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Only informal businesses

You worked today. You still do not know if you made money.

TIJAR is only for informal businesses — market traders, food sellers, tailors, mechanics, and small shops. Write the sale before you forget it, see who still owes you, and let the next customer find you.

TIJAR mobile dashboard with sales, expenses, and business overview
  • A trader arranging peppers, tomatoes, and onions at a Nigerian market stall
    Market stall
  • A tailor sewing patterned cloth in a small Nigerian shop
    Tailor
  • A cook plating jollof rice and grilled fish at a Nigerian roadside kitchen
    Food seller

If you sell with your own hands, this was built for you.

Market traders and provision sellersFood sellers, cooks, and roadside kitchensTailors, fashion makers, and cobblersHairdressers and beauty shopsMechanics, welders, and phone repairArtisans and small neighbourhood shops

This is not for you. Offices and registered companies · Banks, lenders, and loan apps · Businesses that already have an accountant · Software built for formal companies

The leak

Busy is not the same as profitable.

You know the faces. You do not know the numbers. A customer says they will pay tomorrow, and tomorrow never gets written down. Someone looks for a tailor, a cook, or a mechanic and finds another person, because your business has no name they can trust. The money is already moving through your hands. It leaves because nothing is keeping it.

  1. 01

    The debt lives in your head

    If you cannot name who owes you and how much, that money is already gone. A notebook you never open is not a record.

  2. 02

    The next customer walks past

    People ask a friend, then check a phone. If your stall, kitchen, or workshop is not there, they buy from the person who is.

  3. 03

    Nobody can prove you are real

    A supplier wants a bigger order. A customer wants to pay before they visit. Without a simple name they can trust, they choose someone else.

Start today

Three steps. Then you can see the money.

01

Name the business

Download the app. Say what you sell and where you work.

02

Write the day

Log the sale, the expense, and the debt before you forget them.

03

Let people find you

Verify, then share a profile a new customer can trust.

So they can find you

Your best customer already told a friend. The friend could not find you.

After you verify in the app, TIJAR gives your business a public profile: what you sell, where you are, and how to reach you. The market already knows you. The next customer does not.

Informal does not mean invisible.

Business Visibility
VERIFIED BUSINESS
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Aisha Foods

Foodstuff & Provisions

Kano, Nigeria ⭐ 4.8

Rice • Beans • Oil • Flour

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Example business profile.

If this is how you earn, you need TIJAR.

Market tradersFood sellersTailorsHair & beautyMechanicsPhone sellersProvision shopsArtisansBuilding materialsRoadside shops

In your language

In the language you already sell in.

Records and lessons in English, Hausa, Arabic, Yoruba, Igbo, and Kiswahili. No office English required.

EnglishHausaArabicYorubaIgboKiswahili

Account access

Use your TIJAR email and password. New here?

Download TIJAR

The notebook in your head, on your phone.

Sales, expenses, and the names of people who still owe you. Built for a market day, not an office. Sign up in the app and write today's sales before you close.

Store links will go live at launch.

TIJAR iOS app dashboard showing sales, expenses, and business overview

iPhone