For Startups
Audit-ready from day one. Without a CFO.
Books, billing, compliance and audit trail handled before you hire your first finance person. So when they walk in, they walk into a clean ledger, not a spreadsheet graveyard.
What startups need
The bare essentials, done right.
At founding stage you don't need NetSuite. You need clean books, clean billing, on-time compliance and an audit trail that holds up at fundraise diligence.
Invoicing in minutes
Customers, invoices, IRNs (when applicable), receipts. Branded PDFs, payment links, dunning baked in.
Bills and payments
Forward vendor bills via email. OCR + approval + scheduled payment. TDS deducted automatically.
GST done
GSTR-1, 3B, 2B reconciliation, e-invoicing when you cross threshold. Filed via authorised GSP.
TDS done
TDS deducted at the line item, challans paid, 24Q/26Q filed automatically. Form 16/16A in bulk.
Cash dashboard
Bank balance, runway, AR, AP. The screen your investor will ask about every quarter.
Investor-ready trail
Per-line audit trail. Evidence per filing. Auditor-scoped views when DD comes knocking.
The fundraise question
Diligence in days. Not weeks.
When a VC asks for trial balance, AR aging, vendor list, GSTR filings and audit trail, the answer is one shared link. Auditor-scoped, time-bound, read-only. Diligence that used to take three weeks happens in three days.
- Auditor / DD-team scoped logins with time-bound access
- Per-period evidence packs with one click
- GST, TDS and statutory filing history with TRACES/GSTN response logs
- Run rate, MRR, ARR, churn dashboards live (for SaaS startups)
From founder to first finance hire
Built for the handover.
Most startups run finance on a mix of books software, a payment gateway, a separate filing tool and a CA firm. When the first finance hire arrives, they spend 3 months untangling. OneFinOps replaces that mess so the handover is hours, not months.
- One platform replaces 4+ tools at most startups
- Migration from Tally / Zoho with 36 months of history
- Vendor and customer master cleanup as part of onboarding
- Live financial dashboards from week one
What startups see
The numbers, by stage.
Go-live from contract
Books, gateway, filing tool, ad-hoc, collapsed to one
Filings on time
Median DD pack assembly
Startup FAQ
What founders ask before they switch.
We are pre-revenue. Do we even need this?
If you have a GSTIN, you have monthly filings. If you have employees, you have TDS, PF and PT. If you have vendors, you have AP and TDS. Pre-revenue does not mean pre-compliance. Starting on OneFinOps from day one means your first audit and your first fundraise are clean.
We have a CA who handles everything. Why pay for software?
Most CA firms run on a desktop ledger plus spreadsheets, send filings via email and bill by the hour. They are great at the filing itself, less great at giving the founder a live cash position or a clean DD pack. OneFinOps and a CA partner is the right split: software does the bookkeeping and reconciliation, the CA reviews and signs off. Many CA firms run their own clients on OneFinOps.
What about Zoho Books?
Zoho Books is good basic bookkeeping. OneFinOps adds the deeper compliance (GSTR-2B reconciliation, TDS automation, e-invoicing as a built-in feature, multi-state PT) and the AR/AP workflows (3-way matching, smart dunning) that startups eventually need. We migrate from Zoho with the historical data; many startups graduate to us when the manual workflows start hurting.
How does the free trial work?
14 days free, no credit card needed. Activate your account, import your data, run filings, look at the dashboard. Cancel anytime; export your data freely. The Books bundle starts at ₹4,999/month after the trial.
Can we run it ourselves without an accountant?
Yes, for many startups. Bills come in, you approve, the platform does the rest. GST and TDS filings are drafted; you sign off. The audit trail makes month-end review fast. As you grow you bring in an accountant, then a CA, then a controller, and they all use the same platform.
Free for 14 days. No credit card.
Activate your account in two minutes. Import your data in an hour. See it work for yourself.