Data belongs at the shop, not in someone else's cloud.
Rotabook installs on the PC already sitting at your counter. Attendance, salaries, stock — they stay on your premises, where they always have.
Built by people who grew up in shops just like the ones it was made for.
Rotabook runs the back of an Indian shop — attendance, payroll, leave, tasks, stock, expenses — from one login on the PC already at your counter.
Origin
The shop after the shutter comes down.
Aravind comes from a family of silk weavers, textile shop owners, and shop workers — three generations deep. He grew up around looms, ledgers, and bundles being unpacked from vendor sacks. And around the long evenings that follow a closing shutter, when the real day's work begins.
Anyone who has stood at the back of a shop after 9 PM knows what those evenings look like. The attendance book gets closed by hand. Every bundle that came in that day gets logged, sometimes from memory. The petty cash gets counted twice because the first count never matches. The salary sheet is half-built on a piece of ruled paper. Three or four hours after the shutter rolls down, the numbers finally make sense — until tomorrow, when the same evening starts again.
What we saw
The work isn't hard. It's just relentless.
Most shop owners we know don't need fancier enterprise software that doesn't understand the real pain of running retail shops in India. They just need to stop rewriting the same register every morning. They need leave requests to live somewhere that isn't a WhatsApp thread. They need every bundle that arrived to have a row, and every rupee that went out to have a category, without doing it twice. They need the salary sheet ready on the 1st, not the 5th.
That is the only thing Rotabook is trying to do. Take the three or four hours after the shutter comes down, and give them back to the family.
How we built it
What we decided to build differently.
A few things became clear early, and they have stayed clear.
Software shouldn't charge more for hiring more people.
Per-staff pricing punishes growth. We don't do it.
Six things in one login beats six logins.
Attendance, payroll, leave, tasks, stock, expenses — they belong together because the work belongs together.
If installation takes longer than a morning, it won't happen.
We install Rotabook in thirty minutes, on the machine you already own.
Today
Where we are.
We're a small team in Coimbatore. A handful of shops are running on Rotabook today — textile houses, kiranas, and service counters. Aravind still answers the demo email. We still write our own support replies. We've kept it small on purpose, because the people we built this for don't need the next big platform. They need software that picks up the phone.
Why Coimbatore
The Manchester of South India.
Coimbatore is called the Manchester of South India for a reason — power looms, dyeing units, family-run silk houses, a city that has run on small commerce for more than a hundred years. The people who have spent three generations behind those counters don't need to be told how a shop works. They just need software that respects the way it already does. Rotabook is built where its customers live, by people who have stood behind the same kind of counter.
If your shop sounds like the ones we built this for, come show us how it runs.
Twenty minutes on a call. We'll learn how your evening goes, and you'll see whether Rotabook can give some of those hours back.