Last quarter, an event agency I advise in Pune bought a ₹12,000/year inventory management plan. They needed to track 40 branded standees and a few hundred printed brochures across three client events. Within two weeks, the ops lead was drowning in warehouse location fields, reorder point alerts for items they’d never restock, and SKU configurations…
A ₹3.47 lakh crore invoice-discounting pipeline running through TReDS in 2025-26, up from ₹40,000 crore just three years earlier. That single data point, reported in the PIB factsheet on the MSME Development (Amendment) Bill, 2026, tells you something the headline doesn’t: the plumbing underneath India’s MSME ecosystem has been changing fast, and the law is…
A supplier emails you a PDF invoice. You download it, open it, then someone on your team keys the line items into your accounting software. They check the ABN. They check the amounts. They chase an approval. Then, finally, the invoice gets processed. Now picture this: the supplier’s software sends structured invoice data directly into…
You finish a $5,000 consulting project on 28 June. You send the invoice that afternoon. Your client pays on 14 July. So which financial year does that $5,000 belong to? Which quarter does it land in for your BAS? And does your business look profitable in June, or does it look like you worked for…
9 platforms compared 5 capability areas scored 2026 updated for this year ✓Covers banking, treasury and cash yield, spend and accounts payable, scalability, and support. ✓Includes Rho, Arc, Meow, Ramp, Every, Bluevine, Relay, Novo, and Brex. ✓A side-by-side comparison table plus what each platform is best suited for. Mercury is a popular choice for startups…
Nobody switches accounting software for fun. You switch when your current setup starts costing you time. When your inventory grows past what a single screen can track. When your accountant needs access but you don’t want them seeing payroll. When you open your laptop at a client site and realize your data is locked on…
A retailer I’d been advising came to me fourteen months into using Vyapar. The first few months had been smooth. GST invoices were rolling out fast, inventory numbers matched physical stock, and his counter staff could create bills without calling him every ten minutes. Then the business added a second location. Suddenly he needed multi-branch…
⏱ In 30 Seconds Dead stock is inventory that hasn’t sold for an extended period and is unlikely to sell at its normal price. The biggest risk isn’t storage cost. It’s trapped working capital that can’t fund faster-moving opportunities. The primary causes are poor demand forecasting, supplier MOQ pressure, and infrequent inventory reviews. The best…
Last Tuesday, I watched a 12-person marketing agency’s founder spend four hours cross-referencing three spreadsheets, a project management tool, and a shoebox of receipts—just to figure out whether a single client account was profitable. Four hours. That’s half a workday gone, not on client work, not on strategy, but on stitching together financial data that…
Two businesses generate nearly identical annual revenue. One expands confidently—hiring, investing, negotiating from a position of strength. The other delays supplier payments, scrambles to cover payroll, and treats every tax deadline like an ambush. The difference isn’t revenue. It’s never revenue. It’s that one business watches its financial vital signs monthly, while the other only…