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Run your business with clarity.

Know what you sold, who has paid, who still owes you, and where your money is going — all in one simple place.

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A Nigerian market woman serving a customer

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For business owners

Sell, invoice, collect, keep records.

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For customers

Open an invoice and pay without an account.

03

For freelancers

Look professional from invoice to receipt.

Why OpenBooks

Small business software should feel small.

Four ideas. One simple system. Scroll slowly — the cards are designed to stay with you before the next one takes its place.

01 — The notebook, upgraded

Everything you used to write down, now in one place.

Sales, customers, invoices, payments and expenses without turning your business into an accounting class.

Fast transaction records
Customer history
Simple business totals
02 — Payment, your way

You choose how customers can pay you.

Bank transfer, cash, POS or online payment with Paystack. Your business decides what appears on every invoice.

Business-controlled payment methods
Direct bank details
Paystack-ready online checkout
03 — Less chasing

Know who has paid. Know who still owes you.

OpenBooks keeps outstanding balances beside the customer and invoice that created them, so you stop guessing.

Outstanding customer balances
Partial payments
Clear payment history
04 — Your records are yours

Open by design. Simple enough to trust.

The core is open source, built around ordinary Nigerian business workflows and designed to stay useful on a phone.

Open-source core
Mobile-first experience
Nigeria-first by default

Guide

Don't read a manual. Walk through it.

Click a step and OpenBooks changes with you. The guide is meant to feel like a product demo you control, not a wall of documentation.

You are controlling the demo

No autoplay. No guessing. Pick a step and see what the user actually does.

Interactive walkthrough

Start with your business

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Business name

Ade Phone Repairs

Phone number

0803 000 0000

Business address

Ibadan, Oyo State

Payment methods

✓ Bank transfer✓ Cash✓ POS✓ Paystack

What you get

01A clean business workspace
02Your payment preferences
03A place for every transaction

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Step 1 of 4

Built for the way work actually happens

Less software theater. More getting paid.

For the barber closing the shop, the freelancer sending one last invoice, the tailor waiting on a transfer, the phone repairer trying to remember who still owes them. OpenBooks is built around those moments.

1Record the sale
2Send the invoice
3Get the payment
4Issue the receipt

OpenBooks NG

Keep the notebook. Lose the chaos.

Start with one customer, one sale and one invoice. That's enough to see what OpenBooks is about.

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OpenBooks

Open source · Built for Nigerian small businesses · Your business notebook, but digital.

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