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AtClean Zoho One case study
From invoice books and phone orders to connected business operations.
Overview
AtClean grew from a one-person business run with manual records into an operation with staff, a live online store and connected finance, stock, marketing and manufacturing processes. Komani Tax Shop implemented Zoho One to bring these activities together.
The business and its challenges
AtClean (Pty) Ltd, led by Director Charlene Kaschula, sells cleaning and hygiene products from Komani in the Eastern Cape. Orders came by telephone. Invoices were written in a book. Recipes were kept manually. Bookkeeping was largely a record of money received and paid.
Before Zoho, I took orders by phone, wrote invoices in a book and kept our recipes and cash records by hand.
Charlene Kaschula, Director, AtClean
What Zoho One supports
- Zoho Commerce — online product catalogue and customer orders at www.atcleansa.co.za.
- Zoho Books — digital invoicing, bookkeeping, reporting and draft supplier purchase orders for staff approval.
- Zoho Inventory — products, ingredients and packaging stock.
- Zoho Creator — recipes, production batches, sales-based scheduling, input checks and batch costing.
- Zoho Social, Mail and WorkDrive — marketing, communication and shared documents.
Manufacturing planning
The Creator manufacturing application uses the previous three months of sales to plan production. It schedules batches, checks ingredients and packaging, and creates draft purchase orders in Zoho Books for staff to approve.
Rollout and results
The Zoho finance rollout began in July 2025; the earliest invoice found in Books is dated 16 July 2025. The earliest batch still present in the Completed Batches report was completed on 7 January 2026. The manufacturing application contained 203 completed batch records when reviewed in September 2026.
Now we spend less time on administration, can plan what to manufacture from our sales, and have much better control over stock, costing and the business as a whole.
Charlene Kaschula, Director, AtClean