Most technology partners in India make you sit through a discovery call before they will name a figure. We would rather you know before you call. Here is the full annual retainer pricing, what sits inside each plan, the four things we bill at cost, and the five factors that decide which plan you actually need.
Annual retainer, unlimited users, migration from your ERP or Excel included. Prices exclude GST.
In one paragraph
Varisya is priced as an annual retainer in Indian rupees, never per seat: Essential from ₹39,000/year, Professional at ₹79,000/year, and Enterprise custom from ₹1,49,000/year. Every plan includes unlimited users, onboarding, migration from your ERP or Excel, version upgrades and maintenance. Hosting and third-party usage are billed at cost. Prices exclude GST.
What separates the three plans is not a feature checklist. It is two things: how much customisation you get — standard, priority with a monthly roadmap, or SLA-bound delivery — and how fast we are contractually required to respond when something breaks. Everything else — migration, ownership, unlimited users, cloud or your own servers, white-labelling — is identical at every tier, because those are not upsells.
Essential
from₹39,000 / year
Tailored apps on your own setup — for a business putting its first properly-owned system in place.
Professional · most chosen
₹79,000 / year
Active tailoring with fast, priority support — for a business whose software is now load-bearing.
Enterprise
custom — from₹1,49,000 / year
Multi-entity or high-complexity operations — several locations, entities, or a hard compliance surface.
Prices are in INR, exclude GST, and are indicative — the final figure is scoped on a call, because two businesses on the same plan can need very different amounts of migration and customisation in their first quarter. What will not change after the call is the pricing model: it stays an annual retainer, and users stay unlimited.
Included in every plan — these are the line items other vendors quote separately, and the reason a Varisya number does not grow after signature.
Billed at cost, no markup — pass-through charges that belong to you, not to us. Where possible they sit on your own accounts, so you can see and control them directly.
GST is charged on top of the retainer at the applicable rate.
A fair reaction to ₹79,000 a year is disbelief, because the comparable-sounding quotes in the Indian market are an order of magnitude larger. They are larger for a real reason, and it is worth naming precisely so you can judge the trade.
| What you are buying | How it is priced | What the fee actually covers |
|---|---|---|
| Custom build from an IT consultancy or software agency | One-time project fee, then an annual maintenance contract typically at 15–20% of build cost per year | Writing the software from scratch. Every change after go-live is re-scoped and re-quoted. |
| ERP vendor (SAP Business One, Odoo, Dynamics) | Licence + implementation partner fee + annual support, as three separate contracts | A licensed product, someone to configure it, and someone to keep it running — priced independently. |
| In-house developer or support engineer | Annual salary plus overhead, recruitment and attrition risk | One person's time, and one person's knowledge — which walks out with them. Migration is a separate project. |
| Per-seat SaaS subscription | Per user, per month, rising as you hire | Access to someone else's roadmap, on someone else's servers, with your data as their tenant. |
| Varisya annual retainer | ₹39,000–₹1,49,000 per year, flat, unlimited users | Migration from your ERP or Excel — included in every plan — plus customising the eleven Nidhi Suite products to your workflows, support and upgrades, on cloud or your own servers. |
The whole difference sits in that last row. Varisya does not write your accounting system from nothing — Nidhi Books, Nidhi Inventory, Nidhi Billing, Nidhi Storefront, Nidhi Ecommerce, Nidhi POS, Nidhi Forms, Nidhi Signage, Nidhi Vendor Management, Nidhi Invoice Designer and Nidhi Sign already exist and already share one source of truth. What you pay for is the gap between the product and your business: your document numbering, your approval chain, your pricing rules, your reports. That is a far smaller and far more predictable body of work than a ground-up build, and it is the only reason an annual figure in the tens of thousands is honest rather than a loss-leader.
The corollary is the part we will tell you on the call: if your requirement has genuinely no overlap with accounting, inventory, billing, commerce, point of sale, forms or signage, then you need a bespoke build and our retainer is the wrong purchase.
This is a fit if
You run a 15–200 person Indian business — a distributor, manufacturer, retail chain, clinic group, logistics operator or professional services firm — and your operations already live in software you did not build.
Your per-seat SaaS bill rises every time you hire, and the workarounds your team has built around the tool are starting to cost more than the tool.
You need changes made regularly, not once — and today every change means finding a vendor, scoping it, and waiting for a quote.
You are still on Tally ERP 9, Busy, Marg, an old custom system or Excel, and you want to move off it without paying for the migration as a separate project.
Look elsewhere if
You need a one-off build you will never touch again. A fixed-scope project from an agency is cleaner and you should not pay a retainer for it.
You are running a licensed off-the-shelf product from a vendor still trading — TallyPrime, Zoho, a live SaaS tool — and it is working. Go to that vendor or an authorised implementation partner.
You want advice without delivery. A consultant will write you a strategy deck; our retainer is built around a team that also ships.
You are a pre-revenue startup needing a full product team. The customisation in these plans supports a running business; it will not build a venture-scale product from zero.
Rule of thumb
If your software is something you use, start at Essential. If your software is something your business runs on, you want Professional — priority customisation and same-day response is the difference. Enterprise is for multi-entity operations where downtime has an hourly cost you can calculate.
How much does Varisya cost per year?
Varisya is priced as an annual retainer in Indian rupees. Essential starts from ₹39,000 per year, Professional is ₹79,000 per year, and Enterprise is custom-scoped from ₹1,49,000 per year. Prices exclude GST and are indicative — the final figure is scoped on a call, because the plan you need depends on how many of the eleven products you run and how much customisation and migration work your business needs. Migration from your ERP or Excel is included in every plan. There is no per-seat licence at any tier: users are unlimited on every plan, so the fee does not rise as you add staff.
Why is your pricing per year rather than per month like most software?
Because you are not buying a software licence, you are buying migration, customisation and support for a year. Monthly SaaS pricing exists to meter seats; Varisya does not meter seats at all. An annual retainer lets the work be planned across the year — a heavy implementation month followed by lighter maintenance months — instead of forcing every change into a fixed monthly allowance. What separates the plans is the level of customisation and support — standard customisation on Essential, priority customisation with a monthly roadmap on Professional, SLA-bound delivery on Enterprise — not a monthly price.
We are a 30-person distributor already paying for Zoho and Tally — how would Varisya's price compare?
Compare on two axes, not one. First, per-seat cost: SaaS subscriptions rise every time you add a user, while Varisya's retainer does not move — so the gap widens as you grow. Second, what happens when you need a change. On SaaS you either wait for the vendor's roadmap or pay an implementation partner separately; on the Varisya retainer, customisation is already inside the fee. For a 30-person distributor running billing, inventory and accounting, Professional at ₹79,000 per year is the usual starting point because it covers all eleven products with priority customisation and same-day support. Whether it is cheaper than your current stack depends entirely on your seat count and how much custom work you are currently buying — bring both numbers to the call and we will do the arithmetic honestly.
Is migration charged separately?
No. Migration from your ERP or Excel — Tally ERP 9, Busy, Marg, SAP Business One, an old custom system or spreadsheets — is included in every plan: Essential, Professional and Enterprise. Masters, open balances and the history you need are moved onto the Nidhi Suite, checked against the old system, and run in parallel until your team signs off. There is no separate migration invoice.
What is not included in the retainer, and what will I be billed separately for?
Four categories sit outside the retainer, and all four are billed at cost with no markup: hosting and infrastructure, which run on your own cloud accounts; SMS gateway charges; WhatsApp Business API conversation charges; and payment-gateway fees, plus any other third-party API usage. GST is charged on top of the retainer. Everything else that people usually expect to be extra is inside the fee — onboarding, data migration from your ERP or Excel, version upgrades, ongoing maintenance, and ongoing customisation. There is no separate annual maintenance contract and no per-change quoting cycle.
How can ₹79,000 a year be real when consultancies quote lakhs for the same thing?
They are selling a different shape of work. An IT consultancy or ERP vendor quotes a one-time ground-up build, which is why it lands in lakhs, and then adds an annual maintenance contract at typically 15 to 20 percent of the build cost. Varisya does not build from scratch: it customises eleven products that already exist and already share one source of truth, so the work you pay for is the difference between the product and your workflow, not the whole product. That is the entire reason the number can be ₹79,000 per year. The honest trade-off is that you get a customised suite rather than wholly bespoke software — if your requirement genuinely has no overlap with accounting, inventory, billing, commerce, POS, forms or signage, a bespoke build is the right purchase and we will say so.
What happens if we need more work in a month than our plan covers?
You get a quote before any work starts, never a surprise invoice afterwards. When a month's requests exceed the customisation your plan covers, the options are to schedule the overflow into the following month, or to approve additional capacity at an agreed rate up front. Nothing is billed silently. In practice most businesses find their first two or three months are heavy — implementation and migration — and then settle into the plan's normal rhythm, which is why the fee is annual rather than monthly.
Do we have to commit for a year, and what happens to our software if we leave?
The retainer is an annual term, and the exit is deliberately clean because the system and the data are yours. Whether it runs on cloud or your own servers, the accounts are held in your name, so if the relationship ends you keep the running system, the data, the codebase and the documentation. There is no exit fee and no migration project to get your data back — it was never locked inside our tenancy. This is the practical difference between owning your software and renting a SaaS tenancy.
Implementation
What software implementation costs in India
Real INR ranges for freelancers, agencies, in-house teams and retainers — and the maintenance cost most fixed-price quotes leave out.
Support
What dedicated software support costs in India
Break-fix hourly rates, AMC contracts, in-house support salaries and retainers, compared on what each actually buys you.
Pricing model
Retainer vs project-based pricing
Why a one-time project number and an annual retainer are answering two different questions about the same software.
Ownership
Who actually owns your software
What self-hosted and white-label mean in practice — and what you walk away with if the relationship ends.
A 30-minute scoping call. Tell us which systems you run, how many people use them, and what you are paying today. You will leave with a plan recommendation and a real annual figure, including whether Varisya is the wrong fit for what you need.
No checkout, no per-seat pricing. Every plan routes through a consultation.