{"id":69,"date":"2016-10-06T11:50:37","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T11:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/etravos.com\/blog\/?p=69"},"modified":"2016-10-06T12:45:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T12:45:47","slug":"how-did-etravos-scale-up-to-a-turnover-of-inr-60-million-in-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.i2space.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/how-did-etravos-scale-up-to-a-turnover-of-inr-60-million-in-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"How did eTravos Scale up to a Turnover of INR 60 Million in a Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India is on the cusp of a startup revolution. With a big investment push from corporate investors, corporate houses, celebrities and a range of favorable schemes by central\/state government has positively created the euphoria of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Start-up India Standup India<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The team at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etravos.com\">eTravos<\/a> (powered by team i2Space lead by Founder &amp; CEO Bhargava Vangapally) would love to share their journey that might help budding &amp; experienced entrepreneurs alike.<\/span><\/p>\n<h6><strong>The Story Before the Year 2013<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like most of the software companies in Hyderabad<a href=\"http:\/\/www.etravos.com\"> i2Space<\/a> was into web development \u2013 specializing in custom travel portal development. We did that for years till one fine day the Founder &amp; CEO realized that majority of the developers out of a total strength of almost 40 (peak strength during 2012) were engaged in fixing bugs or handling never ending change request. There was hardly any new development in sight because of the work load stress to the existing developers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The Problem \u2013 Unable to Focus on New Development<\/b><\/p>\n<p>During the period of 4 years <a href=\"http:\/\/www.i2space.com\">i2Space<\/a> has served 100+ domestic (India based) clients with their branded custom domain. Bhargava observed a pattern in the problems (support request) they were facing on a frequent basis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A few pointers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Software Bugs \u2013 at times repeated due to carelessness.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">API consumption related changes due to updates in source API.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UI changes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Payment Gateway related changes (Remove Existing PG, Add new PG etc.)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The above pattern persisted with the team and clients &#8211; a never-ending wild goose chase with clients support request. Our woes compounded as India is an extremely price sensitive market you literally need to keep on haggling with the client for support related payments!<\/p>\n<p><b>SOS &#8211; To Our Rescue \u2013 A Multitenant SaaS<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bhargava build a team of 5 developers of i2Space and spearheaded the development of a Multi-tenant SaaS later launched with the brand name<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etravos.com\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">eTravos<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. For the uninitiated, Multi-tenant SaaS is software that can cater to the needs of similar workflow from a single code base &amp; possibly a single database. After putting almost 2 years of hard work in development &amp; testing we had a stable service named <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etravos.com\"><b>eTravos<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that has the ability to cater to the needs of 100s of clients from a single code base &amp; 2 databases. Yes, this was challenging but we did it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As of today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etravos.com\">eTravos <\/a>has <\/span><b>9 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">services with rich set of configuration screens that it can signup new client within 15 minutes with his chosen set of services &amp; UI themes. The client can start his business in a couple of days!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Optional information: The bookings of following services is supported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etravos.com\">eTrvaos<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bus<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cabs<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Domestic Flight<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">International Flight<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hotels<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Holiday Packages<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recharges<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bills Payment<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Service Apartments<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What We Did with<a href=\"http:\/\/www.etravos.com\"> eTravos<\/a>?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Once eTravos was stable (almost a year ago) we started to migrate our existing clients on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etravos.com\">eTravos<\/a> platform. Most of them were more than happy to use our shiny new service. We had a few new sign-ups as well. The time &amp; resources we spend in support &amp; maintenance was drastically reduced. Now we\u2019ve a far smaller team with a better productivity than ever before.<\/p>\n<p><b>Statistics Speaks for itself<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Not to boast but in last 12 months we\u2019ve the following figures:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Number of clients = <\/span><b>135 clients<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Number of users (Site-Admins, Distributors, Agents) = <\/span><b>1528<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Turnover = INR <\/span><b>13021560<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Number of Bookings = <\/span><b>13611<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>April 2016 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; Monthly Turnover<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; INR <\/span><b>3700058<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>April 2016<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; Number of Bookings &#8211; <\/span><b>3308<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With the current pace of growth we can reach a Monthly turnover of INR 10 Million by October 2016.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etravos.com\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-71\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-71\" src=\"https:\/\/etravos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/eTravos-travel-technology-Copy-300x103.png\" alt=\"travel technology\" width=\"776\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.i2space.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/eTravos-travel-technology-Copy-300x103.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.i2space.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/eTravos-travel-technology-Copy-768x265.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.i2space.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/eTravos-travel-technology-Copy.png 974w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Smart use of Technology is the prime leverage to get ahead in your entrepreneurial journey. Never ignore it. Sometimes you need to pause, look back and start afresh to gain the desired results. Finally the perseverance pays. <strong>Happy Entrepreneurial Journey\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is on the cusp of a startup revolution. With a big investment push from corporate investors, corporate houses, celebrities and a range of favorable schemes by central\/state government has positively created the euphoria of Start-up India Standup India. 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