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

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

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Good luck, and a question. Will you anything like the American Swipe? An acquirer separate from a bank can be big thing there. UPI is there for retail payments, but for everything else...

Thank you :) Currently we are focused only on the Indian market. I would like to know more about what American Swipe is?

A payment processor.

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

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Best wishes with the launch. I am in constant search for a solution which can work for my father. He is running a large hardware retail/wholesale business single handed in a location not having quality accounting manpower. Its been a search in futility so far, as there is severe need of user friendliness in the market for complete solutions(my father not that used to computers yet).

Thank you.

Sure we would love to help you with this. Lets connect on whatsapp 7989207832.

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

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Thank you :) Currently we are focused only on the Indian market. I would like to know more about what American Swipe is?

A payment processor.

Sure will definitely take a look. Thanks!

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

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A payment processor.

Sure will definitely take a look. Thanks!

Bank transfer fees are quite rapacious across the subcontinent, and alternatives to expensive instant wire transfers are rather archaic.

Invoicing people on paper, keeping track of all of it, and having to repeatedly call your account manager on the phone to check arrival of transfers feels so out of this world in 2021.

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

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Congrats on the launch! I experienced ordering medicines over Whatsapp for the first time from the local store in Mumbai a few weeks ago. Discussing order items and them checking drawers was a PITA, so I just called them to get it done. There often is no inventory management system - it's a manual check. It was easy to tell that the person at the store didn't quite grasp how things worked around online payment, just…

Absolutely spot on. This is the pain point we are addressing.

Pardon me if I'm not thinking about this in the right way, but how would you hold the store owner accountable for refreshing or updating their catalogue on the app if they don't already use an inventory management system for purchasing and re-stocking? Isn't that a huge shift in behavior?

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

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Absolutely spot on. This is the pain point we are addressing.

Pardon me if I'm not thinking about this in the right way, but how would you hold the store owner accountable for refreshing or updating their catalogue on the app if they don't already use an inventory management system for purchasing and re-stocking? Isn't that a huge shift in behavior?

What normally happens is that availability is a boolean yes/no, and gets set to no when the first person asks for something that's run out. The merchant then sets it back to yes after stock comes in. That's a lot less work than integration ERP systems, and achieves the same result with the collateral damage to a few customers' experiences.

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

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WhatsApp is the main form of communication in India, both personal and business.

GP here. I’m located in India and know about the prevalence of WhatsApp. However, I don’t use it and I know many people who don’t use it. Hence the question related to integrations (and wanting to know if other integrations are planned).

You're in a tiny minority then, and it wouldn't hurt startups if a small segment is untargetable. In fact, they shouldn't worry about it for now.

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

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Congratuations on the launch, Sri Teja. A couple questions: How is Swipe different from Bikayi.com (coincidentally by IIIT-H and YCombinator alumnus, just like yourself)? And how different is Swipe to Khatabook , OKCredit and other such similar solutions? Do they not focus as much on IT (gst/tax) compliance? Where is the catch? ---- The landing page has more contact us CTAs than get started , you may want to flip the…

@ignoramous, How do you keep yourself so up to date on everything

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

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cool. I am a professional working in this field for so many years now. We currently use a host of softwares, basically all the big ones in the market, from tally to marg to busy. then we have online ones like zoho and margbooks to name a few. I have tried to look at khatabook et al myself but they look more into like AP/AR recording first. They do not have inventory features, no eway billing to name a few. I would li…

Thanks. For sure. Please send me a Hi on aditya@getswipe.in and we can take it up from there.
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