For conveyancing firms
Every step of a Kenyan transfer, including the ones that hold it up
A transfer is not one task with a completion date. It is searches, consents, clearances, stamping and registration, and any one of them can stall the file for a month. The system should know that.
The problem
What happens when the software does not know this work
The transaction as a single line item
A partner asking where the file has got to gets "in progress", which is not an answer anyone can act on.
Stamp duty worked out on a calculator
A figure quoted to a client from memory, then revised. Under Cap. 480 the rate turns on where the land is, and getting it wrong is a conversation nobody enjoys.
The scale fee estimated rather than calculated
The Advocates (Remuneration) Order is a scale, not a percentage. Approximating it means undercharging, which is also a professional problem.
Clearances tracked in email
Rates from the county, rent from the Commissioner, consent from the Land Control Board. Three offices, three timelines, and no way to see which one you are actually waiting on.
What we built
Conveyancing in JurisFlow
- The Remuneration Order scale, transcribed
- Schedule 1 First and Second Scale and Schedule 2 for leases, taken from the Gazette. An estimate an advocate can put in front of a client without recalculating it.
- Stamp duty under Cap. 480
- Calculated from the consideration and the location, on the file, with the working shown.
- Searches and consents as tracked steps
- Official search, Land Control Board consent, rates clearance, rent clearance, each with a date requested and a date received, so you can see what the file is actually waiting on.
- Stamping and registration
- Assessment, payment, franking and lodgement recorded in sequence, with the registry reference kept on the file.
- Nine sub-types
- Sale and purchase, charge, discharge, lease, transfer of lease, sub-division, development permissions and more, each with its own checklist.
- The title itself
- Safe custody with a movement log: who holds the deed today, who signed for it, and when it went out.
The short version
These are fields, not free text
You can tell whether software was written for your jurisdiction by whether it has words for the things you do. Every one of these is somewhere in the system, on a file, with a date against it.
- Official search
- Land Control Board consent
- Rates clearance certificate
- Land rent clearance
- Stamp duty, Cap. 480
- Franking
- Lodgement
- Transfer of lease
- Charge and discharge
- Ardhisasa
Open a conveyancing file and see
The demonstration is a fictional firm with real-looking files in every department. Nothing in it is a client, and anything you add clears after 72 hours, so press anything.