Alwarpet firms, restaurants and galleries keep careful records in the wrong places.
Alwarpet, along TTK Road, CP Ramaswamy Road and Eldams Road, holds chartered accountants, law offices, wealth advisers, restaurants, galleries and boutiques within a few lanes. Their records sit in email, in spreadsheets and in a receptionist’s diary. GullySystem builds client, booking and billing software for these firms, working from its Bengaluru office and starting with a free technology audit.
Alwarpet is a neighbourhood of old houses turned into offices. Accountants, lawyers and advisers work from converted bungalows, with restaurants, galleries and boutiques on the same streets.
These are small practices with long-standing clients, and nothing about them is casual. What is missing is one place where a client, the work done for him and the money he owes can be seen together.
Where the businesses are in Alwarpet, and what they run on.
TTK Road
Chartered accountants, company secretaries and advisory firms with clients across the city. Compliance dates, client documents and fee follow-ups sit in a spreadsheet each partner keeps separately.
CP Ramaswamy Road
Restaurants, bakeries and cafes with regular tables and a steady delivery business. Reservations, party enquiries and supplier bills are all handled by the manager on his phone.
Eldams Road and the office bungalows
Wealth managers, insurance advisers and small consultancies working from converted houses. Portfolios, renewal dates and commission statements arrive as spreadsheets from several companies.
Galleries and design studios
Art galleries, framing units and design studios selling works and taking commissions. Inventory, consignment from artists and sale records are kept on paper.
Boutiques and clinics on the side streets
Clothing boutiques, dental practices and small clinics serving the neighbourhood, running on appointments and word of mouth.
How Alwarpet businesses pick and use software.
Alwarpet firms buy on reputation and on how a system will look to their clients. A wealth adviser cares whether the statement a client receives looks as though it came from a professional office.
Partners here are often older and will not type into a new screen themselves. Anything built has to work for the assistant and produce what the partner reads on paper.
We are not in Chennai and we say so early. Reviews and training run on screen-share from Bengaluru, and we travel for the go-live week when documents and old records have to be brought across.
Where Alwarpet businesses lose time and money.
Compliance dates are tracked by whoever remembers them
GST returns, TDS, filings and audit dates are spread across partners and staff. One client list with the next due date and its status shows what is going to slip this month.
Commission statements arrive in a dozen formats
Insurance companies and mutual fund houses each send their own layout. Reading them into one record shows what a client actually earns the firm, without a month of Excel.
Table bookings and party enquiries share one phone
A restaurant manager takes reservations, private-party enquiries and complaints on the same number. An enquiry list with the date held and the advance paid stops a Saturday being sold twice.
Artworks go out on consignment and come back late
Galleries send works to clients and other shows on trust. A record of what is out, with whom and at what price settles the accounting at the end of a show.
Client documents are attached to old emails
Staff search inboxes for last year’s balance sheet or a signed agreement. Documents kept on the client record are found by the person who needs them, not only by the person who sent them.
What we would build for Alwarpet businesses.
Usually in this order, starting with whatever the audit ranks first.
ERP, CRM and Business Software Implementation
One record of stock, orders, customers and accounts, set up so your team opens it every day.
Learn moreBusiness Process Automation
Approvals, reminders, follow-ups and reports that run on their own instead of on someone remembering.
Learn moreWeb and Mobile Application Development
Web and mobile apps for customers, field staff and dealers, built to work on ordinary phones.
Learn moreData Engineering and Business Intelligence
Dashboards that answer the owner’s Monday questions without anyone building an Excel sheet first.
Learn moreHow the work runs from Bengaluru for Alwarpet.
- 01
The audit, by call
A screen-share and a look at the sheets, Tally reports and WhatsApp groups your team uses. No travel needed.
- 02
A written proposal
Scope, what we build first and the cost, agreed in writing before anything starts.
- 03
Build in short rounds
Working screens shared every few weeks. Your team tests them from your own office.
- 04
Go-live, in person when it helps
For data migration and training we can come to Alwarpet. Travel is agreed in advance.
- 05
Support online
Fixes, changes and hosting handled remotely by the same team that built it.
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Read the case studyQuestions Alwarpet owners ask before they call.
Can it read the statements our insurance and fund partners send?
Usually, yes, once we have seen the files. Statements that arrive as Excel or CSV can be read into one client record each month, and many PDFs can be handled too. The audit checks your actual files before we promise anything.
Will our senior partners have to use it?
No. We design for the staff who enter the work and for a partner who only reads. The partner’s view is usually one screen of deadlines, dues and billing, printed on paper if that is preferred.
What happens in the free technology audit?
We look at the software, spreadsheets and WhatsApp groups your business runs on today and write down what works, what slows your team down and what is missing. A demo login, a screen-share or a few screenshots are enough to start. You get a report ordered by priority, and there is no obligation to hire us afterwards.
How much will the software cost?
We don’t publish a price, because it depends on what the system has to do. The audit settles the scope, and the cost goes into a written proposal before any work starts.
Industries we build for in Alwarpet.
Elsewhere in Chennai.
Tell us what your Alwarpet business runs on today.
Send a short note on the spreadsheets, software or WhatsApp groups your team depends on. We reply the same working day.
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