Exactly what Winnow does — and doesn't.
What keeps you in control, what our server receives, and how licensing works. Worth a read before you decide.
Built to be switched off.
This tool spends credits and automates someone else's interface. Every default leans conservative, and there are three separate ways to stop it: yours, the server's, and the page's.
Only leads that pass your rules
Nothing outside your rules is ever contacted. On a paid licence auto-pick starts off, and you switch it on yourself. A free trial picks from the start, up to its pick allowance, so you can judge it on real results.
Your login stays yours
Winnow acts inside a tab you signed into yourself. It never accesses your IndiaMART password or cookies.
You set the limits
A cap per run, a cap per day, a minimum gap between contacts, and your own active hours. If our server sets a tighter cap, the tighter one wins.
It stops at a security check
If IndiaMART shows a CAPTCHA or “unusual activity” screen, auto-pick pauses and tells you. Winnow never tries to solve it or get around it.
A remote off switch
If a problem install needs stopping, or your licence lapses, the extension stops. Nothing keeps running on its own.
Decisions happen in your browser
Whether a lead fits is worked out in your browser. What is sent to our server is listed, line by line, just below.
Conservative by design. Default pacing is set for a human, not for the maximum the page allows — and not tuned to stay under a detection threshold.
What Winnow sends to its server — exactly.
Deciding whether a lead fits happens in your browser. To run your licence, sync your rules and show you your results, our server receives the following — and nothing else.
| What is sent | When | How long it’s kept |
|---|---|---|
| Licence key, device ID, extension version, run status and counters (scanned, picked, rejected) | About every 15 minutes | The latest 500 check-ins per licence |
| A short salted hash of the network address the extension called from (not the address), to spot one install used in two places | With each check-in | Only the latest, until the device is removed |
| A day-by-day count of leads scanned — one number per day, no lead content — for your Analytics page | Worked out from the check-ins | 400 days |
| When you connect your browser to your dashboard or start a free trial: its device ID and a label such as “Chrome on Windows” | When you connect or start the trial | With your licence's list of devices |
| For a free trial: a keyed hash of your network address (not the address), to limit how many trials one network can start | When the trial starts | 30 days |
| A count of your rules (not the words), and up to 30 recent rejection reasons, each with a lead title cut to 60 characters | About every 15 minutes | With the check-ins |
| For each lead your rules match, or Winnow picks: a title cut to 60 characters, the matched keyword, country, state, quantity, lead age and the outcome | As it happens | 400 days |
| For each lead Winnow picks: the full lead, including the buyer's contact details as IndiaMART reveals them | When a pick is confirmed | Encrypted, and readable only through your licence. Deleted after 180 days. |
| Your rules and run schedules | When you save them in your dashboard | With your licence |
| Your IndiaMART password or cookies | Never | — |
Leads your rules reject are not sent. Leads you contact yourself are not sent.
Straight answers before you install.
A serious seller will ask these anyway. Here they are up front.
An independent tool
Winnow isn't built by, affiliated with, or endorsed by IndiaMART. The names "IndiaMART" and "BuyLeads" are used only to say what the tool works with.
It automates a page with no API
Contacting buyers for you automates IndiaMART's seller interface. That may conflict with IndiaMART's Terms of Use even though it runs in your own session, and IndiaMART could restrict or suspend a seller account. You set it up, you run it, you set the pace, and you accept that risk. We keep it conservative and human-in-the-loop by default; we can't remove the risk.
What you sell is your responsibility
Winnow filters leads by your rules. It doesn't check that any sale is lawful, or that you hold the licences your products require.
It depends on IndiaMART's page
When IndiaMART changes its layout there can be a gap until an update ships. Updates reach you without a reinstall.
It needs Chrome open
Nothing runs on our servers on your behalf. Scheduled runs only happen while your computer and Chrome are running.
It doesn't create leads
Winnow helps you act on the leads IndiaMART already shows you. It doesn't find new buyers, and it can't promise replies or orders.
One licence, set up with you.
Winnow is licensed by subscription. It needs an active licence to run, including in monitor-only mode. We start you on a free trial licence, set up with your rules.
A paid-through period
Your licence runs for the period you've paid for. When it ends, Winnow pauses until it's renewed.
A set number of devices
It's tied to the browser profile you activate it in, up to the number of devices your licence allows.
An auto-pick allowance
Your licence can include an allowance of auto-picks for each billing cycle, and it resets every cycle. Monitor-only mode doesn't use any.
Plans and prices
Two plans, billed monthly or yearly, plus GST. If your licence lapses, Winnow pauses and nothing is contacted in the meantime.
Not affiliated with IndiaMART InterMESH Ltd.
Tell us what you sell. We’ll get you set up.
Send your category and roughly how many BuyLeads you see a day. We’ll help you write your first rules and start your free 7-day trial, so you see Winnow work on your own feed before you pay.
Plans start at ₹5,999 a month + GST. See pricing. Free 7-day trial, up to 10 picks.