Programs designed with the cost per outcome right, before the budget locks.
Find out what people will actually do, before you build for what you assumed.
Purpose-built systems that work on the ground, not only on the dashboard.
Field operations that turn a plan on paper into work on the ground.
Finance in mission-driven organisations rarely fails inside the accounting system. It fails between the field and the books. We implement the systems your accountants already trust, and build the layer that carries every transaction into them, cleanly and with evidence.
Implementation partner for Tally · Zoho Books · Frappe / ERPNext · Odoo
Most finance transformations begin by replacing the accounting software. It is the wrong place to start. The ledger is the most mature, most audited and most widely understood part of an organisation's systems: accountants are fluent in it, auditors trust it, and the tax system speaks its language. What breaks is everything upstream of it: requests on paper, budgets in spreadsheets, payroll and donations keyed in twice. That is where the risk sits, and that is where we work.
The right platform depends on scale, regulation and the people who will run it, not on what an implementer prefers to sell. We work across the four that serve Indian organisations best, and start from whatever you already run.
The accounting system most Indian accountants and chartered accountants already know.
Our implementation
BooksCloud accounting with approvals, bank feeds and mobile access.
Our implementation
Frappe / ERPNextOpen source accounting that extends into a full ERP: purchase, stock, assets and projects.
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An integrated suite where accounting sits alongside invoicing, purchase and inventory.
Our implementation
Every rupee an organisation spends or receives begins somewhere other than the accounts team. We build one governed layer that carries those transactions into the books, with approvals, budget control and an audit trail, so the ledger remains the single source of truth.
Where money starts
The Commons layer
Ask your books, with Commons Intelligence
Your books
TallyZoho BooksFrappe / ERPNext AccountingOdooThe single source of truth, unchanged for accountants and auditors.
Every payment begins as a request in the field. Captured once, with its evidence, it is tested against the budget, approved by the right person and posted as a voucher with its ledger and cost centre. It is never keyed in again.
A sound decision needs the budget position, the evidence and the rules in one place. Approvers get exactly that, wherever they are.
When programme heads see spending only at month-end, overspends are discovered rather than prevented. Reading actuals from the books by grant and budget line gives leaders, accountants and donors one version of the numbers, while there is still time to act.
Leaders should not need a report request to understand their own finances. With Commons Intelligence, permitted users ask questions in plain words and receive answers traced to the vouchers behind them.
Integration earns trust only when it is visible. Every transaction that reaches the books is logged; anything that does not is held, explained and resolved by an accountant, never silently forced through.
Software rarely fails on features. It fails on a chart of accounts that does not reflect how funds are governed, on taxes configured late, and on teams trained once and left alone. These are the foundations we put in place.
Ledgers, groups and cost centres for every grant, project and office.
Set up correctly from day one, so filings come straight from the books.
Foreign contributions in their own bank account, ledgers and reports.
Donations recorded with 80G receipts sent to donors.
Salaries posted from payroll as one journal, split by grant.
Statement feeds matched to entries, with exceptions flagged.
Opening balances, masters and past years moved over.
For accountants, managers and programme staff, in their language.
Diagnosis, configuration, integration and adoption are led by the same people, so accountability never dissolves in a hand-off.
How money moves through the organisation, who is accountable for it, and what auditors and funders require.
The right platform, configured for how funds are governed: accounts, cost centres, taxes, FCRA and history.
Payroll, grants, donations, projects and banking flowing into the books, with purpose-built screens where they add value.
Accountants and managers trained in their own language, with our team present through the first close and the first audit.
Boards, donors, regulators and auditors each need the same numbers, told the same way.
Grants, donors and field teams.
Lean finance teams.
Many entities, branches or members.
No. Replacing a working ledger rarely improves finance and often weakens it. If you run Tally, Zoho Books, Frappe / ERPNext or Odoo, we build on it.
It depends on scale, regulation and the people who will run it. Most nonprofits and small businesses are well served by TallyPrime or Zoho Books. ERPNext and Odoo suit larger organisations that need procurement, inventory and assets in the same system. We recommend after we understand how your money moves.
Only where they earn their place. Many organisations need nothing more than their programmes, payroll and donations connected to the books. Custom screens serve the people who are not accountants: staff who raise requests and leaders who approve them.
Yes. Foreign contributions get their own bank account, ledgers and reports, and every voucher carries its grant as a cost centre.
You do. The books stay in your accounting software, in your name, and every connection can be switched off without losing anything.
Yes. Payroll from Commons Workplace, budgets from Grant Management, donations from Crowdfunding and questions through Commons Intelligence all connect to your books.
Your books, fed by the rest of the Commons platform.
HR, payroll and an intranet in one place, for nonprofits, startups and enterprises, on the web and mobile, with AI built in.
Grant management for grant makers and grant seekers: calls for proposals, AI review, due diligence, milestone tranches and reports, plus an AI proposal writer for nonprofits.
Conversational analytics: ask any question about your programmes in plain English and get live reports on learning, livelihoods and more.
Your own crowdfunding and employee giving platform, under your brand, with every donor relationship yours to keep.
Project management for nonprofits: organise teams, volunteers and partners into projects and tasks, with lists, boards, timelines, portfolios, goals and a field app that works offline.
A conversation about how money moves through your organisation today, and what it would take to make every rupee traceable.
