The 17 OHADA member states share a unified legal and accounting framework since the OHADA Uniform Acts and SYSCOHADA Revised 2018. This framework imposes precise obligations on procurement and finance departments: accounting journal maintenance, budget commitments, supplier invoice format, document retention periods, and now e-invoicing in several member states. Most general-purpose procurement software (European or American ERPs) does not know these obligations: they do not manage the SYSCOHADA chart of accounts, do not integrate local e-invoicing systems (MeCEF Benin, FNE Côte d'Ivoire), and apply standardised European VAT rates that do not match UEMOA and CEMAC realities. Procura is built for OHADA. Each step of the P2P cycle, from purchase requisition to payment, generates documents and entries compliant with local standards, without manual configuration.
Procura natively uses the 9-class SYSCOHADA chart of accounts. Generated accounting entries (401 vendors, 60x purchases, 4452 deductible VAT, 512 bank or Mobile Money) comply with the Revised 2018 reference, directly usable in the annual financial statements.
Supplier invoices received via Procura are validated against MeCEF (Benin) and FNE (Côte d'Ivoire) registries. Invoices without a valid fiscal number are flagged before payment. Procura tracks e-invoicing extension to other OHADA countries.
Procura applies VAT rates corresponding to each country: 18% in most UEMOA (CI, Benin, Senegal, Burkina, Mali, Niger, Togo) and CEMAC (Cameroon, Chad, Congo, CAR, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea) countries, with applicable sector exceptions. No manual recoding per country.
The OHADA Uniform Act on General Commercial Law (art. 21) requires keeping accounting documents for 10 years. Every purchase requisition, PO, goods receipt, invoice and payment in Procura is archived with timestamp, author and modification history. Deletion impossible.
Procura records the budget commitment at PO issuance and releases it on cancellation. This encumbrance accounting mechanism is aligned with practices required for entities subject to OHADA public accounting, and recommended for private entities wishing to track their budget in real time.
Procura is operational in all 17 OHADA member states: UEMOA zone (Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo), CEMAC zone (Cameroon, CAR, Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Chad), and other members (Comoros, DRC, Guinea). Interface available in French and English.
SYSCOHADA Revised 2018 entered into force in all 17 member states in January 2018 (source: OHADA, OHADA Official Journal no. 29). It aligns the OHADA chart of accounts with IFRS standards for key concepts (fixed assets, finance leases, provisions) while preserving African specificities. Procura integrates this reference standard in its Comptia accounting engine, eliminating the gap between procurement management and the annual SYSCOHADA financial statements.
OHADA does not issue software certifications. Procura is designed to comply with OHADA Uniform Acts and SYSCOHADA Revised 2018. Effective compliance is validated at deployment with each client's accountant.
Yes. Procura supports multi-entity, multi-currency and multi-country structures. Each entity has its own chart of accounts, VAT rates, local Mobile Money operators and MeCEF/FNE configuration per country.
Configurable withholding taxes (e.g. 15% on professional fees for non-residents in Côte d'Ivoire) are automatically applied when creating the payment. The accounting entry (401 vendor / 4421 withholding) is generated automatically.
DGI Benin has deployed MeCEF in phases. The obligation covers VAT-registered entities above certain thresholds. Check the current regulation with DGI Benin for your specific situation.
Yes, via the Comptia module (Procura add-on). Comptia handles depreciation charges, risk provisions, the SYSCOHADA balance sheet, income statement, TAFIRE and VAT return.
Yes. Exporting the Accounting Journal File (FEC-OHADA) from Comptia provides the tax inspector with all journals in the required format. Procura's procurement audit trail (PRs, POs, receipts, invoices) is available as CSV or PDF export.