A tiny app for a Zimbabwean business that just needs to punch in a sale, hand ZIMRA its receipt, and get on with the day. Not accounting. Not payroll. Just the fiscal receipts the tax authority now requires — no Sage, no QuickBooks, nothing to learn.
Most fiscalisation software is bolted onto full accounting suites — and priced accordingly. Read Fiscal is the opposite: only what you need to comply, with nothing sold on top. Two lists, one page, no small print.
Every feature a corner shop needs — no more, no less.
If you need any of these, look at Read ERP instead.
Pair once with ZIMRA (we do it for you at sign-up), and every sale after that is: pick lines, tap tender, tap Fiscalise. That's it.
Free-typed items or pulled from your recent list. Qty × price → subtotal. VAT breaks out automatically per line.
~15 secCash · Card · EcoCash · ZIPIT · Split. Amount tendered and change owed both computed and shown to the customer.
~5 secRead Fiscal signs the receipt, submits to ZIMRA's FDMS, gets the fiscal reference back and prints. The whole round-trip is under three seconds on a normal connection.
~3 secNo POS grid, no number pad. The screen looks like the receipt you're building — because that's what you are building. When it's fiscalised, the same page becomes proof.
Every ZIMRA-fiscalised receipt this year, on every till, on every device the shop uses — one flat monthly fee. No per-transaction skim, no per-user tax.
Why so cheap? Because Read Fiscal is only the fiscalisation. If we made you buy the full accounting suite to get compliant, the price would look like everyone else's. You don't need the full suite.
Yes. Read Fiscal integrates directly with ZIMRA's Fiscal Device Management System via the standard FDMS API. Every receipt gets a real ZIMRA fiscal reference, not a synthetic one. Devices are paired with your TIN at sign-up.
The sale goes through offline. The receipt gets a "queued for ZIMRA" state and prints with a placeholder reference. As soon as connectivity returns, Read Fiscal submits the queue in order and updates each receipt with its real fiscal reference. Nothing is lost, nothing is skipped.
Yes — Read Fiscal is a standalone product. Most customers don't have Read ERP; they use QuickBooks or Sage (or nothing) for their books. Read Fiscal just handles the ZIMRA side.
At close-of-day you tap Close day. Read Fiscal sums every receipt for the day, computes the Z counters (gross, VAT, tender breakdown), signs the Z report and submits to ZIMRA. Takes about four seconds. You get a printable Z receipt for your records.
Your data stays exportable for 90 days after cancellation. Every fiscalised receipt is downloadable as a PDF. Fiscal references stay valid — they're ZIMRA's, not ours.
Read Fiscal takes ten minutes to set up. First 14 days on us. No card, no auto-charge.