Understand the operation
We start with how the business actually runs today - who does what, where the numbers come from and which steps are being done twice.
WHAT NSAB BUILDS
A technology company with a production floor attached
NSAB Limited builds software: platforms businesses run their operations on. The printing and production side of the business is what taught us how those operations really work - and it is where our own platform was proven first.
The applications people use
Staff console, customer portal, the screens work actually happens on
APIs and integrations
Every action available to another system, not just to a screen
The records underneath
Customers, catalogue, jobs, documents and a ledger that balances
Infrastructure
Identity, environments, backups and deployment
Illustration of NSAB ONE. Figures are examples — not NSAB’s trading, and not a customer’s.
HOW NSAB WORKS
A platform you go live on, not a project that never ends
Software fails in businesses like this for one reason more than any other: it is delivered as a big bang and never quite finished. We do the opposite.
Quoting & costing
Week 1 — your cost book, your products
Orders & production
Week 3 — the floor comes on
Invoicing & VAT
Week 5 — with the ledger behind it
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Payroll
Next — once the rest is settled
Illustration of NSAB ONE. Figures are examples — not NSAB’s trading, and not a customer’s.
Configure, don't rebuild
Your products, cost book, price book, tax treatment, roles and approvals are set up as configuration. Most businesses need no custom code at all.
Move the live work over
Customers, catalogue and open balances are brought across, and one part of the business goes live first rather than everything at once.
Support it in production
Training for the people who use it daily, and someone accountable when something needs fixing - the platform is looked after, not handed over.
TECHNOLOGY & TRUST
Built to be audited, not just demonstrated
A system that holds a company's money and customer records has to be right when nobody is watching. These are the guarantees the platform is built on.
Journal · invoice issued
Balanced| Account | Debit | Credit |
|---|---|---|
| 1200 Trade receivables | 5,832.00 | — |
| 4100 Revenue | — | 4,860.00 |
| 2200 VAT payable | — | 729.00 |
| 2210 NHIL payable | — | 121.50 |
| 2220 GETFund payable | — | 121.50 |
| Total | 5,832.00 | 5,832.00 |
Written by the invoice itself, in the same transaction.
Access is granted, never assumed
Every role carries an explicit list of permissions. The interface hides what someone cannot do and the API refuses it regardless of what the interface showed.
Separation of duties
Roles that should not sit in the same pair of hands are refused when they are granted, not discovered during an audit. Nobody approves their own work.
An audit trail that cannot be edited
Posted journals and the audit log are append-only at the database level. A mistake is reversed with a new entry; history is never quietly rewritten.
Credentials nobody else has seen
Colleagues are invited and set their own password through a single-use link. Passwords are hashed, sessions are revocable, and a reset ends every existing session.
Money handled as money
Amounts are exact integers in minor units end to end - never floating point - so a rounding error cannot creep into a ledger that has to balance.
Rules are versioned
Cost books, price books and tax rules are versioned and pinned onto the documents that used them, so an old quote can still be explained years later.
WHY NSAB
A platform built by people who had to use it
There is a difference between software written for an industry and software written inside one.
- Quoting and costing
- Production jobs
- Invoicing and VAT
- Payments and MoMo
- Payroll and withholding
- The general ledger
Illustration of NSAB ONE. Figures are examples — not NSAB’s trading, and not a customer’s.
We run on it ourselves
NSAB ONE was not designed for a market we had read about. It was built to run NSAB's own quoting, production, invoicing and accounts, and it does.
Built for how business works here
Cedis, VAT with NHIL and GETFund, PAYE and SSNIT, withholding tax on contractors, and mobile money as a first-class payment method.
Production is in the model, not bolted on
Most business software treats a job as a line on an invoice. Here it has machines, materials, labour and a real cost that lands in the accounts.
The accounting is not optional
Every invoice and receipt posts a balanced double-entry journal as it happens. The books are a by-product of the work, not a monthly reconstruction.
Put your business on one system
Tell us how you quote, produce and invoice today. We will show you the same work running on NSAB ONE, with your own products and your own numbers - not a generic demo.
- info@nsabltd.com
- Where we are
- Accra, Ghana
- Rather see the work?
- Ask for a printing, apparel or signage quote and we will come back with a costed price.