What's new, and what's next

The solution for plant, equipment, facilities and fleet has shipped. Asset Management is the finance-heavy register every part of the business can post against — IFRS-aligned from acquisition to disposal.

Register — An asset register with categories and full lifecycle.

Acquisition (money) — Acquisition through to capitalization.

Depreciation — Multiple methods including units-of-production, with a separate memo tax-depreciation book.

Assignment & transfers — Effective-dated assignment and transfers.

Maintenance — Maintenance and inspections.

Revaluation & impairment — IAS 16 revaluation and IAS 36 impairment.

Disposal — Disposal and retirement (IAS 16).

Warranty, insurance & audit — Warranty and insurance tracking, insurance-claim settlement, and QR-code physical audit.

Leases — IFRS 16 leases and right-of-use assets.

Reporting — A dashboard, plus APIs so other modules can consume the asset data.

Every acquisition, depreciation run and disposal posts through Accounting — one connected, audit-ready fixed-asset register.

The solution for schools, colleges and academies has shipped. Education & Training is a full learning platform and student information system in one — from admission to transcript, with a native learning engine built in.

Curriculum — Academic structure and a curriculum catalogue.

Admissions — Application → e-signed offer → deposit.

Enrolment — Registration, enrolment and cohorts.

Fees — Tuition with revenue recognition, scholarships, deposit application and finance holds.

Learning engine — Course authoring and class join, with content delivery and progress tracking.

Assessment — Question banks, quizzes, assignments and rubrics.

Live classes — Native live classes with attendance.

Records — Academic records, immutable results, and transcripts & certificates.

Engagement — Gamification, analytics and student services.

Institutional — Research, alumni and corporate training.

The LMS and the student records live in one place — fees post through Accounting and staff are paid through Payroll, with no separate systems to reconcile.

The solution for factories and producers has shipped. Manufacturing turns raw materials into finished goods on one system — with production, costing and quality connected to stock and the ledger.

Masters — Bills of materials, work centres and routing.

Production — Production orders with a release snapshot and shop-floor execution.

Costing (money) — Work-in-progress costing, with excise duty where it applies.

Quality — Inspections, holds and rework.

Planning — Light material planning.

Overview — A production home dashboard.

Materials and finished goods live in Supply Chain, production cost posts through Accounting, and people are paid through Payroll — one connected system for the whole plant.

The solution for hotels, restaurants, resorts and tour operators has shipped. Hospitality & Leisure is a full property-management system plus a travel platform — front desk to night audit, and rooms to itineraries — on one connected foundation.

Front office & folio — Check-in creates the stay, with guest folios and charge routing.

Housekeeping — A housekeeping task engine, room defects routed to Asset, and lost & found.

Night audit — Daily revenue and the operational close.

Food, beverage & room charge — F&B and retail charges routed to the room.

Groups & events — Group and corporate bookings, and events & banquets.

Leisure — Facilities and activity bookings, and memberships.

Revenue management — Rate plans with ADR, RevPAR and occupancy.

Experiences & tours — Experiences on the public storefront, a tour-operator spine (suppliers, itineraries, pricing), itinerary-to-invoice, and travel-agent B2B with commissions.

Guest experience — An operations dashboard and a digital guest experience (pre-check-in and requests).

Rooms, F&B, leisure and tours all run on one connected platform, posting revenue through Accounting — the PMS and the travel desk finally in one system.

The solution for contractors and builders has shipped. Construction & Contracting runs the commercial life of a project — from tender to final account — with immutable, governed records that post straight to your financials.

Tender & estimating — Tender and bid management, and estimating on a versioned bill of quantities.

Award & baseline — Award → contract → project baseline.

Site operations — A daily site diary and progress capture.

Commercial (money) — Variations, progress claims and payment certificates, retention release, subcontracts, and project cost capture.

Governance — Quality, safety, and a governed project close.

Control — A live commercial-control and CVR (cost-value reconciliation) dashboard.

Estimates, variations and claims are snapshotted and immutable, labour comes from Operations, materials from Procurement, and every commitment posts through Accounting — one connected system for the whole contract.

The solution for clinics and medical centres has shipped. Healthcare is built on a clinical-safety substrate first, with billing and claims flowing to Accounting — so care and money stay connected without compromising patient safety.

Patient administration & appointments — Patient records and scheduling, with clinical context on every appointment.

Clinical record — Encounters and clinical notes on a safety substrate.

Pharmacy — Prescriptions and dispensing with safety checks and inventory, plus pharmacy billing.

Billing & claims — A billing bridge for consultation and procedure charges, and full-lifecycle insurance & claims.

Diagnostics — Laboratory (order → collect → result → verify) and radiology (request → perform → report → verify).

Inpatient — A bed board (admit → transfer → discharge), a medication administration record (MAR), and theatre & procedures gated by safety checklists.

Reporting — A live clinical operations dashboard.

Clinical safety comes first; charges and claims post through Accounting and people are paid through Payroll — one connected system for the whole practice.

The solution for shops, chains and online stores has shipped. Retail & E-commerce puts every channel on one unified commerce order — so the shop floor, the website and B2B all run on the same books.

Unified commerce order — One order spine behind every channel, a channel catalogue over the Product Master, and channel-to-price-list routing.

In store — Point of sale unified onto the same order.

Online — An e-commerce checkout that raises a real tax invoice (not a parallel posting), a public storefront with guest ordering, and online payment & settlement.

Fulfilment — Cross-channel fulfilment orchestration — Commerce orchestrates, Inventory executes.

Returns & promotions — Returns and refunds reversed through the same engines, and a rule-based promotions & coupons engine.

Loyalty & gift cards — Stored-value gift cards and a loyalty programme, each posting to its own liability account.

B2B — Contract pricing, account terms and reorder.

Subscriptions — Recurring plans with per-cycle billing.

Analytics — A commerce dashboard, plus delivery/shipping charges and partial-quantity returns.

POS, web and B2B share one order and one ledger — inventory, tax and payments all reconcile automatically.

The solution for transport, freight, courier and fleet businesses has shipped. Logistics & Distribution runs a shipment from booking to delivery — across road, sea and air — on the same connected platform.

Delivery & last mile — Road-leg execution with proof of delivery and delivery-exception handling.

Freight forwarding — Carrier bookings and space reservation, a consolidation console with chain of custody, and a multimodal leg planner that keeps milestones continuous across modes.

Containers & warehouse — Container and cargo-unit handling with events, warehouse handling jobs, and loading sequences.

Documents & milestones — A document-requirement matrix with a departure gate, and a milestone timeline with SLAs.

Fleet — Fuel cost and vehicle availability.

Costing — Logistics costing across the full taxonomy, with profitability by dimension.

Claims & cold chain — A claims desk for recovery and liability, and cold-chain temperature logging with breach detection.

Carriers & returns — Carrier management with scorecards, and reverse logistics (returns / RMA).

Visibility — Telematics ingestion, a customer visibility feed, and a control-tower dashboard.

Costs and claims post through Accounting, the fleet ties to the asset register, and jobs run on Operations — one connected system, not a separate TMS.

The solution for charities, foundations and NGOs has shipped. Nonprofits & NGOs adds fund accounting, donor management and programme delivery to IXL CORE — with the audit trails funders expect.

Constituents & beneficiaries — A nonprofit workspace for the people you serve and the supporters you work with.

Donor money — Donations, funds and receipts, with restricted-fund release that recognises restricted income only as it is spent (“release when spent”).

Grants — Track grants received, and run grantmaking and sub-grants out — both sides of the funding relationship.

Programmes & M&E — Run programmes on the shared Projects engine, with a monitoring & evaluation logframe to track results against targets.

Volunteers & members — Volunteer records, assignments and hours, plus membership dues with tiers and recurring billing.

Events & online giving — Manage events with registrations and paid tickets, and take online donations through the public Booking engine.

AI assist — Grant-writing help, donor insights, compliance checks and anomaly detection across your M&E data.

Built on the shared Projects and Booking engines, with fund accounting through Accounting — one connected system, accountable to your funders.

The solution for law, accounting and consulting firms has shipped. Professional Practice runs a firm end to end — from opening a matter to billing it — with the trust, time and compliance controls professional work demands.

Matters & engagement — A matter and engagement spine, with onboarding that runs opening/conflict checks, issues an engagement letter, and only activates the matter once it’s cleared.

Delivery & time — Delivery planning, professional time capture, review gates and notes, and client requests — so work is planned, recorded and reviewed.

Billing & trust — Billing readiness with a clean invoice handoff, plus trust and retainers for client money, handled with the right separation and controls.

Command centre & calendar — A practice command centre with firm reports, and a unified calendar for hearings, deadlines, limitation dates and appointments.

Client portal — An external client portal with collaborator access, so clients and co-counsel can engage securely.

Kenya Legal Pack — Litigation, conveyancing, probate and succession, corporate secretarial, and the Advocates’ Remuneration Order scale-fee engine.

Consulting pack — Tailored for accounting and consulting practices.

AI assistance — Professional research and drafting support built into the workflow.

Parties come from CRM, money and trust from Accounting, and documents with e-signature from the platform — one connected system for the whole firm.

The salon, spa and barbershop solution has shipped. Beauty & Wellness turns IXL CORE into a complete front-desk-to-back-office platform for appointment-led businesses — on the same connected foundation as the rest of the platform.

Appointments & front desk — A calendar with rooms and resources, client profiles, and treatment records, so the whole visit is captured in one place.

Point of sale — Check an appointment out into a paid sale, and sell retail products and accepted recommendations right at the counter.

Revenue programs — Prepaid service packages (stored value), recurring memberships with member benefits, and gift cards you can issue, look up and redeem.

Commissions — Granular per-staff, per-service and per-tier commission rules, splits that share an earning across staff, and claw-backs that reverse proportionally on a refund — with approved commission flowing straight into Payroll.

Retention — Rebook the next visit on the service interval, and work a front-desk retention list of clients due back.

Analytics — A beauty operating dashboard across bookings, sales and staff.

Clients come from CRM, money runs through POS and Accounting, and staff are paid through Payroll — one connected system, not a separate booking app.

The first industry solution on the roadmap has shipped. Property & Real Estate turns IXL CORE into a complete property operations platform — for both long-term leasing and short-term rentals — built on the same connected foundation as the rest of the business.

Portfolios & property — Group properties by owner, fund, company or branch, with a full building, floor and unit hierarchy and live availability for every unit.

Leasing — The full lease lifecycle (offer → lease → renewal → expiry → termination), an operational rent roll with charges and arrears, deposit tracking (obligation, receipt, holding and refund), and monthly owner statements — with rent, deposits and charges invoiced through Accounting.

Move-in & move-out — Guided workflows for the start and end of a tenancy: inspections, keys, deposit handling and vacancy.

Short-term rentals — Bookings with a guest portal, cleaning turnover between stays, and two-way iCal sync to keep calendars aligned. A channel manager for Airbnb and Booking.com is sandbox-complete and switches on once the partner approvals land.

Maintenance — Log maintenance and dispatch suppliers, tied back to the unit and the lease.

Owner & tenant portals — Self-service for owners (dashboards, statements and documents) and tenants (payments and maintenance requests).

Listings & compliance — Publish availability to a public property website, and track compliance obligations — certificates, inspections and expiries.

Analytics — Occupancy, vacancy, ADR and RevPAR across the portfolio.

Parties come from CRM, money from Accounting, documents and e-signature from the platform, and maintenance from Operations — one connected system, not a separate app.

The first release of IXL CORE — the Business Operating System for growing businesses. Here is what is included at launch.

CRM — Leads with one-step convert, accounts and contacts, an opportunity pipeline, and quotes. AI-drafted, e-signable proposals and contracts, marketing campaigns, consent-aware customer messaging, and sales targets with forecasting.

Accounting — A full accrual suite: chart of accounts, journals, and both receivables (invoices, receipts, credit notes) and payables (bills, supplier payments, payment runs). Bank reconciliation, cost centres, budgets, tax codes and packs with eTIMS, exchange rates, fixed assets, revenue recognition, period and year-end close, group consolidation, and trust accounting.

Supply Chain — Suppliers, products with variants and units, and warehouses. Requisitions, RFQs and purchase orders; goods receipt with three-way matching and GRNI, goods issue, landed cost and weighted-average costing; lot and serial tracking with FEFO, barcode scanning, stock adjustments, transfers, takes and returns, and reorder rules.

HR & Payroll — Recruitment from requisition to hire, employee records, job profiles with competencies and KPIs, performance cycles, leave, attendance, timesheets, shifts and rosters, discipline and training. E-signed contracts, and monthly multi-entity payroll with Kenya and South Africa statutory, payslips and EFT.

Operations — Projects with phases and milestones, work orders, a service desk with SLAs, service contracts, and rate-card billing. Work intake and conversion, and field attendance with biometric passkeys.

Marketing — Consent-first audiences (static lists and dynamic segments), compliance pre-flight campaigns over email and SMS, and public lead-capture forms that create CRM leads.

Documents — A governed file store with folders, classification, versioning, internal sharing, tokenised external exchange links, and branded document templates.

Scheduling — Conflict-checked appointments, availability and working hours, and public self-service booking pages.

Chat — Secure, entity-scoped staff messaging with channels, direct messages, mentions and attachments.

AI Assist — AI drafting for proposals and contracts, metered against prepaid credits with hard budget caps and a bring-your-own-key option.

Platform — Multi-company, multi-entity and multi-branch structure, role-based access with fine-grained permissions, shared settings, built-in e-signature, and audit trails throughout.