Why Marii · Features
Everything Marii can do for your business
Marii is a Business Operating System built for Zimbabwean SMEs. One login, one dashboard — your store, your stock, your customers, your cash flow, all connected. Here is a complete tour of what you get.
Running a business in Zimbabwe means wearing every hat at once — salesperson, stock keeper, accountant, and marketing manager. Most of the tools designed to help you wear those hats were built for markets far removed from yours: they assume foreign payment rails, instant bank access, and customers who always pay online. Marii is different. Every feature in this guide was designed around how Zimbabwean businesses actually work.
Think of Marii as the connective tissue of your business. Your online store feeds your inventory. Every sale creates an order. Every order creates a customer record. That customer record informs your CRM follow-ups, your outstanding balances, and your AI marketing. Your bank statement reconciles back against those same transactions. Nothing lives in isolation — it all works together.
Online Storefront
The moment you add your first product, Marii publishes a live storefront at your-workspace.marii.app. No web developer needed. Customers browse your catalogue, add items to cart, and place orders directly — on mobile or desktop.
Your store supports product images, descriptions, pricing, and category organisation. Share the link on WhatsApp status, Instagram, or Facebook and start collecting orders in minutes.
Inventory Management
Every product has a stock count. Every time an order is placed through your storefront or recorded manually, Marii deducts the quantity automatically. No more selling stock you do not have.
You can organise your catalogue into categories, set reorder points, and manage stock across multiple branch locations if you are on the Growth or Enterprise plan. The inventory view gives you a real-time snapshot of what is available and what is running low.
Order Management
Every purchase through your storefront lands in the Orders tab. You can see the customer's name, contact number, items ordered, and delivery address in one place. Update the order status as you fulfil it — from Pending to Processing to Delivered.
Orders are linked to customer records automatically, so a customer's full purchase history is always one click away.
CRM — Customer Relationships
Marii builds a customer record for every person who places an order or receives an invoice. You can see their contact details, order history, outstanding balances, and a full activity timeline.
Add private notes and upload files — contracts, quotes, photos, consultation forms — visible to your whole team. The follow-up feature lets you chase overdue balances via WhatsApp with one tap. This matters enormously if you run a consultancy, a salon, a law firm, or any business where context from the last interaction shapes the next one.
AI Marketing Studio
Creating a promotional post used to mean hiring a designer or spending an hour on Canva. Marii's AI Marketing Studio takes your product image and a short description and generates a polished social media creative — ready to post on WhatsApp, Instagram, or Facebook.
Generate ads for a flash sale, a new arrival, or a seasonal promotion in seconds. The AI understands the Zimbabwean market context: local pricing, USD/ZWG formats, and the kind of direct, benefit-led copy that converts here.
Payments
Connect your own payment gateway — Pesepay or Paynow — and Marii embeds a "Pay with" button directly on your storefront checkout and on every invoice you send. Your customer clicks, pays online, and the money settles directly to your bank or EcoCash wallet. Marii is not in the middle; you keep 100% of what your gateway pays out.
If a customer prefers to pay via bank transfer or mobile money manually, Marii supports proof-of-payment upload at checkout so you can confirm the order once you verify the transfer.
Bank Reconciliation
Upload your bank statement and Marii's AI reconciliation engine matches each transaction against the sales, invoices, and orders in your dashboard. What used to take hours with a spreadsheet now takes minutes.
Unmatched items are flagged for your review so nothing falls through the cracks. The reconciled data feeds directly into your financial reports, giving you an accurate picture of your cash position at any point in time.
Quotations
Send a professional multi-line quotation to a client in seconds. Add your products from inventory, set quantities and prices, include a validity period, and share a payment link — all from the dashboard. If the client accepts, you can convert the quote to a sale with one click.
Quotations are PDF-ready and branded with your business name and logo, giving your proposals the polished look of a much larger operation.
How it all fits together
The real power of Marii is not any one feature in isolation — it is the way they are wired together. Picture a typical sale at a Harare clothing boutique running on Marii.
A customer sees a WhatsApp status with a product image generated by the AI Marketing Studio. They tap the link, land on the store, add the item to their cart, and pay via Pesepay. The order arrives in the Orders tab, stock is automatically deducted, and a customer record is created. The owner sees the payment hit their dashboard. Later that week they upload their CBZ statement and Marii reconciles the Pesepay settlement against that order automatically.
Three months later, the same customer has not returned. The CRM flags them as inactive. The owner taps "Follow up" and a WhatsApp message is sent in seconds. The customer comes back and orders again.
That loop — sell, track, collect, reconcile, retain — is what Marii is built to close, without five separate tools and a spreadsheet duct-taped together.
A note on invoicing & ZIMRA
Marii also includes a full invoicing and fiscalisation module — multi-currency invoice generation and, for registered ZIMRA taxpayers, direct transmission of fiscal data to the FDMS. These features are powerful but operate under separate compliance terms. They are covered in our Terms of Use and in separate guides, rather than in this product overview.
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