Compare maaya.works vs Busy
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Keep the trader's rigour. Move it to the cloud — and let AI do the entry.
Busy gave Indian traders deep, dependable desktop accounting. maaya.works keeps that rigour but moves your books to the cloud and hands the repetitive data entry to an AI team — drafted for you, approved by you.
Free forever for single users · Cloud, any device · Books always balanced
We will show you where Busy still wins.
Three of the rows below go to Busy — on purpose. A one-sided comparison is not worth your trust.
Side by side
The honest scorecard
The same job — a real set of trade books — judged on what matters at the counter.
Where your books live
Access
Cloud — any device, anywhere
Installed on a Windows PC
Who does the work
Daily data entry
An AI-hire drafts bills, vouchers and invoices — you approve
Keyed in by you or your staff
The ledger
Append-only, immutable, provenance on every entry
Entries can be altered; trail depends on discipline
Where Busy leads
Works offline
Needs an internet connection
Fully usable offline on the desktop
Trader & inventory depth
Core inventory, growing
Deep, mature trader, stock and multi-godown tooling
CA familiarity
New — your CA reviews an approval-gated trail
Well known among trade accountants
GST & cost
GST & statutory
GST, HSN, TDS, e-invoice — hosted in India
Mature GST features
To begin
Free forever for single users
Paid licence
Credit where it is due
What Busy got right
maaya.works builds on the ground Busy broke for traders, not against it.
what busy got right
Built for the trader
Busy understood the Indian trader — purchase, stock, margins, multi-godown — and built deep, practical tools for exactly that life. That focus earned it a loyal following for good reason.
what busy got right
Serious inventory
Few products match Busy on the depth of its stock and inventory handling. For trade businesses where inventory is the whole game, that maturity is real and hard-won.
what busy got right
It just works, offline
On a busy counter with unreliable internet, a desktop that opens instantly and never depends on a connection is a genuine strength — and one we respect.
What changes
The same books, three shifts later
The move desktop made to the counter, the books now make to the cloud — and the work moves too.
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From one counter PC to the cloud
Your books stop living on a single machine behind the counter. They move to a secure cloud you can open from your phone or your accountant can open from their office — no backups to remember, no machine to be tied to.
one Windows PC → any device
02
From keying it in to approving it
The repetitive entry — purchase bills, sales, receipts — is drafted by an AI team. You stop being the data-entry operator and become the reviewer: glance, correct if needed, approve.
you key it in → AI drafts, you approve
03
From discipline to architecture
On a desktop, a clean trail depends on good habits and careful staff. maaya.works builds it into the structure — an append-only ledger that cannot be silently edited, so the books cannot go out of balance.
careful habits → an immutable ledger
No spin
Where Busy still wins
If any of these is a dealbreaker for you today, you should know it up front.
offline-first
No internet? No problem
Busy runs fully offline. maaya.works is online. If your premises lose connectivity often, that is a real point in Busy’s favour today.
trader depth
Deep stock & trader tooling
Years of mature inventory, batch, godown and trader features. maaya.works covers the core well and is growing, but Busy’s legacy depth here is genuine.
familiarity
Known to trade accountants
Many accountants serving traders know Busy intimately. With maaya.works your CA reviews an approval-gated trail instead — clean, but new to them.
Honest advice: if offline use or deep trader inventory is critical right now, stay on Busy and run maaya.works alongside it for the data entry. Move fully only when you are ready.
No rip-and-replace
Try it without disruption
Three low-risk steps. Your Busy install is never touched.
1
Start free in minutes
Open maaya.works with a single field — no card, no project. Your Busy install keeps running exactly as it is.
2
Hand an AI-hire one task
Start with purchase-bill entry or invoicing. Your AI-hire drafts; you approve. Nothing posts without you.
3
Move over when you trust it
Run both side by side for as long as you like. Shift your books fully only when the AI team has earned it — your pace, never a forced cut-over.
Who is behind it
Built by a team that has shipped enterprise software for 15 years
maaya.works is built by Maaya Software Solutions Pvt Ltd — 15 years of enterprise software from Chennai, serving 453+ businesses across 13 countries. The same people now stake their name on your books.
Append-only ledgerApproval-gated AIHosted in India (ap-south-1)GST · e-invoice ready
Straight answers
Switching from Busy — common questions
Can I keep using Busy while I try maaya.works?
Yes — most traders do at first. Keep Busy on the counter PC, let maaya.works start drafting one task, and move over only when you trust it. There is no rip-and-replace.
Does it handle inventory like Busy?
maaya.works covers core inventory well and is growing. Busy has deeper, more mature trader and stock tooling today — if that depth is your whole business, weigh it honestly, and you can run both alongside in the meantime.
Does it work offline?
No — maaya.works is an online product, so it needs internet. If fully-offline use on the counter is essential, Busy genuinely wins there, and running both side by side is a fine answer.
Will my accountant accept it?
Yes. Every AI action is approved by a person before it posts, the ledger is append-only with a full audit trail, and your CA can review it directly — a clean, approval-gated record.
Is it really free to start?
Free forever for single users, no card to begin. You only pay as you add capacity — so you can judge it on your own books first.
Keep the rigour. Lose the typing.
Start free and let an AI team draft your purchases, sales and receipts — on books that can never go out of balance.
Free forever for single users · Cloud, any device