while a qualified adviser checks this year's rates.

    BetaStandardNeeds Standard

Workings are estimates for you or your accountant to check. Hesafi doesn't submit returns to SARS.

Pl. 06 · On your device, backed up

A bank of safe-deposit boxes with one drawer slid out on its runners, holding a sealed capsule behind a lock with two keyways and a small dial.
fig. 06 · safe-deposit boxesIN your books, on your phone or laptopOUT an encrypted .hesafi file, locked with your passphrase

Your books stay on your device, locked with your passphrase.

Your books live on your phone or computer and work with no connection. Back them up to a file locked with your passphrase and a recovery key: we can't open it.

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  1. Works offline

    Your books live on your phone or computer. No connection needed to record sales, expenses or invoices.

    Available nowFree
  2. Encrypted backups, free forever

    Save a .hesafi backup file locked with your passphrase and a recovery key. Keep a copy off the phone. We can't open it, and we can't recover a lost passphrase.

    Available nowFree
  3. Install it like an app

    After your first entry, Home offers to add Hesafi to your home screen: the browser's own prompt on Android and computers, and the Share steps on iPhone.

    Available nowFree
  4. Up to 3 devices per licence

    Activate a licence on up to 3 devices and see them in Settings. Books don't sync between them yet: move them with a backup file.

    Available nowStandardNeeds Standard
  5. Encrypted cloud backup

    A daily copy, locked on your device before it leaves. We keep it, we can't read it. Restore on a new phone with your passphrase.

    Available nowStandardNeeds Standard

Books don't sync between devices yet: move them with a backup file.

Pl. 07 · Not our job

A desk receipt spike on a heavy turned base, five tickets impaled on it and the top one stamped with a blank cancellation mark, which lifts a little and settles back down.
fig. 07 · receipt spike: jobs we turn down

What Hesafi won't do, so nothing surprises you later.

Some of these are choices we made to keep your books private. One is simply not built yet.

  1. Submit your VAT201 or other returns to SARS

    Hesafi prepares the workings. You check them and submit them on eFiling.

    Not our job
  2. Keep your books on our servers

    Your books stay on your phone or laptop. We can't see them.

    Not our job
  3. Sync books between your devices

    Each device keeps its own copy for now. Move books with a backup file.

    Not yet
  4. Recover a lost passphrase

    Nobody can open your backup without it or your recovery key, including us.

    Not our job
  5. Log in to your bank

    You import the file from online banking. No bank feeds: Hesafi never connects to your bank.

    Not our job

More straight answers

Pl. 08 · Your request

A rotary desk telephone with its handset in the cradle and a coiled cord to its side, ringing: the handset lifts slightly and settles twice while its bell lamp blinks, beside a notepad and pencil.
fig. 08 · desk telephoneIN your idea, on WhatsAppOUT an honest stamp on this page

The next plate could be yours.

Tell us what your business needs. We build what small businesses ask for, and when something is on the way, it gets an honest stamp here too.

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Run your own month: start free today, and add Standard (R899 once-off) when you want your bank exports read for you. Invoices and basic books stay free forever.