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Product & launch
When does Resume Mint launch?
We are in active development. The waitlist is how we decide the launch date — we open to a first cohort once the template collection and the payment flow are properly tested, and everyone on the list is emailed before anyone else. We are deliberately not promising a date, because we would rather launch something that works than hit an announced deadline with a product that does not.
What exactly do I get for my money?
A single, finished resume as a print-quality A4 PDF, built from your details in the template and colour you chose, with no watermark and no branding. Depending on the tier you also get a window in which you can return, edit your details and re-generate the file without paying again.
Is there a free version?
You can build your resume, browse every template and see exactly how your finished document will look without paying anything. The free preview carries a light watermark. Paying removes it and gives you the downloadable file. We would rather you see the real thing before deciding than sign up for a trial that turns into a charge.
Will there be a mobile app?
Not at launch. The website works on a phone, but resume editing is genuinely easier on a larger screen and we would rather do one thing properly than two things adequately. If enough people ask, we will build it.
Can I use Resume Mint from outside India?
You can build a resume from anywhere. Payment is the constraint — we accept UPI only at launch, which in practice means you need an Indian bank account. International payment options are on the list, not in the first release.
Templates & design
How many templates will there be?
Fifty at launch: twenty-five single-column and twenty-five double-column layouts, each available with and without a photograph. They are mapped to degree families and experience bands, so when you tell us you are a B.Tech fresher or an MBBS resident with eight years behind you, we show you the designs that suit that profile first.
Can I switch templates after I have entered everything?
Yes, freely, and this is the part we are most proud of. Your details are stored separately from the design that presents them, so switching templates redraws the page without touching a word you wrote. You can try all fifty in a couple of minutes.
Should I use a photograph or not?
It depends on where you are applying, which is exactly why we refuse to decide for you. Photographs are common and often expected in Indian applications, particularly in hospitality, aviation, sales and some public-sector roles. They are discouraged in many multinational and technology companies, where they can introduce bias into screening. Every one of our designs exists in both forms so you can make the call per application.
Single column or double column?
Single column is the safer, more conservative choice — good for law, government, banking, academia and senior roles where your experience deserves the full width of the page. Double column suits dense profiles with a lot of supporting detail, such as technology, design, clinical and research work. Both of ours are built to parse correctly, so this is a question of density and convention rather than risk.
Can I change the fonts?
Not arbitrarily, no. Each template uses a typeface chosen and tested for print legibility and for reliable embedding in the PDF. Free font choice is one of the fastest ways to make a resume look amateurish and to break rendering on someone else’s machine, so we treat it as a design decision rather than a setting.
Will my resume look the same as everyone else’s?
Any template-based product carries some of this risk. What reduces it in practice is that the combination you end up with — layout, column count, photograph, accent colour, section order and your own content — produces a very large number of possible documents. And the content, which is what a recruiter actually reads, is entirely yours.
ATS & job applications
What is an ATS, and why does it matter?
An applicant tracking system is the software most medium and large employers use to receive applications. It reads your file, tries to extract structured fields — name, contact details, employers, dates, education, skills — and files you as a record that recruiters then search. If it cannot read your resume properly, you can be effectively invisible regardless of how well qualified you are.
What makes a template ATS-ready?
Real selectable text rather than text baked into images or shapes. Standard section headings the parser recognises. A predictable reading order, including in double-column designs. No layout tables or text boxes, which are the two structures that most often reduce a resume to an empty record. Embedded standard fonts. These are structural properties, and they are the part we can control.
Can you guarantee my resume passes every ATS?
No, and you should be sceptical of anyone who does. There are dozens of ATS products and they behave differently. What we can honestly say is that our templates avoid every structural pattern known to break parsing, and that we test the output rather than assuming it works. Structure is within our control; a specific vendor’s implementation is not.
Does a good template mean I will get the interview?
No. A resume’s job is to get read accurately and to present you clearly. What you have actually done, and how well the content matches the role, does the rest. We can remove the formatting and parsing obstacles between you and a recruiter. We cannot manufacture experience, and we will not pretend otherwise.
Should I tailor my resume to each job?
Yes, and it is the single highest-return thing you can do. Mirroring the language of the job description — the actual tools, skills and responsibilities it names — measurably improves how you rank in an ATS search. Because your details are saved, producing a tailored variant takes minutes rather than an evening.
How long should my resume be?
One page as a fresher or with up to roughly five years of experience. Two pages once you have a decade of substantive work to describe. Beyond that, length usually signals poor editing rather than a long career. Our density-tuned layouts for senior profiles exist precisely so you do not have to shrink the type to fit.
Payment & pricing
How much does it cost?
₹149 for Basic, ₹249 for Advance and ₹299 for Ultra Advance, per resume, one time. The pricing page compares them in full.
Is this a subscription?
No. There is no recurring plan of any kind, no stored payment method and nothing that renews. You pay for a resume and you get a resume.
Which payment methods do you accept?
UPI only — GPay, PhonePe, Paytm, BHIM or any other UPI app. We do not accept cards, which also means we never handle or store card details. Payments settle through a regulated Indian payment gateway.
How does the FST1995 coupon work?
It gives waitlist members a discount of up to 25% at launch, applied at checkout. It is limited to the first cohort of customers and to one use per account. Everyone on the waitlist receives it by email before public launch.
Are your prices inclusive of GST?
Displayed prices are inclusive of applicable taxes. The tax component is itemised on the GST invoice generated with every order and stored in your account.
What is your refund policy?
Because a downloaded PDF cannot be returned, refunds are assessed case by case — principally where a payment succeeded but no document reached you, where the file is genuinely defective, or where you were charged more than once for the same order. The refund and cancellation policy sets out the detail.
My UPI payment succeeded but I have not received the file. What now?
Wait a couple of minutes first — UPI confirmations occasionally take longer than the redirect back to our site, and our system reconciles automatically. If nothing has arrived after ten minutes, contact us with your UPI reference number and we will resolve it. A confirmed payment always results in either your document or your money back.
Account & your data
How do I sign in?
With your Google account at launch. It is fast, it means one less password, and it lets us verify your email address without a separate step. We are adding phone and OTP sign-in shortly afterwards for people who do not use Gmail as their main identity.
What personal information do you collect?
Whatever you enter into your resume — name, contact details, education, employment history and, if you choose to upload one, a photograph — along with your email address and a record of your purchases. We do not ask for anything we do not need to build and deliver your document.
Do you sell my data or share it with recruiters?
No, to both. We do not sell personal data, we do not share it with recruiters or job boards, and we do not pass it to advertisers. Our revenue comes entirely from people paying for resumes, which is deliberate.
Can I delete everything?
Yes. Account deletion removes your resume content and your uploaded files for real, rather than setting a flag while keeping the data. Some transaction records must be retained for tax and accounting purposes, which we explain in the privacy notice.
Will my resume be watermarked?
Free previews in the editor carry a light watermark. Everything you download after paying is completely clean — no watermark, no logo, no branding. It is your document and it should not advertise us.
Are you compliant with India’s data protection law?
We are building to the Digital Personal Data Protection framework from the ground up rather than retrofitting it before the enforcement deadline. That means consent capture, stated retention periods, a working erasure path and a published grievance channel are part of the product design, not a later project.
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