Iris Secure Financial
Accounting, Invoicing, and Payments Built for Small Business
Most accounting software is built for one market — usually the US or Europe — and everyone else gets treated as an afterthought. A translated menu, maybe. Not much else.
That was the problem we kept running into. We needed something that worked for businesses operating across US and African markets, and nothing on the market actually did that well.
So we built Iris Secure Financial.
It's bilingual (English/French) from day one — not a translation layer bolted onto an English-first product. It has OHADA-compliant accounting built in, so businesses reporting under that standard aren't stuck exporting to a spreadsheet and reformatting everything by hand. And it supports mobile money — M-Pesa, MTN MoMo, Orange Money, Airtel Money — alongside regular card payments, because for a huge number of businesses, mobile money isn't a nice-to-have, it's how people actually get paid.
A few other things we focused on:
Industry-specific tools, not generic add-ons. Built-in verticals for churches and nonprofits (donor management, fund tracking, IRS 990 forms), restaurants (recipe costing, POS), auto repair shops (work orders, parts inventory), and bakeries (gram-level ingredient tracking, production planning).
Bank syncing, invoicing, and real reports. P&L, cash flow, expense by category, income summary — with multi-currency support and automatic conversion.
A client portal. Your customers can view invoices, track payments, and download receipts without emailing you for a copy.
Pricing that doesn't punish you for growing. Starts free, Professional tier is $79/month — cheaper than QuickBooks ($115) or Xero ($90), with more built in, not less.
It's live at irisfinancial.tech if you want to look around. Still building, still listening — if you run a business that's had to work around software that wasn't built for how you actually operate, we'd genuinely like to hear about it.
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How do you currently handle your analytics and would you mind reading my indiehacker pots on how AI crawlers and bots are ruining analytics data?
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/i-just-discovered-my-analytics-numbers-are-mostly-fake-here-is-why-8197e3ff9d
The interesting part is that you have several potentially strong wedges here — OHADA compliance, mobile money, bilingual workflows, and the industry-specific tooling.
From the businesses you’ve spoken with so far, is one of those consistently the reason they start looking for an alternative, or are you actually seeing the combination matter?
good question. honestly it depends on who we're talking to, not one single wedge across the board.
for businesses in african markets, mobile money is usually the actual blocker, not a nice-to-have. if a tool doesn't support M-Pesa or MTN MoMo, it's a non-starter regardless of how good the rest of it is.
for bilingual markets like Canada, especially Quebec, the OHADA angle doesn't even come up, but the bilingual-from-the-ground-up part does. a lot of french-speaking businesses there are stuck with english-first tools that translated the UI and called it done, same complaint different geography.
so the combination matters more for us as a company (it's what makes the product broadly useful across different markets), but for any one customer it's usually just the one thing that was actually broken for them.
That’s helpful context. There’s a bit more I’d like to discuss with you around this, but I’d rather take it outside the thread.
What’s the best email to reach you on?
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