In the drawer
Bottle stores, liquor outlets, kiosks, tuckshops, supermarkets, forecourts, bars
The count at close is $40 short and the shift has already gone home. Twice a week for a year is a cashier's wage paid to nobody.
The difference is sitting in a drawer that came up short, a shelf that has not moved since March, and a job somebody did and nobody billed. Corelith puts your sales, stock, jobs, invoices and cash on one record, so a gap shows up the day it opens instead of at year end. Built in Zimbabwe, works through load-shedding, fiscalised for ZIMRA.
Where it goes
Nobody loses money in one big event. It goes in small amounts on ordinary days, in the part of the business nobody can watch while you are busy running the rest of it. Add up a year of it and it is usually the difference between a good year and a flat one.
Bottle stores, liquor outlets, kiosks, tuckshops, supermarkets, forecourts, bars
The count at close is $40 short and the shift has already gone home. Twice a week for a year is a cashier's wage paid to nobody.
Hardware, spare parts, agro-dealers, wholesale, distribution
Capital asleep in lines that have not moved since March, while the fast seller is out of stock again. One of those is cash you cannot touch, the other is cash walking to the shop down the road.
Cleaning, security, IT, logistics, plant hire, contractors, consultancies
Your team did the extra visits, the callout, the emergency job. The client got all of it and the invoice only carried the contract line.
Garages, panel beaters, fitment centres, equipment repair
A filter and two litres of oil leave the store on a promise and never reach a job card. Labour gets rounded down at invoice time because nobody wrote the hours while the work was happening.
Food and beverage, fabrication, packaging, furniture, assembly
You price the order on what a unit felt like it cost last time. If that run wasted more than you thought, you find out at stock-take, months after you agreed the price.
Field sales, distributor reps, account teams, dealership floors
A quote went out and nobody chased it. The same stock got promised to two customers, and commission turns into an argument at month end.
Why you cannot see it
Each of these works well enough on its own. The money goes missing in the space between them, because not one of them ever shows you the whole day.
Prices, orders and approvals get agreed in chats. Three weeks later the customer disputes the figure and nobody can find it.
The real numbers live in one file, on one laptop, kept by one person. When that person is away, the business guesses.
Delivery notes, job cards and receipts have to be typed up before anyone can read them, so the truth is always a few days behind the money.
It takes the cash and tells no one. Purchasing, costing and the books find out later, if at all.
The real process lives in people's heads. It leaves through the gate when they resign, and you train the replacement from scratch.
What you get instead
Everything writes to the same record, so your figures stop disagreeing with each other and you stop paying for the argument.
How it stops
From the first enquiry to the money in your account, every step writes to the same record. Nothing gets re-typed, nothing gets remembered wrong, and nothing goes quiet between one person and the next.
A walk-in, a phone call, a WhatsApp message. It lands on a customer record instead of in somebody's phone.
Quote off live stock and your real costs, so you know the margin before you send the number rather than after.
The quote becomes an order carrying the deposit, the deadline and an owner. Nothing gets promised to two customers.
Stock goes out, the job gets done, the batch gets made. This is the only step that looks different from trade to trade.
The invoice is built from what actually moved, not from what the quote guessed, and fiscalised where ZIMRA requires it.
Receipts, part-payments and balances land on the customer and post into the books in one action.
Find your trade
Same platform underneath, same books, same permissions. The screens, the language and the reports match how your business actually runs, so nobody spends six months configuring it before it earns you anything.
Bottle stores, kiosks, forecourts, supermarkets, hardware, spare parts, wholesale
A sale drops the stock, books the margin and posts to the ledger in the same second the customer pays. So the shelf, the till and the report finally agree, and short cash stops being something you find out about weeks later.
Where the money goes today
On the trail, your deliver step is: Pick and hand over
The stock leaves the shelf against the sale, and your on-hand figure, your cost of sale and your margin all move at the same moment.
What you actually get
A sale, a job card or a stock receipt gets written once and read by everything else. That is why the numbers stop disagreeing, and why nobody types the same figure into three places.
Leads, quotes, orders, point of sale, invoices, receipts, customer accounts and statements.
A sale writes to the customer, drops the stock, books the margin and posts to the ledger in one action, so your day's takings and your day's margin are the same number.
Products, suppliers, purchase orders, receiving, warehouses, transfers, counts and reorder points.
Receiving updates what you hold, what it cost you and what needs ordering, so buying decisions come off live cover instead of memory.
Job cards, production runs, service visits, equipment, maintenance and completion sign-off.
Whatever you deliver consumes parts and hours against one costed record, so the invoice is built from the work rather than from a guess.
Cash and bank, receivables, payables, expenses, VAT, fixed assets, multi-currency and financial statements.
Sales and purchases post themselves, so the trial balance is a page you open rather than a year your accountant rebuilds.
Staff records, roles and permissions, attendance, approvals, payroll and per-user accountability.
Every record carries who created, approved or changed it, so control does not rest on one trusted person staying honest and staying employed.
Do the maths
Costed at a shape you will probably recognise: 15 staff across 3 sites. Competitor figures are published list prices and are indicative rather than quotes.
| Corelith | Per-seat cloud suite | Legacy desktop | Spreadsheets | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Per site, not per seat | Per user, per month | Per-seat licence + annual renewal | Free, until something breaks |
| Monthly cost, 15 staff | $79 billed annually | $375 – $570 | Quoted per seat | $0 |
| Cost of adding a clerk | $0 until your seat ceiling | $25 – $38 every month | New licence | $0 |
| Implementation fee | $250 one-off, published before you buy | Partner-led, often five figures | Consultant install | None |
| Works with no internet | Yes, offline-first with sync | No | On-premise only | Local file only |
| ZIMRA fiscalisation | Built in | Third-party connector | Add-on module | Manual |
| Industry workflows ready | Selling, service, workshop, production | Generic — built per project | Accounting-first | Whatever you build |
| Runs on a phone | Yes, mobile-first | Companion app | Desktop only | Painfully |
What actually makes the difference
Not feature counts — nobody ever made money off a feature count. These are the conditions a system has to survive in this country, and the commercial terms that decide whether you can afford to put your whole team on it.
Grow covers 20 people across 3 sites for $79 a month paid annually. Per-seat suites charge $25 to $38 for every person you add, every month, which is why owners quietly keep half the team off the system and lose the trail.
Sales, stock moves and attendance carry on offline and sync the moment the line comes back. Load-shedding stops the lights, not the shop.
Selling, service, workshop, production and sales workflows are configured already. You are not paying anyone to find out whether a generic system can be bent into your business.
Fiscalisation, USD and ZWG side by side, and the reports your accountant asks for are part of the software rather than a connector you have to keep alive.
Switch on the part that is costing you money now and add the rest when it earns its place. There is no big-bang rollout to survive.
Plans start at $15 a month paid annually, which is 20% off the monthly rate of $19. Onboarding is a published one-off fee — nothing on the two self-serve plans — so the setup work is visible instead of buried in your subscription forever.
The 30-day Launch Sprint
Most software failures are not bad software. They are a rollout that stopped halfway, so the team went back to the notebook and the money kept leaking. The Sprint is scoped, quoted and owned like the work it is: 30 days from mapping your workflow to reviewing your first month of real numbers.
We walk through how orders, stock, jobs, invoices, payments and approvals actually move through your business, including the bits that only happen because one person remembers to do them.
The core platform, your industry pack, your sites, your roles and your approval limits are set up to match what we found, not a generic template.
Products, customers, suppliers, opening balances and opening stock loaded within an agreed scope, so day one starts from your real position.
Cashiers, storemen, technicians, supervisors and whoever reads the reports get trained on your own data. Training on a demo account is how adoption dies.
First invoices, first receipts, first job cards, first close of shift, with someone reachable while it is happening rather than the next working day.
WhatsApp follow-up through the first month, an adoption check, and a review of the first month's numbers against the targets we agreed at the start.
What it costs
Plans run from $29 a month for one site to $449 for twenty-five. Every cashier, clerk, technician and rep is included up to your seat ceiling, so putting the whole team on it costs you nothing extra.
Fiscalise first
$19/mo
$15/mo billed annually · 1 site · 3 users
Businesses that have to issue fiscal receipts across one or more tills and want that obligation handled before anything else.
Get it out of the notebook
$39/mo
$31/mo billed annually · 1 site · 5 users
One shop, yard or office where the real records still live in a book and one person's head.
Make the branches agree
Most chosen$99/mo
$79/mo billed annually · 3 sites · 20 users
Three or more tills across a few branches, where nobody can compare one against another without asking for a spreadsheet.
How you will know it worked
Nothing on this page is worth as much as what happens in your own figures. So we measure these three before go-live, agree the targets in writing, and measure them again after.
Nothing unbilled
Jobs completed, parts issued and stock delivered that never made it onto an invoice. This is usually where the money comes back first, and it is the number we ask you to watch hardest.
System matches shelf
The gap between what the system thinks you hold and what a physical count actually finds. We measure it before go-live so the number afterwards means something.
Days to minutes
How long it takes you to answer what you made this week. If that is still a spreadsheet exercise a month after go-live, the rollout did not work and we will say so.
Before you decide
If one of these answers rules us out for your business, that is a good outcome for both of us and it costs you nothing to find out here.
You may not need to replace the till so much as connect it. A POS takes the money and tells nobody, so purchasing, costing and the books all find out later. Corelith runs the sale and everything the sale causes in one place, so the drawer, the shelf and the ledger agree by the end of the shift.
Then you skip the quote, the order and the invoice, and you keep the part that protects your cash. Stock drops as it sells, the fiscal receipt comes off the same action, and the shift cash-up shows variance by till and by cashier before anybody goes home.
Paid annually, which is what we quote: Fiscal at $15 (1 site, 3 users), Start at $31 (1 site, 5 users), Grow at $79 (3 sites, 20 users), Scale at $159 (25 sites, 60 users), Gold Edition at $239 (3 sites, 25 users), Enterprise from $359 (unlimited sites, unlimited users). Month to month costs the full rate, so paying for the year is 20% off. There is no per-user charge until you pass your seat ceiling, so adding a cashier or a technician costs nothing. Onboarding is a published one-off: Fiscal nothing, Start nothing, Grow $250, Scale $250, Gold Edition $500, Enterprise scoped with you.
That is a fair worry, and it is usually a training and workflow problem rather than a software one. The daily screens are built for a phone in a yard or a bay, training happens on your own data during the Launch Sprint, and we check adoption during the first month instead of leaving you to it. If your team is still on the notebook after go-live, we have not finished the job.
Yes. Sales, stock movements and attendance keep working offline and sync as soon as the connection returns. Load-shedding stops the lights, not the shop.
Yes, the FDMS integration is part of the product. The fiscal receipt is issued from the same sale that drops your stock and posts to your books, so there is no separate step for anyone to forget.
Yes. Products, customers, suppliers, opening stock and opening balances are loaded during the Launch Sprint within a scope we agree with you first, so you open on correct figures rather than starting the year twice.
Your business runs in its own workspace. Roles and permission limits decide who can see or change what, and every record carries who created, approved or changed it. You can export everything at any time, and it stays yours.
Your data stays yours and exports at any time. Cancel within the first 30 days and you get your money back. After that, access runs to the end of the period you have paid for, and you take an export of your records with you.
A blank account tells you very little about software like this, because the value only shows up once your own stock, customers and prices are in it. What works is a demo running your own workflow, then a scoped Launch Sprint with targets agreed in writing, backed by the 30-day money-back guarantee.
Next step
Tell us your trade, your sites, what you use today and where you think the money is going. You get a demo running your own workflow and a straight view of what closing that gap is worth in a month.
30-day money-back guarantee · no per-user fees · your data exports at any time