ReceiptVault
A mobile expense tracking app built for Nigerian SMEs and freelancers, entering an uncontested gap in the local market.
Problem
Most Nigerian small business owners and freelancers track expenses through QuickBooks, Sage, Wave, or Excel. The less organized use physical drawers, handwritten notes, or nothing at all. None of these offer a fast, mobile-first, real-time expense capture experience.
Existing alternatives fall short across the board. Expensify is foreign-built, dollar-priced, and designed for teams. Wave is free but not localized for Nigeria. Pearmonie focuses on sales tracking, not expense capture.
No tool combines mobile expense capture, receipt photo storage, categorization, and tax-ready reporting for Nigerian SMEs and freelancers. Nigeria's new tax reforms make this gap urgent, requiring verifiable digital expense records to qualify for tax exemptions.
Solution / Process
Contributed to the market intelligence research phase, identifying the gap in Nigeria's expense tracking space and analyzing competitors like QuickBooks, Sage, Wave, and Pearmonie.
Designed the UI interface, translating research insights into clean, mobile-first screens for the core expense tracking experience.
A fast receipt capture flow: snap or upload a photo, tag a category, and log the expense in seconds.
Categorization and reporting screens designed to generate the verifiable, tax-ready expense records now required under Nigeria's tax reforms.
Mobile-first, low-friction interface suited to solo operators and small teams working on the go.
Outcome
Completed as a collaborative capstone project and shipped live. ReceiptVault is accessible and ready for Nigerian SMEs and freelancers to start tracking expenses digitally.
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