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We are building this product from the business owner/founder's perspective to make it easy to improve business using technology rather than just for accounting purpose. The motivation to just record the transaction is lesser, but to collect payments easily from the customers, at the same time updating the accounts automatically is valuable. We are focussed on that which the other softwares in the industry are missing.

Also at this stage, we are not too much worried about the competition as this is a big market opportunity and we believe it is going to be much more bigger market than today in the coming couple of years. So sooner or later competition exists.

Thank you.
Right, most of our present customers use WhatsApp.
We are solving the billing and compliance for businesses, while Bikayi and other online store solutions make it easy to share product catalogue online to the customers. For the businesses having offline/store-front sales and online sales in different apps, it is becoming more complex to consolidate the sales from these different channels.

With the aggressive implementation of GST(Goods and Services Tax, a monthly sales compliance) in India, business owners are spending between 2-7 days per month to organize these sales for tax filings. And even managing the payments is also becoming complex for the businesses as they need to manually check who paid for what transaction.

Apps like Khatabook and OKCredit and not towards the invoicing and GST compliance, but are more used for recording the credit/debit. For micro businesses it might work as most of them don't worry about inventory and tax stuff. We are targeting the small and medium segment and making it easy for them to manage inventory, bills, customers, vendors and taxes at a single place.

We started with Desktop version as most of our initial customers use desktop for billing, and we are comfortable developing web apps. Now, mobile app is in private beta and some of our customers are already testing it. Soon in a week or so we are about to launch the native mobile app on playstore.

Thank you for the suggestions on the landing page, we will be working on them.

Yes, they can share the bills directly from the platform. For the users who don't use WhatsApp for their business, they can either send emails or we have an option to print/download these bills and give it to their customers.
Right now, we have a subscription plan of ~$15 per user per annum for Desktop users and the mobile version is free. We also charge a commission fee on the transactions made through the payment gateway.
Thank you. Yes, we are using the UPI apps like BHIM, Google Pay, Phone Pay, PayTM etc.. And also if the merchant wants to collect payments other modes like Debit/Credit cards we are also giving them a payment gateway option as well which allows their customers to pay through any of the payment methods.

Launch HN: Swipe (YC S21) – Simple Billing and Accounting for India

Hi HN, we’re Aditya and Sri Teja, founders of Swipe (https://getswipe.in). We make it easy for local businesses in India to invoice their customers over WhatsApp. Instead of giving a paper invoice to their customer, Swipe users send a WhatsApp message with a link that allows them to pay instantly with a variety of payment methods.We were building software and IoT for industrial automation...

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