The Easexpense Journal
Spend smarter on every SaaS your team uses.
Field notes, buyer guides and operator playbooks from inside India's fastest-growing SaaS procurement platform.
SaaS Audit Checklist for Indian IT Teams: 50 Questions to Answer
Most Indian IT teams have no single source of truth for their SaaS stack. This 50-question checklist covers app discovery, contract visibility, license utilization, shadow IT, and renewal hygiene — structured so you can run the audit yourself or hand it to your team.
Kaustubh Rai
Co-founder & CTO, Easexpense
SaaS Audit Checklist for Indian IT Teams: 50 Questions to Answer
Most Indian IT teams have no single source of truth for their SaaS stack. This 50-question checklist covers app discovery, contract visibility, license utilization, shadow IT, and renewal hygiene — structured so you can run the audit yourself or hand it to your team.
Kaustubh Rai·15 Sept 2026
India SaaS Market 2026: Why Procurement Is 5 Years Behind
India's SaaS spend is crossing $3.5B, yet most mid-market companies still track subscriptions in a shared Google Sheet. The infrastructure to actually manage that spend hasn't caught up. We built Easexpense because we think that gap closes in the next 24 months.
Lakhendra Kushwah·10 Sept 2026SaaS Resellers in India Are Dying. Here's What's Next
The classic SaaS reseller playbook — buy a vendor license, mark it up, hand over a PDF invoice — is running out of road in India. Margin compression, customer expectations, and AI are all moving against it. Here's what the data from 80+ businesses tells us is coming next.
Lakhendra Kushwah·8 Sept 2026
The 90-Day SaaS Audit Plan for Growth-Stage Companies
Most growth-stage companies are paying for 30 to 60 SaaS tools without a clear picture of what is actually being used. This 90-day audit plan breaks the work into manageable weekly steps, so your finance or ops team can recover budget, fix renewals, and build a procurement process that holds.
Mahendra Kushwah·3 Sept 2026Why We Built Easexpense: SaaS Buying in India Is Broken
Indian businesses are losing crores to forgotten SaaS renewals, missing GST invoices, and tools nobody uses. We built Easexpense because we lived that problem firsthand and couldn't find a single product that took the Indian context seriously.
Lakhendra Kushwah·1 Sept 2026What 80 Indian Businesses Taught Us About SaaS Sprawl
After working inside the SaaS wallets of 80 Indian businesses, we've seen patterns no analyst report covers. Forgotten renewals, duplicate tools, and shadow IT that finance doesn't know exists. Here's what's actually broken and where it's heading.
Lakhendra Kushwah·27 Aug 2026The SaaS Vendor Review Process Finance Teams Will Actually Trust
Most SaaS vendor reviews die in a spreadsheet no one updates. This guide walks through a quarterly review process with the right metrics, stakeholder roles, and decision criteria to make finance teams take the output seriously.
Mahendra Kushwah·25 Aug 2026SaaS Procurement Policy for Growing Indian Companies
Most Indian mid-market companies buy SaaS the same way they order lunch — whoever is hungriest hits checkout first. This guide gives you a practical procurement policy template: request workflows, approval matrices, and budget thresholds you can adapt tomorrow.
Mahendra Kushwah·13 Aug 2026The Real Cost of Decentralized SaaS Purchasing in Indian Companies
When every team buys its own SaaS, no one owns the total bill. Indian mid-market companies routinely overpay by 20–40% because of duplicate tools, forgotten renewals, and zero visibility across departments. Here's how to fix it without becoming the team that slows things down.
Lakhendra Kushwah·11 Aug 2026
SaaS License Reclamation: Recover ₹5L+ in Unused Seats
Most 100-person Indian companies are paying for 30-40% more SaaS seats than their teams actually use. This playbook walks through exactly how to find those seats, reclaim them, and automate the process so the waste never comes back.
Kaustubh Rai·6 Aug 2026The First-Time CFO's SaaS Procurement Playbook: 90-Day Guide
Your first 90 days as CFO will reveal more SaaS chaos than the job description suggested. This playbook walks through exactly what to set up, in what order, so you stop the bleeding before the next renewal cycle hits.
Mahendra Kushwah·4 Aug 2026SaaS Contract Negotiation for 100-Person Companies: What Actually Works
Most 100-person companies assume they have no negotiating power with SaaS vendors. That assumption costs them lakhs every year. Here is what actually moves the needle when you are not a Fortune 500.
Mahendra Kushwah·30 Jul 2026