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John Juma

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
99 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Kenya Customers Pay $25k/yr For this AR Management Platform, $6.5m Valuation

It's about 10,000, yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Kenya Customers Pay $25k/yr For this AR Management Platform, $6.5m Valuation

Absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Kenya Customers Pay $25k/yr For this AR Management Platform, $6.5m Valuation

Happy to have this discussion today.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Kenya Customers Pay $25k/yr For this AR Management Platform, $6.5m Valuation

So simply, this means reconciliation for outstanding receivables from your debtors.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Kenya Customers Pay $25k/yr For this AR Management Platform, $6.5m Valuation

And I'm talking about, imagine you're a business and you keep sending out invoices so that people can pay back for goods and services that you've delivered.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Kenya Customers Pay $25k/yr For this AR Management Platform, $6.5m Valuation

Now, that's what you call a receivable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Kenya Customers Pay $25k/yr For this AR Management Platform, $6.5m Valuation

Now, anytime these receivables are not yet paid out there, that's what now you refer as outstanding.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Kenya Customers Pay $25k/yr For this AR Management Platform, $6.5m Valuation

So we've automated that process of as soon as you receive payment for that invoice, you're able to instantly allocate that payment and reconcile it against an outstanding invoice.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Kenya Customers Pay $25k/yr For this AR Management Platform, $6.5m Valuation

So for us, we have an entry rate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Kenya Customers Pay $25k/yr For this AR Management Platform, $6.5m Valuation

fee of $24,000 per annum to just use the service.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Kenya Customers Pay $25k/yr For this AR Management Platform, $6.5m Valuation

That's about $2,000 a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Kenya Customers Pay $25k/yr For this AR Management Platform, $6.5m Valuation

That's basically the cost of an accountant as a basis because we are augmenting the tasks that an accountant spends time doing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Kenya Customers Pay $25k/yr For this AR Management Platform, $6.5m Valuation

So as opposed to doing those manual tasks, they should be spending more time in strategic roles like budgeting, ETC, where they will provide more value to the business and just leave the mundane finance operations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Kenya Customers Pay $25k/yr For this AR Management Platform, $6.5m Valuation

to Chappie, who's an accountant that never falls sick, is always on time, and reconciles 100% of outstanding receivables.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Kenya Customers Pay $25k/yr For this AR Management Platform, $6.5m Valuation

Absolutely, for that reconciliation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Kenya Customers Pay $25k/yr For this AR Management Platform, $6.5m Valuation

So we launched proper April of 2021.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Kenya Customers Pay $25k/yr For this AR Management Platform, $6.5m Valuation

But we were registered in Delaware, US in December of 2020.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Kenya Customers Pay $25k/yr For this AR Management Platform, $6.5m Valuation

So we now formed the team, the co-founding team, myself, Kennedy, who runs product, and James, our CTO.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Kenya Customers Pay $25k/yr For this AR Management Platform, $6.5m Valuation

And for the last one year, we've basically been building a lot of product and a couple of anchor clients that we are watching.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
5 Kenya Customers Pay $25k/yr For this AR Management Platform, $6.5m Valuation

For me and Kennedy, we had an even split.

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