The books, where
the work already is.
A complete accounting platform for every company whose books you keep — invoicing and statements, purchases, banking and reconciliation, VAT, stock and management reports. It feeds the annual financial statements, management accounts, asset register and tax calcs directly, so nobody exports a trial balance and maps it by hand again.
Built and supported in South Africa · SARS VAT categories, VAT201 layout, IFRS for SMEs
You pay for your clients’ books, not your own
The accounting module is built and in daily use in our own practice — that is what it was built for first. You can start it yourself now: a set of books per client, on a 14-day trial, with or without the practice platform.
- R149 per client, per monthOne set of books per client, unlimited users in it. Your own firm’s books are free.
- Take it without the workflowIf you want the books and your client list but not jobs and deadlines, that is a choice at sign-up — and you pay no per-user fee at all.
- We convert your first clients with youOpening balances, open invoices and bills, bank balances — checked before you rely on them. Ask, and we do it with you.
A full accounting platform, not a cashbook with reports bolted on
Real double-entry, and a separate company for every client — each with its own chart, financial year and postings lock, so one client’s year-end never touches another’s and a period you have closed stays closed.
General ledger & journals
Post journals, drill from a balance to the line that made it, and lock a period once it is signed off.
- Chart of accounts
- Journals
- Trial balance
- General ledger
- Account activity
- Financial year & postings lock
Sales & debtors
Quote, invoice, credit and collect. Statements go out through the review queue, on your letterhead, with a full audit trail.
- Customers
- Quotes & sales orders
- Tax invoices
- Credit notes
- Pro-forma invoices
- Customer statements
- Debtors ageing
Purchases & creditors
Capture supplier invoices — or let the AI read them off the PDF and post them for you to approve.
- Suppliers
- Purchase orders
- Supplier invoices
- Supplier credit notes
- AI invoice reading
- Creditors ageing
Banking
Import a statement, let your own rules and your own history code it, then reconcile. The suggestions are free — it is reading your ledger, not an AI.
- Statement import
- Auto-allocation rules
- Suggest from history
- Payments & receipts
- Bank reconciliation
- VAT payments & refunds
VAT
A return laid out the way the VAT201 is, with the period record that stops a late invoice quietly vanishing from every return.
- VAT201-shaped return
- Categories A–E
- Invoice or payments basis
- Period filing record
- VAT history
- Late-item handling
Reports
On screen, as a PDF, as a working Excel file, or emailed to the client through the outbox.
- Trial balance
- Profit & loss
- Balance sheet
- General ledger
- Debtors & creditors
- VAT return & history
- Management dashboard
Stock
Full stock control for the clients who carry it — and invisible for the ones who do not, because Virta asks rather than showing everybody a stock menu.
- Products & services
- Item groups & departments
- Price lists & future prices
- Stock adjustments
- Stock transfers
- Stock takes
- Locations & bins
Every client, kept apart
Each company is its own set of books with its own users and permissions, and a conversion path in from whatever they are on now.
- A company per client
- Roles & permissions
- Full audit trail
- Your branding on documents
- Convert from another package
- Multi-user, no seat limit
Not every client invoices. Virta asks.
A café banks its card takings and captures its wholesalers’ invoices. A consultancy invoices every sale and codes its purchases straight off the bank. Most tools assume one or the other and quietly get the other one wrong.
Virta asks how each side of a set of books gets its entries, and then holds you to it — because coding a receipt to income in books where the sale was already invoiced counts that sale twice, and the trial balance and the bank reconciliation both still tie. Nothing downstream catches it.
It is also the reason a client with no stock never sees a stock menu, and a client who keeps stock cannot hide it by accident.
Per set of books
Answered once, it decides what a bank line is allowed to do — and it will refuse an allocation that would leave a balance nothing can ever clear.
The accounting is the input to everything else
This is the part a standalone accounting package cannot do. Because the books and the compliance tools are the same system, the month-end stops being a series of exports.
Bring the books across
Convert Books takes the opening trial balance, the invoices still owed, the bills still owing and the bank balances from the client’s current package — so they carry on from a known position instead of being re-captured by hand.
Your own invoices post themselves
If you keep your practice’s books in Virta too, an invoice you issue a client lands in your own debtors ledger the moment it is issued. No monthly re-keying of your own fees.
Figures by name, not by lookup
Name a figure once — “Director’s loan” — and pull it into a letter, an email or a job form as a merge token, straight out of that client’s books.
You do not have to take both
Plenty of firms already have a practice manager they are happy with and want the accounting. Plenty of businesses are not a firm at all and just want their own books kept properly. Either is a fine place to start.
- Accounting onlyThe full accounting platform, plus the compliance tools that read it. No practice management.
- Practice onlyProposals, workflow, deadlines and client communication, without the accounting side — what Virta has always been.
- Both, one loginThe version this was designed for: the work and the books in the same place, with nothing exported between them.
Still being built
Said here rather than left for you to discover.
- PayrollA full SA payroll with EMP201/EMP501 and ETI is in build.
- Self-serve sign-up for booksToday a set of books is switched on with us, on purpose.
AI-assisted features are advisory — every output is for the practitioner to review before relying on it.
Want your clients’ books in here?
Start a trial and set up your first client yourself, or tell us how many sets you keep and what they are on now — we will do the conversion with you.
Keeping your own business’s books rather than clients’? That is self-serve, from R199 a month →