Know who owes you what.
And actually get paid.
DeynBook is the credit book for small halal grocery stores. Customer accounts, credit sales, payments, and reminders in Somali or English — on the phone in your apron pocket, not on a page that gets wet.
- No credit card
- No contract, cancel any time
- We move your paper book for you
Deyn ledger
$12,486.50
Outstanding across 148 customers
Ayaan Warsame
Last purchase 2 days ago
Hassan Jama
Last purchase 19 days ago
Ubax Mohamud
Last purchase 34 days ago
Yusuf Abdi
Last purchase 4 days ago
Amina Sheikh
Last purchase 11 days ago
Cabdi Nuur
Settled today
What your customer gets on Friday morning
Today 9:00 AM
Keeping the deyn book for 120 neighbourhood stores across the US and Canada — we know most of them by name.
- Barwaaqo Halal Market
- Hodan Grocery & Meat
- Ceerigaabo Market
- Deeqa Halal Foods
- Nasiib Markets
- Salaama Grocery
- Xamar Halal Meat
- Jubba Grocery
The book knows everything.
It just cannot tell you.
Every store on this street keeps one. A ruled notebook, a pen on a string, twelve years of trust written in the margins. It works right up until the moment you need it to answer a question.
- Hassan J.rice, oil, 2 sambuus32.00
- Ubax M.meat — Fri48.50
- Ayaan W.milk + bread9.25
- Yusuf???15.00
- Amina S.flour, sugar, tea61.00
- Cabdi N.paid 20 — left40.00
Deyn ledger
$12,486.50
Outstanding across 148 customers
Ayaan Warsame
Last purchase 2 days ago
Hassan Jama
Last purchase 19 days ago
Ubax Mohamud
Last purchase 34 days ago
Yusuf Abdi
Last purchase 4 days ago
What the paper book actually costs
11 names
gone with one wet page
The page that got soaked in March took eleven balances with it. Nobody could prove a number, so nobody paid.
0 receipts
when they say “I already paid”
No date, no time, nothing to point at. An argument at the counter you cannot win, with a neighbour you will see again on Friday.
5 hrs a week
reading your own handwriting
Matching names to amounts, then adding the column twice because the two totals did not agree.
$2,800 a year
quietly written off
Not because the customer refused — because you were never sure enough of the number to ask.
Everything the counter needs.
Nothing it does not.
DeynBook is not an accounting suite. It is four jobs a grocery store actually does, built for the way you already work.
Hassan Jama
+1 612 555 0188 · customer since 2019
Owed now
$312.00
Credit limit
$400.00
Avg. days to pay
11
- Nov 18Credit sale · rice, oil, sambuus+$32.00
- Nov 14Payment received · cash−$100.00
- Nov 09Credit sale · goat meat 4 lb+$35.00
- Nov 02Credit sale · weekly groceries+$145.00
- Oct 28Payment received · card−$60.00
One customer, one account, one number that is always right.
Four steps to set up.
Then it just runs.
No installation, no training week, no new computer at the till. If you can use WhatsApp, you can use DeynBook.
Send us your book
We type it in
Photograph your pages or email a spreadsheet. Our team enters every name and balance for you, free. Most stores are running by the second business day.
Record credit at the counter
About four seconds
Pick the customer, add the items, done — before they reach the door. Payments take two seconds and print or text a receipt with the date and time on it.
Set the reminder schedule once
Friday 9:00 AM
Choose the day, the hour, and the language. Every customer gets their own balance in a plain text message or a recorded call. You never send them one by one.
The money comes in
Usually by Saturday
Payments land in the ledger as they happen. At the end of the month the report shows what came back, what is still out, and who has stopped paying.
Hilib halal · a weekday afternoon
Built for the aisles, not the office.
The phone in your pocket is the till
DeynBook runs in any browser — phone, tablet, or the computer at the counter — and syncs the moment you tap save. Owners record deyn while walking the aisles.
The whole app speaks Somali
Not just the reminders. Menus, receipts, reports, and the support line — af Soomaali or English, switched per employee.
Your cashier sees the sale, not the book
Roles decide who can view balances, who can forgive a debt, and who cannot. Every change to a balance is logged with a name and a time.
Get paid without ever asking.
This is the part that pays for the subscription. One schedule, set once, and every customer hears their own balance in their own language — from the store, not from you standing at the register.
Somali or English, per customer
Ayaan gets Somali. Her son gets English. You write the template once and DeynBook picks the right one for each name.
On your schedule, not your evening
Friday at 9:00 AM. The day after the first of the month. Fourteen days after the balance is issued. Set it once and stop thinking about it.
You stop being the debt collector
The message asks, so you do not have to. Nobody is embarrassed in front of the shelf, and the customer keeps shopping with you.
The phone in her pocket already knows the balance.
Nothing for the customer to download. It arrives as a normal text.
Salaam Ubax — waxaad ku leedahay Barwaaqo Halal $148.75. Ma bixin kartaa Jimcaha? Mahadsanid!
Hi Amina, this is Hodan Grocery & Meat. Your balance is $205.00. You can pay at the till any time, or by card at the link below. Thank you!
Mahadsanid Hassan. Waan helnay $312.00 maanta. Haraagaagu waa $0.00. — Barwaaqo Halal
Messages send from a number that shows your store name. Customers reply to the store, never to a stranger.
Friday morning out. Saturday afternoon in.
That is the whole loop, counted across the stores we have. About six in ten reminded balances come in within two days — the message goes out while you open, and the money is usually back in the till before the weekend rush ends.
Since 2022 · Minneapolis, Columbus, Seattle, Toronto and a few towns in between
120
Independent stores keep their deyn book here
$1.4M
Of customer credit tracked on it
6in10
Reminded balances paid within two days
5hrs
A week back from doing the books
Owners who put the notebook down
and never picked it back up.
Four shops, four cities, one problem. We asked each of them what changed in the first ninety days.
“I used to keep three notebooks and still lose track. Now I open my phone and I know exactly who owes me what. In the first month I collected $4,200 that I had written off in my head.”
Abdirahman Yusuf
Owner, Barwaaqo Halal Market · Minneapolis, MN
$4,200 recovered in month one
“The text reminders changed everything. Before, I had to call people and it felt like begging. Now the message goes out Friday morning and by Saturday half the balances are paid.”
“When a customer says "I already paid that," I show them the receipt with the date and time. No more arguments at the counter. That alone was worth the money.”
“My son used to do the books on the weekend. It took him five hours. Now it takes ten minutes and he actually comes to visit instead of working.”
Longer conversations with owners, including the numbers before and after.
Read the full storiesOne flat price.
No cut of the money you collect.
Every plan includes unlimited customer accounts and free migration of your paper book. Fourteen days free, then pay monthly or save about 16% yearly.
Basic
For the single-till shop that just wants the notebook gone.
$29.99/ month
$24.99 / month billed yearly
- Unlimited customer accounts
- Debt & credit tracking
- Payment history and receipts
Standard
Most popularFor the busy store chasing payments every week.
$49.99/ month
$41.99 / month billed yearly
- Everything in Basic
- Mass text message reminders
- Automated mass calling
Scale
For owners running two, five, or fifteen locations.
Custom
Priced on how many stores you run
- Everything in Standard
- Multi-store dashboard
- Customer self-service portal
Basic includes 25 reminder texts a month. Standard and Scale are unlimited.
Put the notebook away for good.
Send us your pages this week. By the second morning you will open your phone with your shaah — your tea — and see every balance in the shop, down to the cent.
No credit card. No contract. We type your paper book in for you, free.