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title: "Built Africa: Accounting Software"
description: "Run invoicing, virtual account payments, payroll, POS & stock, budgeting and CFO AI reports for African SMEs, with a 30-day free trial."
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published_at: "2026-08-18T10:47:10.537Z"
updated_at: "2026-09-23T08:51:24.047Z"
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# Built Africa: Accounting Software

Run invoicing, virtual account payments, payroll, POS & stock, budgeting and CFO AI reports for African SMEs, with a 30-day free trial.

## Breadcrumbs

- [Fintech](/categories/fintech)
- [Built Africa](/built-africa)

## Summary

Manage invoicing, payments, payroll, and accounting in one place

An all-in-one finance and accounting platform for African SMEs that supports invoicing, payments via virtual accounts, payroll, POS, budgeting, and AI reports with a 30-day free trial.

## Product details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Website | https://built.africa/ |
| Tagline | Manage invoicing, payments, payroll, and accounting in one place |
| Primary country | Ghana |
| Platforms | Web, Android, iOS, API |
| Average rating |  |
| Published reviews | 0 |
| Verified listing | No |

## About the product

Built is an all-in-one **finance and accounting platform for SMEs across Africa**, bringing invoicing, payments, payroll, accounting, and reporting into a single system.

Key capabilities include:
- **Unlimited invoicing** to create and share professional invoices.
- **Payments and virtual accounts**, issued via partner **licensed banks and mobile money operators** (Built itself **is not a bank**).
- **POS and stock management** for retail businesses to sell and track inventory.
- **Payroll**, for managing staff pay across a business.
- **Accounting, budgeting, and reporting**, including **CFO AI**, which turns raw finance data into management reports.

Available on **Web**, **Android**, and **iOS**, with **Developer Docs** and an **API reference** for programmatic access.

Founded in **2018** in **Karaga, Ghana** by **Edward Neequaye**, Built began by training young people to deliver bookkeeping services to local SMEs before growing into its current SaaS platform, now also led by co-founders **Mary-Anne Aikins** (CFO) and **Yusif Katulie** (CTO). It has been backed by **Google for Startups**, the **Wise Guys SaaS-Africa** accelerator, and investors including **Consonance Investment Managers**, and reports having impacted **5,000+ small businesses** in Ghana alone, helping mobilize **$480,000** in credit and generate **$2.5 million** in incremental revenue for users.

Built operates localized country sites across **14 African markets**, including Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Malawi, Zambia, Rwanda, Botswana, Tanzania, Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, and Senegal, with dedicated phone support in Ghana, Sierra Leone, Kenya, and Nigeria.

It targets **small and medium-sized businesses**, including startups and business support institutions such as accelerators and hubs, backed by **24/7 monitoring**, **bank-level encryption**, **auto backups**, and Data Protection Commission registration (**DP19100003095B**).

## Features

- [Fintech](/categories/fintech): Category
- [AI-Powered](/tags/ai-powered): Product feature or technology
- [B2B](/tags/b2b): Product feature or technology
- [Business Intelligence](/tags/business-intelligence): Product feature or technology
- [Invoicing](/tags/invoicing): Product feature or technology
- [Payroll](/tags/payroll): Product feature or technology
- [POS](/tags/pos): Product feature or technology
- [SaaS](/tags/saas): Product feature or technology
- [Botswana](/countries/botswana): Market
- [Cameroon](/countries/cameroon): Market
- [Côte d'Ivoire](/countries/cote-divoire): Market
- [Ghana](/countries/ghana): Market
- [Kenya](/countries/kenya): Market
- [Malawi](/countries/malawi): Market
- [Nigeria](/countries/nigeria): Market
- [Rwanda](/countries/rwanda): Market
- [Senegal](/countries/senegal): Market
- [Sierra Leone](/countries/sierra-leone): Market
- [South Africa](/countries/south-africa): Market
- [Tanzania](/countries/tanzania): Market
- [Uganda](/countries/uganda): Market
- [Zambia](/countries/zambia): Market

## Related pages

- [Alternatives](/built-africa/alternatives)
- [Reviews](/built-africa/reviews)
- [Transparency](/built-africa/transparency)

## Access and citation

- [Canonical HTML page](https://liners.com/built-africa)
- [Markdown route index](/sitemap.md)
- [Agent access guide](/llms.txt)