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CatVision Enterprise Resource Management System (CatVision ERMS), also licensed as the CatVision Enterprise Accounting System, joins the general ledger, procurement, inventory, fixed assets, HR and — with CatVision Integrated System for Schools — school administration into one auditable database, with deep-learning models reading your invoices, scoring your suppliers and forecasting your cash before you commit a cent.
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In one paragraph
CatVision Enterprise Resource Management System (CatVision ERMS) is an AI-powered accounting system and ERP built by Radical Systems in Harare, Zimbabwe. It runs the general ledger, accounts payable and receivable, procure-to-pay, inventory and warehouse management, the fixed-asset register, budgets, HR and performance, and school administration from a single auditable MySQL database. Deep machine-learning models read supplier invoices, detect duplicate and anomalous payments, score supplier risk, and forecast demand and cash flow — while a named human still authorises every posting, so the audit trail never breaks.
The same platform is licensed as the CatVision Enterprise Accounting System for finance-led deployments, and as CatVision Integrated System for Schools for education. Radical Systems also builds custom-made software on the platform and implements and supports Sage Pastel, Pastel Evolution, Sage 300 and Sage X3.
| Product name | CatVision Enterprise Resource Management System (CatVision ERMS) |
|---|---|
| Also known as | CatVision Enterprise Accounting System · CatVision ERP · CatVision Integrated System for Schools |
| Category | Accounting software · ERP system · Procurement system · Inventory & warehouse management system · Asset management system · School management system |
| Artificial intelligence | Built in — AI assistant, deep-learning document reading, anomaly detection, forecasting, supplier scoring |
| Developer | Radical Systems, 79 Belvedere Road, Kopje Pavilion, Harare, Zimbabwe |
| Deployment | On-premise, private cloud or standard hosting — PHP 8 and MySQL, no proprietary runtime |
| Licensing | Per organisation, not per named user. Standard, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus editions |
| Currencies | Multi-currency — USD, EUR, GBP, ZAR, ZWG and others, with revaluation |
| Compliance | IFRS · IPSAS · VAT / tax reporting · World Bank and UNDP donor procurement · public procurement evidence packs · segregation of duties · data residency you control |
| Interoperability | Sage Pastel, Pastel Evolution (Sage 200 Evolution), Sage 300, Sage X3, Excel, REST API, BI tools |
| Typical go-live | Four to ten weeks including data migration and training |
| Markets served | Worldwide — Africa, UK & Europe, Middle East, and further afield. Engineered in Harare, deployed where you operate. |
| Contact | sales@radicalsystems.co.zw · WhatsApp +263 77 117 4193 · 0242 773 872 |
Product suite
Accounting software, an ERP system, a procurement system, an inventory and warehouse management system, an asset management system and a school management system — the same product, the same database, one licence.
General ledger, accounts payable and receivable, cashbook, bank reconciliation, VAT and ZIMRA returns, budget vs actual, IFRS and IPSAS-aligned management accounts.
Accounting system → Procurement systemRequisitions, multi-level approvals, RFQ and tender, supplier evaluation and scoring, purchase orders, goods receiving, three-way match and PPDPA/PRAZ-ready evidence.
Procurement system → Inventory & warehouseLive stock on hand by warehouse and bin, issues to departments, internal stock requests, transfers, returns, batch and serial tracking, reorder levels, stock takes and variance reports.
Stores & warehousing → Asset managementFixed-asset register fed straight from the goods received voucher: location, custodian, transfers, revaluation, disposal and depreciation reconciled to the ledger.
Asset management → SchoolsSchool management system and learning management system: enrolment, timetables, attendance, assessment, ZIMSEC and Cambridge tracking, fees, parent portal and payroll on the same ledger.
Schools edition → PeopleEmployee records, leave, contracts, disciplinary history, a performance management system with objectives and appraisals, and payroll-ready exports.
HR module → IntelligenceDeep machine learning across every module: invoice reading, duplicate and fraud detection, supplier risk scoring, demand and cash-flow forecasting, and a natural-language assistant.
How the AI works → BespokeCustom modules, integrations, data migration, machine-learning models and complete line-of-business applications, engineered in Harare on PHP 8 and MySQL.
Custom development →Accounting system
CatVision is an accounting system for organisations that are tired of posting supplier invoices that never met a purchase order. Payables, payment runs and budgets sit on the same trail as procurement and the asset register.
Most “accounting software” in Southern Africa is a general ledger with invoices typed in by hand. CatVision starts earlier: the bill is matched to a purchase order and a goods received voucher before finance can schedule payment. That is the difference between a bookkeeping tool and an accounting system with control.
Commitment is recorded when the purchase order is issued. Finance sees available, committed and actual — not a surprise at payment. That is accounting software used as a control, not a diary.
Radical Systems implements Sage. CatVision is designed to sit in front of the ledger: approved POs, GRVs and invoices export in the formats those products already import. You do not have to rip out a working Sage company to get procure-to-pay discipline.
Procurement management system
A procurement system is not a purchase-order template. It is the rules of who may buy, from whom, at what price, against which budget — written so an auditor can replay them.
The PO is built from the awarded quotation. Budget commits on issue. The supplier gets a branded PDF and a portal notice. That is purchase order software attached to the rest of procure-to-pay.
Suppliers register, upload statutory documents, answer RFQs line by line, acknowledge orders and see payment status. Procurement stops being a switchboard.
Asset management system
CatVision is an asset management system for organisations whose Excel register disagrees with the ledger. Capital items are received against a PO, capitalised onto the register, assigned a custodian, and depreciated for the books — in the same suite as procurement and accounting.
Registers drift when assets are bought outside procurement, tagged later, or never tagged. CatVision ties the asset to the GRV. If stores did not receive it, it is not on the register. If it is on the register, there is a PO behind it.
Artificial intelligence · deep machine learning
Every module in CatVision Enterprise is wired into the CatVision AI Engine — a layer of deep neural networks and classical machine-learning models trained on your own transaction history, not on a generic template.
How CatVision uses AI and deep machine learning: document-understanding models read supplier invoices, delivery notes and receipts and turn them into coded transaction lines; anomaly-detection models learn each cost centre's normal spending shape and flag what does not fit; gradient-boosted and sequence models forecast demand, stock-outs and cash position; a supplier risk model scores delivery reliability, pricing drift and compliance expiry; and a natural-language assistant lets a finance officer ask "which departments will exceed budget this quarter?" in plain English. Every AI output is advisory and explainable — it shows the evidence and the confidence, and a named human still authorises the posting.
Photograph or email a supplier invoice and the deep-learning reader extracts supplier, date, tax number, line items, VAT and totals, matches it to the purchase order, and queues it for approval. No re-keying, no transposition errors.
Models learn each supplier's and cost centre's normal pattern, then flag duplicate invoice numbers, split purchases that dodge a threshold, round-number irregularities, out-of-hours postings and prices drifting away from history — before the payment run.
Sequence models project consumption, lead times, stock-outs, budget burn-down and cash position weeks ahead, so buyers order at the right time and finance sees the squeeze before it arrives.
Every supplier carries a learned score across delivery reliability, quote competitiveness, price drift, dispute history and compliance-document expiry — surfaced at the moment of award, not in a quarterly review.
Ask the system questions in plain English — "show unapproved requisitions over 5,000 in Engineering" — and get an answer with the underlying records. The assistant suggests; it never posts on your behalf.
In the Schools edition the same engine watches attendance patterns, assessment trajectories and fee arrears, and tells the head of school which learners and which accounts need attention this week.
Your data stays yours. CatVision AI can run entirely on-premise against a locally hosted model, or against a managed provider if you prefer — configured per deployment. Nothing is used to train anyone else's model, and every AI-assisted action is written to the same immutable audit trail as a human one.
Education edition
A complete school management system and learning management system — and, underneath it, the same accounting engine that runs our corporate clients. The bursar's books and the registrar's records are finally the same record.
CatVision Integrated System for Schools (CatVision ISS) administers enrolment, classes and streams, timetabling, attendance, continuous assessment, ZIMSEC and Cambridge examination tracking, report cards, boarding, transport and health records — and joins all of it to school fees billing and receipting, arrears and bursaries, procurement, stores, the asset register and staff payroll on one ledger. Parents get a portal with statements and results; heads get a live financial and academic picture; the AI engine flags attendance drops, falling assessment trajectories and fee arrears early enough to act on.
Book a schools demo → · Sister platform: CatVision School ERP (catvision.co.zw)
Stores
Stock stops being a month-end estimate. Every receipt, issue, transfer and return posts to the ledger as it happens, so the store and the balance sheet agree on any given Tuesday.
Stock on hand by site, warehouse, bin and condition, with transfers that require an authorised receipt at the other end.
Departments request from stores before they request from a supplier — the cheapest purchase order is the one you never raise.
Full traceability for regulated stock, with expiry alerts and recall-ready lot histories.
Machine-learned consumption and lead-time models set reorder levels that move with the season instead of a number typed in 2019.
Counted-versus-book variance reports with reason codes, sign-off and a permanent adjustment trail.
Capital items received in stores are capitalised onto the fixed-asset register without anyone retyping a serial number.
People
The people side of the ERP: records, leave, contracts and a performance management system that ties objectives to the departments and budgets already in the ledger.
Contracts, qualifications, next of kin, disciplinary history and document expiry alerts in one profile.
Leave applications routed through the same visual approval workflow as a requisition, with balances and accruals.
Objectives, KPIs, mid-term reviews and appraisals, scored against departmental targets rather than memory.
Clean exports for Sage Pastel Payroll and other payroll engines — or run schools payroll directly in the Schools edition.
Custom-made software
Radical Systems is a software house first. CatVision is what we built for ourselves and our clients — and the same Harare engineering team builds custom-made software for organisations whose process genuinely does not fit a box.
Custom software development at CatVision / Radical Systems covers bespoke modules on the CatVision platform, standalone line-of-business applications, systems integration and REST APIs, data migration from Pastel, Sage, Excel and legacy databases, custom machine-learning models trained on your data, mobile and offline-capable applications, and ongoing hosting, maintenance and support retainers. The stack is standard PHP 8 and MySQL with vanilla JavaScript — deliberately boring, widely supportable technology, so you are never held hostage by a proprietary runtime or a single developer.
A weighbridge integration, a fuel-issue system, a clinic dispensary, a levy collection portal — built into CatVision so it inherits the workflow, permissions and audit trail for free.
Connect CatVision or your existing systems to banks, mobile money, biometric devices, POS, Sage ledgers, BI tools and government portals through a documented REST API.
Suppliers, customers, stock, opening balances, asset registers and years of history moved out of Pastel, Sage, Excel or a legacy system — and reconciled, not just imported.
Custom models for your own problem: credit scoring, yield prediction, route optimisation, churn, demand — trained on your data, deployed where your data lives.
Supplier, customer, parent and field-officer portals that work on a weak connection, install to the home screen and keep working when the network does not.
Hosting, backups, monitoring, upgrades and a named engineer — the part most software projects forget to budget for.
Why organisations replace spreadsheets and disconnected accounting software
Procure-to-pay
Ten controlled stages. Each is a real screen with its own inbox, permissions and audit line — the same path finance later posts from, and the same evidence an auditor or PRAZ reviewer asks for.
Staff raise a numbered request against a cost account, with lines, quantities, a needed-by date and attachments. Drafts save. Repeat orders take one click. Stores availability is checked first, so nothing is bought that is already sitting in a warehouse.
The visual workflow designer routes the request to the right HOD, director or executive by value, department and category. Delegation covers leave. Every decision stores user, timestamp, IP and comments — permanently.
Invite suppliers from the register or run an open tender. Suppliers price the lines in the portal. Expired tax clearance or compliance documents cannot be awarded — the gate is in code, not on a policy poster. The AI risk score sits next to every quote.
The purchase order is built from the winning quote — no re-keying. Budget commits on issue, so the next approver sees a remaining balance that already accounts for it. The supplier receives a branded PDF and a portal notice.
Stores receive line by line against the order, partial deliveries included. Finance only schedules payment when the invoice matches the purchase order and the goods received voucher — or an authorised exception is logged with a reason.
What is inside
Licensed by edition, not by module count. What follows is the whole product, stated plainly — including what is still on the roadmap, because you deserve to know that before you sign.
| Module | What it covers | AI | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accounting & general ledger | Chart of accounts, journals, trial balance, management accounts, IFRS/IPSAS-aligned statements | AI | Available |
| Accounts payable & payments | Invoice register, ageing, payment runs, remittances, supplier statements | AI | Available |
| Accounts receivable | Customer invoicing, receipting, credit control, statements, debtor ageing | — | Available |
| Cashbook & bank reconciliation | Multi-bank, multi-currency, import and auto-match of bank statements | AI | Available |
| Procurement & purchasing | Requisitions, approvals, RFQ, tenders, evaluation, purchase orders, GRV, three-way match | AI | Available |
| Supplier relationship management | Supplier register, compliance documents, expiry blocking, performance scoring, portal | AI | Available |
| Inventory & warehouse | Multi-warehouse stock, bins, issues, transfers, batch/serial, reorder, stock takes | AI | Available |
| Fixed assets | Asset register, custody, transfers, revaluation, depreciation, disposal | — | Available |
| Budgets & commitment control | Votes, cost centres, budget gate before the order, virement, burn-down | AI | Available |
| Workflow engine | Visual approval designer, thresholds, delegation, escalation, SLA timers | — | Available |
| Reporting & BI | 46+ built-in reports, funnel and ordinal analytics, CSV/PDF export, REST API for BI tools | AI | Available |
| CatVision AI Engine | Invoice reading, anomaly detection, forecasting, supplier scoring, assistant | Core | Available |
| Integrated System for Schools | Enrolment, timetabling, attendance, assessment, exams, fees, parent portal, school payroll | AI | Available |
| HR & performance | Employee records, leave, contracts, objectives, appraisals, payroll export | — | Available |
| Document management | Attachments, versioning, one-click audit bundles, retention rules | — | Available |
| Full corporate payroll | PAYE, NSSA and statutory payroll for large non-school payrolls | — | Roadmap |
| Manufacturing & bill of materials | Works orders, BOM, production costing | — | Roadmap |
Capabilities
Invoice register, payables ageing, payment runs, remittances, VAT returns and exports your ledger already understands.
No re-keying from the quote. View-before-approve, branded PDFs, commitment against budget on issue.
Capitalise from receiving, assign a custodian, transfer between sites, run depreciation for the books.
Stock on hand, issues to departments, internal stock requests, returns and AI-set reorder visibility.
Administrators draw the graph. Thresholds, rejection routes and escalation without a developer.
One-click PDF bundle — request, quotes, approvals, PO, GRV, invoice — with an immutable trail underneath.
Anomaly detection, forecasting and supplier scoring across every module, trained on your history.
Group companies, inter-company transactions, consolidation, USD/ZWG/ZAR with revaluation.
JWT-authenticated read API for BI tools, dashboards and integrations — your data, queryable.
Comparison
An honest comparison. We resell and support Sage and Pastel ourselves, so this is not a hatchet job — it is where each tool genuinely fits.
| What you need | Spreadsheets | Entry cloud accounting (Xero, Zoho Books, QuickBooks, Palladium, Pastel Xpress) |
Mid/large ERP (Pastel Evolution, Sage 300, Sage X3, Sage Intacct, Odoo, SAP) |
CatVision ERMS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accounting and procurement on one trail | No | Accounting only | Modules, usually extra | Designed that way |
| Asset register fed from the purchase order | Separate file | Rarely | Often a bolt-on | Register follows the GRV |
| Budget gate before commitment | After the fact | After the fact | Optional module | Hard stop, standard |
| AI and machine learning included | No | Add-on / higher tier | Higher tier or extra licence | Core, all editions |
| Supplier portal, RFQ and scoring | No | Licensed extra | Included | |
| School management edition | No | No | No | CatVision ISS |
| Public procurement evidence (PPDPA / PRAZ / donor) | Manual file | No | Configurable, costly | Built for it |
| Licensing model | — | Per user, per month, forever | Per user + modules + maintenance | Per organisation |
| Where your data lives | A laptop | Vendor cloud, offshore | Vendor-defined | Your MySQL, your choice |
| Custom modules on request | — | No | Partner rates, offshore | In-house, Harare |
| Implementation and support | — | Self-service / chat | Partner, often offshore | Face to face, Harare |
| Works with your existing Sage/Pastel ledger | — | No | Migration required | Yes — sits in front of it |
Already on Sage or Pastel and happy with it? Keep it. Many clients run CatVision for requisitions, approvals, purchase orders, receiving and assets, and export clean postings into Pastel Evolution, Sage 300 or Sage X3.
Compliance
Public bodies, NGOs, church and mission organisations, universities and group companies need procurement and finance that stand up in any jurisdiction. CatVision assumes the evidence must travel — locally and internationally.
Competitive methods, thresholds, evaluation committees, standstill periods and complete documentary evidence for the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Act and Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe oversight.
Evidence packs that satisfy World Bank, UNDP, Global Fund and bilateral donor procurement guidelines — three quotes, justification, no-objection trail, retention of records.
VAT input and output tracking, supplier tax numbers, withholding on non-compliant suppliers, and return-ready extracts — configurable for the tax authority you report to, including ZIMRA where you file in Zimbabwe.
Accrual, commitment and cash-basis views, asset revaluation, depreciation policies and disclosure-ready statements for private and public sector reporting.
Segregation of duties enforced in code, an immutable trail of who did what and when, and a one-click transaction bundle for external audit.
Role-based access, encrypted sessions, retention and deletion rules, and the option to keep every byte inside your own building.
Security
The person who evaluates cannot approve; the person who approves cannot issue; the person who receives cannot pay. Not a policy — a permission.
Role-based permissions, email and SMS one-time codes, session lockout and rate limits on sign-in.
PHP 8 and MySQL. On-premise, private cloud or hosting. Prepared statements throughout, CSRF verification on every state change.
Every create, edit, approve, reject and payment is written with user, time and IP. Records are appended, never quietly overwritten.
Implementation
A fixed, published path — so you can plan around it and hold us to it.
Week 1
We map your departments, cost centres, approval thresholds, current chart of accounts and whatever data is currently living in Pastel, Sage or Excel.
Weeks 1–2
CatVision goes onto your server or a private cloud. The chart of accounts is loaded and the approval workflow is drawn in the visual designer with your real thresholds.
Weeks 2–4
Suppliers, customers, stock items, opening balances and the asset register are migrated and reconciled line by line — not dumped and hoped over.
Weeks 3–5
The machine-learning models train on your historical spend, stock and payment data so anomaly detection and forecasting reflect your own patterns from day one.
Weeks 4–7
Requisitioners, approvers, buyers, stores, finance and administrators are each trained on the screens they actually use — not a generic tour of the whole system.
Weeks 6–10
One full cycle runs alongside the old process, then you go live with hypercare support from the Harare team on the end of a phone.
Editions and pricing
Add a department, a branch or fifty users without a new invoice. Written quotation after a scoping call — no per-user meter running in the background.
Single site, one procurement team, small finance department
Multi-department organisations, schools, NGOs, mid-market
Groups, regulated entities and public bodies
Who it is for
Manufacturing, mining, agriculture, hospitals, schools and colleges, NGOs, churches and missions, universities, local authorities, retail, distribution and logistics — for groups in Africa, the UK, Europe, the Middle East and other international markets.
Also from Radical Systems
We licence, implement, upgrade, train and support the Sage and Pastel range for clients at home and abroad — not only CatVision. Same engineering team, same phone and WhatsApp, whichever ledger you run.
Small-business Pastel accounting software: invoicing, cashbook, VAT and simple stock.
Pastel Xpress → PastelMulti-user Pastel accounting with inventory, job costing and the books most firms run on.
Pastel Partner → EvolutionSage 200 Evolution — SQL database, manufacturing, multi-warehouse, projects and BIC.
Pastel Evolution → PayrollPAYE, NSSA and statutory payroll running next to the Pastel ledger.
Pastel Payroll → Sage ERPMulti-company, multi-currency ERP for distribution and group finance.
Sage 300 → Sage ERPEnterprise ERP for manufacturing and process industries when Evolution is not enough.
Sage X3 → HubLicences, upgrades, data repair, training and after-sales support for the whole range.
Sage & Pastel hub → MigrationKeep Pastel, or move off it. Either way we migrate the data and reconcile the balances.
Talk to us →Entry-level Pastel accounting for a small trading company: invoices, cashbook, customers and VAT without a warehouse. We set the company up so a later move to Partner is a conversion, not a rewrite. Chart of accounts, VAT settings, invoice layout, opening balances, a backup routine, and training.
The workhorse Pastel accounting system in Zimbabwe: multi-user, inventory, job costing and the reports accountants expect. We sell licences, add users, train bookkeepers and stay on the line when year-end will not close. CatVision purchase orders can post into Partner when procurement must be controlled outside the ledger.
SQL-based mid-market ERP: general ledger, AR/AP, multi-warehouse, manufacturing (BOM and works orders), projects and serial/lot tracking. The usual Zimbabwe path is Partner until the file is slow or warehouses multiply. We quote a conversion, a parallel-run month, and training — not “install Evolution and leave Partner running forever.”
PAYE, NSSA, aids levy and statutory payroll running next to Pastel Partner or Evolution. Journals can post into the ledger so salaries are not a separate spreadsheet. CatVision is not a payroll engine; staff-related buying sits in CatVision, the salary run stays in Pastel Payroll.
Formerly Accpac. Multi-company, multi-currency ERP for groups that have outgrown Evolution: GL, AR, AP, inventory, order entry, optional manufacturing and projects. A Sage 300 project is chart of accounts, company structure, opening balances, user roles and a parallel month — with a named engineer in Harare afterwards.
Enterprise ERP for discrete and process manufacturing, complex distribution and multi-site finance. Quality, MRP, shop floor and financials sit on one data model. We only recommend it after a fit-gap. CatVision can sit in front as the Zimbabwe-specific procurement layer.
Desktop & mobile
Download and install the app for your device. It places an icon on your desktop or home screen; opening it launches the staff login at catvisionenterprise.com/public/login.php. Android and Windows use the installers below; on iPhone add the login page to your Home Screen in Safari.
Dedicated app for the CatVision procurement portal on Android, Windows, iPhone and Mac. Use your usual staff login.
The same procurement portal, branded for Sage Evolution sites. Install on Android, Windows, iPhone or Mac.
Staff already signed in can also download these from My settings → Apps inside the portal. On Windows, run the downloaded installer, finish the setup, and use the desktop shortcut — it opens the staff login. Android may warn that the APK is from outside the Play Store — that is expected for a company installer. Windows SmartScreen may do the same for the EXE. On iPhone, use Install on iPhone, open the login page in Safari, then Add to Home Screen.
Plain definitions
If you are researching before you buy, start here. These are the definitions we use throughout the product and the documentation.
FAQ
CatVision Enterprise Accounting System is built for Zimbabwean and Southern African operating conditions: multi-currency USD and ZWG, ZIMRA VAT handling, IFRS and IPSAS-aligned reporting, tolerance for unreliable connectivity, and implementation and support from an office in Harare you can walk into. Unlike imported subscription accounting software it is licensed per organisation rather than per user, runs on your own PHP 8 and MySQL server if you want it to, and includes procurement, stores and the fixed-asset register in the same ledger rather than as paid add-ons.
CatVision Enterprise Resource Management System (CatVision ERMS) is an AI-assisted ERP and accounting suite that runs the general ledger, accounts payable and receivable, procure-to-pay, inventory and warehousing, the fixed-asset register, budgets, HR and performance, and — through CatVision Integrated System for Schools — full school administration, all on one auditable database. It is also sold as the CatVision Enterprise Accounting System where finance is the entry point.
Yes. The CatVision AI Engine ships with the product: deep-learning document models read and code supplier invoices; anomaly-detection models learn each cost centre's normal pattern and flag duplicates, split purchases and price drift; sequence models forecast demand, stock-outs and cash position; a supplier risk model scores reliability and compliance; and a natural-language assistant answers questions about your own data. Every output is advisory and explainable — it shows its evidence, and a named human still authorises the posting, so the audit trail stays intact.
It is the education edition: a school management system and learning management system covering enrolment, classes and streams, timetabling, attendance, continuous assessment, ZIMSEC and Cambridge examination tracking, report cards, boarding, transport and health records — joined to school fees billing and receipting, arrears and bursaries, procurement, stores, the asset register and staff payroll on the same accounting ledger. Bursars stop reconciling a fees spreadsheet against the books, because they are the same record.
Yes. Radical Systems is a software house in Harare. We build bespoke modules on the CatVision platform, standalone line-of-business applications, integrations and REST APIs, data migrations from Pastel, Sage, Excel and legacy databases, custom machine-learning models, and mobile or offline-capable portals. The stack is standard PHP 8 and MySQL with vanilla JavaScript — deliberately mainstream technology, so you are never locked into a proprietary runtime or a single developer.
It is a local alternative, and where you already run Sage or Pastel it is also a companion. CatVision covers accounting, procurement, stores and assets in one licence with AI analytics included, is supported face to face from Harare, and exports cleanly to Sage Pastel, Pastel Evolution, Sage 300 and Sage X3. Plenty of clients keep their Sage ledger and put CatVision in front of it for requisitions, approvals, purchase orders and receiving.
Yes. Radical Systems licences, implements, upgrades, trains and supports Sage Pastel Xpress, Sage Pastel Partner, Pastel Evolution (Sage 200 Evolution), Sage Pastel Payroll, Sage 300 and Sage X3 in Zimbabwe, from the same office that supports CatVision. See Sage Pastel, Sage 300 and Sage X3 on this page.
Pastel Evolution (Sage 200 Evolution) is mid-market SQL accounting with light ERP — manufacturing, multi-warehouse and projects. Sage 300 suits multi-company, multi-currency groups needing stronger consolidation. Sage X3 is enterprise ERP for manufacturing and process industries with complex operations. We will tell you honestly which of the three — or CatVision — fits your size and process, and then implement it.
Yes. The procurement module supports competitive methods, value thresholds, evaluation committees, standstill periods, supplier compliance expiry blocking and complete documentary evidence — which is what the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Act, PRAZ oversight and donor rules such as World Bank, UNDP and Global Fund procurement guidelines expect. Every stage produces a dated, attributable record you can hand to an auditor without assembling a file first.
Either, and you can change your mind later. It runs on your own server, on a private cloud managed by Radical Systems, or on standard commercial hosting. The stack is PHP 8 and MySQL, so your data lives in an open database you can back up, query directly and take with you.
Most organisations go live in four to ten weeks including workflow configuration, data migration, AI model calibration and role-based training. CatVision is licensed per organisation rather than per named user, in three editions — Standard, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus — with a written quotation after a scoping call. Adding users or departments does not change the licence.
It turns stock from a month-end estimate into a live figure. CatVision tracks stock on hand by warehouse and bin, issues to departments, internal stock requests, returns, transfers, reorder levels, batch and serial numbers and stock takes, and posts the movements to the ledger as they happen — so the balance sheet and the store agree on any given day, not just after a count.
Yes. Enterprise Plus supports multiple legal entities, inter-company transactions, consolidated reporting and multi-currency transacting with revaluation — USD, EUR, GBP, ZAR, ZWG and others — which is what groups operating across countries need day to day.
Yes. Download the Android, Windows or Mac app for CatVision Enterprise Procurement, or the Sage Evolution branded wrapper. On iPhone, tap Install on iPhone and add the site to your Home Screen in Safari. The wrappers open this same portal, show a splash screen while it loads, and tell you if there is no internet. Signed-in staff can also fetch the installers from My settings → Apps.
Yes, and it is included rather than licensed separately. Suppliers register themselves, upload compliance documents, respond to RFQs, acknowledge purchase orders and track payment status without telephoning procurement. Expired compliance documents block an award automatically.
Yes — suppliers, customers, stock items, opening balances, the asset register and historical transactions. Migration is a scoped stage of every implementation, and balances are reconciled against your last signed-off trial balance before go-live rather than assumed.
You keep it. It is a MySQL database on infrastructure you can control, and we will provide a full dump plus documented schema on request. There is no export fee and no proprietary file format standing between you and your own records.
CatVision: staff sign in at the staff login page on your own installation; if you have forgotten your password use password reset, and if the account is locked your system administrator can unlock it. Sage Pastel Partner, Xpress and Payroll are desktop applications — you log in inside the installed program with your Pastel user name and password, not through a website; if the company file will not open or the login is refused, that is usually a data or licence issue and we repair it. Pastel Evolution, Sage 300, Sage X3, Sage Business Cloud Accounting and Sage Intacct each have their own vendor sign-in. If you are a client of ours and cannot get into any of them, call +263 242 773 872 and we will sort out the licence, the user account or the data.
Sage Intacct is strong cloud financial management aimed mainly at North American and European mid-market finance teams; Palladium, Xero and Zoho Books are solid small-to-mid accounting packages. All are accounting-first: procurement workflow, a supplier portal, commitment control and a fixed-asset register fed from goods receiving are either absent, extra, or a higher tier. CatVision includes those in one per-organisation licence, adds the AI engine at every level, holds your data in a MySQL database you control, and is implemented and supported from Harare in your time zone and currency. If all you need is a clean small-business ledger, one of the others may genuinely suit you better — and we will say so.
Demo & quotation
A 45-minute walkthrough using your departments, your approval rules and a sample of your own data — not a canned script with invented numbers.
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Legal
This notice covers the public website catvisionenterprise.com, operated by Radical Systems in Harare, Zimbabwe. It does not replace the privacy terms of a signed CatVision licence.
If you request a demonstration or quotation we store your name, work email, phone number (if given), organisation, employee band, product interest, message, the page you sent it from, and technical data needed to stop spam (IP address and browser). We do not sell this list.
To reply to your enquiry, schedule a demo, and send a written quotation. We may also keep the record to show that we handled the request, and to improve how we describe the product.
Enquiry records are kept for up to 24 months after the last contact, unless a contract is signed — in which case they follow that contract’s retention rules. You may email sales@radicalsystems.co.zw to ask for a correction or deletion of a marketing enquiry.
Leads are written to a protected folder on the server that hosts this site and may be emailed to our sales inbox. If you become a customer, personal data in the application is processed under your organisation’s instructions.
This marketing site does not use advertising cookies. The application (staff sign-in) uses a session cookie required to keep you logged in.
Radical Systems, 79 Belvedere Road, Kopje Pavilion, Harare. Telephone 0242 773 872 / 0242 773 873. WhatsApp +263 77 117 4193. Email sales@radicalsystems.co.zw.
Apple does not allow installing IPA files from a website. Add the staff login to your Home Screen in Safari — the icon opens full-screen at the login page.
The Home Screen icon then opens catvisionenterprise.com/public/login.php.
