Terms and Conditions

Effective date: 31 May 2026. Last updated: 25 October 2026.

These Terms and Conditions ("Terms") govern your access to and use of beginthings.com and the products listed on it (the "Service"), operated by Sourav Mahapatra as the sole proprietorship Begin Things ("BeginThings", "we", "us"). By accessing the Service you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. Product and service categories

The sections below describe the products, subscriptions, and services we offer:

Category 1: Free Tools

Browser-based utilities at /free-tools/ such as QR Creator, Invoice Generator, UPI QR, calculators, and converters. No account, no signup, no email collection. Provided as-is, free for personal or commercial use. We make no warranty of accuracy, availability, or fitness for purpose. Results should be verified before relying on them for legal, financial, or operational decisions.

Category 2: Account Features

Some products use an account for authentication, saving, account recovery, cross-device sync, or product access. Depending on the product, sign-in may use Google Identity Services or a verified email-link flow. Google sign-in supplies only the basic identity profile shown during authentication. The optional BeginRooms Calendar and Tasks connection requires a separate Google permission prompt. Optional BeginNotes integrations are also separate: a personal Gmail or Calendar script requires your deliberate setup and its own Google permissions. Review the integration instructions and Google permission screen before connecting it. The applicable trial and subscription terms remain those shown for the product.

Category 3: Subscriptions (Free Trial, then Recurring Payment)

BeginRooms is billed on a recurring basis after an optional 11-day free trial that requires no payment method and carries no obligation. You are never charged during the trial, and the trial does not convert automatically. FormulaMapper, a Windows desktop Excel add-in, is launching soon. At launch it offers an 11-day free trial that needs no payment method. The 11-day free trial starts when you first sign in from Excel with your BeginThings account, once per account. Reinstalling does not restart it.

Plans and prices. After the BeginRooms trial you may choose Monthly (INR 149), Quarterly (INR 399), 6-Monthly (INR 649), Annual (INR 1,111), or Early Bird by BeginThings (₹999/yr, billed yearly). Early Bird by BeginThings is the full BeginRooms plan at INR 999 a year instead of INR 1,111, and is the best-value plan. FormulaMapper is launching soon with an 11-day free trial. Its launch pricing is INR 799 plus 18% GST (INR 942.82) per month or INR 7,999 plus 18% GST (INR 9,438.82) per year. Checkout opens at launch. All prices are displayed in Indian Rupees as checkout totals, and the amount applied is always the one shown at checkout.

Recurring billing and auto-renewal. When you subscribe to an available product you authorise a recurring payment mandate through Razorpay and are charged for the first period immediately. The subscription renews automatically at the end of the billing period you selected until you cancel. A BeginRooms subscription opened on the INR 1,111 Annual plan renews at INR 1,111 per year, and one opened on Early Bird by BeginThings renews at INR 999 per year, while that subscription remains active. Any future price change requires advance notice and any consent or mandate update required by law and the payment network.

Cancellation. You may cancel at any time from your account or by emailing sourav@beginthings.com. Cancelling stops all future renewals. Your paid access continues until the end of the period you have already paid for, after which it ends. Refunds are governed by our Refund Policy.

Where a product binds a licence to a device (for example the FormulaMapper Excel add-in), that device binding is described where the product is offered.

Category 4: Paid Digital Products

One-time-purchase digital downloads include downloadable software such as FollowUp Desk, templates, toolkits, workbooks, and guides. A paid download is fulfilled only after our server verifies Razorpay payment capture and sends a secure delivery link or records access for the checkout email; a checkout page, created order, pending status, authorisation, callback, or browser redirect is not delivery. Files may be ZIP, HTML, PDF, XLSX, DOCX, or similar. Each licence is single-user, non-resale, and non-transferable. Delivery targets and final-sale remedies are in the Digital Delivery Policy and Refund Policy.

Category 5: Services, custom work and retainers

We offer fixed-price services (such as the Brand Clarity Audit, Cold Email Audit, Founder Spotlight and other audits, reviews and spotlights), custom projects (design, copywriting, website, landing-page, app and software development, setup and implementation work), monthly retainers, and consulting, advisory and other services we offer from time to time. These terms apply to every service order, together with the service page, order page, or written quote or proposal for that order.

Scope. The deliverables, price, target timeline, and revision rounds are those stated on the service page or order page, or in the written quote or proposal you accept (an email or message reply is enough). If they differ, the accepted written quote or proposal applies. Anything not listed is outside the scope; extra work or changes are quoted separately and start only after you accept them.
Start and delivery. A service begins when we tell you in writing that work has commenced or begin the review, research, drafting, production, or implementation work, whichever happens first. Target timelines begin only after payment capture and complete intake. Delivery is online, as described in the Digital Delivery Policy.
Your inputs. You agree to supply accurate information, content, access, and approvals on time, and you confirm you have the right to share any material you give us. Waiting time moves the delivery date. Third-party costs such as hosting, domains, paid plugins, fonts, stock media, software licences, and advertising spend are not included unless the quote says so.
Revisions and acceptance. Every service, including the Cold Email Audit, Founder Spotlight and Page Build, includes one revision round requested within 7 days of delivery, unless the service page or quote includes more. A deliverable is treated as accepted if you use or publish it, or raise no specific issue within 7 days of delivery. Page Build also includes a separate 30 days of post-launch bug fixes. For Founder Spotlight, nothing is published without your sign-off, and acceptance never counts as approval to publish.
Payment. Fixed-price services are paid in full at checkout. Custom projects may require an advance, with any balance due by milestone or before final handover, as stated in the quote. Monthly retainers are paid in advance and renew automatically each month until you cancel. To cancel, give at least 7 days' notice before the next billing date. A month that has already started is not refunded.
Consulting. Sessions are booked only after payment and scheduled through Google Calendar, in available slots Monday to Thursday, 11 AM to 4 PM IST. Session options and prices are as listed on the pricing page, GST included. You can reschedule up to 24 hours before the call. A missed call with no notice counts as delivered.
No refunds. Services, custom work, retainers and consulting are non-refundable once paid. The only refunds are for failed, duplicate or erroneous charges, and any remedy consumer law requires. See the Refund Policy.
Stalled orders. If we receive no input from you for 30 days after we ask for it, we may close the order. The amount paid is not refunded.
Confidentiality. We keep your non-public material and private deliverables confidential and use them only to deliver the service. Private audit reports are not published without your separate, explicit permission.
Portfolio. Private audit reports and unpublished Founder Spotlight drafts are never shown without your separate permission or sign-off. Everything else, including client names and the work delivered, stays private unless BeginThings chooses to show it in its portfolio or case studies, at its own discretion.
Results. Results depend on circumstances outside our control and are not guaranteed.

Retired service: Conversion Fix Sprint. This service is no longer offered or available for new purchases. Retirement does not remove obligations for valid earlier orders, including agreed delivery, licences, support, and applicable refund remedies. For an existing order, use Order help or email sourav@beginthings.com with your order reference.

2. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

Use the Service for any unlawful purpose or in violation of any applicable law.
Reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract source from FormulaMapper or any paid product beyond what is permitted under your jurisdiction's fair-use law.
Redistribute, resell, or sublicense paid products without our written consent.
Probe, scan, or stress-test the Service or attempt to bypass authentication or licensing.
Use automated means to scrape, harvest, or extract content at scale.
Upload or process content that is unlawful, infringing, or contains malware.

3. Intellectual property

BeginThings owns all code, design, branding, copy, and product assets unless otherwise noted. Free tools are free to use, but the underlying code remains our property. Paid products are licensed to the purchaser under a single-user, non-resale, non-transferable license. User-generated content (Workspace 3D files you create, data you enter into free tools) remains your property; we claim no ownership of it.

Custom service deliverables. After you pay in full for a service, custom project, or retainer month (including a valid earlier Conversion Fix Sprint order), you own the final deliverables created specifically for you under that scope, such as custom copy, designs, and code, and you may use, modify, reproduce, and deploy them anywhere. Until full payment, all rights in the work stay with BeginThings. You keep ownership of your pre-existing content, data, branding, and approved assets. BeginThings keeps ownership of its pre-existing methods, reusable components, generic templates, tools, know-how, and any material identified as pre-existing; where these are part of a deliverable you receive a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive licence to use them as part of that deliverable. Third-party themes, plugins, fonts, media, and software remain subject to their own licences. This does not permit resale of BeginThings templates or reusable product assets as standalone products. The Founder Spotlight feature page we host, and our own posts about it, remain ours.

4. User content, storage, and sync

User-generated content remains yours. The free browser tools process their working files locally unless a specific tool clearly says it needs a network service. BeginRooms keeps a local browser copy and, for signed-in accounts, transmits saved room and board data over HTTPS to the account service for access and cross-device sync. FormulaMapper analyses workbooks locally; when we launch, signing in from Excel exchanges only the account, hashed computer identifier, trial and subscription details the sign-in service needs. Account content is access-controlled but is not end-to-end encrypted, so you remain responsible for keeping separate backups and for avoiding secrets that require client-only encryption.

5. Payment, pricing, and taxes

Who you are contracting with. For every product, subscription, and service on this website, the supplier is Begin Things ("BeginThings"), a sole proprietorship of Sourav Mahapatra, registered under the Goods and Services Tax Act with GSTIN 09CBRPM4938H1ZZ, principal place of business in Uttar Pradesh, India. You can verify this GSTIN on the government portal at services.gst.gov.in.

Displayed prices include GST. All prices on this website and in our quotes are in Indian Rupees and include Goods and Services Tax at the applicable rate. The amount you see is the amount charged to your card, UPI or netbanking account, whether you pay through the website checkout or a Razorpay payment link or invoice. Nothing is added at checkout. Where the law requires it, the tax component is shown separately on your invoice rather than on the price label.

Transaction document. For eligible Indian transactions, the billing details validated at checkout are used to issue the applicable tax document to the checkout email. Enter your GSTIN at checkout if it should appear on that document; post-payment GSTIN amendment is not currently supported. The document records the classification and CGST, SGST or IGST treatment applied to that transaction.

Place of supply. For customers in India, the place of supply is your location as declared by you. Supplies within Uttar Pradesh attract CGST and SGST; supplies to other states attract IGST. You are responsible for the accuracy of the state and GSTIN details you give us.

Customers outside India. Tax treatment depends on the validated billing and place-of-supply details and on whether the legal conditions for an export of services are met. Checkout does not automatically assume zero rating. The transaction document reflects the treatment applied. You remain responsible for any VAT, sales tax, withholding tax or other levy due in your own country, and for bank or currency-conversion charges.

Payment processing. Payments are processed securely by Razorpay, through the website checkout or a Razorpay payment link or invoice that we send you. Razorpay accepts UPI, credit and debit cards, netbanking and wallets; international cards are supported where enabled. We do not see or store your card or bank-account details. Razorpay processes the transaction; BeginThings remains the merchant responsible for its own fulfilment and any remedy required by this policy or applicable law.

Payment status and fulfilment. A created, pending, failed, authorised, callback-only, or browser-redirected order is not a captured payment, delivery, or entitlement. We treat a payment as paid only after Razorpay capture is verified by our server. For downloads, delivery occurs when a secure link or licensed access is sent or recorded for the checkout email; for subscriptions, when the paid entitlement is actually activated; and for services, according to the stated scope after complete intake. If a checkout status is unclear, contact us with the order ID before attempting another payment.

Your checkout information. You are responsible for providing a reachable checkout email and accurate billing information. We use the information validated for the transaction to send delivery, support, and any applicable transaction document. An incorrectly entered email does not make a completed delivery refundable, but we will reissue an eligible digital delivery after verifying the order.

Subscriptions. BeginRooms may start with an 11-day free trial. No payment method is required for that trial, and access pauses at trial end unless you subscribe. Paid BeginRooms subscriptions (Monthly, Quarterly, 6-Monthly, Annual and Early Bird by BeginThings) renew each selected billing period until cancelled. FormulaMapper is launching soon. After its 11-day free trial you can choose a monthly or yearly subscription. Downloading or starting the trial does not create a subscription, and checkout opens at launch. When we launch, activate FormulaMapper by signing in inside Excel with your BeginThings account. A paid subscription activates automatically after payment and covers use on 2 computers.

Price changes. Prices may change with reasonable notice. If the GST rate applicable to our services changes, the tax-inclusive price may be adjusted to reflect it. Existing licences and paid periods are not invalidated by price changes.

Free tools. The 100+ free browser tools carry no charge and therefore no tax. They remain free.

Service classification. The tax document uses the product or service classification and tax treatment configured for the transaction after the applicable billing and place-of-supply details are validated. The tax document, rather than a marketing-page summary, is the authoritative record of the classification applied.

What your invoice will show. The tax document includes the seller and buyer details supplied for the transaction, the unique invoice number and date, place of supply where applicable, a description and classification of the product or service, taxable value, and the applicable tax rate and split. Contact us promptly if the billing details you supplied need correction; statutory records are retained for the required period.

6. Refunds

Except for the remedies in the Refund Policy and rights that cannot lawfully be excluded, all sales are final. We do not offer discretionary change-of-mind refunds after a digital product is delivered or accessed, a subscription period has started, or a service has been paid for. The only refunds are for failed, duplicate or erroneous charges and any remedy the law requires; non-delivery and defects are fixed first by reissue, repair or replacement.

7. Disclaimers and limitation of liability

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available". We make no warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, availability, or fitness for a particular business objective. Free tools and informational content do not constitute legal, financial, tax, accounting, investment, securities, or professional advice. See the Disclaimer for the full statement.

No business-outcome responsibility. BeginThings, its proprietor Sourav Mahapatra, and their suppliers do not promise or guarantee sales, revenue, profit, leads, conversions, customer payment, rankings, advertising performance, cost savings, productivity, funding, compliance outcome, or any other business result. You decide whether and how to use any site, tool, download, service, recommendation, output, or third-party link. You are responsible for independent review, implementation, lawful use, contracts, communications, backups, security, and decisions based on it.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, BeginThings, its proprietor Sourav Mahapatra, and their suppliers are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive loss, including lost revenue, profits, sales, opportunity, goodwill, data, reputation, or business interruption, or for actions or decisions taken using the Service. Their total liability for any claim arising out of or relating to the Service is limited to the amount you paid BeginThings for the affected product or service in the 12 months before the claim, or INR 1,000 if you paid nothing. Nothing in these Terms excludes a consumer right, liability, or obligation to supply as described that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

8. Termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service at any time for breach of these Terms, suspected fraud, or legal requirement. You may stop using the Service at any time; for Cat 2 disconnect by revoking Google access at myaccount.google.com. Termination does not entitle you to a refund except as set out in the Refund Policy.

9. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. The "Last updated" date at the top reflects the latest revision. Material changes will be announced on the homepage. Continued use after the update constitutes acceptance.

10. Governing law and jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by the laws of India. Subject to any consumer forum, authority, or jurisdiction that cannot lawfully be excluded, disputes arising out of or relating to the Service are subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, India.

11. Contact

For questions about these Terms, or for anything to do with an invoice or GST: sourav@beginthings.com.

Consumer and grievance contact: Sourav Mahapatra, Proprietor, Begin Things, sourav@beginthings.com, WhatsApp +91 7678475904. We acknowledge consumer complaints received at these contacts within 48 hours and seek to resolve them within one month.

Operator: Begin Things ("BeginThings"), sole proprietorship of Sourav Mahapatra. GSTIN 09CBRPM4938H1ZZ. MSME Udyam UDYAM-UP-28-0229726. Uttar Pradesh, India.