Customer Story · Import/Export · Gisenyi
“Two days of reconciliation became forty minutes. The bank CSV import is the single feature that saved me my weekends.”
Olivier Hakizimana · Finance Lead · Hakizimana Trading
The company
  • Industry: Import/Export (automotive parts)
  • Location: Gisenyi, Rwanda
  • Size: 9 staff · 1 branch
  • Using GwizaSuite since: February 2025
Before GwizaSuite
  • Bank reconciliation took 2 full days
  • MoMo payments tracked in a WhatsApp thread
  • Foreign-currency invoices reconciled by hand
  • Saturdays lost to paperwork
After 90 days
  • Bank reconciliation in 40 minutes
  • MoMo refs captured at point of sale
  • Multi-currency FX rates captured automatically
  • Weekends back
Modules in use
  • Inventory
  • Sales
  • Payments
  • Accounting
  • Customer Portal
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Olivier Hakizimana at Hakizimana Trading’s office, Gisenyi.

The problem

Olivier’s business imports automotive parts from Kenya and South Africa, mostly invoiced in USD, settled in RWF through a mix of bank and mobile money. Reconciliation was the week’s boss fight — two full days of matching statements against receipts.

Why GwizaSuite

Multi-currency was the deciding factor. He needed a tool that captured the FX rate at transaction time and posted both legs cleanly — foreign-currency on the supplier, RWF on the control accounts.

Implementation

The first month was rough. Olivier’s team had to train themselves to capture the MoMo reference on every receipt — a habit they didn’t have. By month two it was automatic.

90 days in

Bank reconciliation is a Thursday-afternoon task now. Olivier’s Saturdays are his again.

Giving me my Saturdays back is the kind of feature you can’t quantify. But I know exactly what it cost me to not have them.— Olivier Hakizimana, Finance Lead, Hakizimana Trading

The numbers.

2 days → 40 min
bank reconciliation time
−80%
reconciliation duration
100%
MoMo refs captured at receipt
52 Saturdays
returned per year
What Olivier would tell a peer

“If your software makes you work on Saturday, it’s costing you more than it charges.”

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