Your data stays yours
Your book lives on your phone, encrypted. We run no advertising or analytics SDKs, and we don’t sell, share or advertise against your client lists. Ever.
About us
Built for the businesses that run South Africa’s streets
The salon on the corner, the driving instructor in the taxi rank, the spaza shop, the solar installer in the bakkie — they all run on a phone. Tabbook exists because the tools for running a business were never built for them.
Why Tabbook exists
Business tools shouldn’t need a laptop, a data bundle and a finance degree
Most South African micro-businesses keep their books in a exercise book, chase payments from a WhatsApp thread, and find out what they earned this month by checking the bank balance. The software that’s supposed to fix this was built for people with accountants, offices and fibre — not for someone working between load shedding and a bad signal.
Tabbook is different on purpose. It lives entirely on your phone, so it works in a taxi rank or a garage with no airtime. It speaks WhatsApp, because that’s where your clients already are. It switches into isiZulu or Afrikaans, because plain language matters when it’s your money. And it never asks for an account before it’s useful.
We’re not a bank, a lender or an accounting firm — we’re the tool in your pocket that keeps the book straight so you can decide what happens next.
What we promise
Six rules we won’t break
Plain language, local languages
English, isiZulu and Afrikaans, with copy that says what it does. No jargon walls between you and your own money.
A tool, not a bank
We never hold, move or touch your money. Payments run through your own provider accounts, and your records are a tool — not a substitute for proper bookkeeping.
POPIA by default
Opt-outs are built in and respected automatically, and our privacy policy is written in the language of the Act, not of lawyers.
Offline-first, always
Add clients, invoice and check your book with no airtime and no signal. Tabbook catches up the moment you’re back online.
No lock-in
Cancel any time in Google Play — it takes effect at the end of the period you paid for, and your data stays on your phone either way.
Run your business like the book is already balanced
Join the salons, schools and spazas invoicing properly from a phone. Free to start, in your language.
Download Tabbook free