On the record
Records that answer for you.
You would be trusting NuAi with your business's books and your customers' details, so this page is deliberately specific: where your records live, how they are kept apart, what the database refuses to let happen to them, and what is still in progress, said plainly.
Checked on 31 October 2026
How your records are kept.
- Each business walled off by the database itself: row-level security on all 246 tables that hold records, about 1 200 database rules (counted 31 October 2026)
- Double-entry books that refuse an unbalanced entry; a closed year locks
- A history that cannot be changed or removed through the app: who, when, before and after
- Till PINs stored so nobody can read them back, and repeated wrong guesses paused; a void needs a manager, and every count is kept with who and why
- Signed QR codes: a made-up code is refused, and every scan is logged
- ID photos and proofs of payment in private storage
- Records in the EU (Ireland) under a signed agreement; the Information Officer registered
- Daily backups, and a full restore rehearsed on the live system on 30 September 2026
In progress, said plainly
- A second sign-in step
- Point-in-time recovery
- A locked or suspended login fully shut out (today it can still read)
- A cashier's own login held to their own cash records by the database itself (today the screens do it)
- The legal pack, reviewed by an attorney
Where they live
The European Union, under contract.
Your business's records are held in the European Union (Ireland), under an executed data-processing agreement that carries the EU standard contractual clauses. We act in accordance with POPIA, and our Information Officer is registered with the Information Regulator.
The company behind NuAi, Nu Ai (Pty) Ltd, is registered in South Africa. Both registration numbers sit in the footer of every page on this site: check the company with CIPC and the Information Officer with the Information Regulator. They are checkable on purpose.
Kept apart
Separated at the database layer.
Every business record in NuAi carries the identity of the business it belongs to. Row-level security is switched on for every table that holds your records (246 of 246, counted 31 October 2026), and the functions that act on a business's behalf check the same identity inside the database. The separation is not a filter in the app that someone could forget to apply: it is enforced beneath the app, where the records live. Signed in to your business, you simply never see another business's records.
Groups are the deliberate exception: a head office that owns its branches can read its own branches from one console. That sharing is switched on per group, at the group's request, never by default, and whether the branches share one membership is a second switch, also off until the group asks NuAi to turn it on.
The books hold their shape
What the database refuses to let happen.
An entry whose debits do not equal its credits is refused by the database itself, whichever screen tried to write it. Close the financial year and every entry in it locks; it reopens only with a reason that stays on the record.
Mistakes are recorded, not erased: a voided sale stays on the books, marked void, with who voided it and when, and every change to an expense, a journal or the chart of accounts is on an audit trail with the values before and after.
A slip can only be claimed once. A photographed supplier slip gets one identity from the numbers that make it unique (receipt and authorisation numbers, the merchant, the time and the date), and the file itself is fingerprinted. Present the same slip again, even days later, and the database refuses it before it posts; a close match (the same supplier, day and amount) stops and asks whether it is a different purchase.
Who else can see them
Your accountant, read-only, on their own login.
You invite your accountant by e-mail, and they get a login of their own that opens your books exactly as you see them, read-only: they cannot post, change or delete anything. What they do there is on the record: every copy they take is logged, and a VAT period they mark reviewed or a year's statements they sign carry their login's name. They can withdraw a signature they gave.
NuAi's own support team can open a business to help it, from NuAi's operator console; what it changes is on the History like anyone else's. You end your accountant's access yourself, from the same screen you granted it on: Settings › Your Accountant. The page for accountants →
Yours to take
Your books export, screen by screen.
The trial balance with every journal line and the VAT201 download as spreadsheets your accountant can open, the whole stock sheet as an Excel workbook, and every invoice, statement and purchase order prints on your letterhead: screen by screen, yours to take, including if you leave. Ask us to run an export in front of you.
The most sensitive thing you hold
Less held about members, and erased on approval.
A gym takes no ID document at all, and a shop's till signs a member up with their name, mobile, e-mail and consent: no ID photo. Where a business signs members up with an ID check (a members' club), the new member photographs their ID on their own phone and the reading happens right there, on the device: the document is never sent away to a third-party service to be read. That verification record lives in the EU store under the same agreement.
On request, one approval at NuAi erases a member's details: their profile, membership, ID photos, scan location history and message content, and disables and anonymises their sign-in. ID photos are kept out of the off-site backup on purpose, so erasing them leaves no backup copy behind. Purchase records stay in the books, tied to a member record that has been anonymised. Not yet part of an erasure: the e-mail address a receipt or invoice was sent to, and a customer's proof of payment.
The History
Every change leaves a record.
Open History and each change to an expense, a journal or the chart of accounts is there: who made it, when, and what the values were before and after. The app has no button that edits or removes that record.


The register
The claims register, in full.
Every claim this site makes about how your records are held, and where each one stands. If we don't have something, we don't claim it. If it's on the way, we say so.
| The claim | Status | Check it |
|---|---|---|
| Records are held in the European Union (Ireland) under an executed data-processing agreement. | Contractual | Carries EU standard contractual clauses. |
| We act in accordance with POPIA, and our Information Officer is registered with the Information Regulator. | Registered | Reference 2026-063674. |
| The company behind NuAi is registered in South Africa. | Registered | Registration 2026/305166/07. |
| Your business's records are separated from every other business's at the database layer. | In the product | Every business record carries its business's identity; row-level security is on for every table that holds records (246 of 246, 31 Oct 2026), and the functions that act for a business check the same identity. |
| Group sharing is off by default; a head office reads its branches only when it is switched on for that group. | In the product | Per group, at the group's request. One membership across the branches is a second switch, also off by default. |
| A gym and a shop's till take no ID document. Where a business checks ID at enrolment, the document is read on the member's own phone and never sent away to be read. | In the product | Ask us to walk you through enrolment, on your own phone. |
| A captured slip gets an identity from its own numbers and a fingerprint of its file; the same slip presented twice is refused before it posts. | In the product | A close match stops and asks. Ask us to photograph a slip, then the same slip again. |
| A journal that does not balance is refused by the database. Year-end locks the period, and it reopens only with a reason. | In the product | Enforced by the database, not by the screen. Ask for a demonstration on the live system. |
| A voided sale stays on the books, marked void, with who voided it and when. | In the product | Nothing is quietly erased. Ask to watch a void on the live till: the record stands. |
| Every change to an expense, a journal or the chart of accounts is on an audit trail: who, when, the values before and after, and the reason where one was asked. | In the product | Ask to see the History screen on the live system. |
| Your accountant reads your books on a login of their own, read-only; they cannot post, change or delete anything. | In the product | Ask us to open the desk in front of you. |
| You can export your books and leave: screen by screen, as spreadsheets. | In the product | Ask us to run an export in front of you. |
| A client agreement, a privacy policy and terms. | In progress | Drafted, and not yet reviewed by an attorney. They are published here once they are signed; we would rather tell you that than claim it. |
| A member's erasure: on request, one approval at NuAi erases their profile, membership, ID photos, scan location history and message content, and disables and anonymises their sign-in. | In the product | ID photos are kept out of the off-site backup, so erasing them leaves no backup copy. Not yet part of it: the e-mail address a receipt or invoice was sent to, and a customer's proof of payment. |
The paperwork
The legal pages, when they're real.
A client agreement is drafted, with a privacy policy and terms alongside it; an attorney reviews them before they are published. They will be published on this site when they are signed, not before. Until then, the register above is the honest state of things, and we will walk you through the drafts if you ask.