How is everyone managing petty cash in 2026? We're still using a register.
Actual physical register. The kind you buy from a stationery shop. Every time someone takes money they're supposed to write it down and attach the receipt. You can guess how that's going.
Manufacturing setup, 50 people, Ahmedabad. Petty cash usage is maybe 40-50k a month across maintenance supplies, courier charges, office stuff, tea and snacks for the shop floor. Small amounts but it adds up.
End of every month there's always a few thousand that nobody can explain. It's not theft, it's just pure laziness with tracking. Receipts lost, entries missed, someone forgot to write, someone wrote the wrong amount. Death by a thousand cuts.
I know apps and platforms exist for this but every time I look it up I just find enterprise expense tools that want me to pay per user per month for the entire company. I have 50 people but only maybe 7-8 actually handle petty cash. Doesn't make sense.
We're literally in 2026 with AI doing everything from writing emails to generating invoices and I'm still dealing with a physical register for petty cash. There has to be something better by now.
Anything simple and affordable that just solves petty cash? Not looking for a full expense management suite. Just need to kill this register.