Export CRM
Our enterprise CRM and ERP for the apparel and textile export trade — buyer management, order tracking, production planning, export documentation and financial reporting in one platform.
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EasyWork Solutions builds custom business software and ERP for Indian companies from Surat, Gujarat. What makes software for the Indian market distinct is rarely the technology — it is that the system has to coexist with Tally, satisfy GST and e-invoicing rules, and model processes like job work that packaged software simply does not represent.
Custom software development in India means building an application specifically for one organisation rather than buying a packaged product. For Indian businesses the deciding factors are usually coexistence with Tally, GST and e-invoicing correctness, and processes like job work that packaged systems cannot model. EasyWork Solutions builds to those requirements with fixed scope and full source transfer.
The usual route is not ambition, it is accumulation. A business buys a packaged product, finds that it does not model something central — job work, a grading scale, a credit arrangement, a multi-unit transfer — and works around it in a spreadsheet. Over a few years the workaround becomes the real system and the packaged software becomes a compliance formality maintained for the accountant.
At that point the honest question is not whether custom software is better in the abstract. It is whether the specific gap between how the packaged product thinks and how the business actually runs is large enough to justify building. Sometimes it plainly is not, and the right answer is to configure the existing product properly and stop.
When it is, the value is concentrated rather than diffuse. It is nearly always one or two processes that carry the pain, and building those two properly delivers most of the benefit at a fraction of the cost of a full replacement. Vendors who quote for the full replacement first are pricing the comfortable scope rather than the useful one.
Nearly every Indian SME runs accounts in Tally, the CA is fluent in it, and the statutory filing workflow is built around it. Proposing to replace that is a common vendor instinct and almost always a bad trade: you inherit an enormous amount of disruption and risk in exchange for consolidating something that was not causing the problem.
The better boundary is clear. Tally owns accounting and statutory filing. The custom system owns operations — orders, stock, production, job work, dispatch, quality. The two exchange the data that genuinely needs to cross, so nothing is entered twice and the figures reconcile.
Defining that boundary precisely is one of the more valuable parts of discovery, because ambiguity there produces the worst of both worlds: two systems that both half-own the same data and disagree with each other by month end.
Any Indian system that touches billing inherits statutory requirements that are unforgiving of approximation. GST calculation has to handle intra-state and inter-state treatment correctly, apply the right rate per item rather than per invoice, and produce documents in the required format with the required fields present.
Where e-invoicing applies, the invoice must be registered and carry the returned reference and QR code, and the system has to handle the cases that occur in practice — cancellation windows, amendments, and the portal being unavailable when your dispatch team is waiting. E-way bill generation has similar operational realities around validity and vehicle updates.
None of this is intellectually difficult, and all of it is unforgiving. It is also the area where a vendor without Indian experience produces something that passes a demo and fails in the second week of real use, which is why we treat statutory flows as core scope rather than as a module to be added at the end.
Job work is the clearest example and it is everywhere in Indian manufacturing. Material leaves your premises, is processed by someone else, and returns changed — different weight, sometimes different quantity after rejection. Packaged inventory software treats material leaving as a sale or a write-off, because that is what it was built for, so stock figures stop being trustworthy and the real position moves to a register.
Modelling it properly means representing material you own but do not hold, expected against actual return with an operation-specific tolerance, rejection and rework as distinct outcomes, and vendor-wise pending tracking that is aged. Once that exists, the report your operations team actually wants — what is pending with whom, how old, worth how much — becomes trivial rather than impossible.
The same pattern applies to multi-location stock with inter-unit transfers, to batch and lot tracking where traceability matters, and to approval chains with delegation and escalation. Each is unremarkable engineering that packaged software handles badly and that has to be designed deliberately rather than configured.
The most common way Indian ERP projects fail is scope. A twelve-month implementation covering every department means a long period with no benefit, ample opportunity for requirements to drift, and a single high-stakes switch-over at the end.
We phase deliberately: identify the module where the current process costs the most, get it live in eight to ten weeks including migration and training, let people use it, then scope the next against what they learned. It is slower on paper and considerably faster to real value.
The second benefit is that your team discovers what they actually want by using something, and they are invariably wrong about part of it beforehand. Finding that out in week ten on one module is cheap. Finding it out in month eleven across six departments is how implementations get quietly abandoned and replaced by the spreadsheets they were meant to retire.
We do not publish a price list, because a number given before understanding the work is a guess someone pays for later. These are the factors that actually move the figure in this market.
The standard path is inexpensive. Cost concentrates in exceptions — the partial dispatch, the re-graded lot, the short return — and each is a branch to design, build and test.
Basic GST calculation is one level. E-invoice registration, e-way bills, amendments and portal-unavailable handling are meaningfully more, and are worth scoping explicitly rather than assuming.
One owner using everything is simple. Owner, accountant, godown, job-work coordinator and salesperson each seeing a different slice means permission design, which takes real time.
Clean data imports quickly. Inconsistent item codes, duplicated party names and partial history do not, and reconciling the opening position is routinely the most underestimated task in the project.
Tally, payment gateways, WhatsApp, courier and portal integrations each add scope. Deciding which are genuinely day-one is the fastest way to bring the number down.
Our enterprise CRM and ERP for the apparel and textile export trade — buyer management, order tracking, production planning, export documentation and financial reporting in one platform.
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Visit siteWe sit with the people doing the work and observe the actual flow, including the register nobody mentioned and the spreadsheet that holds the real rules.
We define precisely what stays in accounting and what moves into the operational system, because ambiguity there produces two systems that disagree by month end.
Job work, stock states, batches and approvals are settled in the data model first. Screens are cheap to change later; a wrong data model is not.
GST treatment, invoice formats, e-invoice and e-way bill handling including failure states are built in from the start rather than added at the end.
Stock, pending job work and party balances are reconciled against your registers before go-live, because that is what determines whether people trust the system in week one.
Training happens on your own data, and the next phase is scoped against what using the first one actually taught you.
These apply to us as much as to anyone else bidding for your work.
Packaged is almost always cheaper in year one. Over three years the comparison shifts, because per-user licences compound while custom carries a large upfront cost and smaller maintenance. The real question is whether the gap between how the packaged product thinks and how you actually run is large enough to justify building — and sometimes it plainly is not.
No, and you should not. Tally does accounting well and your CA is fluent in it. We build the operational layer — orders, stock, production, job work, dispatch — and integrate so the data that needs to cross does, without being typed twice. Replacing working accounting software adds substantial risk for no operational gain.
Yes, as core scope rather than an add-on. That includes correct intra-state and inter-state treatment, per-item rates, statutory invoice formats, GSTIN validation, e-invoice registration with the returned reference and QR code, and the operational realities — cancellation windows, amendments, and the portal being down while dispatch waits.
Yes — it is standard across Gujarat manufacturing and we build for it routinely. Challan issue and return, expected against actual return with operation-specific tolerance, process loss, rejection and rework as distinct outcomes, and aged vendor-wise pending tracking are requirements we expect rather than discover late.
A first well-defined module is typically 8 to 10 weeks including data migration and training. A full ERP across production, stock, sales and finance is a phased six to twelve months — and we would strongly advise phasing it rather than attempting a single switch-over.
We read them properly during discovery rather than discarding them. A sheet maintained for years encodes real business rules including the exceptions, and the fastest way to build a system nobody uses is to cover the standard case and none of them.
Source code, the database, documentation sufficient for another competent team to deploy and extend the system, and all hosting and infrastructure credentials — transferred on final payment with no ongoing licence and no dependency on us for hosting.
A meaningful share of search in this market happens in a language other than English. These are the terms people actually use — we work with your translator for customer-facing copy rather than relying on machine translation.
Last reviewed 2026-08-06 by the EasyWork Solutions team.