Master plan · Solo founder
Everything we're building
Product roadmap, pricing, costs, revenue targets, price-increase policy, and expansion — one page. Full doc: InvenIQ-Plan/MASTER_PLAN.md
Pricing anchors
Starter
Single café / one counter
₹3,499/mo
₹34,990/yr (2 mo free)
1 outlet · 1 concurrent session
Growth
Restaurant + online orders
₹9,999/mo
₹99,990/yr (2 mo free)
1 outlet (+ add-ons) · 3 concurrent sessions
Scale
Multi-outlet chains
₹24,999/mo
₹2,49,990/yr (2 mo free)
Up to 5 outlets · 10 concurrent sessions
Enterprise
12+ outlets / hotel groups
From ₹3L/year
Unlimited · Custom
Annual price increase: +₹999 per tier (or ~10%, whichever is lower) once per year · 12-month grandfathering for existing customers
- Extra outlet₹999 – ₹1,499/mo
- Extra aggregator (Swiggy/Zomato)+₹999/outlet/mo
- Extra cashier session+₹299/mo
- SMS OTP+₹199/mo
12-month roadmap (solo)
Foundation
- Order tables in PostgreSQL
- API contract
- Stop POS localStorage
POS → API
- Checkout saves to DB
- Recipe consumption wired
Payments
- Razorpay UPI + webhooks
- Remove payment simulator
Cash & print
- Shifts
- Thermal print
- Sell Starter pilots
Trust
- Refunds
- Audit logs
- Leakage dashboard
Kitchen
- KDS
- Auto menu 86 when stock low
Aggregators
- Middleware webhooks
- Sell Growth tier
Scale SaaS
- Multi-branch
- Subscriptions
- Offline POS
Launch
- Load test
- API docs
- GA + 3 reference clients
Monthly revenue targets
Conservative @ 12 mo
₹1.1L
Solo, cold start
Moderate @ 12 mo
₹3.2L
Network + on-time ship
Optimistic @ 12 mo
₹5.5L
1–2 chain deals
Hire support @
₹2L
Budget ₹15–20k/mo
Hire dev team @
₹5L
Budget ₹50–60k/mo
Running costs (bootstrap)
| Hosting (Vercel + Railway) | ₹0 – ₹1,500/mo |
| Email OTP / reset password | ₹0 (Resend free tier) |
| SMS OTP (optional) | ₹0 – ₹500/mo |
| Swiggy/Zomato (you) | No direct API — middleware ₹500–2.5k/outlet |
| WhatsApp OTP | Skip at launch |
| Solo bootstrap runway | ₹20k ≈ 10 mo @ ₹2k/mo |
Built today vs mock
Real
- • GRN, PO, stock, wastage, variance API
- • Email OTP auth
- • Consumption service (needs POS wire)
- • Promotion/pricing engines
UI mock (do not sell yet)
- • Swiggy/Zomato live sync
- • UPI verify / card terminal
- • Shift cash variance
- • Refunds UI + repeat-cancel flags
Can this make you rich?
Achievable
₹1–10Cr net worth in 7–15 years if you reach ₹50L–1Cr ARR or sell to a POS/ERP acquirer.
Comfortable
₹3–8L/mo personal income at ₹40–80L MRR with a small team — upper-middle / HNI, not billionaire.
Richard Mille life
Needs $20M+ exit or generational business. This model can be the vehicle if you expand to a platform — not from 50 cafés at ₹3.5k alone.
Where to expand (Zoho-style)
Vertical
- Cloud kitchens
- Hotel F&B
- Catering
- QSR franchises
- Bars
Modules (Zoho-style)
- Tally/accounting
- Payroll
- Loyalty CRM
- Vendor marketplace
- Reservations
Platform
- API for accountants
- White-label resellers
- Franchise HQ
- Benchmark data