Procurement, processing, by-products and sales is the same shape in every mill. Here is what that means for a oil mill — and an honest account of what is built and what is not.
An expeller unit lives or dies on recovery: the oil percentage you get out of a given seed lot, and the cake you are left with. Both move with seed quality, and seed quality is decided at intake — which makes the gate the single most valuable measuring point in the mill, exactly as it is in rice.
Oil recovery is a percentage that nobody notices drifting. A point of recovery lost across a season is a large number, and because cake is sold separately and often informally, the two halves of the yield rarely get compared against the seed that produced them.
The common thread across every kind of mill: the loss is quiet, it never appears in the accounts as a line, and by the time it is visible in the annual numbers nobody can say which lot it came from.
MillSaathi is built and live for rice mills. We are not going to pretend a oil mill build exists when it does not, so here is exactly where things stand.
Works for your mill today, unchanged: gate and weighbridge capture, live stock by lot and godown, suppliers and buyers khata, purchase and saudas, payments, role-locked entry, and the owner's night digest. None of that is rice-specific — it is grain in, grain stored, grain out.
Not yet: the production mass balance is currently shaped for paddy in versus rice, bran and husk out. For oilseed in versus crude oil and oil cake out, that needs your product names added — which is a configuration change on our side, not a rebuild.
So if you run a oil mill, you can start using the majority of the product this week for nothing, and the balance follows. Tell us on WhatsApp what your mill runs and we will set the products up for you. It is free either way — there is nothing to buy and nothing to upgrade to.
One system that captures reality at the source — gate, weighbridge, lab, production — and reconciles every lot against it. It does not replace Tally. It feeds Tally numbers that are actually true.
MillSaathi is built by Equaseed for Indian mills. Its official website is https://millsaathi.com/.
Core features will always be free. Core mill workflows will not be moved behind a paid plan. Optional future extras and the separate mill website service may be paid.
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Every core workflow, unlimited users, unlimited lots, no card and no setup fee. Optional Pro extras (charts, more than 10 machines, Compare parties) are a one-time payment from ₹4,999 a season, and every new mill gets 30 days of Pro free. There is no demo call you have to sit through before anyone will tell you a number.
Mostly, yes. Gate and weighbridge capture, stock by lot and godown, supplier and buyer khata, saudas, payments and the night digest all work for any mill. The production mass balance is currently rice-shaped, so oilseed into crude oil and oil cake needs your products configured — message us and we will do it. It is free either way.
The core of MillSaathi is free — unlimited users, no card, no setup fee. Optional Pro extras start at ₹4,999 a season, with a 30-day free trial. Most mill software in India sells as a one-time Windows licence and makes you sit through a demo before anyone quotes a number. We would rather you just used it.
MillSaathi is built by Equaseed for Indian mills. Its official website is https://millsaathi.com/.
Core features will always be free. Core mill workflows will not be moved behind a paid plan. Optional future extras and the separate mill website service may be paid.
Yes. All modules, unlimited users, no card, no setup fee, no expiring trial. There is no payment collection in the product at all today. If we ever charge for something extra, existing mills will be told first and what you are using now stays free.
No. MillSaathi captures what physically happens on the mill floor and reconciles every lot; Tally stays your accounting. The point is to feed Tally verified numbers instead of end-of-day re-entry from memory.
A browser on the phone they already have. Nothing to install, no IT, no licence — it runs on a mid-range Android at a dusty gate, which is the actual requirement. An offline-first app and Bluetooth slip printing are on the roadmap.
Follow a working mill day: gate entry, weighment, lab quality, sauda, stock and processing. Explore the demo, then set up your mill. Core features will always be free.