Accounting documentation & guides
Welcome to the Qontab documentation — AI-powered double-entry accounting with a native MCP connector. These guides cover every feature, from your first journal entry to Mauritius payroll (PAYE/CSG/NSF), invoicing, bank reconciliation, multi-currency and connecting an AI assistant to your books.
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Getting started
Daily bookkeeping
Transactions
Record income, expenses, transfers, capital contributions and opening balances — then post them to the general ledger.
Bank reconciliation
Import a bank statement, auto-match it against your books, resolve the differences and close the reconciliation with confidence.
Invoicing & payments
Create and send invoices, record full or partial payments, handle multi-currency settlement and track what you’re owed.
Expense reports
The full expense-report workflow — draft, submit, approve, reimburse — with receipts, duplicate detection and director auto-posting.
Recurring
Automate repeating income, expenses and transfers with templates that generate entries on a schedule.
Money & compliance
Multi-currency & FX
How Qontab stores currency, exchange rate and base-currency amounts on every line, refreshes historical rates and books FX gains and losses.
Assets & depreciation
Register fixed assets, run straight-line or reducing-balance depreciation schedules and book disposals with the resulting gain or loss.
Payroll (Mauritius)
Run Mauritian payroll with automatic PAYE, CSG and NSF, generate payslips and PDFs, and prepare the MRA remittance.
Travel declarations
Declare business trips with per-country per-diem rates, route the approval, post the per-diem entry and link related expenses.
VAT & MRA returns
How Qontab tracks VAT at 15%, prepares the VAT return and the MRA remittance, and keeps corporate income tax in view.
Reporting
Financial reports
Read your profit & loss, balance sheet, trial balance, general ledger and cash flow — in any currency, for any period.
Budgets
Set monthly budget lines by account or project and track budget-versus-actual as the year unfolds.
Project profitability
Tag income and costs to projects and see revenue, cost and margin per project over time.