A notebook that never forgets a chai.
Bill Inn keeps the running tab for every room, bed and table in your guesthouse. Three taps per order. Bills on WhatsApp. No signal required.
MORNING SERVICE · PARVATI VALLEY, HIMACHAL
Three nights in Room 3.
This is everything Bill Inn does, told as one stay. Keep an eye on the tab in the corner: it runs while you read.
Ten minutes at checkout becomes ten seconds.
A notebook works, until the cook forgets a maggi, a page gets tea-stained, a guest argues at 6am with a cab waiting. Bill Inn is the same notebook, just one that remembers everything.
The notebook Before
Bill Inn After
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The notebook is honest work. It just forgets things. This one doesn't.
Four steps. Three taps per order.
In your house tonight
Today
2 arriving · 1 leavingRoom 3 · 2× ginger chai · 1× maggi17:32
Your guest never downloads an app.
Everything happens in the one app every guest already has open, and every cook already knows how to use. No logins, no OTPs, no installs.
Bill arrives like a normal chat
Itemized, pay-by-UPI, with your name on top. Guests don't have to think about a "platform."
Chef ping for kitchen orders
Cook gets a structured WhatsApp to the kitchen group. No shouting across the courtyard.
Guest history stays
Next time Priya books, you already know she avoids onion-garlic. Send a pre-arrival namaste in two taps.
Works offline. Syncs when the signal returns.
The Parvati doesn't care about your 4G plan. Neither does Bill Inn. Every order, check-in, and bill is saved on the phone first. If the bars come back at 3am, everything catches up quietly.
- Take orders on a phone with no signal. No errors, no retries.
- Print or share bills offline, send over WhatsApp later.
- Battery-dead phone? Grab any other phone, log in, pick up exactly where you stopped.
- Under 12MB. Runs on the cheapest Android.
I never ran a guesthouse. I was the other side of the notebook: the guest who kept coming back to these valleys, stayed a week longer than planned, and learned the names of three generations of one family in Kalga before learning any trek route.
What I remember from those houses is not the view. It is the 6am chai. The dog asleep across the kitchen doorway. And always, by the till, a notebook fat with rubber bands, holding every chai and maggi and bed-night of the season.
I watched hosts I admire lose money to that notebook, and lose the argument at checkout even when they were right. So I built them a notebook that cannot forget. It was written in the houses it is for, on the same one bar of signal, and it has one rule: if it is ever slower than the pen, it is wrong.
One plan.
Less than a thaali a day.
No tiers. No "enterprise" version. No surprise bill at year-end. You pay one flat price, and that's it.
- No setup fee
- No per-guest charge
- No per-transaction cut
- No lock-in contract
- No hidden anything
- Unlimited check-ins & bills
- WhatsApp bill sending
- Offline mode + sync
- Menu, rooms, staff management
- Guest history forever
- UPI payments (no extra cut)
- WhatsApp & phone support
Built where it's used.
Bill Inn is spending its first season behind the counters of homestays and cafes in the Parvati Valley. The owners are still deciding what they think. When they tell us, their words go here. Not before.
KALGA · HOMESTAY
TOSH · CAFE
KHEERGANGA · GUESTHOUSEAsk like a friend. We'll answer like one.
Still not sure? WhatsApp us. The founder himself replies, usually within an hour.
WhatsApp the founderNo. Bill Inn works offline. Take orders, check in guests, checkout: all without signal. When any bar comes back, everything syncs quietly. You don't do anything.
All data is synced to our server when you have signal. Grab any other Android phone, log in with your number and OTP, and you're exactly where you were. No data lost.
Haan. Hindi interface available. The kitchen view has only three buttons: room number, item (with photos), quantity. We built it sitting in Kalga kitchens.
Guest phone numbers stay on your phone and our server, encrypted. We never sell, share, or use them for anything. You can delete any guest's history anytime. Zero marketing calls. Ever.
No. Bill Inn works with or without GST. If you have one, we'll include it on bills automatically. If not, bills go out clean.
Any Android above version 8. We tested on an eight-year-old ₹6000 phone with 2GB RAM and it works fine. iOS coming later this year.
Cancel anytime, in one tap. We'll export all your bills and guest history as a PDF or Excel file, yours to keep. No arguments, no retention calls.
Every tab settles.
Start yours.
Free for 30 days. No card, no setup fee. Ten minutes to set up your menu, most of it spent making chai.