Resources

Guides for people who run operations.

Practical writing on purchase orders, reconciliation, monitoring and workflow automation — written for the teams doing the work, not for search engines.

Reconciliation

Zepto Expected Payment: Reconciling Invoices Against Debit Notes at Speed

Compute expected Zepto payment per invoice as it settles, read the DN PDFs, and map promo/RTV notes correctly.

7 min read21 July 2026
Reconciliation

Instamart Payment Reconciliation: From Debit Note PDFs to Expected Payment

Reading Instamart DN PDFs, mapping promo/RTV notes to invoices, and computing expected vs actual payment.

7 min read14 July 2026
Reconciliation

What Should Blinkit Actually Pay You? Calculating Expected Payment After Debit Notes

Compute what Blinkit should pay per invoice after DNs, read the DN PDFs, and map promo/RTV notes to the right invoice.

8 min read7 July 2026
Reconciliation

Zepto Reconciliation: A Line-Item Playbook for Outright and SOR

Zepto settlements are fast, frequent and netted. That cadence is a good thing for cash — but it means deductions accumul

7 min read23 June 2026
Reconciliation

Swiggy Instamart Reconciliation: Payments, Debit Notes and Knock-Offs

Instamart reconciliation is a mapping problem before it is a finance problem. The money arrives net of deductions, on a

7 min read16 June 2026
Reconciliation

Blinkit Reconciliation: Outright vs Sale-or-Return, and Getting Paid Correctly

Blinkit pays you two different ways depending on the model, deducts through a stack of debit notes, and settles on its o

8 min read9 June 2026
Workflows

Dispatch Recommendation Workflows: Choosing the Right Courier on TAT and Cost

Most brands dispatch on habit. A recommendation workflow scores every option on observed delivery time and landed cost,

6 min read26 May 2026
Operations

Expanding to the Middle East: An Operations Checklist

The commercial case for Noon, Namshi and amazon.ae is usually straightforward. The operational assumptions you carry ove

7 min read12 May 2026
Finance

Real-Time Cashflow: Closing the Gap Between Invoiced and Received

Month-end is a reporting cadence, not an operating one. If your first accurate view of receivables arrives on the fifth

6 min read21 April 2026
Reconciliation

The Quick Commerce Deduction Playbook

Deductions are not fraud and they are not all disputable. Knowing which category you are looking at, and what evidence i

8 min read7 April 2026
Monitoring

Building Automated Stockout and Price Monitoring Workflows

The hard part of monitoring is not detection. It is deciding what deserves a notification at two in the afternoon and wh

7 min read24 March 2026
Workflows

Automated Data Warehousing for Marketplace Data (Without Hiring Engineers)

Getting orders, ads, settlements and inventory out of twenty portals is the easy part. Making them agree with each other

7 min read17 March 2026
Workflows

Optimising Logistics with Workflows: Automating LR, POD and Delivery Reconciliation

Carrier data is the missing half of most reconciliation setups. Pulling LRs and PODs automatically is unglamorous work t

6 min read3 March 2026
Reconciliation

Where Did the Units Go? Diagnosing GRN Short Supply

You shipped 5,000. The GRN says 4,800. Before you raise a debit note, work out which of five places those 200 units went

6 min read18 February 2026
Reconciliation

One PO, Five Invoices: Why Multi-Invoice Purchase Orders Break Reconciliation

A single purchase order rarely produces a single invoice. Here is why that happens, what it breaks downstream, and how t

6 min read11 February 2026
PO Automation

The Anatomy of a PO Timeline: Where the Days Actually Go

Order to cash is not one delay. It is seven small ones stacked end to end, and only two of them are usually worth fixing

7 min read4 February 2026
PO Automation

3-Way vs 4-Way Matching: A Practical Guide for Consumer Brands

Three-way matching is standard. Four-way is where the money is — but the fourth document depends entirely on whether you

8 min read28 January 2026

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