Pazy for Media & Publishing

The volume keeps climbing. The team doesn't have to.

Freelancers, studios, cloud bills and events — booked, approved and paid without the finance team growing to match the volume.

4× volume, zero hireshow Inc42's finance team scaled on Pazy
50% less timeon invoice booking and approval cycles
3-person teamrunning 400 invoices a month
A month in a newsroom, in money

More invoices every month. The same close.

One month across desks, freelancers and vendors — every invoice booked once, approved on a trail, paid from one place.

Day 2CaptureFreelance invoices arrive

Read from email and WhatsApp.

Day 5ApprovalDesk head approves in Slack

Trail attached, nobody chased.

Day 9VendorsStudio and event bills

Matched to the PO and the brief.

Day 14DuplicateThe same invoice, twice

Caught before the payment run.

Day 20PayoutsOne run, many vendors

Straight from connected banking.

Day 26BooksPosted by vertical

No month-end reconstruction.

India's media and content teams run payables on Pazy
Inc42 Stage
Volume without headcount

Invoice volume is not a hiring plan.

Invoices are read wherever they arrive and booked without anyone retyping them, so volume and headcount stop moving together.

  • Read from email and WhatsApp
  • Duplicate detection
  • No manual booking
Invoices booked · this weekLive
FR
Freelance copy · 14 writers₹2,84,000 · 14 invoices
Booked
ST
Studio hire · Mumbai₹1,20,000 · PO matched
Booked
CL
Cloud and CDN₹96,400 · monthly
Booked
!
Duplicate detectedsame invoice number, second time
Blocked
Approvals with a trail

Approvals in Slack, evidence in the ledger.

Every approval is a record — who, when, against which budget — so nobody rebuilds the story at audit.

  • Role-based routing
  • Slack and mobile approvals
  • Full audit trail
Approval trail · invoice 4412Synced
1
Desk head · contentapproved 11:04, Slack
Signed
2
Finance checkapproved 11:31, mobile
Signed
3
Payment runqueued for Thursday
Scheduled
Freelancers and studios

Hundreds of small vendors, onboarded once.

Writers, photographers, editors and studios onboard themselves, with PAN and GST verified before the first payout.

  • Vendor self-onboarding
  • PAN and GST checks
  • TDS at the right section
New vendor · freelance editorMatching
PAN verifiedname matches the invoice
Checked
GST statusunregistered, under threshold
Noted
TDS section194J, professional fees
Applied
Deducted at the right section on the first payout, not corrected in the return.
Close and banking

One payment run, reconciled the same day.

Payouts leave from your own bank and come back as reconciled entries, so nobody builds a spreadsheet for the bank's portal.

  • Connected banking
  • No bank-portal spreadsheets
  • Posted by vertical
Spend by vertical · this monthLive
Editorial
₹14.2 L
Events
₹9.6 L
Video
₹7.1 L
Cloud
₹3.3 L
Where invoices stop, cards and claims start

Cloud bills, ad accounts, shoots — all on your rails.

Subscriptions renew whether or not procurement was involved. Same controls, same ledger.

Cards for subscriptions that stop surprising you.

A virtual card per tool and per ad account, so a renewal is a decision rather than a discovery at month-end.

  • Virtual card per subscription — one tool, one card, one limit
  • Per-desk monthly limits that double as the budget
  • MCC-level control — categories you allow, nothing else
  • Mandatory receipts captured at swipe, matched automatically
One card rail
cloud, ad accounts and tools on the same ledger as vendor bills
See corporate cards

Reporting and shoot claims, settled on time.

Travel for a story, a shoot day, an event run — filed from a phone, checked against policy, paid in the next cycle.

  • Policy checks at submission, not after the payout
  • WhatsApp capture for receipts from the field
  • Shoot and travel advances that settle against receipts
  • Bulk payouts from your bank, synced to your ERP
Next cycle
claims filed from a phone, paid on your normal run
See reimbursements
The product, running

One payment run, bank-connected.

Media teams on Pazy
The teams telling India's stories — newsrooms, studios and streaming — run their money on Pazy.
Inc42 · Stage · Pratilipiand content teams running deliberately lean finance
400 a month
invoices on Inc42's three-person finance team
50%
less time on booking and approvals, on the same team
The rest of the stack

One platform for every rupee the newsroom spends.

Payables is where most media teams start. The rest of the stack is already wired to it.

Customer story
We have saved at least 50% of the time we used to spend on invoice booking. Even with 4x increase in volume, we had zero headcount growth. Zero new hires. That's an easy 10x delta, but honestly beyond efficiency gain, this is the new way of running finance altogether.
Mihir MalhotraHead of Finance, Inc42
Read the full story
invoice volume, with zero new hires
400
invoices a month on a three-person team

Our small team of 3 people was heavily under stress and the number of invoices coming in for processing had increased to 100 per week from just 20 per week earlier.

Pratilipi, on life before Pazy
95%
bill capture accuracy — straight from photos and PDFs
75%
faster book closing
₹200 Cr+
saved in input tax credit
100+ hrs
saved per month on bill processing
Posts to the books you already keep
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Frequently asked questions

What media finance teams ask us first.

We pay hundreds of freelancers a month. Does each one need onboarding by finance?

No. Vendors onboard themselves through a link, and PAN and GST are verified before the first payout. Finance approves the vendor, not the paperwork.

Will TDS be deducted at the right section for freelancers?

Yes. A section default sits on the vendor record — 194J for professional fees, 194C for contracts — and applies on every payout, so corrections do not pile up for the return.

Our approvals happen in Slack. Does that leave an audit trail?

It does. The Slack approval is the record: who approved, when, against which budget, with the invoice attached. Nothing has to be reconstructed later.

We build a fresh spreadsheet for the bank's portal on every run. Does that go away?

Yes. Payouts go out through connected banking from your own account, so there is no file to build and no upload to babysit, and the run comes back reconciled.

Can spend be split by vertical or show?

Yes — every transaction posts with its vertical, desk or show as a cost centre, so contribution by vertical is a live view rather than a month-end exercise.

Bring last month's invoice pile. We'll book it live.

A 30-minute demo on your own paperwork — freelancer to ledger, end to end.

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With Pazy work smarter, not harder

Start automating tasks today and give your team more time to focus on what matters.

With Pazy
work smarter,
not harder

Start automating tasks today and give your team more time to focus on what matters.

With Pazy work smarter, not harder

Start automating tasks today and give your team more time to focus on what matters.