Before the pitch, two questions
Do you ever feel that less money lands than your sales say it should?
Not a number you can point to. Just the feeling that something doesn't add up at the end of the day.
Question 1 of 2
You're not imagining it. Now the one that matters.
Then let's test that. Here's the one that matters.
If I asked you to prove, today, that not a cent went missing between the sale and the deposit, could you?
Your reconciliation shows the numbers agree with each other. That isn't the same as proving the numbers are honest.
Question 2 of 2
You're not imagining it
You reconcile. And you're still losing money.
Reconciliation was never going to catch this. It confirms your numbers agree with each other. It cannot tell you whether the money that should exist actually does. lekana can.
Then you're rarer than most
If you can trace every cent, you're already ahead.
Most businesses that say that are proving their totals balanced, not that nothing was taken. lekana proves it down to the transaction, in five minutes a day, so certainty stops being a feeling and becomes a record.
The blind spot
Balancing and certainty are not the same thing.
Most businesses check three numbers at the end of the day. What the point-of-sale rang up. What the bank settled. What cash was counted. If they tie, you assume you're clean.
But that check can only catch a leak that breaks the totals. It is blind to the leak baked into the numbers before they were ever written down. The void that was never a sale. The under-ring. The cash skimmed before the count. Reconciliation confirms the numbers agree. It does not confirm they're honest.
Where the leak actually lives
Most of the tricks happen in physical cash.
Card and bank settle automatically, so that side reconciles itself. Cash is the side everyone treats as loose change. It isn't. The drawer is a ledger in its own right, with an opening float, payouts, petty cash and a closing count, and almost nobody holds it to the standard of a bank account.
That's the gap lekana closes. You give us two numbers a day. The cash your point-of-sale says you should have. And the cash that actually left the building. Nine times out of ten they don't match, and that gap is the leak made visible.
01
Card & bank
Matched against your statement, transaction by transaction. The side that already behaves.
02
Expected cash
What the till says should be in the drawer, net of petty cash and documented payouts.
03
Actual cash
What truly left the premises. One simple input. The number nobody else is checking.
From gap to answer
Find the discrepancy. Then find out why.
The reconciliation engine is the foundation. Insights is where the discrepancy becomes a name and a number you can recover.
Step 01
Upload
Point-of-sale and bank in. Cash total in. Under five minutes, every day.
Step 02
Reconcile
Every transaction matched. The cash gap calculated. Down to rounding.
Step 03
Investigate
Insights digs into the gap and surfaces the pattern. Reprints. Declines. Shortfalls.
Step 04
Recover
A named scam, an amount, a record you can act on and stop repeating.
From the pilot. Six months in.
For one business, the leak was R 42 000 to R 100 000 a month.
Money that balanced on paper and still never arrived. Once the reconciliation ran, the patterns surfaced. Then they could be stopped.
R 42 000
Lowest month
R 100 000
Highest month
6
Months running
One site. One business. Figures shared with permission, anonymised here. Yours will differ. The patterns will not.
Works with FNB, ABSA, Standard Bank and Nedbank.
Bring statements from one bank or several in the same period. lekana handles the mix.
Your data stays yours
Built for South African businesses, the way they expect.
Hosting
South African data kept in the regions you'd expect for POPIA-compliant work.
Access
Google sign-in. No passwords on our side. We never see or store yours.
Audit
Every match traceable. Every engine decision logged. Every override you apply logged.
Stop trusting that it balanced. Start knowing.
We're onboarding businesses one at a time, free for three weeks. Then you decide.