Lipa › Who benefits
A one-person company is not a small business with fewer employees. The founder is the entire sales, delivery, support and finance function, and the customers are individuals rather than enterprises. What reaches them arrives everywhere at once: a client email, an unread voice memo, a receipt to categorise, a payment that does not match, a filing deadline. Each has its own app, its own badge and its own small guilt. Lipa exists to give all of it one place, with the money attached.
Twenty minutes with someone who has run a close on it, not a sales engineer reading a script.
Each of these is a different job with a different definition of a good outcome, and a different first step. Pick the one that is yours.
You are doing the work and running the company, and the administrative residue competes with the work you are trying to do. The month-end close is the part you dread, and it lands on the same evenings you meant to build something.
What changesOne queue for everything that needs a decision, and a close that finishes without you. Five agents work the ledger and every one of them proposes; nothing posts or files without your approval.
Time and materials means every invoice depends on you remembering what happened, and chasing a client for a late payment competes with billable work you have not started yet.
What changesThe task and the invoice are the same object. The chase surfaces because the invoice is overdue, an agent drafts it from your dunning policy, and finishing it fires the next step.
Stripe pays you and a spreadsheet remembers you, and somewhere between them is a real set of books you have never had to produce.
What changesDouble-entry on a unified chart, receipts captured by camera, and eTIMS fiscalization at issuance. The gap between a payment processor and a ledger is the whole product.
The accounting rules differ from the tools you have, and the language of the interface is not the language of your customers or your tax authority.
What changesChina, OHADA francophone and PALOP packs on one schema, with the interface complete in Chinese, French, Swahili and Arabic. Adding a fifth market is configuration, not a rebuild.
Not a feature list. The difference in the argument you have to have.
Fourteen tabs and a spreadsheet, a payment that did not match, a receipt in a camera roll, and a close you do at midnight. Every interruption is in a different application, and none of them knows whether the person who emailed you actually paid you.
One queue where every row carries its invoice, and the money is attached to the interruption. A close that runs on the ledger, prepared by agents that propose and defer, and signed off by you. The books are exportable in full, whenever you want them, at no exit fee.
The same product, deployed very differently depending on who you are accountable to.
Better to say so now than three meetings in.
Answered here so that asking them does not cost you a meeting.
Every agent proposes. Nothing posts to the general ledger, files a return or moves money without a human approving it, and ten money-moving actions require a fresh second factor. The ledger is deterministic; the agents are staff, not a substitute for sign-off.
You get a complete double-entry export in a documented schema, including supporting documents and the audit trail, whenever you ask, at no exit fee. We sell the operating system, not a hostage situation.
No. The model is a flat monthly fee. Our revenue does not rise when yours stalls, which is the only structural reason a platform can be trusted with a one-person company's books.
Keep them. An accountant seat gives read-only access and full export, and the two-week evaluation is measured against criteria they sign. We are removing the monthly labour, not the professional judgement.
It is the opposite of a tool. The queue is homogeneous so deciding is fast, triage memory means you do not decide the same thing twice, and the close is continuous rather than an event. If it needs weekly attention from you, we have built it wrong.
Stated plainly, and only where we can point at it.
The next step is twenty minutes with someone who has deployed it. No slides.
Twenty minutes with someone who has run a close on it, not a sales engineer reading a script.
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