Built for how Indian SMEs actually run
Most manufacturers aren't choosing between two ERPs — they're choosing between spreadsheets, an accounting package doing a job it was never built for, and an enterprise suite that costs more than the problem. Here's where Dravyaa sits, honestly.
Your data isn't missing. It's scattered.
Stock lives in one sheet, production in a notebook, billing in Tally, job work in WhatsApp. Every number exists — but no two agree, and nobody can say what's true right now.
Stock you can't trust
The sheet says 400 kg. The floor has 260. You find out when the order is already promised.
Month-end that eats a week
Reconciling purchase, production and billing by hand — every month, for numbers that are already stale.
Compliance as a scramble
E-invoice, e-way bill and GSTR deadlines handled as separate fire-drills instead of falling out of the work itself.
Spreadsheets, Tally, enterprise ERP — and Dravyaa
Each of these is good at something. The question is what your operation actually needs on a Tuesday afternoon.
| Features | Spreadsheets | Accounting software | Enterprise ERP | Dravyaa |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live stock across warehouses | Real-time, per location | |||
| Multi-level BOM & work orders | Included as standard | |||
| Subcontracting / job work tracking | Challans, returns & wastage | |||
| GST e-invoice & e-way bill | Generated from the invoice | |||
| One ledger behind every document | Double-entry, posted automatically | |||
| GST returns (GSTR-1, 3B, HSN) | Built from your books, with portal JSON | |||
| RCM & TDS on purchase bills | Computed on the bill | |||
| Bank reconciliation & cheques | Statement import with auto-match | |||
| Production costing per order | Material + operations, live | |||
| Tally-style keyboard entry | Familiar shortcuts built in | |||
| Ask questions in plain language | Built-in AI assistant | |||
| Time to go live | Already live — and already wrong | Weeks | 6–18 months | 7 days |
| Who it's really built for | One person who remembers everything | Your accountant | 500+ employee enterprises | 10–300 person manufacturers |
The difference shows up in the boring numbers
Less time reconciling stock at month-end
Saved per week on invoicing and e-way bills
Lower working capital tied up in excess stock
Typical time from kickoff to running live
Figures reflect typical outcomes reported by Dravyaa customers in their first quarter. Your results depend on where you're starting from — we'll walk through a realistic estimate for your operation on a demo.
Live in 7 days, not weeks
No consultants on retainer, no eighteen-month programme. A named onboarding lead takes you from first call to running live inside a single week.
We map your operation
A working session on how material actually moves through your plant — not a feature demo. You leave knowing exactly what Dravyaa will and won't change.
Your data comes across
Items, vendors, customers, opening stock and outstanding balances imported from Tally or Excel. We do the migration — you review and sign off.
Your team gets trained
Role-based sessions for stores, production, purchase, sales and accounts. Everyone learns the screens they'll actually use, in their own language.
You run live
First invoices, first work orders, first GST filing on Dravyaa — with your onboarding lead on call through your first month-end close.
You keep your history
Coming from Tally or Excel, your opening balances, party ledgers, item masters and outstanding invoices come with you — nothing gets retyped.
- ✓ Item & party masters
- ✓ Opening stock, per warehouse
- ✓ Receivables & payables
- ✓ Bills of material
Still running Tally?
Most of our customers were. Dravyaa isn't a replacement for your accountant's workflow — it's the operations layer Tally was never built to be.
Read the full comparisonWhat we need from you
Less than you'd think. One person who knows how the plant runs, a few hours across the week, and your item and party lists as they are.
- ✓ A single point of contact
- ✓ Your existing masters, as-is
- ✓ Two training slots for the team
Your books are your business
Production data, costing and customer ledgers are the most sensitive things you own. Here's how they're handled.
Encrypted end to end
TLS in transit, encryption at rest, and isolated data per manufacturer. Your numbers are never pooled with anyone else's.
Hosted in India
Data stays on Indian infrastructure, which keeps residency simple for GST records and audit requests.
Role-based access
Stores sees stock, sales sees orders, only you see margins. Permissions map to how your team is actually organised.
Every change is logged
A full audit trail on every document — who changed what, when, and exactly which lines moved. Nothing edits quietly.
Your data is exportable
Export masters, transactions and ledgers whenever you want. No lock-in — if you leave, you leave with everything.
Backed up, daily
Automated daily backups with point-in-time recovery, so a bad import or a wrong entry is never the end of the story.
A person, not a ticket queue
Software is the easy half. What decides whether an ERP sticks is whether someone picks up when your stores manager is confused at 9pm before a dispatch.
- ✓ A named onboarding lead through go-live
- ✓ WhatsApp and phone support, in English and Hindi
- ✓ Free training for new staff as your team grows
- ✓ Configuration changes handled by us, not billed as a project
We know your compliance calendar
GSTR-1 and 3B deadlines, e-invoice thresholds, e-way bill validity, job-work returns under Section 143 — these aren't edge cases we bolted on for one market. They're the reason the product exists.
What buyers usually ask us
It depends on which modules you run and how many locations you operate — a single-warehouse trading business and a three-plant manufacturer aren't the same problem. We'll give you a firm number on a 20-minute call, with no obligation and no drawn-out sales process. Onboarding and training are included.
No. Plenty of our customers keep Tally for statutory filing while running operations — stock, production, purchase and sales — on Dravyaa. Others move their books across entirely. Both work, and you don't have to decide on day one.
About a week for most SME manufacturers, from kickoff to running live on real transactions. Trading and distribution businesses are often quicker still; multi-plant operations with complex BOMs can take a little longer.
We migrate it. Item and party masters, opening stock per warehouse, outstanding receivables and payables, and bills of material come across from Tally or Excel. We run the import, you review and sign off before go-live.
That's the group we designed for. Each role sees only the screens it needs, the flows follow how work already happens on your floor, and training is role-based rather than a single all-day session. Support is available on WhatsApp in English and Hindi.
Yes. Masters, transactions and ledgers are exportable at any time in standard formats. There's no contractual lock-in and no exit fee — if Dravyaa stops earning its place, you should be able to walk.
See it on your own numbers
Twenty minutes, your data, your workflow. We'll show you exactly where Dravyaa fits — and tell you straight if it doesn't.