5 Best Nigerian Invoicing Solutions for Your Business

  As a business owner, you’ll want to be able to track payments being owed to you by your customers. Maintaining a record of invoices you’ve issued to them is perhaps the most efficient way to do this. However, hoarding piles of paper bills won’t exactly make your accounting easier. The good news is, you can create your invoices and maintain copies of them on dedicated digital platforms that you can access wherever you are with a smart device.

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There are numerous invoicing software out there that you can choose from. We’ll walk you through five of them—all Nigerian, and built for the unique needs of Nigerian businesses. If you’d like to begin making your own invoices or you’re looking to switch platforms, you should check out these options:

Kippa

Kippa is primarily a bookkeeping and payments solution for MSMEs. Users can use it to track sales, keep tabs on their expenses, and view their inventory volumes. The product also allows them to pay bills, receive money from customers, and transfer funds. With Kippa’s invoice generator (available on the app) you can create invoices that contain vital transaction details (business information, customer information, bank account, and product or service to be paid for). You can add your business’s logo to the document, and even send reminders to clients who owe you.

Flutterwave Invoicing

This solution enables you to create professional-looking invoices for free, distribute them to clients in multiple formats, and receive payments in 30 currencies from across the world. It also accommodates several payment options, including debit and credit cards, mobile money, USSD, POS, and bank transfer. The platform leverages the robustness of its payment company’s digital infrastructure and promises high-level of security for payments made on it.

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Accounteer

Accounteer is a cloud accounting software that gives businesses the freedom to fashion their invoices to their taste and share them with the customers for whom they are intended. That’s in addition to rapidly generating accounting reports, managing expenses, tracking inventory, accepting payments, and printing receipts. You can use its reporting system to monitor receivables, and ensure that you get paid as and when due. You may also plug it into your eCommerce website.

Invoice NG

The team at Invoice NG styles their online software as one for freelancers, small businesses, and startups. With it, you can quickly bill clients by putting together a decent-looking invoice that contains all the details you’d expect to see on such a document. And when a payment deadline is close by, you can send customers reminders. There’s room for more than one user, as staff at your business and your contractors can be let in to view accounts where necessary.

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AcuteInvoice

This web application combines accounting and invoicing functions in a manner that specifically appeals to small businesses. Entrepreneurs (or the finance team at their establishment) can work with it to develop customized invoices in just a few seconds. They can also view the flow of funds into and out of the business (revenues and expenses), generate up-to-date financial reports, and have multiple team members use the platform at the same time. In addition, AcuteInvoice promises that all user data is secured and backed up, so the risk of losing it to ill-intentioned actors is extremely low.

Final Words

If you’re planning on using any one of these solutions, be sure to measure them against your business’s peculiar needs before deciding whether or not to choose one. Hopefully, it’ll be just the right application for your growing enterprise. Featured Image Source: DUE

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This article was first published on 23rd January 2023

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