BusGrid runs your counter, your own booking site, your GPS and cameras, and the number the OTAs will never show you: what each bus actually earns.
Every OTA seat costs you commission. BusGrid moves riders to channels you own, and prices the true cost of the rest.
India's private intercity bus sector booked thousands of crores in a single half-year and moved 140 million people. Most of those seats are still sold at the counter, and most of the online ones are sold through OTAs that take a cut. The operators who own their channel keep the margin.
Sources: redBus India BusTrack Report, April to September 2025 (operators, ticketing value, passengers; organised private intercity segment). MakeMyTrip Limited FY2025 results, bus ticketing gross bookings. Figures are the sources' own; BusGrid does not audit them.
Software, the AIS-140 tracker, and the cameras on a single bill. Most bus software stops at software and leaves you to buy the hardware from someone else, then chase three suppliers when a bus goes dark.
Your own booking site, WhatsApp booking, and a channel P&L that prices every OTA seat at its true, loaded cost. The direct share climbs, and you can see exactly what the OTAs were charging you for it.
Odia, Hindi and Bengali for the counter and the crew, built for the Balasore to Berhampur corridor. Not a southern product with a language pack bolted on at the end.
Independent, with no OTA on the cap table. Flat pricing, no setup fee, a published policy that we never sell your data, and a one click export you can take anywhere.
Reservations, distribution, the money, the fleet, and compliance. Each of these is built and running, not a slide.
A seat is a segment of a route, not a line on a manifest. BusGrid sells seat 3A across non-overlapping legs and fills the empty middle of the corridor. An overlapping double sell is impossible, blocked in the database even under a rush.
Not tickets sold. BusGrid shows which bus made money and what each channel really costs, so you can price the OTAs at their true weight.
High contrast, big targets, one action per screen. On a moving bus in a dead zone, offline is the normal state and it syncs when the bars come back.
AIS-140 devices must send to at least two government backends and the standard allows more for operational use. BusGrid takes one of those streams, so the box you already fit for compliance also runs your own live tracking.
Invoices, cancellations and returns follow the current rules from the 56th GST Council, so the numbers your accountant sees already add up.
AIS-140 (VLTD and emergency button) is mandated for public service vehicles under Rule 125H of the Central Motor Vehicles Rules; state rollout and retrofit deadlines vary. The multi-IP requirement is from the AIS-140 Protocol Document v1.0 (Odisha State Transport Authority, 20 September 2022), which requires a minimum of two IP addresses for regulatory and emergency use, separate from those needed for operational purposes. Device firmware varies, so we confirm multi-IP support per vendor before we fit. GST on passenger road transport follows the 56th GST Council, effective 22 September 2025.
Good software exists in this market. What no one else puts in one place: independence, the hardware on your invoice, your languages, and a system that reports profit rather than ticket counts.
| BusGrid | Bitla / TicketSimply | Infinity ITS | QwikBus | EzeeBus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it optimises for | The operator's profit | Distribution to OTAs and agents | Booking engine plus a broad travel ERP | All-in-one for small and mid fleets | A broad multi-product suite |
| Scale it claims publicly | Live on the NH16 corridor | 2,500+ operators, 20,000+ buses | 800+ operators, 49,000+ agents | 100+ operators | 150+ clients, since 2011 |
| Ownership | Independent, no OTA on the cap table | MakeMyTrip strategic investor (2018) | Paytm strategic investor (2019) | Independent | Independent |
| Hardware | AIS-140 tracker and cameras, one invoice | Software | GPS tracking, MagicBox entertainment | Software | Software, with GPS (TrackBus) |
| Languages and region | Odia, Hindi, Bengali; East India | Pan-India | Pan-India, based in Gujarat | India, built in Chennai | India |
Public claims from each company's own website and press, accessed August 2026 (bitlasoft.com, itspl.net, qwikbus.in, ezeeinfocloudsolutions.com). MakeMyTrip's investment in Bitla Software was reported in July 2018 (Inc42, Business Standard); Paytm's investment in Infinity was reported in December 2019 (Inc42, PYMNTS). Both were reported as strategic investments, not acquisitions. We compare only what companies state publicly, never their private pricing, and capabilities change, so check the latest before you decide.
Put in your own numbers. This is an estimate built from your inputs, not a quote.
Assumes 40 seats per bus and 30 operating days a month. Adjust the fields to match your business.
One predictable price for the plan you pick. The OTAs take a percentage of every seat. We do not.
A small fleet moving off paper
Operators cutting OTA dependence
Multi-branch operators
BusGrid runs first where it has to work: an eight-bus operator on the NH16 Balasore to Berhampur corridor in Odisha. The counter, the booking site, and the money reporting run alongside the operator's existing process.
We retire the paper only after seven straight days where every number reconciles. No invented case study, no borrowed logo. When we say a number, it has already had to match the till.
These have to agree, every evening, before paper is retired.
See BusGrid on your own routes and fares. Live in a day, flat price, no setup fee, and no cut of your bookings.
Independent, no OTA parent. Built in Odisha for Indian operators.