Manufacturing & small factories
If you make things in South Africa — food, furniture, plastics, packaging, cosmetics, steel fabrication — your numbers live in three places at once: raw material stock, work in progress, and finished goods. Tallium AI puts production stock, purchase orders, job costing, invoicing and VAT-ready accounting into one app, so you always know your true cost per unit and what SARS will want to see. Unlimited users on every plan, one flat monthly price in USD, no per-seat fees and no free trial — you start on a paid plan and cancel any time.
From $99/month per warehouse · billed monthly · no free trial
Key takeaways
Steel, resin, packaging and imported components change price every few months, and the rand moves against the dollar in between. If you costed a product last year and haven't recosted since, you may be quoting below cost on your best-selling line without knowing it. Spreadsheets rarely get updated fast enough to catch it.
The store room has a book, the production supervisor has a WhatsApp thread, and the office has a spreadsheet that is three days behind. So you buy material you already have, or run out mid-shift and lose a day of output. Nobody can answer "how much 3mm board do we actually have?" without walking to the yard.
Input VAT on raw material purchases, import VAT on components, output VAT on sales — all in different files. Chasing supplier tax invoices at the end of a two-month VAT period costs days, and a missing valid tax invoice means you cannot claim that input VAT at all.
Most accounting packages charge per user, so the storeman, the production manager and the bookkeeper each cost you more every month. The result is everyone sharing one login, nobody knows who changed a stock figure, and you lose any audit trail worth having.
Build a simple recipe or bill of materials for each product, and Tallium AI works out the material cost every time you produce a batch — using the actual price you last paid, not last year's estimate. When a supplier raises the price of a component, you see the effect on that product's margin immediately and can requote before you lose money.
Receive raw materials against a purchase order, issue them to a production run, and book the finished units back into stock — all in the same app. Your storeman can do it from a phone on the floor, so the office sees the same numbers as the yard, minute by minute, with no end-of-day capture backlog.
Every sale and purchase is captured with the right VAT treatment as it happens, and receipt scanning pulls supplier tax invoices in with the AI reading the amounts and VAT for you. When your VAT period closes, your output and input VAT totals are already summarised and ready to key into SARS eFiling — no shoebox weekend. Confirm current rules and rates with SARS or a qualified local tax professional.
Add your production manager, storeman, buyer, bookkeeper and external accountant at no extra cost — every plan includes unlimited users with no per-seat fees. Give each person only the screens they need with roles and permissions, so you get a proper audit trail without paying for it by the head.
Track raw materials, work in progress and finished goods with batch and reorder levels, so you know what to buy before the line stops.
Raise POs to local and import suppliers, receive part-deliveries, and match supplier invoices to what actually arrived in the yard.
Full double-entry books, bank reconciliation and management reports built for a factory — cost of sales, gross margin per product and creditor ageing.
Capture output and input VAT correctly on every transaction and produce clean period totals to support your VAT201 submission on SARS eFiling.
See production output, material usage, wastage and margin by product line without waiting for month-end.
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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