Business zakat, straight from your books.
Export a trial balance from your accounting software and drop it in. Every account is sorted into what counts, what is deducted and what doesn’t count, and each line names the rule it follows.
Free for one business. AAOIFI Shari’ah Standard 35 by default, NZF guidance if you prefer.
| Account | Balance | For zakat |
|---|---|---|
| 1000 Bank INGCash and bankCounts | 18,420.00 | Counts |
| 1300 DebiteurenCustomers who owe you for goodsCounts | 6,150.00 | Counts |
| 3000 VoorraadStock for saleCountscounted at its selling value, 11,200.00 | 9,800.00 | Countscounted at its selling value, 11,200.00 |
| 0200 InventarisEquipment, vehicles and premisesDoesn’t count | 24,000.00 | Doesn’t count |
| 0210 Afschrijving inventarisEquipment, vehicles and premisesDoesn’t count | (6,000.00) | Doesn’t count |
| 1600 CrediteurenSuppliers you oweDeducted | (4,300.00) | Deducted |
| 1700 Te betalen btwTaxes dueDeducted | (2,120.00) | Deducted |
| 0700 Lening ING (oven)Long-term loansNot deductedpaid for the oven, so not deducted | (18,000.00) | Not deductedpaid for the oven, so not deducted |
| 0500 Eigen vermogenEquityNot part of zakat | (27,950.00) | Not part of zakat |
| Zakatable assets | €35,770.00 | |
| Deducted debts | (€6,420.00) | |
| Zakat base | €29,350.00 | |
| Rate | 2.5% (lunar year) | |
| Zakat due | €733.75 |
Nisab: 85 g of gold at €110.00 a gram is €9,350.00. The base is above it.
From trial balance to zakat statement
Export a trial balance
In your accounting software, export the trial balance on your zakat date as CSV or Excel. Any package will do.
Drop it in
The columns, account codes and names are read, and every account is sorted. Dutch RGS codes and the Turkish chart of accounts are recognised.
Check what was sorted
Anything the app isn’t sure about is marked for you to decide. Add the selling value of your stock and next year’s loan repayments.
Print the statement
You get the zakat due, the nisab on that day, each owner’s share and the rule behind every line, ready for your records or your accountant.
Reads the books you already keep
- Exact Online
- e-Boekhouden
- Moneybird
- SnelStart
- Twinfield
- Yuki
- Xero
- QuickBooks
- Sage
- DATEV
Exports from these packages work, and so do Turkish mizan files from Logo, Mikro and Luca. Account names are understood in English, Dutch, German, Turkish and French.
Next year it remembers how you sorted each account, so doing it again takes minutes.
Every line names its rule
The default is AAOIFI Shari’ah Standard 35, the net assets method used by Islamic financial institutions. Prefer the National Zakat Foundation’s guidance? Switch with one click, or make each choice yourself: gold or silver nisab, how stock is valued, whether debts for equipment are deducted.
This is how the loan for the oven is explained:
0700 Lening ING (oven)(18,000.00)Not deducted
AAOIFI SS 35, 6/2/2–6/2/3: debts that paid for fixed assets aren’t deducted; debts that paid for both kinds of assets are deducted pro rata.
A reminder before your zakat date
Choose a Hijri date such as 1 Ramadan, or your financial year end. You get an email 30 days before, a week before and on the day, and the nisab uses that day’s gold and silver price.
Private by design
Your figures are stored in the EU and are never sold or shared. No ads, no tracking cookies, no analytics scripts. Because zakat data can reveal your faith, we ask for your explicit consent, and you can delete everything at any time.
Zakat statements for your clients
Accountants and bookkeepers keep every client in one place, see whose zakat date is coming up, and hand over statements in their own firm’s name.
Free for one business
Pro adds the statement to print, each owner’s share, a payments tracker and sharing, for €59 a year. Firms pay €290 a year for up to 150 clients. Prices exclude VAT.
Questions people ask
Is this a fatwa?
No. The app applies published methods, AAOIFI Shari’ah Standard 35 and the National Zakat Foundation’s business guidance, to your figures and shows which rule each line follows. For questions about your own situation, ask a scholar you trust.
Which school of thought does it follow?
AAOIFI’s standard was agreed by scholars from different schools, and NZF bases its guidance on the four Sunni schools. Where scholars differ, you choose: gold or silver for the nisab, how stock is valued, which debts are deducted. Many Shafi’i scholars hold that debts don’t reduce zakat at all; if you follow that view, switch deductions off.
What about my personal zakat?
The app works out the zakat of the business. Each owner’s share of the zakat base is shown, so you can add it to your personal zakat on savings, gold and investments.
What if the business is below the nisab?
Then no zakat is due on the business alone. The nisab is the value of 85 grams of gold (AAOIFI) or 612.36 grams of silver (NZF) on your zakat date. Because the nisab is about a person’s total wealth, you can tell the app that the owners’ other wealth already reaches it.
The bank paid us interest. What happens to it?
Interest isn’t zakat and is never deducted. The app adds up the interest received and shows it separately, as an amount to give away to charity without expecting a reward.
Can we pay early, or in parts?
Most scholars allow paying zakat before it is due and spreading it out. Pro keeps track of what has been paid and what is left.
Our books follow the calendar year. Is that a problem?
No. Use your financial year end as the zakat date. A solar year is about 11 days longer than a lunar one, so the rate becomes 2.577% instead of 2.5%, as both AAOIFI and NZF state.
Who can see our figures?
Only you and the people you invite. The figures are stored in the EU, and you can export or delete them whenever you want.
Work out this year’s zakat from your books
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