The real problems vehicle owners across Bangladesh were up against, and how Amar Auto solved them.
Books that did not add up, dues that went uncollected, vehicles nobody could track — the problems owners around the country had, and how Amar Auto solved them.
Adding up by hand in a ledger went wrong every month — what each driver had paid never matched, and 8–10 thousand taka was unaccounted for by month end.
A collection is one tap on the keypad and dues are worked out automatically. No manual arithmetic at all.
Nobody could remember what each driver owed. When a driver left, the money was simply gone.
Every driver’s dues show in red in the app, and SMS reminders go out on time.
An assistant took the collections and occasionally kept some back — impossible to catch, and nothing to prove it.
Every collection is recorded with a timestamp, and the receipt can be shared.
I kept forgetting when fitness, insurance and the tax token expired — and the police fined me on the road.
The app warns before anything expires.
Reconciling every driver’s collections and costs at month end took half the night, and there were still mistakes.
Monthly income, expense and profit reports are generated in one click.
Every vehicle had its own ledger, and reconciling them at month end turned into a muddle.
CNGs, autos and rent-a-cars — every vehicle on one dashboard.
Where a hired car had gone, whether it was coming back on time — I had to keep ringing to find out.
Every vehicle’s position on a live GPS map, at a glance.
Fuel, repairs, garage rent — none of it was recorded, so there was no telling what the real profit was.
Costs go into separate categories, and profit and loss show in a chart.
Handwritten receipts went missing, and drivers argued about who had paid what.
Digital receipts are generated, shared and kept.
I could not afford to pay for software in advance, so going digital never happened.
Postpaid — use it first, settle the bill by bKash at month end.
Hiring bikes and cars to tourists by the hour or the day — who took what when, when it came back, what the overtime came to — it all got confused in the ledger.
Release and return are each one tap, the bill and any overtime are calculated from the time, and the tourist gets a link to the bill by SMS.
Install now — start with nothing to pay up front.