Your books run. You run the business.
Invoicing and bookkeeping for freelancers and small businesses, wherever you work. Send invoices on schedule, follow up automatically, and organise your bank and mobile-money records without rebuilding another spreadsheet.
Free during beta · No card required
Imports from and connects to
Gmail
Connect
Outlook
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Bank statements
PDF or CSV
Mobile money statements
PDF or CSV
You didn’t start a business to do paperwork.
Retyping last month’s invoice. Chasing a client who’s two weeks late. Sorting a statement line by line. None of it is the work, so Travada Books does it for you.
One set of books behind everything you do.
Invoices, statements, receipts and the numbers they add up to share one place, so nothing gets typed twice and nothing lives in a spreadsheet on the side.
Invoicing
Invoices and quotes that send on schedule and follow up on their own.
Statement import
Upload a statement as a PDF or CSV and review it already categorised.
Inbox
Receipts from Gmail and Outlook, matched to the transaction they belong to.
Vault
Every receipt and document, titled for you and searchable later.
Dashboard
Revenue, profit, cash flow and overdue invoices at a glance.
Invoices keep their own schedule.
Set a recurring invoice once, preview the next send dates, and let reminders follow up when a payment runs late.
Explore invoicingRecurring invoices
Weekly to yearly, with the next three send dates shown before you commit.
Automatic reminders
Pick 3, 5, 7 or 10 days after the due date and the reminder goes out on its own.
Statements arrive messy. They leave organised.
Upload a bank or mobile money statement as CSV or PDF, review the records, and categorise the books without rebuilding a spreadsheet.
See statement importAny bank, any layout
Reads CSV and PDF statements, including ones that split money in and money out.
Categorised on arrival
Transactions are categorised as they come in. Fix any of them one by one or in bulk.
Receipts meet the transaction they belong to.
Bring receipts in from Gmail or Outlook, keep them searchable in your Vault, and match them to the right money movement.
Explore the InboxRead-only connection
Only PDF attachments are pulled in, and you can disconnect at any time.
Matched for you
Confident matches happen on their own. The rest are suggested for you to confirm.
Works with the tools you already use.
Connect Gmail or Outlook and upload your bank and mobile money statements, such as M-Pesa. Travada Books pulls in the receipts, matches them and categorises the transactions, so the records stay in one place.
Your tools
Connect what you already use
- Gmail
- Outlook
- Bank statements, PDF or CSV
- Mobile money statements such as M-Pesa, PDF or CSV
- Stripe (coming soon)Soon
- WhatsApp (coming soon)Soon
Travada Books
Your books, in one place
What happens next
Handled for you
- Pull receipts from your inbox
- Import bank and mobile money statements
- Match receipts to transactions
- Categorise every transaction
- Send invoices on WhatsApp(coming soon)Soon
- Take card payments(coming soon)Soon
Software built for how business really works.
Most accounting tools assume a card-first, single-currency business with tidy bank feeds. Plenty of businesses run on mobile money, statements in every layout, and clients who pay in another currency. Travada Books was built in Nairobi, where that’s normal, so it handles all of it, wherever you are.
Why we’re building TravadaMobile money and bank statements
Import bank and mobile money statements, such as M-Pesa, in whatever layout they arrive.
Your currency at the centre
Run the books in your own currency while invoicing clients in theirs.
Built in Nairobi, used anywhere
Shaped by the businesses most tools overlook, and open to everyone.
Human support
Get a clear answer from a person when the books need attention.
For people doing the work and the books.
- 01
Freelancers
Stop remembering to chase invoice #14. Let the reminder go out while you keep working.
- 02
Consultants
Turn the same monthly retainer into a recurring invoice that simply runs.
- 03
Small businesses
Move the books out of the notebook and into one dependable, searchable place.
- 04
Agencies
Send quotes, get a yes, and turn them into invoices without typing the work twice.
Your books, kept safe.
Your records belong to your business, and you decide what happens to them.
Only your team sees them
Each business’s books are visible only to the members of that business.
Export everything, any time
Download all of your organisation’s data whenever you want it. It’s yours.
Leave cleanly
Delete your organisation and its data, with a full export offered first.
Free during beta · No card required
Do the work. Not the paperwork.
Set up the books once. Give the business your attention.
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