Pre-accounting tools ignore francophone Africa
Dext, Receipt Bank, Pennylane: the market platforms were designed for French, British and American charts of accounts. When an OHADA firm or finance department uses them, every proposed account has to be remapped by hand onto the SYSCOHADA Revised chart. On specifically OHADA accounts — 601100 Purchases of raw materials and related supplies, 401200 Local suppliers, 7011 Local merchandise sales — foreign tools simply recognise nothing. The time saved by OCR is lost again in reconfiguration.
ComptaIA was built to close that gap. Francophone charts of accounts are native — SYSCOHADA Revised for OHADA, PCG for France, PCMN for Belgium. No retroactive mapping, no translation layer. The model was trained on tens of thousands of French-language accounting documents: invoices, expense claims, statements, delivery notes.
That dual capability serves groups straddling two worlds particularly well — a French head office consolidating under PCG, African subsidiaries under SYSCOHADA — handled on a single platform. And because we also deploy the ERPs the entries are exported into, the integration is not a generic connector: it is a path we walk on engagements.