eTIMS readiness check
Nine questions about how your business works today. This does not tell you whether you are legally required to use eTIMS, because that depends on your turnover, your registration and the kind of transactions you make, and it is a question for KRA. It tells you what would need sorting out first either way.
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1. Can someone at the business sign in to iTax today?
Onboarding is tied to the PIN. The commonest blocker is that nobody currently has access, or the registered phone belongs to a former employee.
2. Are the phone number and email registered against the PIN ones you control?
Verification codes go there. Fixing this after you need it is considerably harder than fixing it now.
3. Do you record every sale somewhere other than memory?
Invoicing is a recording problem first. A business that does not record sales cannot issue documents for them, whatever software it buys.
4. When a business customer buys from you, do you capture their KRA PIN at the time?
Capturing it at the counter takes seconds. Reconstructing it afterwards usually does not happen at all.
5. Do you keep the invoices your suppliers give you?
Your deductions depend on what you can substantiate, and that exposure sits on the buying side where most businesses do not look.
6. Do you have a consistent way of handling returns and corrections?
Corrections reference the original document rather than replacing it. A business that edits invoices will have a problem that only appears at audit.
7. Is your internet connection reliable during trading hours?
If not, what your setup does during an outage becomes the deciding feature rather than a detail.
8. Can you tell which member of staff handled a given sale?
Not a compliance requirement, but it is what makes a discrepancy traceable instead of merely known.
9. Is business money kept separate from personal money?
Where they are mixed, reconciliation is not difficult so much as impossible, and every downstream record inherits the problem.