IN DEVELOPMENT

Navis

Accounting software for the books a business actually keeps — with the aviation part built on top rather than bolted on.

Navis is being built by Savanna Avia together with a practising accountant. It is a general accounting system in its own right. For operators, flight schools and maintenance organisations it also understands what an aeroplane costs to run — because it sits beside the records that already know.

What it is for

Four things it has to get right.

General first, aviation second

General accounting applies to aviation. Aviation accounting applies to nothing else. So the ledger is built general — chart of accounts, journals, trial balance, statements — and aviation plugs into it. The same engine can serve a business with no aeroplanes at all.

Cost lands on the aeroplane

A maintenance cost is not just an expense line. It belongs to a tail, often to a specific engine, and usually to a work order. Navis is being built so that a cost recorded in WingsPath appears in the ledger against the right asset, without anyone typing it twice.

Kenyan tax, by an accountant

KRA compliance, withholding tax, import and export duty — specified by a practising accountant, not inferred from documentation. Aviation is cross-border, so the international treatment matters as much as the domestic one.

Many companies, one system

A firm keeping books for several clients needs each set kept apart. Separation is a design requirement here, not a setting — and it is tested by trying to break it before any real client is onboarded.

Where it stands

Honestly: early.

The foundation exists and development is under way. Nothing here is live and nothing is being sold yet. We would rather say that plainly than describe a product that is not finished.

Server, database and isolated environmentDONE
General ledger, journals and trial balanceTO DO
Multi-company separation, tested by trying to break itTO DO
Aviation cost centres — per aircraft, engine, work orderTO DO
KRA and international tax treatmentTO DO

Navis is a partnership. The accounting system belongs to its author; the aviation integration is built jointly with Savanna Avia. If you keep books for an aviation business and want to shape what this becomes, we would like to hear from you.