behindscapeBuilt for India
Not a Western planner tool with a rupee sign on it.
Most software in this category was designed for someone planning one afternoon reception for eighty people in another country. It works fine there. It falls apart the first time a client is a family with seven functions, thirty-one vendors and an uncle who pays the decorator in cash.
One wedding is seven events. Your software should know that.
Tools built for a Western planner give you an event with a date on it. Here a client is a family, a family is seven functions across four months, and the decorator you booked in November invoices you in February.
Roka
2 Nov
₹1.2L
4 vendors
Engagement
14 Dec
₹4.6L
9 vendors
Mehendi
20 Feb
₹2.1L
6 vendors
Sangeet
21 Feb
₹8.9L
14 vendors
Haldi
22 Feb
₹0.8L
3 vendors
Wedding
22 Feb
₹22.4L
31 vendors
Reception
23 Feb
₹11.0L
18 vendors
Money the way it actually moves
Amounts in lakhs and crores, with Indian digit grouping, because 8,90,000 is not 890,000 to anyone reading it. UPI references, cheque numbers and cash entries all sit in the same ledger.
GST at 18 percent, shown separatelyWhatsApp is the channel, not a feature
Your mandap contractor will not check email. He will reply to a WhatsApp message in four minutes, so WhatsApp is what we are building next: requests out, replies back inside the event. Until then he confirms from a simple portal, with a text to remind him.
WhatsApp: coming soonBuilt for the day, not the plan
Most of this software assumes the work ends when the plan is approved. In this business the plan is the easy part. The board is made for a coordinator standing in a corridor with one hand free.
Works on a weak venue signalWhere the difference actually shows up.
Not marketing differences. These are the places where a tool built elsewhere costs you an hour, every week, forever.
One event, one date, one invoice
One client, seven functions across four months, one budget, and vendors who invoice whenever they finish
Email is the channel, with a portal as backup
WhatsApp as the channel, because that is where the reply actually comes from. Coming soon; until then, email and text
Sales tax added as a percentage on the total
CGST and SGST split in state, IGST out of state, HSN or SAC per line, GSTIN on the document
Amounts as 890,000.00 in dollars
Amounts as 8,90,000 in rupees, in lakhs and crores, the way you say them out loud
Card on file, monthly, in dollars
UPI, bank transfer, cheque and cash, recorded the way the money moved
Work ends when the plan is signed
Work starts when the plan is signed, and the day-of board is the main screen
GST, without a second spreadsheet.
Event work is a service, it crosses state lines constantly, and the client is usually a family rather than a registered business. That combination is exactly where generic invoicing tools give up.
The split follows the place of supply
A wedding in your own state splits into CGST and SGST. The same wedding two states away is IGST. You pick the venue, not the tax treatment.
Set once per event, applied per lineAdvances are receipts, not invoices
Most of your money arrives before the work does. Advance receipts, part payments and the final tax invoice all hang off the same event so the trail is continuous.
Numbering series you controlVendor bills come back in
What the decorator invoices you is recorded against the same function you invoiced the client for, so your input side and your output side are looking at the same event.
CA exports coming soonIf this sounds like your year, get on the list.
Fifty Indian event companies get in first. If you run multi-function weddings, you are exactly who we are building this around.
One email when we open, one when your account is ready. No demo call, no card, and we do not sell the list.
- What you are joining
- 50companies in the first group
- Soonlaunching; we will email you the date
- 3 monthsfree, in exchange for honest feedback
- No cardand no demo call to sit through