Ecommerce
Flipkart Big Billion Days starts 9 October a day after Amazon
Both platforms lock the festive calendar and force brands to split inventory and ad spends.
Ananya Rao · 23 Sep · 4 min read
Search the desk
5 stories for “gst”
Retail
The kirana did not get digitised. It got a QR and a delivery problem.
Five years of "empower the unorganised retailer" left a sticker on the glass and the order going to a dark store. Here is what actually changed.
Meera Iyer · 19 Aug · 7 min read
SaaS
The unsexy stack is the one that actually ships Indian commerce.
OMS, WMS, GST invoices, and a Shopify theme: the mid-market D2C company is a software company whether it likes it or not.
Rhea Kapoor · 18 Aug · 6 min read
Opinion · SaaS
Zoho keeps winning the Indian mid-market by refusing to look like SaaS.
While coastal startups sold seats in dollars, a quietly bundled OS ate GST, inventory, and the inbox of the company that actually ships.
Rhea Kapoor · 11 Aug · 6 min read
SaaS
GST is still the real SaaS monopoly in Indian commerce.
Every store, warehouse, and marketplace payout eventually becomes an invoice. The companies that own that moment own a tax on the economy.
Rhea Kapoor · 7 Aug · 5 min read