The Truth Every Small Business Owner Needs to Know Last month, a friend who runs a small design agency called me, frustrated. “Mohnish, I sent an invoice to a client, and they keep asking why I’m billing them twice. I’m so confused—aren’t they the same thing?” I’ve had this conversation dozens of times. The confusion…
I wasted three months picking invoicing software for my first startup back in 2015. Demos looked flawless, pricing seemed straightforward, then reality hit—GST compliance headaches, inventory sync failures, and support that vanished when deadlines loomed. If you’re a small business owner or startup founder drowning in manual invoices while trying to track stock levels, this…
Last week, I sat across from Priya—a brilliant startup founder I’ve known for three years. She was literally on her third coffee of the morning, looking defeated. “I just spent two hours trying to send one GST-compliant invoice with a payment link,” she said. “The file wouldn’t export, UPI wasn’t working, and my client’s still…
I’ll never forget the chaos of my first tax season after GST implementation. Picture this: it’s 2 AM, I’m surrounded by coffee cups and crumpled receipts, frantically trying to reconcile invoices that my client had been creating in Excel. Half the invoices were missing HSN codes, the tax calculations were all over the place, and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
When I Finally Understood What Field Sales Teams Actually Need You know that moment when everything you thought you knew gets turned upside down? Mine happened on a sweltering Tuesday afternoon in Chennai, watching our field rep Pradeep fumble through three different apps just to create one invoice while his customer waited impatiently in the…
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…