The same books
The app reads from the books and writes to them directly, through the same rules the browser passes through: the invoice you issue from the phone is the invoice your accountant sees on the web.
The Basmtak Books app — iPhone and iPad
Your books, in your pocket
Basmtak Books is a Saudi accounting app for iPhone and iPad. Issue an invoice and send it to the customer, approve a supplier bill, and photograph a receipt so the expense lands straight in the books. And know, at any moment, what you are owed, what you owe, and whether ZATCA has accepted your invoices.
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iPhone and iPad · Arabic first, fully right-to-left · light and dark
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Sales & invoicing
From the quote to the invoice, and from the invoice to the cash
The whole sales cycle on the phone, with the same documents and the same rules as the browser — not a simplified copy that drifts from your books.
- Write the invoice standing up
Pick the customer, add lines with quantity, price and VAT rate, watch the subtotal, VAT and total change in front of you, then tap Issue.
- A quote becomes an invoice
One tap, without retyping a single line.
- A credit note when it is needed
It reverses the invoice in full, and the original stays exactly as it was in the books — a ledger you can erase from is not a ledger.
- Send it or share it
Email the invoice to the customer from inside the app, or share the PDF from the phone through any app.
- Approve supplier bills
Supplier bills and purchase orders are there too, and approval is the decision a phone is genuinely good for: you see it and approve it away from the desk.
Expense capture
Photograph the receipt. The expense is done.
The thing small businesses lose most is the small cash expense: a receipt in a pocket, forgotten until month end. Here it is captured where and when it happens.
- From the camera or the photo library
Snap the receipt, or pick a photo already on the device.
- The expense account and where it was paid from
Choose the expense account and the account it was paid from, and save. The expense is recorded and the receipt photo attached to it in one step.
- Automatic reading
The app reads the supplier invoice and drafts the supplier, amount and date from it. It stays a draft until you have looked: what a machine reads is a starting point for a person, not an entry in anyone's books.
- And warns when it has seen it before
"This invoice has already been recorded" — before it becomes a duplicate expense.
Attaching the receipt photo to its entry is in every plan. Recording the expense from the phone comes with Purchases (Grow and up), and automatic reading from Pro up.
Receipt and payment vouchers
A payment from a customer or to a supplier, oldest invoice first
Receipt and payment vouchers from the phone, allocated exactly as the browser allocates them, numbered from the same sequence.
- Record a receipt, record a payment
From a customer or to a supplier — cash, bank, card, cheque or transfer.
- Oldest first, and you see what will be settled
The oldest invoices are settled first, and before you save you see which invoice will be settled and by how much. If the payment exceeds what is due, the difference stays as a credit for the customer.
- On the statement the same second
A voucher issued from the phone is on the customer's statement and in the aging the moment it is saved — on the phone and on the web.
Fatoora — ZATCA e-invoicing
Fatoora, from your pocket
The question that wakes a business owner at night: did ZATCA accept my invoices, or is something rejected that I do not know about? The app answers it on one screen.
- 1Create the certificate requestCSR
- 2Enter the OTPfrom the Fatoora portal
- 3Compliance checksbefore activation
- 4Activateand the establishment is ready
Every invoice's status with the authority
Accepted
Reported
Pending
Rejected
- Link the establishment from the phone
Four steps, each of ZATCA's environments has its own code, and the app tells you which one the establishment is linked to.
- Submit, then follow the status
Submit the invoice to the authority, and filter the list by status to see only the rejected ones if you want.
- A rejection reaches you; you do not go looking
"An invoice rejected by ZATCA" appears under Waiting for you on the home screen.
- And the OTP is never spent by mistake
The code is consumed on every attempt whether it succeeds or not, and the app tells you so before you tap.
Reports
The numbers that read well on a phone
Four reports with their headline figures — because a three-hundred-line trial balance is desk work, not a phone screen. The full statements stay in the browser, where they read as they should.
Income statementRevenue · expenses · gross profit · net income
Balance sheetAssets · liabilities · equity
VAT returnOutput VAT · input VAT · net VAT
Cash flowOpening cash · net change · closing cash
- Aging
What you are owed and what you owe, in buckets: not yet due, 1–30, 31–60, 61–90 and over 90 days — so the most overdue reads heaviest.
- The customer statement
From the start of the financial year, with a running balance line by line. The closing balance can be traced, not just believed.
- And the trial balance for those who need it
On the phone too, with the same balances as the browser.
Inventory & follow-up
Stock, and the item card
What is on the shelf, what it cost you, and how it got to where it is — line by line.
- Inventory valuation
Quantity on hand, unit cost and value per item at weighted average, with a below-minimum flag on anything close to running out.
- The item card
Every movement and its source — sale, purchase, adjustment, transfer, build, count — split by warehouse.
- Adjust and count at the shelf
Record a quantity adjustment standing in front of the shelf, and finish a stock count from the phone.
Every movement on the item card carries its source
Sale
Purchase
Adjustment
Transfer
Build
Count
The home screen
Search the whole books, and let the alerts come to you
The home screen opens on what matters today: cash, what is waiting for you, and what changed since last time.
- Search across the books
A customer, an item, an invoice number — across customers, items, documents, accounts and journals.
- Alerts
An overdue invoice, low stock, a VAT return coming due, a ZATCA rejection, a credit limit breached, an accounting period still open — all under Waiting for you.
- Banks
Cash and bank balances as the books state them, and the movements on each account.
- This month at a glance
Income, expenses and net profit for the month, receivables and payables, on the first screen.
Sign-in & security
Sign in with a QR code — no password
The same HR account opens the books on the phone, with no second password to forget or write on a slip of paper.
- For Basmtak HR users
Someone with a Basmtak HR account has no Books password at all. They open the Mobile app screen in the browser and scan the code with their phone. If the camera will not, the eight characters can be typed — and the code lives for three minutes only.
- Email and password for Books subscribers
Someone who opened their account in Basmtak Books directly signs in with their email and password.
- Unlock with Face ID or a fingerprint
A lock on the app itself every time, not a password typed in a queue.
- Devices, and a button that ends them
See where your account is signed in and when each device was last used, and sign the others out in one tap. Phones get lost more often than computers.
- Switch establishment
One account and several businesses, and a switch that never leaves one business's figures hanging behind another's.
- Permissions
What your permissions do not allow does not appear as a button that fails when tapped. The same permission on the web and on the phone.
Arabic in the original, not translated
The same books, not a copy of them
What you do on the phone is what you see in the browser the same second — same permissions, same entries. No sync to wait for, no copy to drift.
Runs on iPhone and iPad
And the iPad layout uses its space rather than enlarging a phone screen.
Light and dark
Or whatever the device itself is set to.
Fully right-to-left
Not one screen flipped from English with its numbers left on the wrong side. The vocabulary is the one used in the Kingdom: receipt voucher, credit note, VAT return. English is there for anyone who prefers it.
Honestly
What follows your plan, and what is not here yet
The app is included in every plan. What you see inside it follows your plan, exactly as the web does.
- Android
The app is for iPhone and iPad today. The browser works on any device.
- Automatic receipt reading
On Pro and up. Attaching the photo to the entry is in every plan.
- Purchases, inventory and alerts
The supplier, payment-voucher, inventory and alert-list screens come with Grow and up. The alert summary on the home screen is for everyone.
- The long statements
The detailed general ledger and report exports live in the browser; the phone shows the headline figures.
Common questions
Before you download it
Is there an Android app?
The app is for iPhone and iPad today. On Android, Basmtak Books opens in the browser with everything in it.
I came from Basmtak HR and have no password — how do I sign in on the phone?
Open the Mobile app screen in the browser and scan the code with the app. The code is what proves who you are: it lives for three minutes and works once. After that the app opens with Face ID or a fingerprint.
I lost my phone — what happens to my books?
The app is locked with Face ID or a fingerprint. And from another phone or iPad you sign the lost device out from the device list, and it stops getting in that same second.
Is the app included in my subscription?
Yes, the mobile app is in every plan at no extra charge. What you see inside it follows your plan: the screens you have on the web are the screens you have on the phone.
Start on the web today; the app opens with the same account
A full 14 days, no card. When Basmtak Books reaches the App Store, your books are there exactly as you left them.
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