Features
One product. Every part of your books.
Most Indian businesses run on four or five tools — Tally on one machine, a separate payroll app, stock in a spreadsheet, the GST portal in another tab. TatvaBooks is the cloud Tally alternative that puts all of it in one product, at one price, with every module here working today.
Books anyone can keep.
Books your CA signs off.
Books & ledgers
Proper double-entry underneath, a screen anyone can use on top. You record what happened in the business; we keep the debits and credits straight.
GST
GST is decided when you raise the bill, not reconstructed at quarter-end. Tax, HSN and place of supply are set the moment a voucher is saved.
GST invoicing
A clean, GST-correct invoice in well under a minute, with the tax worked out while you type.
Expenses & purchases
Book a bill, see exactly what you owe and when, and keep the original attached for audit day.
Payroll & ESI
Salaries for a team of three or three hundred, with PF, ESI, professional tax and monthly salary TDS worked out under the new regime.
TDS on payments (Form 26Q)
The other half of TDS — what you deduct when you pay contractors, rent and professional fees. Worked out on the voucher, rolled up by section, and filed as a clean 26Q.
Inventory
Inventory management that tracks stock by item and location, values it the way your auditor expects, and stays current with every sale and purchase.
Manufacturing
Manufacturing for businesses that make things — an oil mill, a small food unit, a fabrication shop. Set the recipe, record what the floor produced, and the month-end run values your raw material, WIP and finished goods for you.
Reports
The statements you need, drawn straight from the ledger, with a way to click down to the entry behind any figure.
Practice management for CA firms
Run the whole practice from one login, and let your articles do the work without ever holding a client's password.
Books & ledgers
Proper double-entry underneath, a screen anyone can use on top. You record what happened in the business; we keep the debits and credits straight.
A chart of accounts that already speaks Indian
Loaded with Schedule III heads and the standard primary groups. Rename, add or restrict accounts to match how your business is actually run.
Bank statement import and matching
Download the statement from your bank, upload it, and we line each entry up against your books and suggest the match. You confirm. No screen-scraping, no handing over bank passwords.
Lock a month once it's done
Closed April after the May review? Lock it, and nobody edits a settled period behind your back.
Year-end close in a click
At 31 March the books roll over cleanly: P&L to retained earnings, balances carried into the new year.
GST
GST is decided when you raise the bill, not reconstructed at quarter-end. Tax, HSN and place of supply are set the moment a voucher is saved.
e-Invoice ready (IRN + QR)
We track the e-invoice turnover limit, mark the bills that qualify, and prepare the IRP payload so the IRN and signed QR sit on the invoice itself. Live filing to the NIC portal is on our near-term roadmap.
GSTR-2B reconciliation
Pull your 2B from the portal and we match it against your purchase entries, bill by bill. You can see what a supplier filed against what you booked.
Input tax credit (ITC) you can rely on
Every purchase entry is flagged for ITC eligibility and matched against what your supplier filed in 2B, with mismatches called out line by line.
Nothing re-keyed
HSN, reverse charge and place of supply are captured at the source, so your figures come from real entries instead of a fresh spreadsheet each quarter.
GST invoicing
A clean, GST-correct invoice in well under a minute, with the tax worked out while you type.
GST-correct invoices
CGST, SGST, IGST and cess calculated line by line. Inter-state or intra-state, it picks the right tax on its own.
Stock and COGS, handled
Bill an item you track in inventory and the stock comes down and the cost of goods hits your P&L in the same entry.
Credit and debit notes
Raise a note against the original invoice and the tax reverses the way GST expects.
Your invoice, your letterhead
Add the logo, terms, bank details and signature, then print or save a tidy PDF.
Expenses & purchases
Book a bill, see exactly what you owe and when, and keep the original attached for audit day.
Purchase and expense vouchers
Book a supplier bill with HSN, tax and input-credit working on every line.
Know your payables
A running view of what you owe each supplier, today and as bills fall due.
Keep the bill with the entry
Attach the PDF or a photo of the original bill to its voucher. It's there at audit time, versioned, with a full trail.
Payroll & ESI
Salaries for a team of three or three hundred, with PF, ESI, professional tax and monthly salary TDS worked out under the new regime.
Build the salary structure once
Basic, HRA, allowances, employer PF and ESI. Change one number and the net pay updates in front of you.
The statutory bits, done right
PF with EDLI and admin, ESI, and professional tax at your state's slab, every run.
TDS on salary, monthly
Section 192 worked out per employee through the year, so the deduction is spread evenly instead of landing on the March payslip.
Clean exits
Full-and-final settlement that settles dues, recoveries and the last payout in one place.
TDS on payments (Form 26Q)
The other half of TDS — what you deduct when you pay contractors, rent and professional fees. Worked out on the voucher, rolled up by section, and filed as a clean 26Q.
TDS taken when you book the bill
194C on contractors, 194I on rent, 194J on professional fees — the TDS is worked out on the purchase or payment voucher itself, with the deductee's PAN on every line the way 26Q needs it.
Form 26Q, quarter by quarter
Every non-salary deduction is gathered for the quarter and exported as the NSDL FVU text file — the same format you validate and upload, not a PDF you re-key.
Section-wise, before you file
Deductions roll up by section and rate, deductee by deductee, so the quarter reconciles before you generate the return.
Salary TDS lives next door
Section 192 on salaries is computed every month inside payroll, so both sides of TDS sit in one product instead of two.
Inventory
Inventory management that tracks stock by item and location, values it the way your auditor expects, and stays current with every sale and purchase.
Items across godowns
SKUs across warehouses, shops and godowns, moved between them with a stock journal.
FIFO or weighted average
Choose the method per item. We hold the cost layers and post cost of goods on each sale, so closing stock isn't a year-end guess.
Always live
On a tracked item, a sale or purchase updates the quantity and the cost there and then. No separate stock register to reconcile.
Opening stock and physical counts
Load opening balances at the start of the year, and book the gains or shortfalls from a count as adjustments.
Manufacturing
Manufacturing for businesses that make things — an oil mill, a small food unit, a fabrication shop. Set the recipe, record what the floor produced, and the month-end run values your raw material, WIP and finished goods for you.
The recipe (bill of materials)
A single-level BOM: what comes out, what goes in, the quantity per unit, and the normal scrap you'd expect.
Production in quantities
Floor staff log inputs consumed and output made, by-products included. No costing maths on the shop floor.
AS-2 valuation at month-end
One run values closing raw material, work-in-progress, finished goods and by-products at net realisable value, then posts the closing-stock entry. Re-run it and it reverses the previous one cleanly.
Conversion cost, absorbed properly
Tag your power, labour and factory-overhead ledgers and that pool flows into the cost of what you produced, the way AS-2 asks for.
Reports
The statements you need, drawn straight from the ledger, with a way to click down to the entry behind any figure.
P&L, Balance Sheet, Trial Balance
Schedule III format, for any period, reconciled to the ledger.
Day book and ledgers
The day's entries in order, and every account with its running balance and reversals flagged.
Click any number
A figure that looks off? Click it for the postings, click again for the original voucher.
Take it with you
Export anything to CSV for the auditor or your own working.
Practice management for CA firms
Run the whole practice from one login, and let your articles do the work without ever holding a client's password.
Every client, two clicks away
Move between client books from a single login, under your firm's own branding.
Compliance calendar with reminders
Every client's due dates — GST, TDS, ITR and PF/ESI — tracked in one place, with email reminders before each deadline and alerts the moment one slips overdue. ROC (AOC-4/MGT-7) tracking is coming soon.
Permissions that fit a firm
Scope access across firm, client, company and staff. An article prepares, a senior reviews, you decide who files.
A trail of who did what
Every action by every team member, logged append-only. Useful long before an audit asks for it.
One place for the documents
PAN, GSTIN, registration certificates and board resolutions, kept against the client and versioned.
Payroll included
Payroll is built in — not an add-on.
PF, ESI, PT, TDS — all computed automatically. Included in Growth and Practice plans.
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Things we don't charge extra for
No feature gating, no surprise add-ons, no per-invoice fees.
Common questions
What people ask before switching
Straight answers, including what is still on the way.
Is TatvaBooks a cloud-based Tally alternative?
Yes. TatvaBooks is a cloud-based Tally alternative — full double-entry accounting that runs in your browser, so your books aren't stuck on one machine in the office. To get going, bring your customer and supplier masters over from CSV.
Does it handle GST e-invoicing?
It tracks the e-invoice turnover limit, flags the bills that qualify, and prepares the IRN and signed QR on the invoice itself. Live filing to the NIC portal is on the near-term roadmap.
Which inventory valuation methods are supported?
Both FIFO and weighted average, chosen per item. Cost of goods is posted automatically on every sale, so your closing stock value stays current instead of being rebuilt in March.
Can it do manufacturing accounting?
Yes, the AS-2 way. Define a single-level bill of materials, record production in quantities, and the month-end run values raw material, WIP, finished goods and by-products before posting the closing-stock entry.
Does payroll cover PF, ESI and salary TDS?
PF with EDLI and admin, ESI, professional tax at your state's slab, and Section 192 TDS under the new regime — plus full-and-final settlement when someone leaves.
Do you handle TDS on payments, not just on salary?
Yes. TDS on contractor (194C), rent (194I) and professional (194J) payments is deducted on the voucher and rolled up into Form 26Q each quarter, exported as the NSDL FVU file ready to validate and upload.
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