Tagged: #india-business

Place-of-Supply Changes Between Order and Shipment: The Credit Note Problem

The buyer edits their shipping address from Pune to Ahmedabad the morning after payment, before dispatch. The invoice has already fired with CGST+SGST. What now? We walk through the credit-note-and-reissue workflow we use, the WooCommerce hook nobody listens to, and the one case we still don't have a clean answer for.

12 Oct 2026·8 min read

Why We Add a Place-of-Supply Field to Every WooCommerce Checkout in India

WooCommerce has no place-of-supply field. It has a billing state and a shipping state, and the common GST plugins quietly pick one for you. That is fine for a plain B2C order and silently breaks for B2B interstate invoices, export of services, and bill-to-ship-to. Here is the pattern we now use on every India build — and the one case we still have not solved.

11 Oct 2026·11 min read

Cloudways vs Self-Managed Ubuntu: A Three-Year Cost Sheet for a ₹1 Crore WooCommerce Store

A line-item three-year comparison of Cloudways against a self-managed DigitalOcean droplet for an Indian WooCommerce store doing roughly a crore in GMV. Real INR numbers, the senior-engineer hours nobody quotes, the migration tax in both directions, and the crossover point most founders underestimate by about a year.

22 Jun 2026·9 min read

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Why We Stopped Resetting the WooCommerce Invoice Counter on 1 April

Resetting the WooCommerce invoice counter at midnight on 1 April looks tidy until the 31 March 23:55 IST order shows up in next year's series, the credit note in July collides with Tally's voucher import, and the September GSTR-9 prep surfaces the gap. Here is why we moved the number assignment to payment capture, and where it still bites.

21 Jun 2026·10 min read

Order, Invoice, Payment, Receipt: Four Events WooCommerce Conflates and Tally Doesn't

WooCommerce treats the order as the primary record and treats payment, invoice and settlement as metadata bolted on. Tally treats the voucher as primary. The mismatch is where most reconciliation cleanup hides — and where one client's March GSTR-1 quietly went ₹4.6 lakh short until we re-modelled the sync around four events instead of one.

19 Jun 2026·10 min read

Razorpay Webhooks Fire Before order_status_completed — and What That Costs

Six months ago we glossed over a small detail about Razorpay's webhook timing on WooCommerce builds. That gloss has cost real money since — duplicate GST invoice numbers, a flash-sale incident on 22 November, and a CA bill we'd rather not have paid. Here is the longer version, including the mitigation that made things worse.

15 Jun 2026·8 min read

GST Invoicing on Razorpay Builds: Where Indian E-Commerce Sites Quietly Break

A D2C skincare founder called us three weeks after launch — her CA had rejected eight months of Razorpay receipts as non-compliant invoices. The payment gateway was not the problem; treating GST invoicing as a gateway feature instead of an accounting workflow was.

29 May 2026·10 min read