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The 8 best accounting systems for shops in Iraq (2026)

Eight accounting systems shops in Iraq use: Dashing, RA8M, Al-Ameen, Daftra, Wafeq, Zoho Books, QuickBooks, Odoo, with vendor-page prices and who each one fits.

The Dashing teamUpdated 7 min read

"Accounting software" means two different things to a shop owner and to an accountant. The owner wants to know profit, debts and cash without learning accounting; the accountant wants a journal, a trial balance and statements they can defend. Few systems serve both, and most published lists are written for a market that is not Iraq, with VAT and e-invoicing that do not exist here today.

We are the Dashing (داشنك) team and our product is on the list; we say so where it appears, and we say who it does not suit. Every number here comes from its vendor's own site on 14 September 2026.

What happens in the books when you sell for 2,500 dinars in cash: cash goes up, sales are recorded, stock goes down at cost and the profit appears

The criteria

  1. Real double entry: an income statement and balance sheet from the same data, not from an exported file.
  2. Cashier and stock in the same system: otherwise accounting starts with manual entry every evening.
  3. The dinar: whole, no fractions; dollar pricing when needed.
  4. Arabic and Kurdish: for the owner and the accountant together.
  5. Customer and supplier debts: aging, statements, credit limits.
  6. What your accountant understands: can the accountant open the books themselves?
  7. Price: for a one-branch shop with two users, per year.

What we did not count: e-invoicing and tax-authority links, because Iraq has neither today (the cashier software guide explains the situation). The order runs from most local to most global.

1. Dashing: the cashier and the books are one thing (our product)

What it is: every sale from the cashier and every purchase, expense and collection becomes a double-entry journal entry automatically, in whole dinars; the owner sees profit, debts and cash in plain language, and the accountant opens the journal, trial balance and statements in the same Accounting section. Arabic first, Kurdish and English. Fits: a shop that never wants to type a number twice, and an accountant who visits monthly and wants closed books rather than an Excel file. Watch out: it has no payroll and no automatic bank connection, it does not do e-invoicing, and it cannot keep books in two currencies at once; nor does it import old journal entries from another program; you start from opening balances. Price: free for one branch with its full accounting, or 420,000 IQD a year for branches and Dash at 100 messages an hour, with no per-user fees. Accounting in Dashing.

2. RA8M: accounting with the POS, in dinars

What it is: Iraqi plans that combine POS, stock and accounting, offline-first, with support and training in Baghdad. Fits: a shop or restaurant that wants an Iraqi vendor and cares about manufacturing and recipes. Watch out: no Kurdish; each extra branch is 10,000 IQD a month; no free plan. Price: from 7,500 IQD a month (90,000 a year); the advanced plan is 15,000 a month.

3. Al-Ameen: what your accountant already knows

What it is: a desktop accounting and warehouse program (Windows on Microsoft SQL Server) that many of the region's accountants know, with a full chart of accounts, journals and reports, sold in Iraq through an agent. Fits: a company with a full-time accountant used to Al-Ameen and no need for a cashier on a phone. Watch out: desktop software on one machine, so backups are your job; a second branch is a second installation; no browser; the cashier is separate; many copies in the market are unlicensed. Price: through the Iraq agent; not published publicly (2026-09-14).

4. Daftra: a comprehensive Arabic cloud platform

What it is: accounting, invoicing, stock and a POS in the cloud, in Arabic, with e-invoicing for Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and the UAE and many templates. Fits: a company operating in more than one Arab country or needing Gulf e-invoicing. Watch out: dollar pricing, invoice caps on the first two plans, one user included; no Kurdish. Price: $240 to $600 a year.

5. Wafeq: Arabic accounting for Gulf companies

What it is: an Arabic/English cloud accounting system from the UAE for invoicing, accounting, stock and payroll, built around Gulf VAT and e-invoicing requirements. Fits: an Iraqi company with an entity in the UAE or Saudi Arabia that wants one system for both. Watch out: no POS; dollars; built for taxes Iraq does not have; no Kurdish. Price: from $26 a month ($312 a year) to $55 a month ($660 a year), with a 14-day trial.

6. Zoho Books: global cloud with a free plan

What it is: full cloud accounting inside the Zoho suite, with a translated Arabic interface and a free plan for very small businesses. Fits: a business already on the Zoho suite, or one that wants free cloud accounting to start with an outside accountant. Watch out: no cashier inside Zoho Books; yearly invoice caps on every plan (1,000 free, 5,000 on Standard); the dinar is one currency among many; no Kurdish. Price: free for one user plus an accountant up to 1,000 invoices a year (if revenue is under $50,000), then from $10 a month billed yearly ($120 a year) for three users on the global edition, $15 on the US edition.

7. QuickBooks Online: the name accountants ask for

What it is: the world's best-known cloud accounting, with a certified-accountant network and deep reports, and no cashier since Intuit discontinued its POS in 2023. Fits: a company with an international accountant or an investor who asks for QuickBooks by name. Watch out: English first; dollars; no cashier; the one-user plan is not enough for a cashier and an accountant. Price: $38 a month ($456 a year) for one user, $85 a month for more than one.

8. Odoo: accounting inside a full ERP

What it is: an accounting app inside the open-source Odoo suite with POS, stock and everything else, priced per user with implementation partners. Fits: a company that wants everything in one system and has someone to implement it. Watch out: designed for a company, not a shop; setup is the real work; Arabic is a translation. Price: $7.25 per user per month on the yearly plan, a discount for the first 12 months, then $8.95 ($174 for two users in the first year, about $215 after) before implementation.

What about Excel?

Excel is not accounting software, but it is what most shops actually use. It works as long as one person enters everything every day, and stops at the first second employee, second branch or busy month. If you stay on Excel, two free tools on this site cover what customers and suppliers ask you for: a statement of account with the balance after every entry, and an invoice generator that prints the invoice or saves it as a PDF.

Summary table

SystemDouble entryBuilt-in cashierDinarKurdishYearly price (2 users)
Dashingyesyeswholeyes0 or 420,000 IQD
RA8Myesyesyesnofrom 90,000 IQD
Al-Ameenyesseparateyesnovia the agent
DaftrayesPOS appin dollarsno$240–600
Wafeqyesnoin dollarsno$312–660
Zoho Booksyesnoone currency of manyno$0 or $120
QuickBooksyesnoone currency of manyno$456–1,020
Odooyesyestranslatedno$174–215 + implementation

Found an error in a row about your product? Message us and we will correct it, with the date.

How to choose

  • A shop without a full-time accountant: Dashing (it books by itself) or RA8M.
  • A company whose accountant knows Al-Ameen: Al-Ameen, and ask about the licensed version and backups.
  • A Gulf entity or e-invoicing: Daftra or Wafeq.
  • An international accountant or a foreign investor: QuickBooks Online or Zoho Books.
  • A company with an implementation budget: Odoo.

Whatever you choose, ask for the income statement and the balance sheet during the trial before you pay, and check that they come from the same data the cashier enters, not from an exported file.

Sources

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