BOS Afora Questions, Answered Plainly

You can start free: the Free plan gives you 75 transactions every month and needs no credit card. Paid plans are Starter at ₦4,000 per month (₦40,000 per year) for a single business, and Pro at ₦10,000 per month (₦100,000 per year) for up to 5 branches. Quarterly and weekly payment options are also available. Enterprise pricing is custom. There are no per-message fees.

The Free plan gives you 75 transactions every month and no credit card. The count resets on the 1st of each month (West Africa Time). Sales, expenses, debts, repayments and restocks each count as a transaction, and asking BOS questions does not. Free plan limits: up to 20 customers who owe you, 20 inventory items, 5 receipts and 5 invoices, and export of the current month only. When you want more, open Settings, choose Upgrade, pick Starter or Pro and pay through the Paystack or Flutterwave checkout.

BOS Afora refuses new transactions and shows an upgrade prompt. Nothing is deleted. A single message that holds more transactions than you have left is rejected as a whole, so split it into smaller messages or upgrade. The count resets on the 1st of the next month.

Starter is ₦4,000 a month, or ₦40,000 a year. For comparison, entry-level bookkeeper and accountant roles in Lagos are commonly advertised at ₦80,000 to ₦150,000 a month, so Starter costs about as much as one day of that person's time. BOS Afora does not file taxes or give accounting advice, so a business that needs those still needs an accountant. You can try it first on the Free plan, which gives you 75 transactions every month.

Choose Starter if you run one business. It covers unlimited sales, expense and debt logging, unlimited products, daily, weekly and monthly insights, voice notes, debt reminders, low-stock alerts, customer receipts and the last 90 days of Excel export. Choose Pro if you run up to 5 branches, or if you want branch performance ranking, a daily business health score, 14 and 30 day cashflow forecasts, customer intelligence and all-time export history.

There are no per-message fees and no hidden charges. The prices on this site are the prices: Starter at ₦4,000 a month, Pro at ₦10,000 a month, and Enterprise quoted individually through bos@chuksforge.com.

Open Settings, choose Upgrade, pick Starter or Pro and pay through the secure Paystack or Flutterwave checkout. Your plan updates as soon as the payment is confirmed.

Yes. Starter is ₦1,000 a week, ₦4,000 a month, ₦10,500 a quarter or ₦40,000 a year. Pro is ₦10,000 a month, ₦27,000 a quarter or ₦100,000 a year. Paying for a quarter saves ₦1,500 on Starter and ₦3,000 on Pro compared with three monthly payments, and paying yearly saves two months.

Only if you pay by card (or bank direct debit where it is offered) and leave Renew automatically switched on. You can switch it off any time on the Upgrade screen, and you do not need to contact us. About 2 days before each automatic charge we send you a notice with the amount and the date. Bank transfer and USSD payments never renew by themselves. If a payment fails, we try again up to 3 times and you keep your plan for up to 3 extra days. If it still fails, the account returns to the Free plan and keeps its data.

Switch off Renew automatically on the Upgrade screen. You keep your plan until the end of the period you paid for, and then the account returns to the Free plan and keeps its data. You can also remove a saved card from the Upgrade screen at any time.

Your records are stored in a managed cloud database. The servers that process your messages run on a cloud hosting service, short-lived working data is held in a temporary cache, and receipt and invoice PDFs are kept privately and opened through expiring links.

Every request is limited to your own account. A staff member you invite sees your data for the one branch they are assigned to. Authorised ChuksForge team members with administrator access can see account data, and administrator actions, logins, billing events, exports and deletions are logged.

Some of it is. When BOS cannot read a message with its built-in rules, the text of that message is sent to a third-party AI service to be interpreted, and voice notes are sent to a third-party AI service to be transcribed. These AI calls are also logged in a monitoring service we use to check that the AI is working properly.

Your records live in your BOS Afora account, so they are available on any device. Open app.bosafora.com in the browser on another phone and sign in to your account.

Yes. You can export to Excel (.xlsx) with your full history, or sales only, or expenses only. Starter includes the last 90 days and Pro includes all-time history.

Yes. Open Settings, then Data & Privacy, or ask BOS in Chat to delete your data. Deleting is immediate and cannot be undone, and there is no 30 day grace period. It erases your transactions, customers, inventory, reminders, daily summaries, invoices, receipts, chat history, notifications, branches, saved payment methods and stored files, and it clears the business name, address, city, phone number and email from your account. Payment, commission and consent records are kept. Copies held by the AI services that BOS uses follow those services' own retention.

BOS Afora has a page for each of 15 business types: Provision Stores, Pharmacies, Fashion Stores, Building Material Dealers, Mini Supermarkets, Wholesalers & Distributors, Phone & Electronics Dealers, Fashion Designers & Tailors, Jewelry Stores, Wine & Liquor Stores, POS Agents, Hair & Wig Vendors, Restaurants & Food Vendors, Salons & Spas, Furniture Stores & Makers. Each page shows example commands for that trade. Look for yours, and start with the free transactions to see how it feels in your own shop.

Not yet. Inventory tracks the item name, quantity, unit, cost price, low-stock level and a photo. There are no expiry or batch fields and no expiry alerts, so a pharmacy that needs expiry tracking should keep doing that separately for now.

Each size or colour is tracked as its own item name, for example "polo red L". There is no separate size or colour picker yet.

Not yet. There are no recipes, and selling a dish does not deduct its ingredients. A dish's margin works when the dish itself is stocked with a cost price, and ingredient purchases can be logged as expenses.

Signing up asks only for your business name and business type. Nothing needs installing, and you can add BOS Afora to your home screen from your browser. After that you record sales by typing, speaking or tapping, and a new item is added by simply mentioning it in a message. To bring in sales or stock you already have, use the import option in the app and choose your Excel file.