The Risiti blog
Run your business on numbers, not guesses.
Practical guides for people who run shops, water businesses, salons, restaurants and every other small business: M-Pesa, records, profit, staff and getting customers to come back.
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Sales
A daily sales report format your staff will post on WhatsApp
A simple evening sales report for your staff WhatsApp group, with an example to copy, how to check it against M-Pesa and how to stop adding totals by hand.
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Websites
Does your small business need a website, or is WhatsApp enough?
What customers check before they visit or order, what a good one-page website shows, a free Google Business Profile, QR codes, and a free page to start with.
7 min read -
Salons
How salons and barbershops in Kenya keep clients coming back
Know each client's usual return time, remind them on WhatsApp without nagging, take bookings, show prices, track each stylist's takings and cut no-shows.
7 min read -
M-Pesa
How to keep track of M-Pesa payments at a shop with staff
Match every M-Pesa payment to a sale, catch fake messages, payments to personal lines and reversals, and close each day with a simple routine.
8 min read -
Profit
How to work out your shop's real profit, with a worked example
Find what your shop really makes after stock, running costs and your own drawings, with a worked duka example and the mistakes that drain your cash.
7 min read -
Records
Small business record keeping in Kenya, and what KRA expects
What records to keep and for how long, what KRA expects on turnover tax and eTIMS in 2026, a daily and monthly routine, and keeping business money separate.
9 min read -
Water businesses
Starting a water refill business in Kenya: permits to profit
KEBS, county and public health permits, water tests, equipment, where to set up, prices for each bottle size, delivery and the daily numbers that show profit.
9 min read -
M-Pesa
Till, Paybill or Pochi la Biashara? Choosing your M-Pesa account
How customers pay a Till, Paybill or Pochi la Biashara, what each costs after Safaricom's August 2026 changes, banking the money, and the poster.
8 min read
Sales
Staff
Websites
Growth
Salons
Customers
M-Pesa
Profit
Expenses
Records
Tax
Water businesses
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