Hanto started in HSR Layout in January 2020. Aashit Verma, the founder, picked the location because he lived nearby and thought accessible workspace could work for others too. He didn't know at the time that HSR was Bengaluru's startup hub. That kind of accidental, grounded clarity is very much how Hanto operates.

Hanto, (Haan-toh), means "to hunt"  the idea being that everyone is chasing something, and a startup is the tribe you build to chase it together. Six years later, Hanto has grown into a network of coworking properties across Bengaluru, entirely bootstrapped, with zero marketing budget, growing purely through customer trust.

That frugality is a feature, not a constraint. When your customers are paying you partly for the promise of cost discipline on their behalf  because their rent includes service  you cannot afford to be sloppy with your own spending.

Overview

Hanto runs a capex-heavy, operationally intensive business. Every property is a cost center. Every cost center has its own vendor relationships, maintenance spends, utility payments, and service contracts. At the time they came to Mysa, this meant tracking spend across 27 locations in a largely manual way, bills arriving through email, approvals happening over WhatsApp, and accounting getting done on the side in Zoho.

Sai Charan Kalatur, Hanto's Head of Finance, was responsible for making this work. And for a while, it did  until the volume of transactions made the old way genuinely unsustainable.

Today, Hanto processes crores in payments every month through Mysa, with 1,422 vendors on the platform, 27 cost centers mapped, and a Zoho sync accuracy of 97%.

The Challenge

Spend Visibility across multiple locations

In a multi-location coworking business, cost-center mapping is not a nice-to-have. It is the only way to know whether a property is profitable. Hanto had defined their cost centers: 27 of them  but in practice, pulling spend data by center meant manually correlating bills, payments, and accounting entries across tools. By the time the numbers were clean enough to act on, the moment had passed.

"We have set out metrics, let's say 5% of the rental should be spent on XYZ services  and it should not get deviated as we scale. These metrics help us a lot." ~Aashit Verma, Founder, Hanto

Documents were scattered

Sai's previous experience across finance roles had shown him what a broken bill workflow looks like. At Hanto, before Mysa, that experience was familiar: bills came in through email, approvals were tracked informally, and if something went wrong with a payment later, reconstructing who had approved what and when was a manual excavation. When a vendor followed up on a payment or an internal team member queried a transaction, the answer was rarely instant.

"Every time we'd have to check emails  who has sent this bill. If something is wrong with the bill later, who has sent it, who has approved it." ~ Sai Charan K., Head of Finance, Hanto

Payment communication added overhead for everyone

Once a payment went out, the work wasn't over. Someone had to inform the vendor. Someone had to inform the internal person who had raised the request. Sai describes it: "Earlier we had to inform two, three people. We have to inform the vendor. We have to inform the internal spoke saying that their payment is made." This added a communication layer that sat between the finance team and every completed transaction.

Approvals were thorough, but not structured

Aashit approves every payment personally  even today, at this scale. "I know it is a little bit old school where someone has to come even for a ₹2,000 payment to the decision maker, but it gives a lot of insight into what is happening in the company." That level of control is intentional. But without a structured approval workflow, that intent translated to ad hoc requests arriving through multiple channels, with no trail of what had already been seen.

Mysa Solutions

One place for every bill, from submission to payment

Bills at Hanto now follow a defined path. Spokes submit them through the platform. Finance checks them against agreements. Accounting and payment happen in sequence, with every step visible. The audit trail that used to require digging through email threads now exists by default.

"Now on the platform, you just enter the bill number, you see the trail  who has shared it, when. The to-and-fro is completely eliminated now."~ Sai Charan K., Head of Finance, Hanto

Cost center mapping that actually maps

With 27 cost centers and 36 Mysa categories configured, every payment at Hanto is tagged before it moves. This means Aashit can hold the line on his metrics  what percentage of rental revenue is going to which service category, across which property  without waiting for month-end consolidation. The data is in the platform as payments happen.

Automated vendor communication

When a payment goes out, Mysa sends the confirmation automatically  to the vendor and to the internal spoke who raised the request. "That's all eliminated now," says Sai. "Just on the platform they can request what amount is required. They don't have to type the PO number, bill number, and all of this." The finance team is no longer the communication relay between payment and confirmation.

Zoho integration that holds up under scrutiny

Hanto runs their accounting on Zoho. The Mysa sync, currently at 97% accuracy, means the data that flows into Zoho is clean and consistent. The categories in Mysa correspond to the cost structure in Zoho, so the P&L by cost center is a reflection of how payments were categorized at entry not a reclassification exercise at month-end.

See how Mysa handles Zoho Books integration for multi-location businesses.

Mysa Support and Onboarding

We've always received very prompt replies from the team!"~ Sai Charan K, Head of Finance, Hanto

Sai mentions this briefly, but it is worth noting: "In terms of onboarding it was very smooth. Mohit Jain helped us. through the entire process" He explains how he has always received prompt responses from the team and how the team has always been keen on taking in feedback. For a finance controller who is also managing the day-to-day, an implementation that requires hand-holding for months is a cost in itself. Hanto didn't have that experience.

Looking Forward

Aashit has a specific ask for Mysa. He wants to be able to query his numbers directly inside the platform, not export to a spreadsheet, not switch to another tool, just ask what the expense percentage is across his centers and get the answer. "Maybe it might be just a query away. Maybe inside Mysa itself I can just ask  what is the expense percentage across my centers  and get that insight."

The vision is of an AI layer inside the platform where a finance lead or founder can prompt for spend breakdowns, flag deviations from budget targets, or surface payment anomalies is one we are actively working on.