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Built for South Africa's real businesses.

For the plumber with R40k outstanding, the freelancer who dreads 28 February, and the photographer still quoting on WhatsApp.

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SARS & VAT

Tax invoices and 15% VAT calculated automatically, to SARS' rules.

Johannesburg

Built and operated from South Africa.

WhatsApp-ready

Invoices go to clients as a link they can open on WhatsApp.

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A lot of small business admin still runs on Word, Excel and WhatsApp.

Sage and Xero are built with accountants in mind. That doesn't help much if you're a tradesperson on site at 7am or a freelancer juggling ten clients, so the invoices end up in a Word template and the payments in a spreadsheet you update when you remember.

Word doc invoicesno VAT calc · no totals · ugly
Excel payment trackingmanually update each row
WhatsApp voice-note reminders"Brother, where's my money?"
SARS submission panic28 Feb · the dreaded date
Late payments every month30, 60, 90 days and counting
See how Invo handles it

What Invo is.

Invo handles invoicing, quotes, expenses and VAT for South African small businesses. Tax invoices follow SARS' rules, VAT is worked out at 15%, and invoices can go to clients as a WhatsApp link, so they don't get lost in an inbox.

I build and run Invo from Johannesburg. The South African rules are part of the product rather than an add-on: each invoicing feature is checked against what SARS asks for as it's built.

It's new, so there are no customer logos on this site yet. If you try it, email info@getinvo.co.za or send a WhatsApp, and I'll read it and reply myself.

JoshFounder, Invo

Recently shipped

Changes from the last couple of months that you'd actually notice.

  • Choose whether your VAT report works on the invoice basis or the payments basis.
  • Close a purchase order that only partly arrived. Invo records an expense for what you received.
  • Record a refund you've paid back to a client, straight from their Credit tab.
  • Free plan: 5 invoices and 5 quotes a month, free for as long as you need it.
  • Add a new client straight from a quote or recurring schedule, and ask for several documents in one vault request.
  • Card payments on invoices, paid into your own Paystack, PayFast, Peach, Yoco or Ozow account.
  • Projects can track materials and warranty terms, and assign more than one technician.
  • Invo now asks for the client details SARS needs on tax invoices over R5,000.

How we make product decisions

The four ideas we come back to when deciding what to build.

Sunday nights shouldn't go to invoicing.

Every hour spent formatting an invoice or chasing a payment is an hour not spent on the work that actually pays the bills.

Nobody should need a tax degree to stay on the right side of SARS.

Invo generates SARS-compliant tax invoices, calculates VAT at 15%, and tracks your output VAT in the background. All audit-ready without you having to learn the rules.

Following up on an invoice should take one tap.

Your client gets the invoice as a WhatsApp link, and if you've connected a payment gateway they can pay from it. If they don't, the reminder is already written. You check it and send it, so an invoice doesn't sit unpaid just because nobody got round to asking.

This was built in South Africa for South Africans.

Rands, 15% VAT, EFT references and WhatsApp are the defaults, because this is where Invo is made and who it's for.

What we won't do.

A few promises about how Invo works.

  • We won't make you ask for the price. It's on the pricing page, and there are no hidden fees.

  • We won't sell your data. We make money when you subscribe, that's the whole business model.

  • We won't charge you just to send an invoice. Free covers 5 invoices and 5 quotes a month, and every paid plan has no limit. Projects, inventory and team access cost more, and the pricing page shows which plan has what.

  • We won't treat South Africa as an afterthought. SARS rules, EFT and WhatsApp were there from the first version.

  • We won't hide behind a ticket queue. Your email goes to the person who builds Invo.

  • We won't ship things nobody asked for. If it's not solving a real problem, it doesn't get built.

Start free, or pick a plan.

Try Invo on the Free plan and upgrade when you need more, or go straight to the plan that fits.

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