Construction & contracting — Nigeria
Building work in Nigeria runs on materials that move fast — cement, rods, blocks, tiles, cable — and on payments that arrive in stages, long after the spend. Tallium AI puts your store and site stock, purchase orders, subcontractor bills, client invoices and VAT-ready books in one app, so you can see what a job really costs while it is still running. Unlimited users on every plan means your storekeeper, site supervisor, quantity surveyor and accountant all work from the same numbers, with no per-seat fee.
From $99/month per warehouse · billed monthly · no free trial
Key takeaways
Cement and rods are issued to a site on a scribbled waybill, the driver drops part of the load, and the shortfall only shows up weeks later when the store count is done. Without a per-site record of what was issued and consumed, shrinkage looks like normal wastage and quietly eats the margin on every project.
Costs land in different places — supplier invoices in a file, diesel and transport in cash, labour on a WhatsApp list, subcontractor claims in a folder. By the time it is all added up, the building is finished and there is nothing left to renegotiate with the client.
A client pays 60% on certificate, holds 5% retention for a defects period, then approves extra work that was never re-quoted. Months later nobody is sure what is still owed, and chasing it means digging through old emails and paper certificates.
Contractors buy from a mix of registered and unregistered suppliers, some issuing proper invoices with a TIN and some not. Pulling the input and output figures together for a monthly VAT return at the last minute is slow, stressful and easy to get wrong.
Treat your central store and each active site as its own location. Every transfer of cement, rods or fittings is recorded against a site with who requested it and who received it, so a count that does not match the record raises a flag the same week — not at handover.
Tag purchase orders, supplier bills, subcontractor payments, transport and material issues to a project. Tallium AI adds them up as they happen, so at any moment you can open a job and see spend against the amount you quoted, with enough time to adjust before the money is gone.
Raise invoices for advances, milestone certificates, variations and the final account from the same project record. Retentions and part-payments stay visible on the ageing report, so your follow-up list is accurate and you know exactly which client owes what and since when.
Snap supplier invoices and receipts with your phone — the AI reads them, files the expense against the right job and keeps the VAT detail attached. Output and input tax build up through the month, so preparing your monthly VAT return for NRS is a review rather than a rebuild. Confirm current rules with NRS or a local tax professional.
Raise POs to your cement, rod and fittings suppliers, match deliveries against what was ordered, and stop paying for quantities that never reached the site.
Advance, milestone, variation and final-account invoices with retention tracked separately, so staged payments on a long build stay clear to you and the client.
Full books behind the scenes — supplier balances, client debtors, cash and bank — with AI receipt scanning and categorisation doing the data entry for you.
Keep VAT recorded on sales and purchases as they happen, with supplier TIN details on file, so the monthly return is straightforward to prepare.
Central store plus every live site as its own stock location, with transfers logged and balances visible from the office or your phone.
Build your plan in a minute — pay only for the parts of your business you run. From $99/month per warehouse.
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