Makon vs Excel: comparison for property developers
Checked on 2026-09-23
The short answer
A spreadsheet accepts anything: the same flat sold twice, a refund larger than the payment, a formula overwritten last month. That is fine at ten flats and dangerous at several hundred with instalments and investors. Makon keeps the flexibility of your own formats while refusing those mistakes, and it can reproduce your ledger's sheet layout when you export.
What Excel is
Most developers in the region start with spreadsheets: a sheet per building, a sheet of payments, a sheet per investor. Excel is flexible, familiar and cheap, and for one small building it is often enough.
At a glance
| What matters to a developer | Makon | Excel |
|---|---|---|
| Built for property developers | Yes | NoGeneral spreadsheet |
| Apartment availability map (chessboard) | YesInteractive building map and a 3D sales presenter | PartlyDrawn and updated by hand |
| Sales contracts from a template | YesYour own Word template and numbering | No |
| Instalment schedules and overdue tracking | Yes | PartlyBy hand, with formulas |
| SMS to buyers about payments | YesVia OsonSMS, editable texts | No |
| Cash and bank accounts with real balances | YesCash, bank, Milli and more, each an account | PartlyBy hand |
| Refuses money mistakes (refund above paid, closed periods) | YesEvery balance change is one ledger entry | NoAccepts any entry |
| Investors' shares per building | YesIncome and costs split by share; dividends | PartlyBy hand |
| Statutory accounting and tax reports (Tajikistan) | NoKeep 1C for filings; export to Excel/CSV/PDF | No |
| Lead channels: messengers, calls | PartlyPublic Telegram bot for buyers to browse flats; no call recording or messenger inbox | No |
| Publishes listings to a property portal | No | No |
| Interface in Tajik | YesAlso English, Russian, Uzbek | Depends on your Office language |
| Mobile app | YesiPhone and iPad with passport scanner; web on any phone | PartlyViewing and light editing |
| Where it runs | Its own dedicated server and database per company | Files on computers or in the cloud |
| Published price | Quoted per company | Microsoft 365 or Office licence |
Choose Excel if
- You have one small building, few instalment buyers and one owner.
- One careful person keeps the file and nobody else edits it.
Choose Makon if
- Several people — sales, cashier, accountant — need to work on the same numbers at once.
- You have more than one building, instalment sales and investors.
- You want mistakes refused and every change traceable to who made it and when.