One bill, start to finish
Watch a kitchen job turn into money
I finish at 1. The bill is out by 2.
— Imran · technician
Imran treated a kitchen at Sunrise Foods on 4 September. Update the passbook to follow the ₹5,664, line by line.
Try it · level the scale
₹4,220 short? Check the TDS first.
Nine times out of ten, it’s TDS.
— Priya · accounts
Meridian paid three bills in one transfer and kept back tax on each. Pick the right bills and the TDS rate until the scale is level.
THE BANK SAYS₹2,44,760
YOUR BOOKS SAY₹2,07,680
They deducted TDS at
The bank is heavier by ₹37,080. Another invoice is inside this payment, or they paid something in advance.
GST returns and Tally
Your CA gets a GST file, not a bag of bills
My CA stopped calling on the 8th.
— Priya · accounts
Each bill already knows who it’s for and which state. Pick one and see which box it goes in.
GSTR-1 · B2B
214
Invoices to buyers with a GSTIN
↓ GSTIN on the contract, so B2B. Meridian can claim the input credit.
GSTR-1 · B2CL
3
Large invoices to unregistered buyers in another state
GSTR-1 · B2CS
38
Everything else to unregistered buyers
GSTR-1 · CDNR
4
Credit and debit notes to registered buyers
INTO TALLY · NATIVE XML255 sales vouchers, 198 receipts and 4 credit notes for September, in one import. Ledgers match on GSTIN, so nobody types a customer name twice.
EVERY CREDIT NOTE HAS A PARENTA credit note can only be raised against an invoice. CRN-0014 names INV-2231 and the complaint behind it, so the reason is still there when the auditor asks in March.
Asked after the demo, usually by the accountant
Read the first one. It’s the thing we haven’t built yet.
The owner asks what it does. The accountant asks what breaks.
Not yet. On its date, each instalment arrives in the ready-to-bill queue with the visits it covers, and a person raises it. Automatic generation with an approval step is on the roadmap. We’d rather say so now than have you find out in month two.