Remember that sinking feeling when you realize you’ve been doing your books wrong for months? I was there three years ago, staring at my laptop screen at 11 PM, trying to reconcile invoices that didn’t match my bank statements. Coffee had gone cold hours earlier, and I was drowning in a sea of Excel sheets…
Last Tuesday, I got a call that still haunts me. Rajesh, who runs a thriving auto parts business in Pune, was practically in tears. “Mohnish sir,” he said, “my invoicing software just locked me out during month-end. I’ve got 200 pending invoices, GST filing due tomorrow, and I can’t even access my client data.” Haven’t…
Last month, I got a call from Priya, who runs a small textile business in Chennai. She was crying—actually crying—on the phone. “Mohnish sir, it’s been three days since my invoicing software crashed, and I can’t access any of my client data. GST filing is due tomorrow, and I don’t even know how much I…
Last week, I was on a call with Rohan, a small business owner from Coimbatore. “Mohnish,” he said, frustration evident in his voice, “I’ve been using three different tools just to file my GST returns. One for billing, another for calculations, and a third for actual filing. I’m spending more time on compliance than growing…
Tuesday, 7:40 a.m. ☕ A startup founder calls me: “Mohnish, we’re closing our first big client deal in 10 days—what’s the fastest way to get our invoicing and GST compliance sorted? I need something that works on my phone because I’m constantly traveling.” 📞 Sound familiar? 🤔 I’ve had dozens of these conversations over the…
Okay, confession time. I wasted weeks—no, actually months—picking accounting software for my first few clients. Every vendor’s demo looked perfect. “Sir, GST filing automatic hai!” they’d promise. “Inventory management? Best in class!” But you know what happened when month-end actually hit? The software would crash right when we’re generating invoices, support would vanish faster than…
Three years ago, I watched a promising textile business in Pune nearly collapse—not because of poor sales or market conditions, but because they couldn’t get their accounting straight. The owner, Rajesh, was drowning in spreadsheets, missing GST deadlines, and losing sleep over reconciliation errors that kept multiplying like weeds after monsoon. I’ve seen this pattern…
Picture this: It’s 2025, and I’m sitting across from Arjun, a textile exporter from Gujarat, in his factory office that smells like cotton and ambition. The walls are lined with fabric samples, and his desk is buried under export documents. But what caught my attention wasn’t the chaos – it was the three laptops he…
You know that sinking feeling when you’re staring at a spreadsheet at 2 AM, trying to figure out where that donor’s restricted funds went? I’ve been there. Not as a nonprofit founder, but as someone who’s spent the last decade building financial tools and talking to countless business owners who’ve made the leap from for-profit…