Alternative to
ShippingBill.ai vs ClearTax (for exports)
The honest comparison
ClearTax is a strong GST and income-tax compliance product. They handle GST refund filings for export, e-invoicing, and IEC management adequately. Their RoDTEP and scheme reconciliation depth is limited: they treat RoDTEP as a checkbox on a shipping bill, not as a sector-specific recovery problem with Appendix 4R interpretation, scheme stacking, and rate-change tracking.
How we position
ClearTax is the GST and tax compliance backbone. We are the RoDTEP, scheme stacking, and HS classification specialist. They complement each other in a stack.
ClearTax (for exports)
GST filings, e-invoicing, IEC management, broad tax coverage.
ShippingBill.ai
Narrow on DGFT and RoDTEP, deep on Appendix 4R and scheme stacking.
ClearTax (for exports)
Multi-product platform, exports is one feature area.
ShippingBill.ai
Single-job tool. Export refund recovery is the whole product.
ClearTax (for exports)
Targets accountants and finance teams broadly.
ShippingBill.ai
Targets exporter CFOs and the CAs who file their RoDTEP.
Most of our customers use us alongside ClearTax (for exports), not instead of them. The categories rarely overlap.