دفترfor bekala & koshk owners
Say it out loud in Arabic, or write it the way you already do in your paper daftar, and Daftar's AI files it, tracks who owes what, and sends a friendly WhatsApp reminder when it's time to pay.
Written in the daftar
3am Ahmed 5ad 2 kilo gebna hydf3 el etnen el gy
Or just say itعم أحمد خد اتنين كيلو جبنة هيدفع الاتنين الجاي
Daftar
your shop notebook
The problem
Most small shops in Egypt track customers who buy now and pay later in a paper notebook called a daftar. It's simple and familiar, and it leaks money.
Pages get torn, wet, or lost, and the debts written on them go with them. Cash sales usually aren't written down at all.
Customers forget what they owe, and asking a neighbour for money face to face is uncomfortable, so it often doesn't happen.
Flipping through a notebook can't tell you how much is owed in total, who is late, or how the shop did this week.
Accounting apps want forms, product codes, and formal Arabic or English. Shopkeepers think in quick notes, not data entry.
The solution
No forms, no product codes, no new habits. The shopkeeper says it out loud in Arabic or types a quick note, and Daftar turns it into a clean, searchable record.
What they write
What Daftar saves
| Customer | Item | Type | Due |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uncle Ahmed | 2 kilo cheese | Unpaid | Mon |
| Walk-in | 3 Pepsi, 2 Chipsy | Cash sale | — |
| Uncle Ahmed | 100 EGP | Payment | — |
How it works
Follow one real entry all the way through, spoken or typed.
Step 1
Say it out loud in Egyptian Arabic, or type it like the notebook in Arabic or Franco. Spelling doesn't matter.
عم أحمد خد اتنين كيلو جبنة هيدفع الاتنين الجاي
or written
3am Ahmed 5ad 2 kilo gebna hydf3 el etnen el gy
Step 2
AI reads the dialect, finds the customer's profile, works out the date, and files it in your sheet.
Step 3
When payment is due, Daftar prepares a friendly WhatsApp message, so nobody has to ask face to face.
إزيك يا عم أحمد! بنفكرك بلطف بحساب ٢ كيلو الجبنة، ميعاده يوم الاتنين.
Try it yourself
Say an entry out loud in Arabic, or type it the way a shopkeeper would. Daftar shows what it understood and writes it into the ledger.
Daftar
Say it or write it, like in the notebook
Just say it in Arabic
Live voice works in Chrome, Edge and Safari. Try a sample voice note below.
Try a sample voice note
Or type it like the notebook
Om Monaأم منى
No number yet
Hajj Hassanالحاج حسن
No number yet
What the AI understood will show up here…
Customer, items, quantity, type, due date, and status.
No entries yet
Entries you add above land here, organized like a spreadsheet.
Features
Busy behind the counter? Tap the mic and say what happened, the way you'd tell a neighbour. Daftar writes it into the notebook for you: the right customer, the items, and when they'll pay. No typing, no spelling.
Spoken
عم أحمد خد اتنين كيلو جبنة هيدفع الاتنين الجاي
3am Ahmed 5ad 2 kilo gebna hydf3 el etnen el gy
Uncle Ahmed · 2 kilo cheese · unpaid · due next Monday
Cash sales, things taken on credit, and payments all live in one place, so the day's picture is complete.
Entries link to the right person automatically, whether they're written as "3am Ahmed", "Ahmed", or عم أحمد.
Everything is saved into a clean spreadsheet you can open, print, or share. No lock-in, no special software.
Polite reminders in Egyptian Arabic go out when a payment is due, so the shopkeeper doesn't have to chase anyone.
Why now
Speech recognition and language models now handle spoken Egyptian Arabic and written Franco, with its numbers-for-letters and loose spelling. A few years ago this needed rigid forms.
Shopkeepers and customers already use WhatsApp every day. Reminders arrive where people already are, with nothing new to install.
Shopkeepers already write every credit sale down. Daftar doesn't ask them to change behaviour, only where they write.
Business model
A freemium model: the core notebook is free so any shop can switch, and Premium adds automation for a low monthly fee.
Free forever
Everything a shop needs to replace the paper notebook.
Low monthly fee
For shops that want collection on autopilot.
The team