Trading and distribution

Exporters & Import Trading Houses

When the document set, the incentive stack, the freight and forex bills and the realization clock are all visible, checked against the LC and tied to the rupees each shipment actually earns, an export or import house stops losing money to refunds left unclaimed, payments delayed on a discrepancy and charges nobody re-read.

A modern import export operations floor with containers, packed cargo, and abstract shipping control screens

The art of the possible

A trading house does not need a heavyweight global-trade-management platform its team will reject. It needs the document set assembled cleanly and checked against the LC before the goods sail, the incentive and refund stack tracked claim by claim until the money is in the bank, the freight and forex bills audited against the firm's own rate cards, and the realization and eBRC closure watched so nothing slips into a FEMA breach. Reliable systems run the workflow and the arithmetic; AI reads the dense documents (invoices, bills of lading, LC terms, forwarder bills, bank advices) and flags the mismatches; a named person signs anything that touches a customs filing, a bank submission, a forex decision or a buyer commitment.

The operating reality

A document, incentive, forex and realization business where merchant exporters, import-distribution houses, commodity traders and indenting agents win or lose on the document set matching the LC before goods sail, the refund and incentive stack being claimed cleanly, and the freight and forex bills being audited against the firm's own rate cards.

By segment

Where the work is, segment by segment.

The same industry runs differently across its segments. Here is the operating reality of each, and the builds we would rank first, with why.

Merchant exporters (multi-product trading houses)

Buy from Indian makers, sell to overseas buyers; own little inventory but own the whole document, incentive, forex and realization chain; margin is the spread plus the refunds claimed cleanly.

  1. 01Incentive, drawback and refund recovery

    Drawback, IGST refund and the RoDTEP/RoSCTL scrips are the firm's own money; manual tracking leaves a chunk unclaimed or expired every year. Often the first provable win.

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  2. 02Export document set assembly and LC check

    The document set IS the product; a single LC discrepancy delays or refuses payment, caught late by a bank officer. The signature build.

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  3. 03DGFT, customs, FEMA and realization compliance calendar

    Advance-authorisation and EPCG export-obligation closure, eBRC and FEMA realization, scrip-claim deadlines; a missed closure becomes duty plus interest plus penalty.

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  4. 04Incentive, drawback and refund recovery

    Forwarder over-billing, demurrage and forex spread are recoverable against the firm's own rate cards and bank advices.

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  5. 05Per-shipment margin, landed-cost and realization view

    "What did this shipment actually earn after every charge, refund and forex difference" is invisible across five silos.

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  6. 06Sourcing-buyer website and credentials

    Overseas buyers pre-qualify the firm online on capability, capacity, certifications and compliance before they enquire.

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  7. 07Enquiry-to-quote pipeline and buyer follow-up

    Export RFQs die in one salesperson's inbox; enquiry to costed quote to order needs an owner and a clock.

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  8. 08WhatsApp concierge for the buyer and supplier front desk

    Shipment status, document and dispatch queries from buyers and suppliers run on WhatsApp all day.

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Import & distribution houses

Import goods, clear them, carry landed stock, and distribute into the Indian market on credit; the working-capital, stock-ageing and credit-book spine of a distributor, plus the customs, BIS and Legal-Metrology compliance of an importer.

  1. 01Per-shipment margin, landed-cost and realization view

    True landed cost (price plus duty plus clearing plus freight plus forex), dead stock and the stretched buyer-credit tail are invisible until they hurt.

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  2. 02Export document set assembly and LC check

    Bill of entry, BIS and Legal-Metrology declarations, the bond and the duty payment are document-dense and slow; a held container accrues demurrage.

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  3. 03Incentive, drawback and refund recovery

    Over-billed freight, demurrage, and duty paid on a wrong classification or missed exemption are recoverable against the firm's own bills.

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  4. 04Procurement and three-way match on landed imports

    The supplier invoice, the bill of entry and the goods received must tie; off-rate buying and short-supply leak.

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  5. 05Enquiry-to-quote pipeline and buyer follow-up

    Selling imported stock into the Indian market on credit is a distributor's discount-and-outstanding leak.

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  6. 06Reconciliation: GST input credit, IGST on imports, commission and ledgers

    IGST paid at import vs input credit claimed, and principal/branch ledgers, tie up by hand and late.

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  7. 07WhatsApp concierge for the buyer and supplier front desk

    Downstream dealers and customers ask catalogue, price, stock-at-godown and order status.

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  8. 08Connect and automate the customs, ERP and bank silos

    The clearing agent's filing, the ERP and the bank records are re-keyed by a person who is the integration layer.

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Commodity & agri-export traders

Export bulk commodities and agri-produce (rice, spices, oil-meal, marine, processed food); price and forex volatility, APEDA / phytosanitary / FSSAI compliance, and per-consignment quality and weight reconciliation are the spine.

  1. 01Incentive, drawback and refund recovery

    Commodity price moves daily and forex on top; per-consignment realized margin after quality cuts, freight and forex is the whole game and is unmeasured.

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  2. 02DGFT, customs, FEMA and realization compliance calendar

    A lapsed phytosanitary, fumigation or APEDA registration stops the consignment at the port or the destination customs.

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  3. 03Export document set assembly and LC check

    Origin, inspection, phytosanitary, fumigation and quality certificates plus the LC document set must all agree per consignment.

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  4. 04Incentive, drawback and refund recovery

    Drawback, IGST refund and RoDTEP (note: many agri lines under ITC HS chapters 01 to 24 sit outside the Feb 2026 cut reported) are claimable and under-claimed by hand.

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  5. 05Procurement, weighbridge and quality reconciliation

    Bulk commodity bought by weight and grade; in-transit shrinkage, moisture and quality cuts vs the agreed contract is real recoverable money.

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  6. 06DGFT, customs, FEMA and realization compliance calendar

    FEMA realization within the timeline and eBRC closure per consignment; a slip blocks future incentives.

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  7. 07WhatsApp concierge for the buyer and supplier front desk

    Consignment status, quality-photo and dispatch queries from overseas buyers and upstream suppliers.

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Indenting / sourcing & buying agents

Earn a commission for matching overseas buyers to suppliers (or vice versa); almost no inventory and no document liability; the spine is enquiry-to-deal matching, commission tracking and realization, and relationship continuity.

  1. 01One clean enquiry, buyer, supplier and commission record

    A commission business with no inventory; the whole asset is the relationship and deal record, and it lives in one person's head and WhatsApp.

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  2. 02Enquiry-to-quote pipeline and buyer follow-up

    The job is matching a buyer enquiry to the right supplier and closing; enquiries die unmatched and unchased.

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  3. 03Reconciliation: GST input credit, IGST on imports, commission and ledgers

    Commission earned per closed deal vs commission actually received from the principal is a manual, leaky tie-up.

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  4. 04Buyer and supplier follow-up engine

    The book of dormant buyers and suppliers is the agent's only real inventory and goes un-worked.

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  5. 05WhatsApp concierge for the buyer and supplier front desk

    Sample requests, price indications and status run on WhatsApp across time zones.

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  6. 06Sourcing-buyer website and credentials

    New overseas principals check the agent's track record, sectors and references online before appointing.

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  7. 07Workflow automation for the deal cycle

    The repetitive chasing, status updates and document forwarding between buyer, supplier and bank is mechanical.

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How an engagement works

From a free call to a system you own.

01

Free: 60-minute call and Blueprint.

A working session on your business, then a clear plan of what we would build and in what order, written down for you to keep. No cost, no obligation.

02

Deep-dive and build.

Go deeper on one area, or have us build the software, app or data layer. Fixed price. A focused build ships in weeks.

03

Run and govern: per need.

We keep it running and watch over it, as much or as little as you want.

Find the one build worth funding first.

A free 60-minute call. No cost, no obligation, just a clear read on what is worth building.