Open Sourcing TallyAssist — a mobile business app for MSMEs
What is TallyAssist? And, why we thought a mobile business solution for MSMEs was needed?
Beginning of 2020, Akash and I got excited to solve a problem for MSMEs aka micro, small, and medium enterprises. From our personal experiences of working with MSMEs, or with family businesses in our close circles, we realized that most MSMEs that we know we’re not able to make sense of their data. And, most MSMEs were primarily using accounting software like Tally ERP 9 to maintain their data around customers, products, sales, purchases, etc.
The idea wasn’t novel, but much needed, to create something that can help MSMEs make sense of their business — a simple dashboard for the business owner, important reports (accounts payable, accounts receivables, etc.), and the ability to create a quick invoice, or send PDFs of invoices to the customer from mobile phones appealed to us. We checked out existing market products around taking Tally data on mobile and didn’t find them very user friendly, but we found people were actively using these products, and therefore, got down to creating a better user experience for a business assistant for small-medium businesses.
Read here to know more about our target group for the app.
