Ganesh in Pune, Durga Puja in Kolkata, Onam in Kochi, Chhath in Patna. Different festivals, the same three problems, collecting the money, tracking where it went, and proving it.
Whatever the festival, a committee runs into the same three things. Money comes in from many people over a few weeks, usually through several volunteers at once. Money goes out fast, to decorators, caterers, sound and priests, often in cash and often without a bill reaching the treasurer. And at the end someone has to stand up and explain the difference.
Om Kosh handles that middle part, the money, for any festival and any kind of committee, a housing society, a puja samiti, a mandal, a trust or a temple committee. It does not care which festival you celebrate; it cares that every rupee in has a receipt and every rupee out has a bill.
The accounts live in a diary in the treasurer’s handwriting. When the committee changes next year, the new treasurer inherits a book nobody else can interpret and starts again from zero.
A volunteer takes an advance, buys flowers and a generator, and the bills arrive a week later, if at all. By then nobody is sure what was spent against what was given.
When the statement is prepared after the festival from memory and loose paper, it invites doubt, however honest it is. An account assembled as it happens does not.
Every volunteer collects from their own phone with a 4-digit PIN. The running total updates for the whole committee, so nobody is recorded twice and nobody waits till midnight to know where you stand.
Recording a contribution issues a branded, numbered receipt immediately, in Marathi, Hindi or English, ready to show, print or send on WhatsApp. Numbers are allocated by the app, so the series never repeats or skips.
Log every payment out with a photo of the bill, and track advances handed to committee members separately, so you always know what each person is still holding.
Money from local businesses and visitors is tracked apart from household contributions, each with its own receipt series, so the report shows where support actually came from.
Pledges and part-payments become a follow-up list automatically, the same list the collector sees on their phone, rather than a note in someone’s diary.
Opening balance, income by source, itemised expenses and closing balance, assembled from the entries as they were made. Export it for the auditor or the general body meeting in one tap.
No, and it is worth being clear. Om Kosh is for the money: contributions, receipts, sponsorships, expenses, vendor payments and the final account. It does not book your venue, sell entry passes, manage a performance schedule or handle municipal permissions. If what you need is the accounts, it does that thoroughly; if you need event logistics, this is not that tool.
Any of them. Committees use it for Ganesh Chaturthi, Navratri and Garba, Durga Puja, Diwali, Holi, Dahi Handi, Onam, Pongal, Chhath Puja, Gudi Padwa and Ugadi, and for year-round society funds. You name your own festivals when you set up, so the app uses your words, not ours.
No. It is used by housing societies, puja samitis, mandals and trusts anywhere in India. Receipts can be issued in Marathi, Hindi or English, and everything else, member categories, expense heads, payment methods and festival names, is configured by you.
A spreadsheet cannot be filled in by five volunteers at a gate at the same time, cannot issue a numbered receipt to the person in front of them, and cannot stop the same flat being recorded twice. Om Kosh does those three things, and the report at the end is a by-product of the entries rather than a separate piece of work.
It is free until your committee collects ₹1 lakh in a financial year, with every feature and no cap on receipts or members. Above that there is a single annual fee based on the year’s total collection. There is never a per-receipt charge and we never take a percentage of what you collect.
Nothing is lost. Past years stay exactly as they were left, readable but not editable, so an incoming treasurer can see how last year actually ran instead of starting from an empty book.
Tell us about your society, mandal or trust and we’ll set you up to run your next festival with your whole committee, free to get started.