SIMULATION
What is simulated
These are sales demonstrations. Here is exactly what is real and what is not.
Simulated or invented
- The tax offices. Quintal does not talk to the Ivorian tax administration or to the Kenya Revenue Authority here. A stand-in inside the demo answers in their place. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by any government body.
- Reference numbers, QR codes, text messages and the sticker balance. They come from the stand-in and have no legal value. Every document carries a SIMULATION mark.
- The companies, their staff, the suppliers, the farms, the growers, the laboratory, the phone numbers, the card and PIN numbers, the records and the payment statements. All invented. Comptoir Cajou du Poro, Comptoir Cacao de la Nawa, Kirembo Dairies and Tarama Produce do not exist.
- The record photos. They are drawn by a script, not photographed.
- The dates. Each demo runs on its own day in its own season, and the Kenya demo lets you move the clock on to watch an approval run out.
Real
- The Ivorian format. The request and the response use the field names, the call address and the error messages of the tax administration's integration guide of May 2025. The Kenyan JSON is our own illustration, and the screen that shows it says so.
- The obligations. In Ivory Coast buyers of farm produce must issue an electronic purchase slip for growers who have no taxpayer account, each certified document uses one electronic sticker at 20 F CFA, and since 1 September 2026 a cocoa purchase needs the producer card and the buyer's payment terminal. In Kenya a buyer may raise the invoice for a small seller, the seller is told by text message, and they have 30 days to accept or reject before it is rejected automatically.
- The pesticide lists. Quintal Export checks spray records against the Kenyan pest control regulator's own banned, restricted and withdrawn lists, fetched from its website and dated in the code. The waiting periods before harvest and the residue limits beside them are illustrative, and the screens say so.
- The checks and the prices. Sums, duplicates, PIN formats and payment matching are ordinary code with automated tests. The 2026 cashew minimum of 400 F CFA per kg and the 2026-2027 cocoa price of 1,200 F CFA per kg are the official ones. Kenya sets no official farmgate minimum for milk, so the demo checks the buyer's own contract rate, which is what the tax authority's rate validation means.
- The reading. With an API key, Claude really reads the photo or the message when you click. Without a key, or if the call fails, a stored sample reading is shown and the screen says so.
Sources for the prices and rules
- Official minimum farmgate price for raw cashew, 2026 season: 400 CFA francs per kg.
- Guaranteed minimum farmgate price for cocoa, 2026-2027 main season: 1,200 CFA francs per kg, announced on 1 September 2026.
- No official farmgate minimum exists for milk in Kenya. 52 shillings a litre is this invented buyer's own contract rate, and the tax authority asks a buyer's system to validate the rate it applies.
What a real installation adds
Your own account and key on the tax platform, your supplier list, a database, logins, signed agreements with your sellers, five years of records, and registration with the data protection authority, because supplier records are personal data.