{"id":22569,"date":"2025-05-07T16:57:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T11:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/blog\/?p=22569"},"modified":"2025-05-07T17:57:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T12:27:56","slug":"cleartax-and-razorpay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/cleartax-and-razorpay\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax Filing Meets FinTech: Inside the ClearTax &#038; Razorpay Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m here to make taxes, less taxing.<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>\u2014 Archit Gupta, Founder &amp; CEO, ClearTax<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Archit Gupta returned to India after his time in Silicon Valley, he noticed something broken\u2014not in code, but in compliance. Tax filing in India was complicated, opaque, and deeply frustrating for millions. So, in 2011, he set out to build a better way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That idea became <\/span><b>ClearTax<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014a platform born out of a vision to simplify financial lives for millions of Indians. What started as an e-filing tool for individuals has grown into a full-stack SaaS platform for tax, compliance, invoicing, and more\u2014trusted by <\/span><b>10,000+ enterprises<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>over 1 million tax practitioners<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><b>millions of MSMEs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, ClearTax powers more than <\/span><b>$300B in invoices annually<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and its systems support over <\/span><b>10% of Indian MSMEs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. But their mission remains as focused as ever:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To simplify finances for every Indian\u2014whether it\u2019s a taxpayer, a CFO, or a small business owner.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Streamlining Every Transaction with Razorpay UPI<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For a platform that sees surges during tax season (and then again during GST filing, and again at ITR deadlines&#8230;), reliability isn\u2019t optional\u2014it\u2019s critical. That\u2019s why ClearTax turned to Razorpay\u2019s full-stack <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/upi\/\"><b>UPI Suite<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to power its payment experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From<\/span><b> UPI Intent<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>QR on Desktop<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, to <\/span><b>VPA Check<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>UPI Number<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and the game-changing <\/span><b>Dynamic Routing<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, ClearTax optimized every payment touchpoint. The highlight? A <\/span><b>2.25% boost in success rates<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014a massive win when you&#8217;re dealing with lakhs of concurrent users.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But beyond numbers, it\u2019s the intelligence behind Razorpay\u2019s product stack that makes the difference. Dynamic Routing, in particular, ensures that every transaction is channelled through the best-performing gateway in real time. Faster transactions, fewer failures, and zero frustration.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Filing Faster, Paying Smarter<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ClearTax set out to make taxes simpler\u2014and with the right technology partners, they\u2019ve taken that mission even further. By integrating Razorpay\u2019s UPI solutions, they\u2019ve redefined how millions experience payments during the most critical financial moments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From smoother filings to faster transactions, the ClearTax &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/\">Razorpay<\/a> partnership is setting a new standard for tax-tech in India\u2014where compliance meets convenience, and finance flows without friction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because when two fintech leaders come together, the result isn\u2019t just better payments\u2014<\/span><b>it\u2019s a smarter, simpler future for every Indian business.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><b>We are backing India&#8217;s boldest brands. Check out how we are doing it with them<\/b><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/m\/bold\/?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=blog-CTA&amp;utm_campaign=founder-articles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22452\" src=\"https:\/\/d6xcmfyh68wv8.cloudfront.net\/blog-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Blog-banner.png\" alt=\"CTA - Backing India's Boldest\" width=\"860\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Blog-banner.png 940w, https:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Blog-banner-300x77.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Blog-banner-768x196.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m here to make taxes, less taxing. \u2014 Archit Gupta, Founder &amp; CEO, ClearTax When Archit Gupta returned to India after his time in Silicon Valley, he noticed something broken\u2014not in code, but in compliance. Tax filing in India was complicated, opaque, and deeply frustrating for millions. So, in 2011, he set out to build<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":22570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[715],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-events"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22571,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22569\/revisions\/22571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}