Business operations platform

One connected view of sales, money, and performance.

Potrait runs your pipeline and your books on the same records. Win a deal and the client, the invoice, and the ledger entry follow automatically — nothing retyped, nothing out of step.

Sales pipeline

New

1 lead

KES 300,000

Qualified

1 lead

KES 1,150,000

Proposal

1 lead

KES 850,000

Won

1 lead

KES 2,400,000

Savanna Ridge — phase two advisoryWon
Lakeview Estates — feasibility studyProposal
Tana Heights — cost planningQualified

Trial balance

KES 6,026,000.00

Debits equal credits · balanced

Expected this month

KES 1,300,000.00

From live instalment schedules

How it fits together

Sales, receivables, accounting, reporting — one chain

Most businesses run sales in one system and accounting in another, then spend the month reconciling them. Potrait keeps one chain of records from first enquiry to signed-off statements.

  1. 1

    Sales

    Leads, pipeline stages, and the client record a won deal creates.

  2. 2

    Receivables

    Instalments, invoices, and the payments that settle them.

  3. 3

    Accounting

    Every entry posted to the ledger as the work happens.

  4. 4

    Reporting

    Statements built from those same authoritative records.

CRM and sales

CRM and sales

Win the deal, and the client record writes itself

  • Leads carry the company, contact, expected value, and the salesperson responsible.
  • Pipeline stages are enforced on the server — no skipping, and a settled deal stays settled.
  • Winning a lead creates the client company and contact in the same transaction.
  • Salespeople see the leads assigned to them; managers see everything.
Lead · Savanna Ridge Developments
NewContactedQualifiedProposalWon

Created automatically on won

Savanna Ridge Developments Ltd

Developer company

Peter Otieno

Contact · linked

Money owed to the business

Money owed to you

Know exactly what is owed, and when it lands

  • Bill in full, or split a retainer across instalments with due dates.
  • Issuing an instalment raises the invoice and posts to the ledger together.
  • Record part payments and settlements against specific invoices.
  • See what is due, what is overdue, and what is scheduled to arrive.
Receivables · instalment schedule
Instalment 1 of 4KES 600,000.00Paid
Instalment 2 of 4KES 600,000.00Issued
Instalment 3 of 4KES 600,000.00Issued
Site survey — one-offKES 180,000.00Part paid
OutstandingKES 1,300,000.00

Money the business owes

Money you owe

Supplier costs, recorded the moment they commit

  • Suppliers carry unique codes, so the same one is never entered twice.
  • Bills stay editable as drafts and commit to the ledger when posted.
  • Settle in full or in part, and reverse a mistaken payment cleanly.
  • Outstanding payables always match the control account.
Payables · supplier bills
Rift Valley EngineeringRVE-2026-114KES 240,000.00Part paid
Nairobi Cloud SystemsNCS-2026-77KES 96,000.00Posted
Rift Valley EngineeringRVE-2026-131KES 210,000.00Posted
Owed to suppliersKES 546,000.00

Financial control

Financial control

Books that cannot quietly drift out of balance

  • A full double-entry ledger in Kenyan shillings, held as whole cents.
  • Posted journals are never edited or deleted — corrections are reversals, and both stay visible.
  • Most entries are raised automatically, and each one names its source.
  • Receivables and payables reconcile to their control accounts by construction.
Trial balance
1000Cash and BankKES 3,660,000.00
1100Accounts ReceivableKES 1,300,000.00
2000Accounts PayableKES 546,000.00
3000Owner CapitalKES 3,500,000.00
4000Consulting RevenueKES 1,800,000.00
5000Subcontractor CostsKES 850,000.00
Debits equal credits · control reconciled

Financial reporting

Reporting

Statements you can trust, without assembling them

  • Profit and loss, balance sheet, and a management summary.
  • Derived from the same posted records, so they cannot disagree with the ledger.
  • Run any period with the preceding one alongside for comparison.
  • Display in another currency for reference without touching a stored figure.
Profit and loss · August 2026
AccountThis periodPrior
Total revenueKES 600,000.00KES 780,000.00
Total expensesKES 210,000.00KES 216,000.00
Net resultKES 390,000.00KES 564,000.00
Profit and lossBalance sheetManagement summary

Access

Everyone sees their own Potrait

Four roles, enforced on the server for every request. Managing people and managing money are deliberately separate.

Administrator

Manages who has access. Deliberately holds no accounting authority.

  • Staff access and configuration — permitted
  • Full CRM and pipeline — permitted
  • Accounting and the ledger — not permitted
  • Receivables and payables — not permitted

Management

Sees both halves of the business. Reviews, but never posts.

  • Full CRM and pipeline — permitted
  • Read the whole ledger — permitted
  • Statements and collections — permitted
  • Post or change financial records — not permitted

Accountant

Owns the financial records end to end.

  • Chart of accounts and periods — permitted
  • Journals, receivables, payables — permitted
  • Financial statements — permitted
  • CRM and the sales pipeline — not permitted

Salesperson

Works their own pipeline, and only their own.

  • Leads assigned to them — permitted
  • Pipeline stages — permitted
  • Other salespeople's leads — not permitted
  • Any financial record — not permitted

One system, from first enquiry to signed-off statements.

Potrait is the operations platform Potrait Solution runs its own client work on.