Software for foremen, branches and collection agents

Chit Fund Software in Coimbatore

Illustration of a ring of twenty numbered chit members around a prize pool, an auction board with four bids and a dividend bar, a member passbook with ticked months and a phone showing collections by group, in Itboomi purple and gold
Hyprotek attendance screen built by Itboomi listing people with punched in and punched out status
Hyprotek Person-wise status

Every group, every instalment, every auction and every payout in one record, with an app for members, an app for collection agents and an office panel for the foreman, built by our team in Tiruppur.

  • Groups
  • Collections
  • Auctions
  • Dividends
  • Payouts

How a chit runs

One group, one month at a time

A chit is simple to explain and hard to keep tidy on paper. Members agree to pay a fixed instalment every month for as many months as there are members, and every month one of them takes the prize.

In an auction chit, the members who have not yet taken the prize bid for it, and the one willing to accept the largest discount wins that month. The discount, after the foreman's commission, is shared among the members as a dividend, which lowers what each of them pays next month. The member who won keeps paying until the group ends, usually with a surety or guarantor on record for the remaining months.

Multiply that by dozens of groups starting in different months, each with its own instalment, its own auction day and its own members, add collection agents visiting shops and homes across Coimbatore, and the paper register becomes the riskiest thing in the office.

  1. Enrol

    Members, nominees and sureties added with KYC documents and the agreement.

  2. Collect

    Monthly instalments received at the counter, online or by an agent, with a receipt.

  3. Auction

    Eligible members bid on the auction day; the system records every bid.

  4. Share

    The discount, less commission, is split as a dividend across the group.

  5. Pay out

    The prize is released against sureties and documents, then the cycle repeats.

Where the register breaks

Entries that cause the long phone calls

If several of these happen in your office every month, software will pay back the effort of moving off paper or an old desktop program.

EntryWhat happens todayWith the software
E-01Agents write receipts by hand and the office types them again in the evening.The agent issues a numbered receipt on the phone and the entry reaches the office at once.
E-02Members call to ask how much they owe this month after the dividend.Each member sees the net instalment, paid months and dues in their own app or by SMS.
E-03Auction bids are written on a sheet and the dividend is worked out by hand.Bids are recorded in the auction screen and the dividend split is computed and logged.
E-04A prize winner stops paying and nobody notices for two months.Overdue members after winning are flagged on the day, with their surety details ready.
E-05Each branch keeps its own book and head office waits for month-end totals.Branches work on one database and the foreman sees collections and dues live.
E-06The auditor asks for a group ledger and someone spends a day compiling it.Group, member and agent ledgers are generated from the entries already made.

What the software covers

Six modules, one set of books

We start from the way your office already works, so module names and columns follow your registers. These are the parts most chit businesses need.

Groups and members

Group value, duration, start month and auction day; members, nominees, sureties and documents; transfers and replacements when a seat changes hands.

Collections and receipts

Counter, online and agent collections with numbered receipts, part payments, advance payments and late fees as your rules define them.

Auction room

Eligible members listed for the month, bids entered live or from a meeting, the winning bid locked with time and witnesses.

Dividend and payout

Commission and dividend calculated per group, net instalments for next month, prize payout checklist with documents and approvals.

Dues, defaulters and sureties

Overdue lists by agent and area, reminders by SMS or WhatsApp, surety contact details and follow-up notes on every case.

Ledgers and reports

Group ledgers, member statements, agent collection sheets, branch summaries and exports for your auditor and accounts software.

Three apps, one record

Built for the people who touch the money

A chit business has three kinds of users with very different needs. Each gets its own screens; all of them read and write the same data, with permissions decided by the foreman.

Member app

For subscribers

  • Groups joined and months paid
  • Net instalment after dividend
  • Auction dates and results
  • Receipts and statements to download
Agent app

For collection agents

  • Day's route by area or shop
  • Receipt issued on the spot
  • Works without signal, syncs later
  • Cash handed over at day end
Office panel

For the foreman and branches

  • Groups, members and sureties
  • Auction entry and dividend
  • Dues, defaulters and follow-ups
  • Ledgers and branch reports

Recent work

Apps we have shipped with the same building blocks

We have not built a chit fund product yet, and we will not pretend otherwise. These recent Itboomi apps show the parts a chit system is made of: two roles in one app, daily reports, staff working across locations and a guided entry flow.

Kanchipuram Jobs app screens by Itboomi: recruiter dashboard with active jobs and the post a job form

Kanchipuram Jobs

Two roles in one app, chosen after OTP sign-in, each with its own dashboard. The same pattern separates members from collection agents.

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Hyprotek app screens by Itboomi: site reports with totals and the labour attendance list with punched in and punched out status

Hyprotek

Daily reports built from entries made in the field, plus a person-wise list with status. Collection sheets and dues lists follow the same structure.

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Kaarya Site app screens by Itboomi: switch between assigned sites and the chat thread with the office

Kaarya Site

Staff switch between assigned locations and message the office from the app. Branch managers and agents covering several areas work the same way.

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VW app screens by Itboomi: vehicle categories and the post an ad flow starting with what are you offering

VW

A category-first home and a guided multi-step entry flow. Member enrolment and KYC capture benefit from the same step-by-step design.

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Send us one page of your chit register

Photograph one group ledger or collection sheet and share it with us. We will come back with questions and a rough outline of the screens your office, agents and members would use.

Records you will be asked for

Keep the paper trail without the paper

Organised chits in Tamil Nadu are registered with the Registrar of Chits, and auditors, registrar staff and members all ask for records. The software does not replace your auditor or legal adviser; it makes sure the records they need exist and agree with each other.

Group file

Agreement details, member list with seat numbers, start and end months and the auction day for each group.

Auction minutes

Who was eligible, every bid, the winning bid, the time and the people present, locked once confirmed.

Member statements

Instalments due and paid, dividends credited, prize received and balance for any member on any date.

Payout documents

Surety details, documents collected and approvals recorded before a prize is released.

Rules, forms and filing formats are set by the applicable chit law and your registrar. We build the reports to the formats your auditor gives us.

How we build it

From your register to a working system

  1. Stage 1

    Study your books

    We sit with your office staff and agents, read your registers and receipts and write down the rules your groups follow.

  2. Stage 2

    Screens you can test

    Clickable screens for the member app, agent app and office panel, reviewed with the people who will use them.

  3. Stage 3

    One group goes live

    A single group or branch moves to the software first, running alongside paper until the numbers match.

  4. Then

    Move the rest

    Remaining groups are migrated from registers, spreadsheets or old software, and agents switch over area by area.

  5. Always

    Support and changes

    Fixes, new reports and rule changes after launch, with the source code and accounts registered to your company.

Buying guide

Choosing chit fund software in Coimbatore

Notes for foremen and chit company owners comparing products, freelancers and app studios.

  1. Packaged product or software built for you
  2. Questions to ask any vendor
  3. Moving from registers or an old program
  4. Security and member trust
  5. Savings schemes and other uses
  6. Working with Itboomi

Packaged product or software built for you

Several chit fund software products are sold across Tamil Nadu, and for a small office running a few standard auction groups, one of them may be enough. Ask for a demo with your own group structure, not the vendor's sample data, and check how it handles your commission rules, part payments, late fees and seat transfers.

Software built for you makes sense when your rules do not fit a product, when you want your own branded member app, when collection agents are central to the business, or when you need to connect with accounts software and payment gateways in a particular way. It also means you own the code and the data, rather than renting access to someone else's system.

Questions to ask any vendor

How is the dividend calculated and can we see the formula? What happens when an auction is entered wrongly, and who can correct it? Does the agent app work without signal? Where is the data hosted, who can access it, and how are backups taken? Can members be sent receipts and dues by SMS or WhatsApp? Can we export everything if we move to another system?

Also ask who will be on the phone when something goes wrong on an auction day. Chit businesses run to a calendar, and a support team that answers next week is not much use when forty members are waiting in the hall.

Moving from registers or an old program

Most of the effort in a chit software project is not the code; it is getting existing groups into the new system correctly. Running groups carry months of history, dividends already credited and prizes already paid. We plan migration group by group, check balances against your registers with your staff, and keep paper running in parallel until both agree.

Starting new groups directly in the software while older groups finish on paper is often the calmest path, and we can support either approach.

Security and member trust

Member data includes identity documents, phone numbers and payment history, so access is role-based: agents see only their own routes, branch staff only their branch, and sensitive actions such as payout approval or auction correction need the foreman's permission and leave a log.

A member app that shows paid months, dividends and receipts clearly builds trust in a business that depends on it. It also reduces the visits and calls the office handles every day.

Savings schemes and other uses

Jewellery shops, textile showrooms and kitchenware stores in Coimbatore run monthly savings schemes for festivals and weddings, and the same building blocks apply: enrolment, monthly collection, reminders and redemption at the end. We build these too, within whatever rules your auditor and the applicable law set out.

For other money-handling workflows, see our billing app and custom software pages, or the CRM page if your agents also sell new memberships.

Working with Itboomi

Itboomi is a mobile app development company with its office in Tiruppur, serving Coimbatore and the rest of Tamil Nadu. We focus on apps people use on their phones, with web panels behind them, built in React Native for Android and iPhone from one codebase.

We start with a conversation about your groups and registers, send a written plan for the first release, and begin only after you approve it. Read more on our homepage, browse the portfolio, or contact us to talk about your chit business.

Questions

Chit fund software questions from Coimbatore

What does chit fund software do?

It keeps groups, members, sureties, monthly collections, auctions, dividends and prize payouts in one record, issues receipts, flags overdue members and produces the ledgers and statements your office and auditor need.

Do you build a mobile app for collection agents?

Yes. Agents see their route, collect instalments, issue receipts on the phone and hand over cash at day end. Entries made without signal are saved and synced when the phone reconnects.

Can members check their dues and auction results on their phone?

Yes. A member app or SMS and WhatsApp messages can show the net instalment after dividend, months paid, receipts and auction dates and results for each group they belong to.

Will the software calculate dividends and commission automatically?

Yes, using the rules your groups follow. We write down your commission and dividend method with your staff, build it into the auction screen and log every calculation so it can be checked.

Can you move our existing groups from registers or old software?

Yes. We migrate group by group, check balances against your records with your team and keep the old method running in parallel until the figures match.

Does the software make us compliant with chit fund law?

Software keeps accurate records and produces reports, but compliance depends on how the business is run and registered. Your auditor and legal adviser decide the formats; we build the reports to match them.

Do you have an office in Coimbatore?

Our office is in Tiruppur and we serve Coimbatore clients with visits for discovery and training, and video calls and WhatsApp for everyday reviews.

Move your chit groups off paper, one group at a time

Tell us how many groups you run, how your agents collect and what your auditor asks for. We will send a written first-release plan with screens, schedule and terms.

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