Accounting
An accounting system for small businesses that make or sell products
Small businesses rarely need a giant finance suite on day one. They need to know who owes them money, what they owe suppliers, what they spent, and whether the product they sold actually made a profit. Tarateeb (تراتيب) is an accounting system for small businesses built around that work, especially factories and product brands. In Arabic it is the same product: تراتيب.
The books stay attached to operations. A sales invoice reduces the stock you can sell. A purchase invoice brings materials in. A batch consumes those materials and updates the cost of the finished good. Profit is then based on what you made and sold, not on a total someone typed into a sheet at the end of the month.
What the accounting covers
Sales invoices, purchase invoices, and payments are first-class records, with invoice templates so a document you send looks like your company. Expenses are tracked beside that activity. Cash-flow and profit-and-loss views summarize the period. Inventory valuation and movement history explain why cash and stock moved together.
For a manufacturer, the number that usually goes missing is product cost. Tarateeb calculates cost of goods from the ingredients a batch actually used, not from a standard cost someone hoped was still true. That cost feeds the margin on the SKU you sell. If you only buy and resell, and you do not run production, the Solo plan still covers inventory, orders, the store, and costing without the manufacturing modules.
Who this is for
This page is for small businesses that hold stock and send invoices: a cosmetics lab, a food producer, a chemical workshop, a contract manufacturer, or a solo operator selling finished goods. It is a fit when Excel invoices, a separate store, and a separate stock list have started to disagree. It is a poor fit for a services firm that only needs payroll-style bookkeeping and never touches a product.
Arabic-speaking owners can run the same flows in Arabic. The phrase people search, نظام محاسبي للشركات الصغيرة, describes the job: invoicing, expenses, cash, and profit for a small company. Tarateeb answers that job for companies whose profit depends on products, batches, and stock, and it states that limit openly.
How the numbers stay tied to the factory
A generic accounting system will happily post a sale that the warehouse cannot fulfill. Tarateeb will not treat the invoice as a separate universe. Customer orders and the online store sync back to inventory. Purchase invoices increase what you can issue to a work order. Quality status can keep a batch from being treated as sellable stock. The financial reports then describe stock you can defend.
You can read inventory reports, sales reports, production reports, and financial reports from the same account. That matters at month end, when the question is not “what did the bank account do” but “which batches and which customers produced the result.”
What it does not claim to be
Tarateeb is not a certified replacement for a chartered accountant, and it does not file your tax return. It does not try to be every ledger a multinational uses. Payroll for employees exists as its own area, separate from product costing. Use تراتيب as the operating and commercial record of the business, and keep your accountant for statutory accounts and tax.
Pricing stays simple. Solo starts at $10 a month for a business that does not manufacture. Starter is for a solo manufacturer. Growth covers a larger team and more than one company. Every account begins with a 14-day free trial.
Questions about accounting on Tarateeb
Put invoices and stock in one place
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