About
Built in Pune, by the person who answers the phone.
Shivaji Kokate
Founder, ERiKA SOFTWARES
I spent more than a decade building software for large companies — travel technology first, then medical devices. Complex products, delivered on time, in industries where being wrong is expensive. None of it was ERP.
What pulled me here was something I kept seeing from the outside. Every time I looked closely at a manufacturing business it was the same picture: hours going into things that should be simple — what is actually in stock, whether an invoice went out, when the next government deadline falls. All of it already on a computer somewhere, and none of it joined up. Building the kind of system that joins it up is what I had spent my career doing.
So in May 2025 I left, instead of joining another company. Not to build an ERP — I did not know how e-invoicing or an e-way bill worked when I started. I learned them as I went, and the deeper in I got, the clearer it became that this was the thing worth building. In July I started ERiKA SOFTWARES.
That is SAMaGRA ERP: made in India, for owner-operated manufacturers in Pune’s MIDC belt, Bhosari, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Chakan and Ranjangaon, who want their orders, dispatch, GST and Tally in one place and want to talk to the person who built it. Not a bloated system made for someone a hundred times their size.
The first pilot went live in a five-person fabrication unit in three days. They were raising challans and invoices from their phones by the third afternoon. That set the bar for everything since: if a person with basic phone skills cannot use a screen without training, the screen is wrong.
What I hold to
- Reliability first. The Tally export is correct to the rupee, the WhatsApp message fires on time, nothing crashes. Craft sits on top of that; it never replaces it.
- The owner is on the floor, not at a desk. Push beats pull. A buzz on the phone, not a dashboard you have to remember to open.
- Paper is a first-class output. The invoice, challan, job card and quotation are the parts of SAMaGRA your customers, auditors and bankers see.
- The data is yours. Export is free, numbering never breaks, records never disappear behind a paywall.
How working with me goes
You message me on WhatsApp, in Marathi, Hindi or English. Changes that fit how your shop works ship in days. There is no ticket queue, no account manager, and no version you are waiting for. SAMaGRA is complementary to Tally, so your accountant keeps working the way they do today.
The vision
The money a small factory loses is not small.
A thirty-person shop loses hours every week to things software settled long ago. Hunting for stock that is sitting on a shelf. Typing an invoice that already exists somewhere. Finding out about a filing date after it has passed. Guessing at a margin instead of knowing it.
Over a year that is a machine not bought, an order not taken, a person not hired. The money is not saved anywhere else. It is simply lost.
Every rupee a shop stops losing stays in the shop. And a shop whose records are in order can prove its numbers — to a customer, to a bank, to a government scheme it was always entitled to and could never document. Small manufacturers keeping their own money, and able to show what they are worth, is what makes Indian industry stronger. That is what this is for.
The goal
Every manufacturing business in India, however small, running on software it can actually use. Not a pilot. Not a dashboard nobody opens. The register the business is actually run from.
The road so far
From leaving the job to a factory that runs on it.
I left the job.
Not to start an ERP company. To work full time on something I had watched manufacturers lose hours to: stock, invoices and compliance sitting in systems that never spoke to each other.
Work starts on SAMaGRA.
No customer, no funding, no name for it yet. I did not know how e-invoicing worked either. What I had was the problem, stated clearly enough to build against.
The first version worked end to end.
Quotation to order to challan to invoice, with the tax lines and the Tally export correct. Six months of writing before anyone saw it, because a half-built ERP is worse than the notebook it replaces.
The first shops put it on the floor.
Real orders, real dispatch, real GST, on the phones of people who had never used an ERP before. That is the bar every screen has been held to since.
The pilots kept it.
Four months in, they did not want to go back to the way it was before. For software on a shop floor, that is the signal that counts first.
- Now
It runs the day.
SAMaGRA is on the floor at RRA Industries in Pune, and a change that fits the way a shop works still ships in days, not quarters.
The firm
Who you are actually buying from.
- GSTIN
- 27DAAPK3987F1ZI
- Founded
- July 2025
- Address
- Ravet, PuneMaharashtra 412101
The person who builds SAMaGRA is the person who supports it, and that is the same reason a change that fits your shop ships in days instead of quarters.
It also raises a fair question, so here is the answer in plain terms. Every register in SAMaGRA exports in full, at any time, free, in formats Tally and Excel already read. Your document numbering is yours. If ERiKA ever stopped trading, you would keep the data and the means to read it — none of it is held back to keep you paying.
Core values
- Genuine
- What is written on this site is what the product does today, not what is on a roadmap. If SAMaGRA cannot do something your shop needs, you hear it on the first call, not in the third month.
- Integrity
- Your numbers are your numbers. The Tally export is right to the rupee or it is a bug. No figure is ever bent to make a screen look better.
- Craftsmanship
- An engineer’s mind held to a craftsman’s standard: the challan you print at midnight gets the same care as the screen you show a customer.
- Transparent
- Prices, limits and mistakes are all said plainly. When something breaks, you hear it from me before you find it yourself.
Talk to the person who builds it.
Five minutes on WhatsApp beats a forty-page RFP. Shivaji replies himself.