Parchi

A neighbourhood salon, an AC repair crew or a tuition centre usually runs on a paper diary, a bill book and a WhatsApp chat full of “please pay” messages that nobody enjoys sending. Parchi puts all three on the phone the owner already carries.

The name is the point. A parchi (पर्ची) is the slip that says it’s your turn, and the slip that says what you owe. That is the whole app.

Customer, work, bill, payment, WhatsApp

Parchi follows one flow and does not wander from it. A customer is booked, the work gets done, a bill is raised, the payment is recorded, and the customer hears about each step on WhatsApp. The customer never installs anything — they get a link to a light web page with their bill and a UPI button that pays the shop directly. Parchi never touches the shop’s money.

Set up for the trade, not a generic business

At sign-up the owner picks what they do — salon, barber, spa, mobile repair, plumber, tutor, gym, photographer and more. Parchi loads a starter price list for that trade and adjusts its wording to match, so the app speaks the shop’s language rather than a generic one — in English or Hindi.

Built to be trusted with the day’s takings

• Totals are calculated on the server, and every bill and payment carries a key that stops a patchy connection from recording it twice.
• Every money change is logged in an activity history the shop can read.
• Each shop’s data is walled off from every other shop’s, and that isolation is tested on every endpoint.
• No ad, analytics or tracking SDKs in the app, with account deletion and data-retention rules in line with India’s DPDP Act.

The part the shop never sees

Behind the app is a Laravel back end with an admin portal we use to run the service: every shop, its plan, who is due for renewal, and online payment links or offline payments recorded against a proper GST invoice.

Priced like a bill book, not software

Every shop starts on the Free plan — no trial, no countdown and no card. It is the whole product with the dial turned down rather than a demo: bookings, customers, WhatsApp bills and the chase queue, GST invoicing, pending payments, win-back and reports all work, for one staff member and up to 100 bills a month. Free bills carry a small “Made with Parchi” line, and help comes from the in-app Help & support pages.

When the shop outgrows that, there are two paid plans, each a 12-month licence paid up front that never auto-renews:

• Shop — ₹1,199 a year, for up to 3 staff: unlimited bills, the branding removed, new advance payments and human support.
• Team — ₹2,999 a year, for up to 10 staff, with priority support.
• Custom for anything bigger — more seats or a chain — is a conversation, not a price list.

Prices are before GST. If a paid year runs out, the shop gets seven days of grace and then simply drops back to Free — nothing is locked and no data is lost. Getting paid and making a booking always work, on every plan.