CassKai vs Synergie: moving to the cloud without losing Burkina roots

Synergie is one of the management and accounting solutions rooted in the Burkina Faso market (Ouagadougou ecosystem). Like most local OHADA editors, it answers a genuine need: a tool compliant with the revised SYSCOHADA, sold and supported locally, with a team reachable in the same time zone and working language. For many Burkina SMEs, this proximity is decisive — you call the editor, you get an answer, sometimes an on-site visit.

Observed limitations of a local desktop editor model for 2026 (to be confirmed for Synergie):

• Architecture: historic local editors are often installed software (single-seat or LAN Windows), with manual backups and access from a specific workstation, rather than cloud accessible anywhere.
• SYSCOHADA-only: excellent for Burkina, but an SME opening a subsidiary outside the OHADA zone (Europe, Maghreb) or having to produce IFRS for a lender / investor has to restate manually.
• Mobile Money: native integration with Orange Money, MTN MoMo, Moov Money and Wave with automatic accounting reconciliation remains rare among local editors.
• Normalised e-invoicing: the SECeF normalised invoice (Burkina DGI) is often provided as a separate module or via a partner, not always natively.
• AI and automation: automatic categorisation, anomaly detection and AI-driven cash forecasting are usually not part of a classic desktop editor's scope.
• Pricing: typically a licence model (purchase + annual maintenance) with a quote. This can be advantageous long-term, but public price visibility is limited.

CassKai is built as a multi-standard cloud SaaS (PCG, SYSCOHADA, IFRS, SCF) covering 33 African countries. For Burkina: native SYSCOHADA, built-in Mobile Money (Orange Money, MTN MoMo, Moov Money, Wave) with automatic accounting reconciliation, native UEMOA e-invoicing (SECeF), embedded GPT-4o AI assistant, and transparent SaaS pricing published in EUR (29 / 79 / 199 EUR per month). Our promise is not to replace the human proximity of a local editor — it is to offer a single, modern, multi-country platform for SMEs that want to move beyond the limits of a single-country tool.

CassKai is published by Noutche Conseil, a chartered accounting and financial advisory firm focused on Francophone West Africa.

Migrating from Synergie (or any local editor) to CassKai typically happens in 4 steps over 4 to 8 weeks for an SME of 5 to 50 employees:

1. Step 1 - Export from Synergie (week 1): from your software, export the trial balance, general ledger, chart of accounts, customer / supplier sub-ledgers and the year's journal entries in CSV or Excel. If native export is limited, extracting the prior-year balance and opening balances is enough to start cleanly.
2. Step 2 - Account mapping via CassKai's wizard (weeks 2-3): CassKai's import wizard accepts CSV / Excel files and proposes automatic mapping to the target SYSCOHADA chart of accounts. You validate mappings case by case. As Synergie is already on SYSCOHADA, the mapping is usually direct.
3. Step 3 - 1-month parallel run (weeks 4-6): for 1 month, you post operations into CassKai alongside your old tool. At month-end, you compare the trial balance, P&L and balance sheet. If figures match (within rounding), you are ready.
4. Step 4 - Cutover (weeks 7-8): on the chosen cut-off date (ideally the start of the fiscal year), you go 100% on CassKai. You keep Synergie archives for the OHADA legal retention period (10 years).

Our support team assists you free of charge during the 30-day trial for mapping and balance migration.