Giving Zakat →
Calculate, pay by QR, get a verifiable certificate.
Receiving support →
Register, be assessed and scored, decided on, and paid.
ETB 10
Collected
0
Families supported
ETB 1.2M
Distributed
0
Active causes
Giving
From your calculation to your certificate
Step 1
Calculate what is due
The calculator applies the published Zakat rules to your cash, gold, silver, business stock, crops and livestock.
- Gold and silver prices are fetched every morning at 06:00 (Addis Ababa) from the international market and converted to birr.
- If the price feed is down, an administrator enters the day's prices by hand until the next automatic fetch.
- The rules (nisab, rates, livestock tables) are versioned: a change creates a new version and the calculator always uses the active one.
Step 2
Pay by QR from any bank app
The EZAC app shows a QR code for the amount. Scan it with any Ethiopian bank app; the money goes straight into the Commission's account at Cooperative Bank of Oromia.
- The QR is valid for 30 minutes.
- You can pay the general Zakat fund or a specific cause that accepts Zakat.
Step 3
Confirmed automatically
The payment is matched to the bank's own transaction record, then marked paid.
- The system keeps checking pending payments with the QR network for up to a day after the QR expires.
- One bank transaction can confirm only one payment, so nothing is counted twice.
- Anything unclear goes to a person at head office, who checks it with the bank before settling it.
Step 4
Receive a certificate
Every confirmed payment issues a numbered Zakat certificate that anyone can verify below.
The rules in force
What the calculator applies today
These figures are read live from the active rules version, so what you see here is exactly what the calculator uses.
Nisab and rates
- Nisab basis
- Gold (85 g)
- Nisab today
- ETB 1,709,995
- Gold nisab (85 g)
- ETB 1,709,995
- Silver nisab (595 g)
- ETB 151,749
- Wealth, cash and trade goods
- 2.5% after 354 lunar days
- Crops: nisab
- 653 kg
- Crops: rain-fed / irrigated
- 10% / 5%
- Prices as of
- Oct 31, 2026, 6:00 AM
Rules version 2 · prices from GoldAPI.io + fxapi.app
Livestock
Sheep and goats
| 40–120 | 1 sheep |
| 121–200 | 2 sheep |
| 201–300 | 3 sheep |
| 301 and above | 1 sheep per 100 |
Camels
| 5–9 | 1 sheep |
| 10–14 | 2 sheep |
| 15–19 | 3 sheep |
| 20–24 | 4 sheep |
| 25–35 | 1 bint makhad |
| 36–45 | 1 bint labun |
| 46–60 | 1 hiqqah |
| 61–75 | 1 jadha'ah |
| 76–90 | 2 bint labun |
| 91–120 | 2 hiqqah |
| 121 and above | 1 bint labun per 40 and 1 hiqqah per 50 |
Cattle: from 30 head, one one-year calf per 30 and one two-year cow per 40.
Average prices used to value animals: goat ETB 7,000 · camel ETB 180,000 · sheep ETB 9,000 · cattle ETB 60,000.
Check a certificate
Is this certificate genuine?
Enter the number printed on a Zakat certificate.
Receiving
How a household is supported
Support is decided by a published process, not by who you know. These are the steps every household goes through.
Step 1
Registration at a branch
Households are registered at their nearest branch, or by a field officer working for that branch.
- Each field officer works in exactly one branch and only sees households registered there.
- Every new household is checked against existing records for possible duplicates before going further.
- A bank account in the household's name is recorded, because support is paid by bank transfer only.
Step 2
Household assessment
A field officer visits and records the household's situation: members and dependants, income, assets, housing, health and vulnerability, plus which of the eight eligible categories (asnaf) apply.
Step 3
A need score
The answers are turned into one poverty score using a published points table. More points means greater need.
- The points table is versioned. Each score records the version it was calculated with, and a later change never rewrites past scores.
- Before a new version goes live, its effect is tested on recent assessments.
Step 4
Branch decision
The branch supervisor reviews the assessment with the score and the system's recommendation, then approves, returns it for correction, rejects or defers it, always with a written comment.
Step 5
Head office pool
Approved households join head office's queue. Head office adds them to the disbursement pool, or declines with a reason. Emergencies can be fast-tracked (see below).
Step 6
Payout to the household's bank account
Head office pays one pooled household at a time from the Commission's account.
- Cooperative Bank of Oromia accounts are paid by internal transfer; other banks through the national instant payment system (IPS).
- Before paying, the account is looked up with the bank and the bank's account-holder name is compared with the name on file. A mismatch must be checked and acknowledged by a person.
- A prepared payout must be confirmed within 15 minutes or it expires.
- Once paid, the household leaves the pool. To be supported again it is assessed again.
Need levels
How the score is read
The score runs from 0 to 270 points. Where it lands sets the need level and the recommendation the branch sees; the branch still decides.
Low need
Below 110
Recommendation: defer and review later
Medium need
110 to 179
Recommendation: conditional approval
High need
180 and above
Recommendation: approve
The current bands of the published points table. When the table changes, past scores keep the version they were given.
Urgent cases
Fast track and priority
Some needs can't wait for the normal cycle. A field officer or branch requests a whitelist mark with evidence; head office decides. It changes the order of the queue, never the score.
Fast track
For emergencies such as disaster, displacement or sudden severe illness. The household joins head office's queue straight away, before a full assessment.
Priority
For lasting needs such as an orphan in care, severe disability or an elderly person without a carer. The household is still assessed, then listed first.
Who can receive Zakat
The eight eligible categories
Every assessment records which of the categories named in the Qur'an (9:60) apply to the household.
Safeguards
Built so every birr can be traced
Separation of duties
Field officers assess, branch supervisors decide, head office pools and pays. Fast-track and priority marks need evidence and a head-office decision.
Rules before people
Scores come from a published, versioned points table, not from individual judgement, and every decision carries a written reason.
Bank-verified payments
Incoming money is matched to bank transactions; outgoing money goes only to an account checked with the bank.
Full audit trail
Every change to prices, rules, scoring, decisions and payments is recorded with who made it and when.
Privacy by design
Household details, scores and decisions are visible only to the staff who need them. Public figures are totals, never individuals.
Consent for stories
An impact story is published only after the family has agreed to it, and never names them without that consent.
See it working
Follow collection and distribution month by month on the live dashboard.