Shaudhan Desai, Founder and CEO of D’Soft, makers of India’s leading Jewelery software, says how a few factors led him to discover and develop on this opportunity to serve jewelers’ accounting needs. “A lot of our existing customers of our accounting package used to maintain books with jewelers. So, in discussion with accountants, and further probing, we discovered that jewelers’ operational lifecycle was very different than the ones followed in a typical industry. We also noted that there was no specific software available worldwide that would help jewelers benefit from automation. Hence, we designed and developed the first version of Ornate Jewelery Software during 1998 to 2002, and then subsequently have revised it many times thus far.” The company’s clients are more than 3,000 retail jewelers.

Jewelery Kiosk

The company has introduced a disruptive offering – ‘Jewelery Kiosk’ through which one can virtually digitally wear different ornaments or combinations and make a purchase decision. This patent pending offering has helped large jewelery houses to reduce customer churn and increase sales. The next market is UAE and US.

Source: ProductNation.in

Online Invoicing Software for Freelancers

For Sagar Kogekar founder of www.billbooks.com the journey began with the advent of his startup at the age of 18 years. By 2012, he had gone full time into developing Billbooks as a product with his team. Billbooks was his take on creating an online invoicing solution for small and mid-sized businesses and freelancers world over.

On signing up for the first time the user is gifted three invoices to try and experiment with the product. Irrespective of the package a user takes, all the features are uniformly accessible on the platform. Which is a big plus. The pricing model begins from as low as $10 per 20 invoices up to 60$ for 200 invoices. With no monthly rental and expiration of the recharge, the user is free to use the invoice credit as and when he wishes.

The product is aimed at North American and the European markets with language customization in five languages to tap the local clientele. Sagar claims the user base to be in the early hundreds with nearly 10% of them being paid customers of the product. Clients include a video jockey based in Spain to a wood artist in Australia to a piano teacher in the US being. The unifying factor being the freelancer or the small enterprise economy.

His competitors include Zoho and Intuit Freshbooks already exist in the market. With many of them offering more utility in the form of mobile products at a slightly higher price point. But the USP of Billbooks would lie in offering a simple approach to a more professional looking billing solution for the freelancers and helping keeping track of partial payments, scheduled reminders and giving free estimates.

Source: Productnation.in