Spider men to the rescue

A huge hassle small for and medium-sized outfits is handling invoices, purchase orders, quotations, timely tax returns and reminder to creditors. How do you manage when can afford just one accountant

From Pune-based Gladiris, comes a free Android app — SpiderG — that helps you automate the whole process to electronically transact and communicate with vendors, suppliers and customers in form of e-invoices, quotations and purchase orders.

Co-founded three years ago by Ashwani Rathore and Harshal Ingale, Gladiris began by offering services in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) — but soon realised that thousands of micro outfits cannot afford an ERP, and depend on tools like Tally.

For such users, they launched SpiderG, which allows one to do all invoicing, bill tracking, maintaining a record of expenses from travel to material purchase, chat with customers and internally with other staff, maintaining an activity tracker for all such transactions. If one does use an ERP tool like SAP or Oracle, or an accounting package like Tally, SpiderG meshes seamlessly with the tool.

All this is free with the app, but the company charges Rs 250 per month for premium services. In its own way, the folks behind SpiderG have crafted a truly Indian solution which will be the answer to the prayers of thousands of modestly funded businesses. The product is also piloting in the Philippines and the Middle East.