For temples & mandirs
A temple management system for mandirs of every size
Start with one counter that prints proper receipts. Add the website, a kiosk, guest rooms, live aarti (the lamp offering) and the stores when your temple needs them — on one team’s software, not five vendors’.
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Today at Shri Ganesh Mandir Trust
Kartika Shukla EkadashiReceipts
286
all channels
Collected
₹1,12,430
In the bank
₹96,180
gateway matched
- Counter 1 · puja & seva Cash · UPI₹38,200
- Counter 2 · donations Cash · cheque₹41,550
- Temple website Online₹21,900
- Kiosk · main gate Kiosk₹10,780
One receipt ledger · numbered by module, channel and FY 2026-27
Sandhya aarti · Camera 2
Darshan · temple page, YouTube, Facebook
What is a temple management system?
A temple management system is the software a temple office runs on: counter receipts for puja (worship) and seva (offerings made in a devotee’s name), donations, online bookings, a devotee register, and a check that what was collected actually reached the bank. On SwaDharma a small mandir can begin with the Netra counter alone, then add a website and kiosk, dharmashala (pilgrim rest house) rooms in Kshetra, live darshan streaming and Inventory for the stores — all built by 3ioNetra in Mumbai.
Who it’s for
From a neighbourhood shrine to a pilgrimage temple
The difference between a temple with one priest and a temple with twenty counters is not the software category — it is how many modules you switch on.
A single shrine or neighbourhood mandir
One person at a desk, a receipt book and a register of yearly sevas. Netra replaces both on a laptop or a phone, and prints on the 58 mm thermal printer you may already own.
- Counter software or the collection app on a phone
- Your paper Shashvat Seva register imported once
- Counter screens in Marathi, Hindi, Tamil and four more languages
A busy city temple
Queues on festival mornings, devotees who live abroad, and trustees who want to know what was collected online. Counters, the temple website and a kiosk share one receipt ledger.
- Several counters, each operator seeing only their own
- Booking website with devotee OTP login
- Darshan tickets with time slots and head-count limits
A pilgrimage temple
Pilgrims who stay overnight, an annadanam (free meals) kitchen, prasadam (sanctified food) counters and an evening aarti that families watch from home.
- Kshetra for dharmashala rooms and dormitory beds
- Inventory for kitchen stock and prasadam
- Darshan to stream temple CCTV live, 24×7
Problems we hear in temple offices
What goes wrong with receipt books and registers — and what replaces them
Every row below is a common complaint in temple offices, matched to the part of the suite that handles it today.
| The problem | What the suite does | App |
|---|---|---|
| Two receipts carry the same number, or a page is torn out of the book | Receipts are immutable and numbered by module, channel and Indian financial year. Reprints and corrections are controlled and logged. | Netra |
| The yearly seva for someone’s father falls on a tithi (lunar day) nobody noticed | Shashvat Seva schedules perpetual sevas by tithi or nakshatra (birth star) from your own Panchang, and lists the week’s sevas for the priests. | Netra |
| Online donations arrive in the bank with no name against them | Website and kiosk payments create the same numbered receipt as the counter, with the devotee’s details. | Netra’s website & kiosk |
| Two families are given the same room on a festival weekend | Bookings are processed one at a time per temple, and unpaid holds expire automatically every five minutes. | Kshetra |
| Laddus run out at the ticket counter while the store says there is stock | Prasad items booked in Netra hold and issue stock in Inventory, so the store sees what the counter has sold. | Inventory |
| The evening aarti stream needs a volunteer, a laptop and OBS | Darshan takes the feed from your existing CCTV or NVR and goes live on a schedule — no streaming PC. | Darshan |
A day in the temple office
From the first token at dawn to the Tally export at night
Here is one ordinary day at a mid-sized temple, hour by hour, and which app is doing the work.
The first family of the day gets token 007
The operator opens Counter 1 in Netra. Token numbers keep the queue honest, and the Abhishekam lane shows its cut-off time so nobody books a seva the priest can no longer perform today.
- Puja, donation and darshan-ticket lanes on one screen
- Daily limits per channel — counter, website and kiosk
- Cash, cheque, NEFT, UPI, POS card or pay later
Counter 1 · 6:05 am
Token 007Seva
Kakad aarti
₹151
Donation
Gau seva
₹501
Ticket
7:00 am slot
55 / 60 left
- Abhishekam bookings Cut-offclose 10:30 am
- Online Rudrabhishek · today Daily limit12 of 25
A devotee in Pune books an archana for her mother
She opens the temple’s own website, signs in with a one-time password and books an archana in her mother’s name, with gotra (family lineage) and nakshatra. The receipt lands in the same ledger as the counter’s.
- Puja, Donation, Ticket, News, About and Contact tabs
- Deity and utsav (festival) landing pages
- Installable on a phone as the temple’s own app
Shri Ganesh Mandir
Sahasranama archana
On 14 Nov · in the name of A. Deshpande
Gotra Bharadwaj · Nakshatra Shravana
₹251
Room 103 is booked, but not yet clean
At the yatri niwas front desk, Kshetra shows which rooms are clean, dirty, inspected or out of order. A same-day booking can hold Room 103 until housekeeping marks it clean. ID is captured at check-in, stored encrypted and shown masked.
- Rooms, dormitory beds and halls in one booking system
- Deposits, extensions, transfers and refunds by notice period
- Trust bank and cash accounts with a daybook
Yatri Niwas · Ground floor
12:40 pm101
Occupied102
Clean103
Dirty104
Inspected105
In progress106
Clean107
Out of order108
Occupied- Patil family · 2 nights · non-AC Checked inRoom 102
- Walk-in · same day Until cleanHeld for 103
Sandhya aarti streams itself
Darshan starts the evening broadcast on schedule from the sanctum camera, puts the temple’s logo on the video and sends it to the temple page, YouTube and Facebook at once. Darshan streams video; darshan tickets and time slots stay in Netra.
- Up to 10 cameras per temple, 360p to 4K
- Bhajan audio looped over video or mixed with camera sound
- Streams resume on their own after a restart
Bhajan loop + camera audioSchedule
Daily 6:45 pm
Destinations
Page · YouTube · FB
Camera
Garbhagriha · 1080p
Count the counter, not the receipt book
Each operator sees their own collection. The accountant sees gateway settlements matched automatically, cheques still clearing, and the prasadam Inventory issued against today’s ticket bookings. Tally vouchers are one export away.
- Reports by payment mode, service, counter and donor
- Bank reconciliation for cheque, NEFT, POS and gateway
- Tally XML export through Tally Manager
Closing the day · 8:40 pm
Counter 1 · Shanta T.
₹38,200
her own counter only
Gateway settlement
Matched
fees recorded
- Laddu prasadam · against ticket bookings Inventory212 issued
- Cheque 004512 · SBI Clearing₹11,000
- Tally XML · today’s vouchers ExportReady
Start small
A four-step path that doesn’t ask you to change everything at once
Most temples begin with the counter. Each later step is a separate module you can add when the earlier one is settled.
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Netra counter
Replace the receipt book. We import your devotee list and paper Shashvat Seva register, set up your sevas and print your first receipt with you. ₹999 a month after a three-month free trial.
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Website and kiosk
Give devotees who never reach the counter a way to book and donate. Website plans from ₹999 a month; a kiosk is ₹999 per device. Both write into the same ledger.
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Kshetra rooms and halls
When the temple runs a dharmashala, bhakta nivas (devotee lodge) or kalyana mandapam (wedding hall), move bookings, deposits and refunds off the register and into Kshetra.
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Inventory stores
When the kitchen, prasadam and jewellery need an audit trail, add Inventory with committee approvals for purchases. Indicative plans from ₹30,000 a year.
The apps
Every app a temple uses on Setu
Each app has its own sign-in today; single sign-on across the suite is on the roadmap.
Collections & Bookings
Counters, websites, kiosks, rooms and live darshan.
Netra
Temple management
Counter, temple website and kiosk on one receipt ledger.
Explore NetraKshetra
Room & hall booking
Dharmashala rooms, dormitory beds and hall booking.
Explore KshetraDarshan
Live darshan streaming
Temple CCTV to live darshan, no streaming PC.
Explore DarshanStore
Temple online store
Your temple’s own online store for prasad and merchandise.
Explore StoreOperations & Governance
Stores, procurement, property and documents.
Devotee Reach & Identity
Messaging and the devotee identity.
Temple directory
Institutions in our directory
Temples, maths, trusts, samajs and utsav mandals from across India. See every temple in the directory.
Is SwaDharma suitable for a small temple with one counter?
Yes. A small temple can use only the Netra counter — on a laptop, or on a phone through the collection app — for ₹999 a month after a three-month free trial. It prints on A4/A5/A6 or 58/80 mm thermal printers, so you rarely need new hardware.
What is the difference between a temple management system and Tally?
Tally keeps the books; a temple management system creates the records that go into them. Netra issues the seva and donation receipts, keeps the devotee register and reconciles collections, then exports Tally XML vouchers. Read can a temple run on Tally alone?
Can you move our paper registers into the software?
Yes. Netra imports your devotee list from Excel or CSV, and our team imports your paper Shashvat Seva register so yearly sevas carry forward on the right tithi or nakshatra.
Do devotees need to install an app?
No. Devotees book on your temple’s website and sign in with a one-time password; they can install that website on a phone like an app if they want. The DharmaID devotee identity in the Setu app is on a waitlist, not yet generally available.
Does the software count the hundi?
No. The suite records receipted collections only. For hundi counting, use our free hundi counting sheet and procedure.
Which languages can temple staff use?
It depends on the app. Netra runs in English, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Gujarati; Inventory in six of those (not Kannada); DMS in English, Hindi, Marathi and Kannada. Kshetra and Darshan are in English.
How do we choose between temple software vendors?
Start with the receipts: ask whether numbers can ever repeat, how corrections are logged and whether online and counter receipts share one series. Our checklist for choosing temple management software covers the rest.
Show us your receipt book. We’ll show you your first week on Netra.
A 30-minute walkthrough with your own sevas, prices and counters set up, so the committee judges it on the temple’s real work.
- Free three-month Netra trial
- Devotee list and seva register imported for you