KOPASThe Sharia Cooperative in One System
KOPAS is a digital cooperative information system for Sharia savings-and-financing cooperatives and the Sharia units of cooperatives. Membership, savings, financing with its akad, the member wallet and bill payments, the cooperative store, accounting, SHU and the annual meeting all run on one set of data, from the office, the store cashier and every member’s phone.
The challenge
Six things that hold a growing Sharia cooperative back
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Records scattered across ledgers and spreadsheets
Each officer keeps their own book, so the numbers have to be pieced together before anyone can see the whole picture.
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Reports and the annual meeting are always late
Financial statements, SHU and annual meeting material are compiled by hand, again, every year.
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Sharia compliance is hard to prove
Whether each akad followed the fatwa depends on how careful the officer was, and the evidence is hard to show.
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Members have to come in and ask
Checking a balance, an instalment or SHU means a trip to the office or a message to an officer.
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Control depends on individuals
When one person holds the books and the cash, there is no second check and no trail.
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Digital income flows elsewhere
Members pay bills, top up and shop through outside apps, so the fees and turnover leave the cooperative.
01 Records scattered across ledgers and spreadsheets
Each officer keeps their own book, so the numbers have to be pieced together before anyone can see the whole picture.
02 Reports and the annual meeting are always late
Financial statements, SHU and annual meeting material are compiled by hand, again, every year.
03 Sharia compliance is hard to prove
Whether each akad followed the fatwa depends on how careful the officer was, and the evidence is hard to show.
04 Members have to come in and ask
Checking a balance, an instalment or SHU means a trip to the office or a message to an officer.
05 Control depends on individuals
When one person holds the books and the cash, there is no second check and no trail.
06 Digital income flows elsewhere
Members pay bills, top up and shop through outside apps, so the fees and turnover leave the cooperative.
The problem isn’t how hard the board works. It’s tools that were never designed for a Sharia cooperative that keeps growing.
Meet KOPAS
One finished system, built for the Sharia cooperative
KOPAS is complete, tested and fully documented. Every transaction, whether at the counter, the store cashier or on a member’s phone, becomes a correct journal entry.
- One set of data for members, savings, financing, the wallet, the store and accounting.
- Akad and DSN-MUI fatwa rules are enforced by the system, not left to memory.
- Sharia financial statements (PSAK), SHU and annual meeting material come straight from daily transactions.
- Switch it on in stages: savings and financing first, then the wallet, bill payments and the store.
- 3 Apps Management (web), Member (Android and iOS) and Store (cashier).
- 16 Modules From membership to accounting, all connected.
- 15 Roles With limits and maker-checker; the Sharia supervisory board and supervisors can read everything.
Profit-sharing ratios (nisbah), margins, financing ceilings and approval rules are settings the board controls, so KOPAS follows your cooperative’s own bylaws without any code changes.
Three apps, one data set
The office, the store and every member, on the same numbers
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Member app
Android and iOS
For members
- Balances, transaction history and e-statements
- Financing simulation and application, and akad signing
- SiKopas wallet: top up, transfer and pay by QR
- Bill payments, store shopping, zakat and infak
- Digital member card, SHU and annual meeting invitations
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Store app
Cashier (POS)
For the cooperative store
- Member prices and public prices
- Cash, QRIS, wallet or deferred payment
- Keeps running when the internet drops
- Stock, purchasing, suppliers and stock counts
- Orders placed from members’ phones
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Management app
Web, in any browser
For the board and officers
- Member registration and verification
- Teller counter, cash and savings accounts
- Financing from application to collection
- Accounting, financial statements, SHU and the annual meeting
- Roles, approvals, settings and audit trail
One server, one database
All three apps connect to the same server and database through a documented interface, so a deposit at the counter, a sale at the store and a payment on a phone all land in the same books at once.
16 modules
Everything a Sharia cooperative runs, connected
Members and money
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Membership
Registration, identity checks and the member card.
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Savings and profit sharing
Seven savings products and profit distribution.
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Financing
From application to collectability and loss provisions.
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Member wallet
SiKopas balance, top-ups and transfers.
Daily operations
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Bill payments
Electricity, mobile credit, water (PDAM) and BPJS.
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Cooperative store
Cashier, stock, purchasing and deferred-payment shopping.
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Cash and teller
Deposits, withdrawals, petty cash and cash closing.
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Accounting
Sharia chart of accounts, automatic journals and book closing.
Members and reporting
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SHU and annual meeting
SHU calculation and distribution, and annual meeting material.
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Baitul Maal
Zakat, infak, wakaf and benevolent loans (qardhul hasan).
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Notifications
Push, WhatsApp, SMS and email.
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Reports
Management, cooperative health and regulator reports.
Control and integration
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Users and approvals
Roles, limits and maker-checker.
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Audit and compliance
An audit trail of every transaction.
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Product settings
Nisbah, margins, fees and limits, with version history.
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Integration
Payment gateway, bill aggregator, bank and WhatsApp.
Modules can be switched on in stages. The ones you don’t use yet stay hidden.
Member app
The cooperative in every member’s pocket
Members see their savings, instalments and SHU, apply for financing, pay bills and shop at the cooperative store from their own phone. It is white-label: the app carries your cooperative’s name and colours, on Android and iOS.
Illustration with sample values
Home. Balance summary, payment reminders and shortcuts.
Digital member card. A QR code that changes every minute.
Savings. Every account, with available and held balances.
History and e-statement. Every movement, and a statement to download.
Financing simulation. Price, margin and instalment shown before applying.
Active financing. Akad details, remaining amount, schedule and paying instalments.
SiKopas wallet. Top up by virtual account or QRIS, transfer to other members, pay by QR.
Pay bills. Electricity, mobile credit, water and BPJS, with the cooperative’s fee shown openly.
Cooperative store. Member prices, a cart, and pickup or delivery.
SHU and annual meeting. SHU split into savings and transaction shares, plus the meeting invitation and results.
- Sign in with a phone number, a one-time code by WhatsApp and a PIN, then fingerprint or face.
- A notification for every transaction.
- Published under your cooperative’s own name and colours, on Android and iOS.
- Members sign financing akad in the app; the akad is also printed and signed.
Store app
A cooperative store that knows its members
The cashier recognises members, accepts every way they pay, and turns each sale into a journal entry and a stock movement.
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Recognises members
Scan the digital member card and the member price and savings appear straight away.
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Every way to pay
Cash, QRIS, wallet balance, deferred payment (micro murabahah), or a mix.
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Keeps selling offline
A limited offline mode, which syncs once the connection returns.
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Shifts and cash
Open and close shifts, count cash, record differences and hand over deposits with an official record.
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Voids and returns under control
They need the store head’s approval, and chained receipts can be verified.
Every sale becomes a journal entry and reduces stock. Members’ shopping counts towards their share of the SHU from transactions.
Running the store
Store home
Today’s sales, low stock, orders from members’ phones and what is owed to suppliers.
Stock by location
Minimum levels, batch and expiry per outlet, transfers between outlets and stock counts.
Also in the store app
- Product master and barcodes
- Prices and promotions
- Purchasing and suppliers
- Couriers
- Store reports
Management app
The office, with each role seeing just what it needs
The management app runs in an ordinary browser with nothing to install, and its menu adapts to whoever signs in.
A teller sees the counter and cash: deposits, withdrawals, savings accounts and cash closing.
An accountant sees journals and reports: the ledger, financial statements and book closing.
Supervisors and the Sharia supervisory board (DPS) can read everything, but change nothing.
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Search everything
Find any member, account or transaction from one search box.
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Alerts and approvals
Security alerts and a queue of items waiting for approval.
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Two-step verification
Officers confirm their sign-in with a second step.
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Just a browser
Nothing to install on the office computers.
Financing, from application to disbursement
Each application moves through the same stages, and every member’s accounts sit together in one 360° profile, with personal data masked.
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Applied
From the counter or the member app.
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Survey
Visit and verification.
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5C analysis
Character, capacity, capital, collateral, condition.
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Committee
Tiered approval by amount.
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Akad
Signed and stored as PDF.
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Disbursed
Paid out and journaled.
Also handled
- Tiered committee
- Signed PDF akad
- Collectability and loss provisions
- Restructuring
- Salary deduction
Accounting, SHU and the annual meeting
The books build up from daily work, and the annual meeting is prepared in the same app.
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Financial statements
Financial position, results, cash flow, changes in equity and the ZIS fund.
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SHU
Simulate per member, approve by the board, distribute to accounts.
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Automatic journals
Every transaction posts its own journal entry.
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Book closing and annual meeting
Closing checks its prerequisites first; meeting material and decisions live in the same app.
Products and akad
Every product has its akad built in
KOPAS comes with the savings and financing products a Sharia cooperative offers, each tied to the right akad and its rules.
| Product | Akad | How it works |
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| Principal savings | Musyarakah | Paid once on joining; not withdrawn while a member. |
| Mandatory savings | Musyarakah | Monthly, can be by salary deduction; the basis of SHU from capital. |
| Voluntary “SiKopas” | Wadiah yad dhamanah | Deposit and withdraw any time; the transaction wallet. |
| Term “SiJaka” | Mudharabah muthlaqah | Three to 24 months; nisbah from actual income. |
| Education “SiDik” | Mudharabah muthlaqah | Regular deposits; withdrawals follow the school year. |
| Qurban and Eid | Wadiah yad dhamanah | Withdrawn before the holiday. |
| Hajj and umrah | Mudharabah muthlaqah | Withdrawn for the hajj deposit (BPIH) or umrah. |
| Product | Akad | How it works |
|---|---|---|
| Buying goods | Murabahah bil wakalah | Cost plus margin; fixed instalments; the margin is locked. |
| Business capital | Mudharabah | The cooperative provides the capital; profit shared by nisbah. |
| Partnership | Musyarakah | Joint capital; profit and loss shared by portion. |
| Services | Ijarah | Education, health, weddings, umrah; a stated fee (ujrah). |
| Benevolent loan | Qardh / qardhul hasan | No addition; only the real administration cost. |
| Deferred store shopping | Micro murabahah | A limit per member; instalments follow salary deduction. |
Product names, amounts, nisbah, margins and ceilings are set by the board with the opinion of the Sharia supervisory board.
References: DSN-MUI fatwa 02, 03, 04, 07, 08, 09 and 10/2000; 19/2001 (qardh); 44/2004 (services).
Compliance
Rules the system keeps, so people don’t have to remember them
KOPAS follows the regulations that govern Sharia cooperatives, and enforces the fatwa rules that matter most in daily work.
Regulations
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Law 25/1992; Law 4/2023 (P2SK)
Services for members only, the annual meeting, SHU, and the roles of the board and supervisors.
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Ministerial regulations 11/2017, 8/2023 and 9/2018
Sharia savings-and-financing cooperatives and their supervisory board: products and akad, governance, periodic reports and health assessment.
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Ministerial regulation 6/2017 (AML and counter-terrorism financing)
Member due diligence (CDD/EDD) and flagging transactions for review.
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PSAK 101, 102, 105, 106, 107, 109; SAK EP
Chart of accounts, automatic journals, Sharia financial statements and temporary syirkah funds.
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Law 27/2022 (personal data); Government regulation 71/2019
Member consent, data subject rights, electronic system registration and incident notice within 3×24 hours.
Fatwa the system enforces
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Fixed margin
04/2000The system rejects any change to the margin once the akad is signed.
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Late fees to charity
17/2000Late fees (ta’zir) are journaled to the social fund, not to income.
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Real-cost compensation
43/2004Compensation (ta’widh) only up to the collection cost actually incurred.
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Real profit sharing
15/2000Nisbah applies to income actually received, not income promised.
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Wadiah wallet
116/2017Balances free of riba and gharar; any bonus is never promised.
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Digital financing
117/2018Financing in the app meets the pillars of akad; the akad is printed and signed.
The Sharia supervisory board can read every transaction, and every release passes a Sharia compliance test with a checklist and the board’s opinion.
Security and control
No large transaction rests on one person
The board decides who can do what and up to which amount. Above the limit, one officer creates and another approves, and everything is recorded.
- Officer 1 Creates the transaction.
- Above the limit The system holds it for approval.
- Officer 2 Reviews and approves.
- Posted and recorded Who, when, and the value before and after.
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Roles and limits set by the board
The role matrix, approval limits and maker-checker are set by the board; changing a permission needs a second approver.
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Data belongs to the cooperative
Kept in Indonesia on a domestic cloud, encrypted, backed up daily and exportable any time.
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Maker-checker
Above the limit, one officer creates and another approves.
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A full audit trail
Who, when, and the value before and after, for every change.
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Members in control
One-time codes, a transaction PIN, biometrics and a notification for every transaction.
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Tested, against recognised standards
Tested with OWASP ZAP, Trivy and Semgrep plus load tests, with reference to ISO/IEC 27001:2022, OWASP ASVS and MASVS.
Architecture
How KOPAS fits around your cooperative
Five layers: the KOPAS apps, an integration layer, your cooperative’s own environment, licensed partners, and Indonesian infrastructure underneath.
KOPAS apps
- Management app
- Member app (Android and iOS)
- Store app (web cashier, limited offline)
- Board and supervisor dashboard
Integration layer
- Documented API (OpenAPI) and webhooks
- Single sign-on where available; otherwise local accounts with one-time codes
- Export to Excel, PDF and cooperative-office report formats
- WhatsApp, SMS, email and push notifications
Your cooperative’s environment
- Employee or member data from the parent institution
- Payroll treasurer: monthly deduction list and realisation
- The cooperative’s bank account for disbursements and deposits
- Cashier devices, receipt printers and barcode scanners
Licensed partners
- Payment gateway: virtual accounts, QRIS, e-wallets
- Bill payment aggregator
- Partner Sharia bank: accounts and disbursement
- WhatsApp Business: one-time codes and reminders
Infrastructure
- Indonesian cloud; data stays in the country
- Encrypted in transit and at rest
- Daily backups
- Monitoring, central logs and alerts
- Tested disaster recovery
- Data owned by the cooperative
The cooperative does not become a payment service provider. Bill payments and top-ups run through Bank Indonesia-licensed aggregators and payment gateways under a wakalah bil ujrah agreement, with the cooperative acting as agent.
Who gains what
Better for everyone in the cooperative
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Board and supervisors
- Financial position and financing quality visible every day
- Reports and annual meeting material no longer built from scratch
- More members without more admin staff
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Officers and cashiers
- Counter and cashier transactions become journals at once
- Cash closing and reconciliation in minutes
- Salary deduction lists generated each period
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Members
- Savings, instalments and SHU visible on their phone
- Apply for financing and sign the akad without queuing
- Pay bills and shop from their own balance
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Sharia supervisory board
- Full read access to akad and transactions
- Fatwa deviations prevented by the system, not found later
- Compliance evidence ready for the annual opinion
Additional halal income for the cooperative
- Bill payment fees
- Store turnover from member balances
- Low-cost funds from wadiah wallet balances
Comparison
How KOPAS compares
| Aspect | Manual bookkeeping | General cooperative apps | KOPAS |
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| Integration | Separate books; reconciled by hand | Savings and loans only; store and bill payments separate | One data set for savings, financing, wallet, store and accounting |
| Sharia akad | Depends on the officer’s care | Sharia terms on top of an interest engine | Fatwa enforced by the system; margin locked, late fees to the social fund |
| Member service | Come to the office | Limited web portal | Android and iOS app with wallet, bill payments and store |
| Reports and annual meeting | Weeks of compiling | General reports that need reworking | Sharia statements, SHU per member and meeting material from daily transactions |
| Control | No trail | Simple roles | 15 roles, maker-checker and a full audit trail |
| Data ownership | On a board member’s laptop | On the provider’s server, hard to export | Owned by the cooperative, in Indonesia, exportable any time |
| Documentation | None | A short guide | Full development documentation: procedures, a manual per app, test and migration plans |
A general comparison based on our experience; individual products differ. We are happy to show KOPAS live in a demo.
Getting started
From first conversation to running on your own
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Discovery
We learn how your cooperative works today: products, members, reports and bylaws.
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Product and akad set-up
Your products, akad, nisbah, margins and approval limits are configured.
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Migration and reconciliation
Existing balances are moved over and reconciled, closed with an official zero-difference record.
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Training by role
Each role learns the screens it will use.
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Procedures and manuals
Standard procedures and a manual for each app.
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Support
Help by WhatsApp and tickets, plus app and security updates.
Fully documented
- 119 Use cases, with a traceability matrix from regulation to test case
- 16 Modules, each with its data schema and API
- 3 Apps, each with its own manual
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about KOPAS.