Indian accountants and small businesses live in a weird stack: Tally Prime, GST returns, PDF bank statements from SBI/HDFC/ICICI/Axis/Kotak, and Excel everywhere in between.
Most “solutions” are either desktop installs, agency retainers, or generic converters that choke on Indian formats (lakh/crore, multi-page PDFs, GST split).
So we started building Drafto — small, focused tools that run in the browser. Open a tool → do the job → download the file—nothing to install.
**What ships today
**Bank Statement Converter
Turn a bank statement PDF into Excel, CSV, or a Tally Prime import. Built for Indian banks first. Free for 10 pages a day.
**Meesho Label Crop
**Crop Meesho shipping label PDFs to 4×6 thermal labels and drop the invoice. Files stay on your device.
More on the roadmap: GST calculator (CGST/SGST/IGST), UPI QR generator, HSN/SAC finder, Excel → Tally voucher import.
Product bets (why this shape)
Browser-only — Chrome/Edge/Firefox/Safari. No MSI, no “call our IT guy”.
Google sign-in — one account across tools.
Indian formats by default — banks, GST, Tally Prime files, lakh/crore display.
Freemium that isn’t a trap — free daily limits forever; one yearly
Tools Pass (₹999 incl. GST, no auto-renew) unlocks higher limits across every tool; a CA & Firm plan (₹2,999/yr) for practices with many clients.
**Who it’s for
**Small business owners doing books themselves
Accountants and CAs
Bookkeepers and Tally Prime users
Sellers who need boring jobs done fast (labels, statements, GST maths)
If you want to try it
→
thedrafto.com
Feedback from CAs, Tally power users, and anyone who’s fought a 40-page bank PDF is gold — comment what’s broken in your stack and we’ll prioritize.
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