BOQ to final bill, on one connected platform — site logs, procurement, measurement and retention billing, without the 6-month rollout of a traditional ERP.
Excel sheets get out of sync between site and office, and by the time a budget overrun is noticed, it is already a cash-flow problem.
WhatsApp updates are structured for nobody — not searchable, not reportable, and disconnected from what was actually billed.
No live link between stock received, consumed and billed means wastage and shrinkage go unnoticed until it is too late.
Retention, certified quantities and outstanding amounts tracked on paper create cash-flow surprises every month.
| Business requirement | Rebota capability | Relevance | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Estimation & Budgeting | BOQ & Estimation | High | Available |
| Procurement | Purchase Requisitions, RFQ / Quote Comparison, Purchase Orders | High | Available |
| Site Execution | Daily Site Log, Measurement Book (auto-synced from BOQ against logged work-done quantities via linked activities) | High | Available |
| Billing & GST | RA Billing, E-Way Bills, Invoicing — retention auto-posted to its own ledger account, not just a bill-header percentage | High | Available |
| Workforce | Labour & Attendance | High | Available |
| Equipment | Plant & Machinery, Equipment Service Log | Medium | Available |
| Quality & Safety | Quality & NCR, Safety Checklists | Medium | Available |
| HR & Payroll | HR & Payroll (salaried employees, distinct from site labour attendance) | Medium | Available |
| CRM / Sales Pipeline | CRM & Sales Pipeline | Low | Available |
Rebota is used across a wide revenue range, and the honest answer differs by band. This is what it replaces outright, what it replaces with gaps you should plan around, and where you would be better served elsewhere today.
| Annual turnover | Verdict | What that means in practice |
|---|---|---|
| ₹1 lakh – ₹1 crore | Replaces | Replaces Tally plus spreadsheets outright. A single site, a BOQ, daily logs and an RA bill — all of it works on day one, and retention stops being a number someone remembers. |
| ₹1 – 10 crore | Replaces | This is the band Rebota was built for. BOQ to final bill, procurement, measurement book, labour attendance and project P&L are all live and connected to one ledger. |
| ₹10 – 100 crore | Replaces | Still a full replacement for contracting. Subcontracts, bank guarantees, tenders and a project WBS are in place, and the audit trail meets Rule 3(1) for a statutory audit. |
| ₹100 – 1000 crore | Replaces with gaps | Workable, with two honest caveats: consolidation across many group companies is manual, and there is no integrated primavera-style critical-path scheduling — planners keep using P6 or MSP alongside. |
What is built and enforced in the product today, by jurisdiction. Anything not listed here is not claimed.
India is the only jurisdiction whose statutory filing is actually built. Elsewhere you can contract, invoice and report in local currency and financial year, but there is no local tax filing and no local payroll. Do not buy Rebota today to file outside India.
| Alternative | Stay with it when | Move to Rebota when |
|---|---|---|
| Tally | You need books and nothing else, and projects are tracked adequately on paper. | You need a BOQ, a measurement book and retention to be connected to those books rather than reconciled against them each month. |
| SAP | You run a listed group with many subsidiaries and consolidation is a monthly statutory obligation. | The implementation has run past a year and site staff still send progress on WhatsApp. |
| Excel and WhatsApp | One site, one supervisor, one client, and you are on it every day. | Two sites, or the moment a certified quantity and a billed quantity disagree and nobody can say which is right. |
| Zoho Books | Your work is closer to services billing than to measured contracting. | You need measurement, retention and a project P&L rather than invoices with a project field on them. |
If one of these is core to how you run, Rebota is the wrong choice today and we would rather you knew now than in month three.
| Not built | Who actually needs it |
|---|---|
| Critical-path scheduling (Primavera P6 / MS Project equivalent) | Planners on large infrastructure packages who need resource-levelled CPM networks and delay analysis. Rebota tracks activities and progress, not a scheduling network. |
| BIM and drawing-model integration | Contractors doing model-based quantity take-off. Quantities come from the BOQ and the measurement book, not from a model. |
| Group consolidation across many companies | Groups running dozens of SPVs that need automatic elimination and consolidated statements. |
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