Your Tailoring
Business, Perfectly
Organized.
Shona helps you manage customers, orders, and payments — online or offline. No paperwork. No confusion. Just your business, running smoothly.
Works Offline
Every action, no signal needed
Swahili & English
App and customer messages, set separately
Android & iOS
Free to use — no subscription required
Every tool.
One app.
Clients, measurements, orders, payments, staff and a shop till — all on your phone, all working offline.
Offline-First
Every action works with no connection. Shona writes to your phone first and pushes to the server whenever it can — a week with no data bundle costs you nothing.
Measurements That Stick
59 standard measurements grouped by body area, plus any you add. Save a client's set once, and named templates pre-fill the right fields for each outfit type.
Orders, Stage by Stage
Received, cutting, sewing, finishing, ready, delivered. One tap advances the stage — and each advance can message the client automatically.
Payments & Balances
Deposits and part-payments record against the order and the balance tracks itself. Quick buttons for half, or for the full remaining amount.
WhatsApp & SMS
Eleven message templates in Swahili and English — every one editable. Run the app in English while your customers hear from you in Swahili.
Cost & Profit
Record materials and labour against an order and see revenue, cost and profit for the job. Costs attributed to a tailor roll up into their earnings.
Shop Counter
An optional till for ready-made items: cart, discounts, change due, instant receipts, per-line returns and a full stock ledger. Switch it off and it disappears.
Your Team
Staff records with role and phone, showing orders in progress, revenue, outstanding amounts and earnings. Assign any order to a tailor.
Made to Fit
Your currency, inches or centimetres, light or dark, your own outfit types and payment methods, and a daily reminder at the time you choose.
Up and running
in minutes.
No training needed. Download, set up your shop, and start managing your business today.
Add Your Clients
Record a name, phone and a full set of measurements once — pull the number straight from your contacts instead of retyping it.
Contacts import · 59 measurements · Style notes
Run the Order
Pick the outfit, add the fabric and up to five design photos, set a deadline and assign a tailor. One tap moves it to the next stage.
Received · Cutting · Sewing · Finishing · Ready · Delivered
Get Paid
Log the deposit and the balance tracks itself. Send the receipt over WhatsApp the moment the money lands.
Mobile money · Bank · Paybill · Payment link
Works for every tailor.
Whether you work alone or run a shop with staff — Shona is built for you.
Solo Tailor
Just you? Perfect.
Designed for independent tailors who want to stay organized without complexity.
- Clients, measurements and style notes
- Orders through six stages
- Payments, balances and receipts
- WhatsApp & SMS messaging
- Cost and profit on every order
- Optional shop counter for ready-made items
Tailoring Shop
Running a team?
Built for shops with several tailors. Assign work, track who is on what, and see each person's earnings.
- Everything in Solo, plus:
- Staff profiles with role and phone
- Assign any order to a tailor
- Orders in progress, per person
- Revenue, outstanding and earnings per staff member
Built for how
you actually work.
Intermittent data, customers on WhatsApp, and no two shops run the same way.
A week with no bundle costs you nothing
Offline isn't a fallback mode — it's how Shona is built. Every action writes to your phone first and pushes to the server later, whenever a connection turns up.
- Nothing waits on a signal
- Nothing is lost while you're offline
Your language and theirs, kept apart
The app's language and your customer-message language are two separate settings. Run the interface in English while every client hears from you in Swahili.
- Eleven message templates, both languages
- Every one of them editable
Only the parts you actually use
Don't sell ready-made items? Switch the shop counter off and it disappears completely — no Sales tab, no dashboard cards. Work alone? The Team section never shows up.
- Solo and shop modes
- Hide the outfit types you don't cut
Support Shona
Free to use — no subscription. Contributions cover the servers that keep your data safe, and pay for the next features on the roadmap.
☕ ContributeTZS 1,000–5,000,000 · M-Pesa, Airtel Money, Mixx by Yas
Download Shona.
It's Free.
Join tailors across East Africa who are managing their business smarter every day.
Android & iOS · Free · No subscription required