Built a WhatsApp bot so restaurant owners can track their actual daily profit — would love feedback from this community
Built a WhatsApp bot so restaurant owners can track their actual daily profit — would love feedback from this community
Most small restaurant and cafe owners I've spoken to know their sales for the day by closing time, but not their actual profit — vendor costs, staff, rent — until weeks later, if ever. The usual options are an accounting app (too much friction, nobody opens it daily) or a bookkeeper (too slow, monthly not daily).
So I built FinMitra ( Website) — you just send a WhatsApp message with a vendor bill (photo or text) like you'd normally do, and it automatically logs and categorizes it. Ask "what's my profit today" anytime and get a straight answer back in the same chat. No app to install, no dashboard to learn.
It's live with one pilot restaurant in Bengaluru right now (Tea Day, Munnekollal) and working well enough that I'm starting to take it to a few more owners.
Posting here because I'd genuinely value perspectives from this community — particularly:
- If you run or know small F&B businesses, does this match a real pain point you've seen, or am I missing something bigger?
- Anyone tried something similar (WhatsApp-native tools for SMB ops) — what worked or didn't?
- Pricing-wise, I'm testing 2 months free then ₹500/month — does that feel right for a single-outlet restaurant?
Happy to share more details or answer questions. Not trying to hard-sell here, mainly looking for honest reactions before I scale outreach.