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Refrens
Indian cloud software for GST invoicing, quotations, accounting, inventory and a sales CRM, with a small free tier and plans priced per business.
Spec sheet
All-in India price
₹492/mo
For a registered business, billed yearly
- Free plan
- Available
- Free trial
- Available
- Status
- Source checked 12 Nov 2026
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Shortlist Refrens if you run a small Indian service firm, trading business or contracting outfit and want invoicing, GST reports, basic books and lead tracking in one cloud tool instead of Tally plus spreadsheets. Pick the track that matches your business first, because the cheapest plan in each track leaves out e-invoicing and GST return reports, and those only appear one tier up.
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Check the user count before paying, since even the top plans include five users and every extra person is a yearly add-on. Against Zoho Books the trade off is breadth in one product and phone support for everyone, versus Zoho's larger integration ecosystem and longer track record with accountants. If your CA works only in Tally, confirm the export format they need before you move your books.
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In short
Refrens is listed under Finance & Accounting, reviewed for Indian buyers. It costs about ₹492/mo before GST, billed in rupees. It issues an India GST invoice, so you can claim input credit. FindThatSoftware rates it best for Indian freelancers, agencies and consultants who need GST invoices and quotations; a poor fit for a business that must issue e-invoices on the cheapest plan, since e-invoicing is not on every plan; check which plan includes it before buying.
What Refrens costs in India
The rupee price a business actually pays, after the card forex markup, with GST shown both ways.
True India price
Registered business, per month, billed yearly
₹492
Refrens is billed in rupees at ₹491.67/mo, so there is no forex markup. A registered business reclaims GST, so that is roughly the cost (₹5,900/yr). Without reclaim, add 18% for about ₹580 a month.
- Sticker price
- ₹491.67/mo
- GST
- 18%, reclaimable if registered
- Registered per month
- ₹492
- Registered per year
- ₹5,900
- If you can't reclaim GST
- ₹580
- Try first
- Has a free plan, so you can start without a card.
- Watch for
- Refrens bills in rupees per business, on 3 month, 1 year or 3 year terms, and every listed price is exclusive of GST, so the invoice will be higher than the sticker.
More
The yearly card shows a struck figure that is just four quarters at the 3 month rate, not a limited time sale. Refunds are full only if you cancel within 7 days on a yearly plan or within 30 days on longer plans, and extra users, digital signatures, the API and multi business use are all charged separately.
Indicative, not a bill. The exchange rate is a single mid-market reference, not a live feed, and GST-registered businesses may reclaim input credit. Confirm current pricing on the vendor site.
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Audit your spendWho Refrens fits
What it is, what you gain, what you give up, and who should look elsewhere.
What is Refrens?
Refrens is run by Refrens Internet Pvt. Ltd., a Bengaluru company, and sells a browser based business suite with Android and iOS apps. It creates GST invoices, quotations, proforma invoices, purchase orders, delivery challans and credit notes, records payments and expenses, and on higher plans adds bookkeeping, bank reconciliation, e-invoices, e-way bills and GSTR reports. Plans are sold in three tracks, one each for service businesses, traders and contractors, and inventory, lead management, approval workflows and vendor onboarding unlock as you move up. Each plan covers one business with a fixed number of users, and things like digital signatures, the invoicing API and managing several businesses are charged on top. The free tier stops at 15 documents, so it works as an extended trial rather than a long term free plan.
What you gain, and what you give up.
The case for
- Full pricing for every plan and billing term is published on the vendor's page, with separate plan tracks for service firms, traders and contractors.
- Higher plans cover e-invoices, e-way bills, GSTR-1, GSTR-2B reconciliation and GSTR-3B summaries alongside double entry books in the same tool.
- The vendor says every user, free ones included, can reach a human by chat, email, phone or WhatsApp and gets a dedicated account manager.
The catch
- All listed prices exclude GST, so what you actually pay is 18% above every figure on the pricing page.
- Seats are tight: plans include two to five users, and each extra user is a separate yearly charge.
- Several items sit outside every plan and cost extra, including digital signatures, the invoicing and CRM APIs, custom templates and managing more than one business.
- The cheapest plan in each track leaves out e-invoicing and GST return reports, so many GST registered businesses will need the second tier.
Best for
- Indian freelancers, agencies and consultants who need GST invoices and quotations
- Small traders and contractors wanting billing, stock and basic books in one cloud tool
- Owners who find Tally style desktop software too heavy and want phone support
Who should avoid it
- A business that must issue e-invoices on the cheapest plan, since e-invoicing is not on every plan; check which plan includes it before buying.
- A team of ten people sharing one account, since even Pro includes only 5 users and each extra user costs more.
India readiness
How well Refrens fits an Indian business operationally, from the verified pricing and company facts we hold.
- ✓GST invoice
Issues a GST-compliant invoice, so a registered business can reclaim input tax.
- ✓Bills in INR
Priced in rupees, so there is no forex conversion or card markup on top.
- ✓India HQ
India-headquartered, so support, timezone, and context are local.
Compare Refrens
How it stacks up on what we verified, the tools buyers weigh it against, and where it appears in our guides.
How Refrens compares
Against the 5 other GST billing tools we list, from what we verified on each vendor’s own pages.
Less common among the other GST billing tools
Recorded for Refrens and for at most a third of the 5 others we list.
- Cloud storage
- Gstr 2b reconciliation
- Lead management
- Online payment collection
- Purchase orders
- Subscription billing
- AI assistant
- Expense tracking
Also in most alternatives
Recorded for at least half of the 5 others, and for Refrens.
- GST invoicing
- Inventory management
- E way bill generation
This compares only the capabilities enough rival tools share for a comparison to mean anything, roughly a quarter of what we verified. The full list is under “What we verified” below, and anything absent from both is something we did not record rather than something the product lacks.
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What we verified about Refrens
Read from Refrens’s own pages. Each line is a finding and what it was based on, so you can check any of it yourself.
What Refrens does
Features we confirmed27
- Subscription billing
- Subscription Management Software is listed among Refrens products
- Purchase orders
- Purchase orders are one of the document types included
- Online payment collection
- FAQ says Refrens keeps a payment gateway fee on payments collected through it
- Lead management
- Site product list includes Lead Management Software and Sales CRM
- Inventory management
- Inventory Management Software is listed among Refrens products
- Gstr 2b reconciliation
- Accounts Pro includes GSTR-2B reconciliation
- Gstr 1 filing
- GST work in Accounts Pro covers GSTR-1
- GST invoicing
- Refrens is built around GST-compliant invoice creation for Indian businesses
- Expense tracking
- Expense tracking and accounting reports are core capabilities
- E way bill generation
- Accounts Pro covers e-way bills; site lists e-Way Bill Software as a product
- E invoice generation
- Our research confirms e-invoices are included in the Accounts Pro tier
- Cloud storage
- Free tier advertises unlimited cloud storage
- AI assistant
- Freya AI assistant is offered as a chargeable add-on
- Accounting reports
- Product includes accounting reports beyond pure invoicing
- Client and vendor management
- Client and vendor records are managed inside Refrens
- Credit and debit notes
- Credit and debit notes are supported document types
- Delivery challans
- Delivery challans are listed among supported documents
- Digital signatures
- Digital signatures are available but billed as an extra beyond the plan
- Gstr 3b summary
- Accounts Pro produces GSTR-3B summaries
- Invoice templates
- Site offers invoice, quotation, proforma and delivery challan template libraries
- Invoicing API
- Refrens publishes an Invoicing API as a product
- Multi business management
- Multi-business support exists on paid tiers but carries a further charge
- Payment tracking
- Payment tracking against issued invoices is a listed capability
- Proforma invoices
- Proforma invoices are listed among supported document types
- Quotation creation
- Quotations are among the business documents Refrens generates
- Quote approval workflow
- Site lists Quotation Approval Workflow Software as a product
- Rfq management
- Refrens footer lists RFQ Software and RFI Software as products
What people use it for5
- Send quotes and proposals
- Quote and lead-to-quote workflows target the pre-sale stage
- Keep books and share with CA
- Our verdict positions it as GST invoicing without Tally-level complexity
- Issue GST invoices
- Primary job for Indian freelancers and SMBs is issuing compliant GST invoices
- File GST returns
- GSTR-1, 2B and 3B support is the return-filing job
- Track billable time
- Positioned for freelancers and agencies billing clients
Works with2
- Recaptcha
- Site is protected by Google reCAPTCHA per its own footer
- Indiamart
- Site lists an IndiaMART CRM integration product page
Terms, compliance and how you buy27
- No card required
- Pricing page states no credit card required and no hidden charges
- ISO 27001 certified
- FAQ states ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification for data security
- GST extra
- Every published figure is 18% below what is actually invoiced
- Dedicated account manager
- FAQ promises a dedicated account manager alongside chat, email and phone support
- Bengaluru headquartered
- Site footer states made in Bengaluru and terms name a Bengaluru company
- Annual billing published
- Annual pricing published in full at Rs 5,900, Rs 15,000 and Rs 22,000 tiers
- CA partner programme
- Site has a CA Elite tier and a Refrens Distributor programme for accountants
- Discretionary refunds
- Terms say whether a refund is provided is at the company's sole discretion
- E invoicing gated to mid tier
- E-invoicing starts only at the Rs 15,000 Accounts Pro tier
- Freelancer and agency oriented
- Positioning and pricing target freelancers, agencies and small businesses
- Free tier document capped
- Free usage stops after 15 business documents
- Genuinely free tier
- Free plan allows 15 documents with 2 users and no card required
- GST invoice available
- Listed prices exclude GST, implying an Indian GST invoice is issued
- India built
- Refrens Internet Pvt Ltd is based in Bengaluru per its own terms and footer
- Indian law governed
- Agreement is governed by Indian law with no foreign jurisdiction fallback
- INR billed
- All plan prices are published in rupees
- Mobile apps available
- Footer links to both Refrens Android and iOS apps
- Not for heavy inventory
- Our verdict routes inventory-heavy businesses to Zoho Books, TallyPrime or BUSY
- Paid addons inside paid plans
- AI assistant, digital signatures and multi-business carry charges above the plan
- Payment gateway margin
- Vendor keeps a payment gateway fee on money collected through Refrens
- Per business pricing
- Plans are priced per business rather than per user
- Phone support available
- Support is offered over chat, email and phone with a listed phone number
- Referral sales commission
- Refrens charges a sales commission on customers it refers to you
- Surat arbitration
- Terms send disputes to arbitration in Surat, India under the 1996 Act
- Ten day refund window
- Terms require refund requests within 10 days of purchase
- Tight seat limits
- Seats are capped at 2, 3 and 5 users across the paid tiers
- Web based only
- FAQ says there is no downloadable desktop software, it is 100% web-based
Source trail
Pricing and free-plan claims can change. FindThatSoftware keeps source URLs visible so users can verify before buying.
- Refrens Premium planshttps://www.refrens.com/refrens-premium
- Refrens pricinghttps://www.refrens.com/pricing
- Refrens Premium FAQhttps://www.refrens.com/refrens-premium
- Refrens API helphttps://help.refrens.com/en/category/api-9h5b0q/
- Refrenshttps://www.refrens.com/
- Refrens terms of servicehttps://www.refrens.com/terms
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Refrens questions
Does Refrens give a GST invoice in India?
- Refrens issues an India GST invoice, so a GST-registered business can claim input tax credit on it directly.
Is Refrens good for Indian small businesses?
- It suits Indian freelancers, agencies and consultants who need GST invoices and quotations. It bills in rupees and issues a GST invoice, so a registered business claims the GST back. It is not the right pick for a business that must issue e-invoices on the cheapest plan, since e-invoicing is not on every plan; check which plan includes it before buying.
Does Refrens have a free plan?
- Refrens lists a free plan, but check the official pricing page for current usage limits before choosing it.
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