Your khata went digital years ago. Your business didn't.

A business-management app built around one gate: nothing reaches your books until it is approved. Your people record expenses, purchases, stock movements and cash spending from their own phones; every record waits — counted nowhere — until you or a manager you name says yes. Around that gate live customer and supplier ledgers, inventory, internal invoices, per-worker cash floats, projects and daily reports, for one company or several under one login.

No — and we say it with respect. Udhaar Book, DigiKhata and CreditBook did something real: they moved millions of Pakistani udhaar ledgers from paper to the phone. But a khata is one person's notebook. i-shim is built for the moment your business stops being one person: your worker writes the entry, and it does not touch the ledger until you approve it. That approval gate is the whole difference.

Yes. It is a tier, not a trial — it does not expire. Extended features come with store-priced subscriptions you can see inside the app, and receiving-side features stay free for your workers.

No. Since 31 December 2025 every sales-tax-registered person in Pakistan must report invoices to FBR's system in real time and hand the customer a stamped document. i-shim is NOT integrated with FBR or PRAL and does not issue that document. If you are sales-tax-registered, you need a licensed integration for the stamped invoice — i-shim runs beside it as your internal control ledger, never instead of it.

Yes, on both sides — a rare good number. Apple's Pakistani storefront bills subscriptions in PKR, and inside the app your company ledger runs in PKR too. No dollar surprise on either side.

Not yet, and we say it plainly. The app ships in 14 languages — English is complete, and English is an official language of Pakistan's business and government — but Urdu, the national language, is not among the 14 today.

A worker records an expense, a purchase or a stock movement. The record knocks: it exists, visibly pending, but no balance moves. You — or a manager you authorised — open it, see the amount, the note and the document photo, and approve or return it. Only approval posts it. You can also switch the gate off for people you trust fully; the gate is yours either way.

Yes. A general store and a transport side-business, or three branches as separate workplaces — separate books, separate teams, separate reports, one login.

Only what you give them. Each worker gets a login scoped to their job: the one who records fuel sees the fuel float, not the bank balance. Owner-level numbers stay with the owner.

Yes — this is a core module. You hand each worker a capped float; they record spending against it from their phone with a photo of the receipt; every spend passes your approval; the float's remaining balance is visible to you both at all times.

Yes. Goods in, goods out, consumption, per-item cost and current shelf count — and because entries pass approval, the shelf and the book stay in agreement instead of drifting apart until stock-taking day.

No. i-shim records movements; it never moves money. There is no wallet, no transfer, no custody, and no bank or mobile-money connection. You record what happened; the money itself moves wherever it already moves.

No. Pakistan's sales tax is split — 18% federal on goods, provincial rates on services (13% in Sindh, 16% in Punjab) — and i-shim computes none of it, and none of EOBI or provincial social security either. The in-app default rate field shows 20, Turkey's rate; you type your own. Your tax adviser stays your tax adviser.

No. i-shim is cloud-backed and needs a connection; on a slow link it tells you so gently rather than pretending. There is no offline entry mode today.

On servers in western Europe — not in Pakistan. If Pakistan-resident hosting is a requirement for you, we are not that today, and we would rather say it here than have you discover it in week two.

The core is a permanently free tier. Extended tiers are store subscriptions — prices are shown in PKR inside the App Store and Google Play listings, set per storefront by the stores. We do not print numbers here because the stores are the truth.

An afternoon. Download from the store, create the company, invite your people by phone number, name your approvers. There is no dealer, no installation visit, no consultant — which also means no one to blame but us if the app does not explain itself.

There is no one-tap import from khata apps. You start your parties (customers and suppliers) with their opening balances, and the ledgers grow from there. Bulk entry from a bank-statement file exists for financial records.

Twelve Pakistani cities — and we owe you an apology here: six of them are stored in TURKISH spellings today («Karaçi», «Lahor», «Ravalpindi», «Haydarabad», «Pişaver», «İslamabad» with a Turkish dotted İ) instead of Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Hyderabad, Peshawar, Islamabad. The province layer (Punjab, Sindh, KP, Balochistan) is missing entirely. Both are logged as defects; you can type your city freely meanwhile.