Run payroll, billing, leave, and compliance without stitching tools together.
One place to run payroll, invoicing, expenses and every GST, TDS and ROC deadline — personalised to your business and reminding the right person on time. Free to start, then a flat ₹499/month with no upper limits.
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Running an Indian business shouldn't feel like this.
Founders don't miss compliance because they're careless. They miss it because the work is scattered across tools, people, and memory. Here's the mess Smart Dhandha is built to end.
You learn about deadlines from penalty notices
A ₹200/day late fee, a deactivated DIN, an expired LUT — discovered after the fact, not before. The GST portal never sends a reminder.
You pay for 4 tools that don't talk to each other
Zoho for books, RazorpayX for payroll, a compliance tracker, and Excel for the rest — stitched together by hand every single month.
Your CA has the answers, you have no visibility
Compliance lives in WhatsApp threads. You don't know what's filed, what's pending, or what's about to be late until someone tells you.
Month-end is a scavenger hunt
Payroll in one place, invoices in another, expenses in a third. Closing the month means re-gathering the same context you had last month.
Nobody knows which rules apply to you
Proprietor or Pvt Ltd? Regular or composition? Exporter? Each answer changes your filings — and generic calendars can't tell you which are yours.
You do admin at night instead of building
The boring-but-critical work eats the hours you should spend on customers and product. Running the business shouldn't cost you the business.
The fix isn't discipline. It's one place.
Payroll, invoicing, expenses & compliance — connected, personalised, and reminding the right person before every deadline.
Fix it for freeEverything your back office needs, working as one.
No more stitching four tools together. Pick a module to see exactly what it does — and how it stays connected to the rest.
…and everything else your business runs on
Every capability below is included — one flat price, no per-module upsells.
Sales & Billing
- GST invoices
- Clients
- Payments received
- Credit notes
- Item / service catalog
- Recurring invoices
Purchases & Expenses
- Vendors
- Bills
- Expenses
- Payments made
- Vendor credits
- Reimbursements
Accounting & Banking
- Banking
- Chart of accounts
- Journal entries
- Double-entry ledger
- AI bank reconciliation
- Real-time cash position
Team & Payroll
- Employee directory
- Payroll (TDS, PF, ESI, PT)
- Payslips
- Leaves & policies
- Salary structures
- Holidays
Hiring
- Job openings
- Candidate pipeline
- Applications
- Offers & onboarding
Compliance & Filings
- GST, TDS & ROC filings
- Personalised calendar
- Reminders to you & your CA
- Filing history & guides
Insights & AI
- Owner dashboard
- Business calendar
- Inbox & notifications
- AI business copilot
- Activity log
Platform
- Multiple businesses
- Roles & permissions
- Team collaborators
- Documents vault
- Employee self-service
- Developer API & MCP
Odoo, Zoho and Tally are powerful. They're also built for experts.
You didn't start a business to become an accountant, an IT admin, or a compliance officer. Smart Dhandha is built for the founder who has to be all three — and would rather be none of them.
The old way — enterprise suites
- Built for accountants & IT teams
- Weeks of setup, consultants to configure
- Priced per user, per module, per add-on
- Generic — not tuned to Indian compliance
- You adapt your business to the software
The founder way
- Built for founders — no finance degree needed
- Set up in minutes, guided end to end
- One flat price, every module included
- India-first: GST, TDS, PF/ESI, PT, ROC baked in
- The software adapts to how you already work
AI-native, not AI-bolted-on
Ask your business a question and get an answer from your live data. The copilot drafts filings, flags what's due, and does the boring work — so you don't need to be an expert to run tight books.
Made only for Indian founders
Not a global tool with an India skin. Every deadline, deduction and filing follows how Indian rules actually work — for a proprietor, an LLP or a Pvt Ltd.
One system, not a stack
Payroll, billing, accounting, expenses and compliance share one brain. Nothing to integrate, reconcile by hand, or re-enter across four apps every month.
Why now — 2026 and beyond
AI finally made it possible to give a solo founder the back office of a company with a full finance team. Smart Dhandha is the first one built only for Indian founders — so compliance, cash and payroll run themselves while you build.
Get back your money, your time, and your evenings.
Save money
One price replaces four tools
Stop paying separately for accounting, payroll, invoicing and a compliance tracker. One flat ₹499/month covers everything — no per-user or per-invoice surprises.
Save time
Get your month-end hours back
No re-gathering the same context across sheets and chats. Payroll, billing and books stay connected, so closing the month takes minutes, not evenings.
Save your sanity
No more midnight admin or penalty panic
Deadlines find the right person before they're due. You stop doing boring-but-critical work at night — and stop dreading the notices that used to arrive too late.
Who it's for
If you run a lean Indian business and the admin keeps stealing time from the work that matters — this was built for you.
Free to start. Then just ₹499/month.
One flat price for every module. No per-employee fees, no per-invoice charges, no add-ons — whether you have 3 people or 300.
To get started
Set up your business and run your first month. No card required.
Founding rate · for life
No upper limits, ever
Spend less time
chasing admin and
more time running the business.
Use one system for payroll, billing, leave, expenses, and compliance so the back office feels clearer, calmer, and easier to trust.
Know what is pending without chasing updates.
Keep payroll, billing, and burn closer together.
Run the monthly basics from one connected workflow.
Operating Guides
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Practical insights on running a high-velocity business in India.
Run Your Business from Claude or ChatGPT: A Practical Guide to the Smart Dhandha MCP Server
A hands-on, step-by-step guide to connecting Smart Dhandha to Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor over MCP — log in with your account (no key to paste), then use real prompts to check cash flow, chase overdue invoices, plan vendor payments, and review leave, all in plain English.
Best Compliance Management Software for Indian Startups (2026): Smart Dhandha vs ClearTax, Zoho, RazorpayX & Tally
An honest 2026 comparison of how Indian founders track GST, TDS, ROC and payroll compliance — ClearTax, Zoho Books, RazorpayX, Tally, spreadsheets and a CA — versus Smart Dhandha's personalised compliance tracker.
GST LUT for Exporters (2026): File Before 31 March or Pay 18% IGST
If you export goods or services from India, a Letter of Undertaking (LUT) lets you invoice without paying IGST. Here's what it is, the FY 2026-27 deadline, how to file Form RFD-11, and how to never miss the renewal.