I’ll never forget the morning I realized I’d been losing money on every invoice I sent. It was 2024, and I was working with a small manufacturing client who’d been using a “free” invoicing tool for two years. We were reviewing their books when I noticed something alarming – their average payment time was 47…
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I wasted weeks picking accounting tools when I started my first business. Demos looked perfect; real work was chaos. If you’re a startup founder drowning in spreadsheets and chasing invoices, here’s what I wish I’d known on day one—the truth about which tools actually deliver when the invoices, deadlines, and investor questions pile up. …
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When I first started advising small business owners on billing software, I made the same mistake most of us do—I assumed all invoicing tools worked the same way. Then I watched three different clients try to export their data during busy season. One took five minutes; another required a support ticket that lasted two days;…
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When Manufacturing Dreams Meet Accounting Nightmares I’ll be honest with you. Three years ago, I nearly lost a manufacturing client because I recommended the wrong accounting software. The owner of a textile manufacturing unit in Chennai called me at 10 PM, frustrated beyond belief: “Mohnish, we can’t track our raw material costs, GST returns…
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Last Tuesday, 11:47 PM. My phone buzzes. “Mohnish sir, GST filing deadline is tomorrow and our invoicing software crashed. We have 847 invoices to process and no way to generate compliant reports.” That panicked call took me right back to 2018 when I made the biggest invoicing mistake of my career. You know what I…
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The Night I Almost Lost My Business: A Complete Guide to Preparing Profit and Loss Statements I’ll never forget the evening I sat across from my banker, sweating through my shirt despite the air conditioning, fumbling through a stack of receipts and invoices. He’d asked for a simple P&L statement to review my loan application,…
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I still remember that panic-inducing moment three years ago when my client called at 11 PM, voice trembling: “Mohnish, the GST filing deadline is tomorrow, and our invoicing software just crashed. We have 847 pending invoices, and the export function isn’t working!” We spent the entire night manually recreating invoices, cross-checking HSN codes, and praying…
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You know that sinking feeling when you’re staring at a spreadsheet at 11 PM, manually typing invoice numbers for the third time this month? I’ve been there. Actually, let me be frank—I lived there for way too long. Three years ago, I was helping a talented graphic designer in Mumbai who’d just landed her biggest…
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Picture this: It’s 11 PM on a Tuesday, and we’re watching Mr. Sharma, a CA from Delhi, frantically refresh his laptop screen during a video call. His client files scattered everywhere like autumn leaves, coffee cups multiplying on his desk, and his phone buzzing non-stop with anxious business owners asking about their GST return status. …
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