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Does it take fewer steps?
If a job takes five steps, we want it to take one. If a client has to ask, the system should have answered already.
Arbor Innovations
We build the software we could not buy.
We sit inside our clients' finances every week, so we can see exactly where the work breaks. Three systems are running now. Here is what they do.
Why we build
Written by the accountants who use it
Most firms buy their technology and hope it fits. We are in our clients' books every week, so we see precisely where the work breaks: the reconciliation that swallows a Monday, the query that waits three days for an answer, the small variance that has become a large one by March.
So we started writing our own. Every system here began with a problem we watched a client struggle through, and every one runs inside live Arbor work before a client ever sees it.
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systems running inside live Arbor work today
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payment streams reconciled in one weekly review
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tax compliance SLA met this month
The standard
Three questions every system has to answer
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Does it catch the problem early?
Errors, variances and compliance gaps should surface while they are small and cheap to fix.
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Does it give the hours back?
We automate the repetitive so our people can do the work that needs judgement.
What we run
Three systems, live today
01 · Reconciliation
Monday used to disappear into matching
Cash, card, EFT, Payflex, PayJustNow and online all land in the bank differently. Matching them back to what the point of sale recorded is slow work that rewards nobody.
- Expected takings, declared takings and actual deposits reconcile automatically. Anything that does not agree is flagged the same day.
- One store or fifty, rolled into a single weekly review with its own approval queue.
- Every match, variance and query logged and time stamped, so the answer exists before SARS or your auditor asks for it.
- Shortfalls, unbanked cash and duplicate deposits stop hiding in the volume.
02 · Tax compliance
Your SARS work moves on our clock
Tax compliance lives on deadlines. A missed submission or a query left sitting turns into penalties and interest, and all of it lands on the client.
- Every return, submission and SARS query carries its due date and the days left on it.
- Turnaround targets are set on our side and reported on, so your work moves on our schedule.
- Queries are actioned as they arrive and raised with you ahead of time, rather than once SARS has chased.
Compliance should not depend on who remembers.
03 · Onboarding
A first day that does not start with paperwork
One guided flow collects everything needed to start someone properly, in one place instead of across a dozen emails. We use it for every new Arbor team member. The client version is in build now.
- Full names, ID and tax numbers, physical address and confirmed banking details, collected once and correctly.
- Handled in line with POPIA, protected in transit and at rest, never left sitting in an inbox.
- New joiners meet the firm as well as the form: who we are, how we work, whose files they will touch.
- When the flow is finished, nothing is left to chase.
Arbor Intelligence
The advisory layer we are building next
Reconciliation, compliance tracking and onboarding run today.
The layer we are building next sits on top of them: an AI that helps you think through a tax or investment decision before you make it, with the reading and the numbers already in front of it.
The recommendation still comes from a qualified practitioner who has read your full picture. The speed comes from the tooling.
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Real recommendations always come from Arbor's qualified people, who read your full picture first.
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