Scan a receipt
Photograph a receipt and ZI fills in the expense for you to check and save.
Expenses are the half of profit most businesses guess at, and the reason is simple: typing "Diesel, 84,500, fuel, 18 September" fourteen times a week is tedious, so nobody does it at seven in the evening. A photograph is a two-second action somebody will actually take, standing at the counter, while the paper is still in their hand.
ZI reads the receipt and fills in the date, the total, the category and a description. Nothing is saved until you check it. The draft lands in the same form a typed expense uses, with every field editable, and you press save — so a misread total is caught by the person holding the receipt, which is the only check that can catch it.
Where it is not sure, it says so and leaves the field empty rather than offering a plausible number. A total printed in another currency is not converted at a guessed rate. A date that reads as being in the future is left blank. The photograph itself is kept against the expense, so the receipt behind a cost can always be produced.
What it does
- Reads the date, total, VAT, category and payment method from a photograph
- Understands how Tanzanian receipts are written — day-first dates, "45,000/=", mobile-money references
- Keeps the photo, shown through a private link that expires after a minute
- Leaves anything it could not read blank, with a note saying what to check
- Never copies a supplier's phone number or TIN into your records
What it does not do
- It proposes; a person approves. ZI cannot record an expense on its own.
- Scanning is part of Pro, with a monthly allowance. Typing an expense in is always free.
- A receipt too faded or too creased to read by eye will not read by camera either.
More in intelligence
A short written brief each morning on what changed and what to do about it.
Ask about your business in plain English or Kiswahili and get an answer from your own figures.
Recommendations tied to the specific numbers they rest on.
ZI drafts the follow-up; a person presses the button.
Your daily figures delivered where you already read messages.