Built for East African Logistics

The Modern Way to Manage Freight Forwarding & Customs Brokerage

Kani replaces spreadsheets, paper trails, and WhatsApp approvals with a single cloud platform; from Bill of Lading to final payment. Built for freight companies in East Africa, and designed to work alongside the accounting software your finance team already uses; no migration, no disruption.

Kani Dashboard
Active Imports
142
Exports
87
Pending Approvals
23
Doc IDStatusETA
IMP0142In TransitApr 15
IMP0141DeliveredApr 10
EXP0087PendingApr 18

Everything You Need to Run Logistics Operations

From the moment a document arrives to the final payment, Kani covers the complete lifecycle of every shipment.

Shipment Management

Manage both imports and exports from booking through final delivery, with the operational detail freight teams need in one place.

  • Import and export workflows with auto-generated document IDs
  • Bill of Lading, booking numbers, vessels, ports, and shipping lines
  • Container details, ownership, seal numbers, bundle counts, and manifests
  • ETA, discharge, demurrage, and payment cut-off date tracking

Financial Controls, Payments & Exchange Rates

Run expense approvals, payment recording, and multi-currency controls inside one flow so finance and operations work from the same numbers.

  • Draft → Manager Review → Admin Approval
  • Expenses linked to vendors, customers, or specific shipments
  • Rejection with comments, re-edit and resubmit
  • Partial and full payments with outstanding balance tracking
  • Payment method, reference number, and exchange rate recorded
  • Real-time account balance before confirming payment
  • Automatic rate fetching with manual override and historical lookup
  • Full history from request to payment, including cancellations and audit trail

Contacts & Reference Data

Keep the people and master data behind your operation clean, reusable, and linked to live shipments and expenses.

  • Customers, suppliers, vendors, and employees in one registry
  • Contact, address, tax details, and active or inactive status tracking
  • Reference tables for ports, lines, points of entry, countries, and consignees
  • Duplicate prevention and consistent data across forms

Team Collaboration & Alerts

Give each team member the right access and make sure reviews, approvals, and operational updates surface immediately.

  • Admin: full access and final approval
  • Manager: review and operational oversight
  • User: create, edit, and submit
  • In-app notification center and browser push notifications
  • Configurable sound alerts and smart notification batching
  • Activate or deactivate users without deletion

Documents, Dashboard & Visibility

Keep supporting files attached to the right records while management gets a live view of operations, activity, and pending work.

  • Attach PDFs, Word files, Excel sheets, and images to any record type
  • Private company file storage with uploads up to 32 MB per file
  • Key metrics, recent activity feed, and expandable analytics dashboards
  • Role-specific dashboard views for operations, finance, and management

Already have an accounting system? You're already halfway there.

Most logistics software asks you to replace your accounting system entirely; new software, new workflows, and months of retraining your finance team. Kani takes a different approach.

Connect your existing accounting software and your financial data flows automatically — no duplication, no re-entry, no migration. Your finance team keeps doing what they know.

Kani currently integrates with QuickBooks Online, with more accounting systems on the way. Whichever system your finance team relies on, Kani is built to meet you there.

QuickBooks Online — Available Now Odoo — Coming Soon ERPNext — Coming Soon Zoho Books — Coming Soon
What syncs automatically with QuickBooks Online
  • Suppliers & vendors — create in Kani, appear in your accounting system
  • Employees — kept in sync across both systems
  • Expense requests — become Bills in your accounting system the moment they're approved
  • Payments — recorded in Kani, reflected in your accounting system instantly
  • Payment methods & bank accounts — pulled from your accounting system, ready to use in Kani
  • Real-time account balance — see your balance before you confirm a payment

From Onboarding to Operations in Minutes

Getting started with Kani is fast and straightforward. No hardware to install, no IT team required. No months of implementation and training.

1

Sign Up & Get Started

Your company gets its own private, secure workspace set up in seconds. Your data is never mixed with anyone else's.

2

Configure Your Data

Set up your reference data — ports, shipping lines, points of entry, expense types — tailored to your operations.

3

Add Your Team

Invite users with the right roles: Admins for approvals, Managers for review, Users for daily operations.

4

Start Managing Shipments

Create imports, exports, attach expenses, track payments, and get real-time notifications, all from one place.

Pricing? Not Yet. We're Having Too Much Fun.

We're still in the early days, and right now the whole platform is completely free for test users. Yep, every feature, no catches, no credit card, no "trial expires in 3 days" nonsense.

Your Data, Completely Isolated and Protected

Logistics companies handle sensitive commercial data. Kani is built with security at every layer.

Complete Data Separation

Each company has its own private space. Your data is never mixed with or accessible to anyone else on the platform.

Secure Authentication

Industry-standard encryption protects your account. Sessions expire automatically and passwords are never stored in plain text.

Login Monitoring

Every login attempt is tracked. Suspicious activity is easy to spot and investigate so you stay in control.

Complete Audit Trail

Every expense request, review, approval, rejection, and payment is logged with who acted, when, and why.

Role-Based Access Control

Users can only access what their role permits. Admins, Managers, and Users each see exactly what they need.

Restricted Access

Only your team can access your data. Unauthorized access from outside your organization is automatically blocked.

Ready to Modernize Your Logistics Operations?

Join freight forwarding and customs brokerage companies across East Africa who are replacing spreadsheets and paper trails with Kani.

Get in Touch

Have questions about Kani? Reach out to our team. We'd love to hear from you.

Talk to Sales

Want to learn how Kani fits your operation? Our team understands freight forwarding and can walk you through the platform.

sales@kani.co.tz

Support

Already using Kani? Our support team is here to help with any questions or issues.

support@kani.co.tz

Office

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania