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Introducing Thoshika

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The Thoshika team
The Thoshika team
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Thoshika is a suite of business software for Indian companies: 22 apps for HR and payroll, accounting, sales, purchasing, inventory, manufacturing, support, IT and more, on one platform with one sign-in. This post explains what we have built and why.

The problem we set out to solve​

A growing Indian company typically runs payroll in one product, accounts in another, sales in a third, and fills the gaps with spreadsheets. Each product has its own login, its own list of employees or customers, and its own idea of what a branch or a GSTIN is. Month-end becomes the job of reconciling them.

Most of these products were also built for another market and adapted for India later. Professional tax, labour welfare fund, Form 24Q, GSTR-2B reconciliation or an MCA filing calendar are added on, if they are there at all.

What Thoshika is​

One platform. Every app shares the same directory of people, the same customers, vendors and items, the same roles and the same approval inbox. A person has one identity and can belong to several companies, with different roles in each.

India first. People runs Indian payroll with PF, ESI, professional tax, LWF and TDS under both tax regimes, and produces the ECR, ESIC, 24Q and Form 16 outputs. Books keeps GST per state registration, prepares GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B, and handles TDS and TCS on business payments. Statutory rates are kept as dated data, so a budget change is a new version from a date rather than a code change.

Apps that work together. An accepted quote in CRM becomes an invoice in Books. Approved timesheets in Projects become billable hours. Payroll posts its journal to the ledger by cost centre. Purchase orders in Procurement are matched against bills.

Web and mobile. The Thoshika app for Android and iOS has the same app switcher as the web. Employees check in, apply for leave, download payslips and approve requests from the phone.

The apps​

The 22 apps fall into five groups:

  • People and work: People, Sangam, Workplace, Forms and Workflows, Projects, Documents and e-sign.
  • Finance and governance: Books, Company Compliance, Procurement, Analytics.
  • Customers: CRM, Marketing, Support, Bookings, POS and Retail.
  • Operations: Inventory and Warehouse, Manufacturing, Maintenance and Quality, Distribution and Dealers, Field Service.
  • IT: IT Service Management, Remote.

You can start with one app and add others as you go, or take all of them as Thoshika One.

What comes next​

Each app has a published list of what it does today and what is on its roadmap. We will write here as new work ships. If you would like to see Thoshika with your own company's processes, write to us.