Accounting and POS software for catering and cloud kitchens in Nigeria

You buy rice, chicken, tomatoes and oil at market prices that change week to week, then portion them across dozens of covers and delivery packs. Without recipe-level tracking, you only discover the margin was thin after the event is over and the money is spent. Spoilage, over-portioning and quiet pilferage all hide in the same gap.

Chowdeck, Glovo, Jumia Food, WhatsApp orders and walk-in pickups all pay differently — some net of commission, some weekly, some in cash with the rider. Matching a week of platform payouts to the orders you actually cooked turns into a spreadsheet nobody trusts. Missing payouts and double-counted sales go unnoticed for months.

A corporate lunch or wedding is quoted weeks ahead, part-paid on booking, adjusted for final headcount, then invoiced after delivery. Quotes live in WhatsApp, deposits in a bank alert, and the balance in someone's head. Clients who need a proper invoice with your TIN for their own records slow you down further.

Once your taxable turnover crosses the NGN 25,000,000 threshold, monthly VAT returns and proper records stop being optional. Market purchases with no receipt, cash sales and informal transfers make the monthly filing a scramble. Nigeria is also moving supply chains onto the National E-Invoicing Solution, so loose paperwork becomes a bigger problem, not a smaller one.

Build each dish, tray or delivery pack from its ingredients, and Tallium AI deducts stock automatically every time it sells. Because purchase prices update as you buy, you see the real cost per portion as the market moves — not last quarter's guess. Low-stock alerts on staples like rice, oil and protein mean you restock before a service is at risk.

Record dine-in, pickup, direct WhatsApp orders and delivery-platform tickets in the same system, each tagged to its channel. When a platform payout lands, you can see which orders it covers and what commission was taken, so shortfalls surface the same week. Reports then show which channel actually makes you money after fees and packaging.

Send a professional catering quote, convert it to an order when the client confirms, take a deposit against it and invoice the balance after the event — all on one record. Your TIN and VAT details sit on every document, so corporate clients get what their finance team needs first time. Outstanding balances show in one list instead of a WhatsApp scroll.

Every sale and purchase is categorised and VAT-coded as it happens, and AI receipt scanning turns market and supplier receipts into entries from a phone photo. When your monthly VAT return is due, the numbers are already there instead of being rebuilt from memory. Clean, structured invoice records also put you in a better position as e-invoicing requirements expand — confirm current rules with NRS or a local tax professional.