ponno.co
1. The problem
ponno.co solves accounting & inventory management for small & medium businesses which takes 2 hours in an average manual process.
Secondarily our aim is to connect these businesses with local consumers.
2. Our solution
ponno.co is a cloud based SME management application, which is:
***Multi device supported (WEB, ANDROID, IOS),
***Affordable (10tk/day),
***User friendly(takes less than 3 days to adopt),
***profitable (extra income from hyper local market place)
3. ponno.co aim to solve time lost (approx 20M/day) due to manual accounting and minimize Tax Gap nation wide.
1. "THE PROBLEM"
99.99% SME manage their business in manual process in Bangladesh!!! Results in following affects:
a) Countless work time loss (approx 20M hour loss per day).
b) SME are facing poor control over the business (approx 42,000M financial loss per year).
c) Countless effort loss
2. 10M+ Potential SME are currently operating in Bangladesh affects directly 30M+ business people.
3. So basically ponno.co platform does all their accounting and inventory managements. even business men can track their business on their Android or IOS phone. ponno App is like a cc TV for businessmen.. And this Handy solution for such a complex problem is now available at a very affordable pricing 10tk/day.
1. we are helping business owners and the people related to business managements or account manager. Many large business either hire an accountant or introduce ERP system. These ERP systems are charged in between 50,000-500,000 BDT/ year
but what about small and medium enterprises??
So first we studied our local businesses. Then we took time to set our Ux, solve accounting problems and then introduced inventory tracking and related more modules later om.
2. to grow a SME, needs its financial statistics & monitoring system. now ponno has 100+ sample users. stories of our users are pretty amazing.
first of all, they all appreciated our representation of their business throughout the App.
secondly, they feel win win while paying 3650 BDT annually for all of their major pain reliefs thirdly, the major crucial part which is Data entry and system training & initiating is absolutely free
Our products:
ponno POS(Android)
ponno Micro ERP(Web, Android, IOS)
ponno E-shop (A hyper local market place will be launched soon)
SERVICE:
Cloud accountant, inventory management, Online marketer, Online consumer connections.
TECHNOLOGY
Currently our back-end is in laravel. we have solved business logic for 8 different categories. our app is connected with 117 APIs with its back-end
now we are on a mission to make a bigger system for more capabilities.
- Increase opportunities for people - especially those traditionally left behind – to access digital and 21st century skills, meet employer demands, and access the jobs of today and tomorrow
- Support underserved people in fostering entrepreneurship and creating new technologies, businesses, and jobs
- Finance
- Technology
To Bring Innovation in such a messy industry it was really Hard. With Our Limited resource & Capital we were focused on following innovating factors
SYSTEM & UX: we have designed the workflow in such a manner so that our business can relate with their existing method of record keeping. we are language friendly & support multi devices. With Multi user support and unlimited inventory facility ponno.co triggers for ultimate degree of freedom for businesses.
PRICE: 36050 bdt/ year (Small & hassle free)
SERVICE: ** Free data entry ** Free training **Online marketplace access
Today or Tomorrow every single Business will be automated.
Bangladesh Government faces Huge amount of TAX GAP each year. Local Businesses are wasting time on accounting and extract less profit form business operations. E-commerce are also facing accounting & financial problems.
Currently there is a huge opportunity for us to take a driving seat by giving quality software solution, with affordable price packages and even make profit from online sales.
Currently ponno.co is the only low cost, multi-device supported, well represented business solution in Bangladesh and we are adding updates on a very regular basis
- Women & Girls
- Pregnant Women
- Elderly
- Rural Residents
- Urban Residents
- Middle-Income
- Persons with Disabilities
- Bhutan
- India
- Nepal
- Bhutan
- India
- Nepal
1. Current User: 100+
Paid:80 Free user 30+
We haven't done any marketing operation. these are sample users.
2. Users in End 2020
Paid: 20,000+ Small & Medium Businesses (Projected)
Free User: 30,000+
Hyper-Local market place: 10,000+ Order per day (inside Dhaka)
Our Target market will be acquire more & more businesses from District & sub District level.
2ndly to acquire more & more E-Commerce & F-Commerce Businesses
3rdly set partnership with Local NGOs.
4rthly We are taking preparation on activating E-Sop facility within mid 2020
3. Users in End of 2024
Paid: 300,000+ Small & Medium Businesses (Projected)
Free User: 1,000,000+
Hyper-Local market place: 10,000,000+ Order per day (whole country)
Goals for Next Year:
*** Designing & building a scale-able Business Machine
*** Setting up a Secure & sustainable Data security plan
*** Awareness building through our marketing engines
*** Alignment with Government projects & NGOs
*** Setting a trust worthy brand image through media coverage
Goals for Next 5 Year:
*** 10% acquisition of over all market
*** 1 R&D center, 3 Regional Head office, 30+ territory offices, 500+ employee
*** 1 Billion USD+ company valuation
Current Challenge:
Building trust with our clients & users is now our on-going challenge. As there have been a lot of issues with POS/ERP system adoption by the businesses.
So building a trust worthy Brand image is now our priority.
Future Challenge:
Data Security.... We have to face challenges regarding data security and data management issues.
so our future target is to take initiatives like setting up own data center and data management expert team
Gaining Trust:
first of all we are doing all kind of data entry and system guidance for SME for FREE of COST. Our support team is trained on these following facts to gain trusts:
*** truth about how their data is stored
*** promise on how their data will be stored
*** promise to resolve their system issues at a shortest possible time
*** most importantly keep our promises
Data security:
Currently we are using shared hosting service. we are now doing feasibility & budget analysis to set a small scale data center that has at least 50,000 business capacity. We will start build our own firewall for safety of the system eventually.
- For-Profit
Total Member 15
Research & Development Team : 8 member
Sales & Support: 4 member
Admin: 3 member
Founder: Zaheen Mahdee
CSE, CUET. working since 2017
CO-Founder: Lutfullahil Kabir
CSE, AUST. 4 years+ experience in back end development & related industry.
working since 2018
key strength of our team:
*** Young & Energetic Team combination
*** Vital employees are also early stage investor
*** Posses same vision
*** Committed
*** Hungry & workaholic
Basic revenue model
Free POS : revenue comes from adds
Micro ERP: 3650 BDT yearly subscription charge
Additional Revenue Model
E-Shop: Retailer & consumer connecting platform
E-Vendor: Retailer & vendor connecting platform
E-loan: Loan facilities according their balance sheet & cash flow report
recently we have secured a position in r-venture 2.0 business competition. So we are hoping to secure at least 350,000 USD .
Side by side some industrialists are also interested about how we do and what we do as a startup.
All these capital will be used for better system, infrastructure and acquire at least 10,000 paid user
As each and every year the number of recurrent paying user increases and the cost of acquisition decreases ponno.co will be more capable to expand its capital
Basically to Build a large scale Business automation system we need HELP, ADVICE & GUIDANCE. Tiger IT Foundation is a very good opportunity for us. with the knowledge & experience sharing Tiger IT Foundation will be a great tie on our journey.
- Business model
- Technology
- Funding & revenue model
- Talent or board members
- Legal
- Media & speaking opportunities
R-venture 2.0, Gp Accelerator

Founder & CEO