Manual spreadsheet bookkeeping costs African SMEs 8+ hours a week and $10,400/year in staff time. Trezra automates it for $39/month. Here's the full breakdown.
This isn't about whether spreadsheets "work" — they do. The question is what they cost you in time, errors, and missed decisions.
| Feature | Trezra | Spreadsheets |
|---|---|---|
| Transaction categorisation | AI auto-categorises on import | Manual, row by row |
| CSV bank statement import | Drag-and-drop, parses instantly | Manual copy-paste required |
| Weekly financial reports | Generated automatically every Monday | Must build formulas yourself |
| Profit & loss visibility | Real-time, always current | Only if formulas are correct |
| Error risk | AI validation catches anomalies | One bad formula breaks everything |
| Time to insights | Minutes after upload | Hours of manual work |
Based on a 2-person SME finance team spending 8 hours/week on spreadsheet bookkeeping at a $25/hr blended rate. Trezra reduces active bookkeeping time to under 30 minutes per week.
Spreadsheets aren't bad tools — they're the wrong tool for bookkeeping when your business grows past 100 transactions a month.
One copied formula or wrong cell reference silently corrupts your P&L for months before anyone notices.
The more transactions you process, the more time it takes. Spreadsheets don't scale — your team just burns more hours.
Who changed what and when? Spreadsheets have no transaction history, making financial reviews a guessing game.
If your books are always a week behind, so are your business decisions. Late insights cost you money.
Trezra takes 5 minutes to set up. Import your first bank statement and see auto-categorised transactions instantly — no formula skills required.
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