Distribution

One system for stock, orders, and the people who move them.

Distribution runs on visibility — knowing what's in stock, where it's going, and who's getting paid for moving it. Centy keeps inventory, orders, and payroll in sync across warehouses so nothing falls through the cracks between systems.

Make stock and collections your competitive edge.

A distribution business lives or dies on how fast it turns stock into cash across hundreds of retailer and agent accounts. Most run route-to-market sales through one system, track credit limits in a spreadsheet, and collect payment by mobile money that someone reconciles against invoices by hand at the end of the week.

Retailers expect credit, stock, and speed at once

Route sales reps sell against live credit limits and real stock — not a spreadsheet that's a day behind the warehouse.

Distributors need cash to follow the sale automatically

A bulk mobile money payout should settle the exact invoices it was meant to clear, without someone reconciling it by hand.

Built for how distribution actually runs.

Centy puts multi-warehouse inventory, per-customer credit terms, and bulk mobile money collections on the same ledger, so a bulk M-Pesa or MTN MoMo payout settles automatically against the open invoices it was meant to clear.

Multi-warehouse stock

One stock record across every depot — receipts and dispatches update the same ledger, not a spreadsheet per warehouse.

Orders tied to live stock

Route orders invoice against live credit and available stock, so nobody oversells in the field.

Statutory warehouse payroll

Warehouse, loader, and driver pay feeds PAYE, NSSF, SHIF, and the URA/TRA equivalents from the same attendance record.

How it works

One operational record from the first step to close — not three tools reconciled at month-end.

  1. Stock lands

    A multi-warehouse receipt updates one central stock record across every depot.

  2. Reps sell on route

    Orders are invoiced against each retailer's live credit limit, so nobody oversells on credit in the field.

  3. Collections come in

    Bulk mobile money payouts are matched automatically to the open invoices they settle.

  4. Performance rolls up

    Dispatch and collection data feed straight into route and rep performance reporting.

Where Centy fits in distribution.

01
FMCG wholesalers

Channel and tier pricing applied automatically by customer type — wholesale, retail, or export.

02
Route-to-market van sales

Field invoicing against live credit and stock, with no end-of-day reconciliation.

03
Agency & distributor networks

One view of stock across every depot in the network, not a spreadsheet per location.

04
Import & re-distribution

Multi-currency purchase costing landed against local-currency resale pricing.

Runs on Centy Books.

The core accounting engine behind Centy — sales invoicing, purchases, journalling, VAT, and reporting, with eTIMS built into every invoice for KRA compliance.

Centy Books

Accounting that's built into the ERP, not bolted onto it

Explore Centy Books

See how Centy fits your distribution operations and entities.