Bookkeeping Software · India 2026

Bookkeeping Software That Records Itself While You Run Your Business

Every bill, purchase and expense posts to your books the second it happens. Day book, cash book, account book, GST entries, done in the background by a bookkeeping app that runs on the phone in your pocket. From ₹799/year.

  • Income, expense and GST posted automatically on every bill
  • Live day book and cash book — never written by hand
  • Party-wise ledgers with outstanding always current
  • Real-time Profit and Loss on your phone, any day
  • CA logs in directly · cloud backup · multi-device

No credit card · Free migration · Setup in 30 minutes

  • From ₹799/year
  • 4 hrs/week saved
  • Live day book
  • 12,000+ businesses
Indian shop owner doing bookkeeping with Accountune software
  • 4.9/5 rating
  • 12,000+ businesses
  • Books update as you bill
  • GST-ready since 2017

Accountune research · 2026

What is manual bookkeeping actually costing your business?

  • ₹5K–15KPetty cash most small businesses cannot account for each monthAccountune onboarding data, 2025
  • 6–8 hrsMonthly hours small businesses spend on GST + manual booksICAI MSME compliance study, 2025
  • 63.4MMSMEs in India, most without a formal bookkeeping systemMinistry of MSME 2023–24
  • 47%Share of small firms reviewing real numbers only at year-endCRISIL MSME pulse + Accountune, 2025

Figures compiled from Ministry of MSME, CBIC GST data, and Accountune's first-party onboarding observations across 12,000+ businesses (2023–2025). If you are still writing the daily record by hand, start with the cash book format.

In short

What is bookkeeping software?

Bookkeeping software is an application that captures and organises every financial transaction in a business (income, expense, cash, bank, purchase and sale) into structured ledgers and reports. Online bookkeeping records these entries automatically from billing and purchasing, so the books stay current without a separate accounting step or a trained bookkeeper. In India it is usually bought as one accounting package alongside GST billing, because the same entry has to serve both.

Understanding bookkeeping

What makes bookkeeping for an Indian small business different?

Bookkeeping vs accounting, the difference that matters. Bookkeeping is the day-to-day recording of transactions. Accounting is the interpretation: the analysis, the year-end statements, the tax planning. Bookkeeping comes first; without clean books, accounting is guesswork, which is why online accounting software and a bookkeeping tool are usually the same purchase. For most Indian small business owners the gap is not accounting skill; it is that nobody is doing the bookkeeping consistently. According to the Ministry of MSME's Annual Report 2023–24, the vast majority of India's 63.4 million MSMEs operate without a formal bookkeeping system, which is why GST filing and year-end accounts so often turn into reconstruction exercises.

GST built into your books. In India, bookkeeping cannot be separated from GST. Every sale carries a GST rate (0%, 5%, 18% or 40%) and splits into CGST, SGST or IGST depending on whether the sale is local or interstate. Every purchase from a registered supplier carries Input Tax Credit (ITC) that must be captured to reduce your tax. Rule 56 of the CGST Rules, 2017 requires a registered person to keep accounts of inward and outward supply, stock and input tax credit. Accounting software that records the HSN code and tax at the point of billing keeps your GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B data ready by default, with no parallel GST register needed.

What clean bookkeeping software must do. An accounting package for an Indian SMB should maintain a day book, a cash book and an account book, capture expenses by category, handle GST automatically, and give a real-time profit and loss view. Party-wise tracking is what party ledger software adds on top, so a customer's running balance is never a separate spreadsheet. It should run on an Android phone, store data on secure cloud servers with encryption, and let your CA log in remotely. Section 44AA of the Income Tax Act, 1961 makes maintaining books of account a legal obligation once your income or turnover crosses the prescribed limits, so this is compliance, not just good housekeeping.

Who uses it. Kirana and grocery stores, medical and hardware shops, electronics and garment retailers, wholesalers, small manufacturers and service businesses: anyone where money moves daily and the owner, not a full-time accountant, keeps the books. If you are doing this for the first time, bookkeeping basics without a CA covers the ground rules before any software is involved.

Entities covered on this page

  • GST
  • GSTIN
  • HSN code
  • ITC
  • GSTR-1
  • GSTR-3B
  • day book
  • cash book
  • account book
  • profit and loss

6 bookkeeping failures Accountune fixes

The daily bookkeeping failures that are quietly draining your business

These are not hypothetical. They happen in small businesses across India every month — and each one quietly costs money or hours.

  • Problem 01

    Why do your records end up scattered across paper, WhatsApp and Excel?

    One sale noted in a diary, an expense on WhatsApp, the rest in an Excel sheet that broke in March. Month-end becomes a jigsaw, and half the receipts are missing.

    Half the receipts missing
    Accountune fix

    One system

    Every sale, purchase and expense is recorded as it happens, no parallel notes. Your books live in one place, always current.

    One source of truth, zero catch-up
  • Problem 02

    Where does the small cash actually go every month?

    Courier ₹180, transport ₹400, chai ₹60, small costs that never make a bill never make the books either. ₹5,000–₹15,000 vanishes a month.

    ₹5,000–₹15,000 vanishes a month
    Accountune fix

    Log any expense in 15 seconds

    Record any expense from your phone: amount, category, optional receipt photo. The monthly petty-cash summary shows exactly where the small money went.

    Every rupee visible in P&L
  • Problem 03

    Why is the day book and every ledger still written by hand?

    A separate page per customer, a separate register per supplier. A dispute means hunting in three places, and sometimes there's no answer at all.

    Disputes with no answer
    Accountune fix

    Day book and ledgers update automatically

    Every entry posts to the day book and party-wise ledgers, so sundry debtors and creditors stop being two separate registers you reconcile by memory. A distributor disputes ₹45,000? Open their ledger, show it invoice by invoice in 10 seconds.

    Live ledger, no disputes
  • Problem 04

    Why does closing the cash book eat half your Sunday?

    Add up the day's cash by hand, chase the slips that went missing, and still end the week not knowing what the shop actually holds.

    Half a Sunday gone
    Accountune fix

    A cash book that closes itself

    Accountune updates the cash book on every cash sale, expense and payment as it is recorded, so the closing balance is already there at the end of the day. It follows the same cash book format you would keep by hand, without the adding up.

    Cash position current every day
  • Problem 05

    Why does year-end take your CA three weeks?

    A year of scattered data goes to the CA, who asks question after question and bills extra each time. The real numbers arrive after the decisions are already made.

    3 weeks + extra CA bills
    Accountune fix

    Year-end ready, always

    Books are always current: trial balance, P&L and balance sheet are one click, any day. Your CA logs in directly with read-only access; no back-and-forth.

    Year-end in days, not weeks
  • Problem 06

    Why do GST mismatch notices keep arriving months later?

    A wrong rate here, an entry recorded later there: the sales register and the GST register quietly drift apart, and a notice lands long after the error.

    Notices months later
    Accountune fix

    GST recorded at the moment of billing

    CGST/SGST/IGST split automatically and ITC captured on purchases. The mismatch is prevented at the source, not chased after filing.

    GST books always balanced

Setup to live books — under 30 minutes

How does Accountune work for your books, from day one?

No IT person. No training consultant. Most owners have their books set up and running within 30 minutes of signing up.

  1. Step 012 minutes

    Create your account and set up

    Sign up with phone or email, no credit card. Add your business name, GSTIN if you have one, and you're in. Already on Tally or Excel? Free migration brings your data across.

  2. Step 02ongoing

    Bill and record as you normally would

    Create a GST invoice, log a supplier purchase, or tap “add expense.” The moment you do, income, expense, the party ledger, stock and GST all post to your books at the right rate. No second step, no voucher.

  3. Step 03automatic

    Watch the day book and cash book fill themselves

    Every transaction lands in the day book chronologically with a timestamp, and the cash book updates with every cash movement. Review the day's activity and your exact cash position on one screen at closing time.

  4. Step 04month-end

    File GST and share the books with your CA

    GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B data is ready from the same records you have been entering all month, so there is nothing to compile. Invite your CA with a read-only login and they review and file without a single phone call to you.

Most owners have their books set up and running within 30 minutes of signing up.

What you get

Everything your business needs, in one place

From billing to GST to reports, one connected system. Online bookkeeping runs underneath every one of these: Accountune posts each entry to the day book, the party ledgers and the cash book on its own, so the account book is never a separate evening job.

Fast counter billing

Invoice in under 10 seconds

Search by product name or barcode scan. GST, HSN, price auto-filled. Print or WhatsApp in one tap.

Automatic inventory update

Stock accurate without extra entry

Every sale deducts from stock; every purchase adds back. Live count at any moment.

Udhaar & customer credit tracking

Not one rupee missed or disputed

Per-customer digital account with timestamped history and one-tap WhatsApp reminders. Every closing balance carries through to the balance sheet for a small business.

GST invoicing + GSTR reports

Zero manual tax calculation

CGST, SGST and IGST correct on every invoice. GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B ready at month end.

Low stock alerts

Reorder before the shelf goes empty

Custom minimum per product; alert via app, email or SMS.

Barcode scanning

Packaged goods billed in 3 seconds

USB, Bluetooth or phone camera; auto-fills name, price, GST, HSN.

WhatsApp bill sharing

Professional bills, no printing cost

PDF invoice to the customer's WhatsApp in one tap.

Supplier & purchase records

Never overpay a supplier again

Every purchase logged; supplier-wise outstanding always visible.

Daily business reports

Full business picture in 2 minutes

Sales, top products, slow movers, daily profit, pending dues: one dashboard, with the full set of business reports a click deeper.

Staff access control

Counter staff see billing only

Role-based logins; profit and purchase data stay owner-only. Full activity log.

Customer credit limits

Cash flow protected without awkwardness

Set a max credit per customer; alert fires before the bill is created.

Cloud backup

Data safe even if every device is lost

Automatic daily backup with encryption; log in from any device.

The short version

Why do teams switch to online bookkeeping software?

Accountune vs the accounting packages Indian small businesses usually compare it against, on the capabilities that decide day-to-day bookkeeping. Values reflect each product's standard plan.

Two-minute comparison of Accountune, Tally Prime, Zoho Books and Vyapar across six bookkeeping capabilities.
CapabilityAccountuneTally PrimeZoho BooksVyapar
Auto bookkeeping (no manual voucher)manual vouchersbilling only
Real-time Profit & Lossbasic
CA remote loginbuilt-inpaid add-on
Cloud backup, every entrylocal onlypartial
No accounting knowledge neededplain languageCA neededmoderate
Day book & cash bookAutomatic
Our take

Accountune is the only one here that records the books automatically as you bill, runs fully on a phone, and includes CA remote access as standard — not as a paid add-on.

Rated 4.9/5 by 12,000+ Indian businesses.
How each one charges
  • AccountuneFrom ₹799/year, all-in — cloud and CA login included
  • VyaparLicence per device, desktop and mobile priced separately
  • Zoho BooksSubscription per organisation, tiered by feature set
  • Tally PrimeOne-time licence plus an annual maintenance fee

Competitor pricing changes frequently. Check each vendor's site for current figures.

Is this right for you?

Which businesses benefit most from online bookkeeping?

An honest read on where Accountune fits best. Online bookkeeping suits the owner-run Indian small business (shop owners, traders and small manufacturers) that wants clean books without a full accounting department. If you are Udyam-registered and want the compliance side too, MSME accounting software covers GST returns, buyer credit and supplier payment deadlines.

Owner-run retail & wholesale

Best fit

You keep your own books and bill daily. Each bill becomes the book entry, no end-of-day catch-up.

Working with a part-time / remote CA

CA logs in directly

Your CA gets a read-only login and pulls clean data, instead of a shoebox of receipts each March.

First-time digital bookkeepers

off notebooks or Excel

Plain language, no debit-credit, setup in under an hour.

Multi-staff shops

Higher plans

Staff bill from their own logins; you see live numbers without being present. Role-based access keeps margins owner-only.

Service businesses & small manufacturers

Best fit

Income, expenses, party ledgers and basic production all post automatically; real P&L any day.

Owners who want numbers, not just compliance

Best fit

Month-vs-month comparison turns the books into a decision tool, not a year-end chore.

Recognise your business? You're exactly who Accountune is built for.

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Accountune Product Team

Product Research — India SME GST & Accounting

Based on

  • 12,000+ onboarding journeys
  • India · 2017–2026
Published May 2026
In our experience onboarding small businesses, the first month after switching is almost never about reports — it is about expenses. Owners are genuinely shocked when petty cash and untracked costs finally show up in one place. Clean bookkeeping does not start with the balance sheet. It starts with capturing the ₹180 courier payment that nobody ever wrote down.

Buyer's guide · 2026

How to choose bookkeeping software in India — the complete checklist

Score every shortlisted accounting package against these seven checks before paying. An accounting software product that fails even two is likely to cause friction within the first month.

  • Auto-record

    Does it record automatically, or do you still enter by hand?

    The bill you create should also be the book entry. If you still pass a separate voucher per sale, you've digitised the register, not removed the work.

    Accountune

    Accountune posts income, expense, ledger and GST on every transaction, automatically.

  • GST built in

    Is GST built in, or bolted on?

    Books and GST can't be separated in India. Check it tags HSN codes, splits CGST/SGST/IGST, captures ITC, and prepares GSTR-1/3B without a parallel register.

    Accountune

    Accountune handles all of this at the point of billing.

  • No accounting

    Can you actually use it without an accountant?

    If the screens say “debit ledger” and “journal voucher,” a non-accountant owner won't keep it up.

    Accountune

    Accountune uses plain language: income, expense, cash in, cash out. Comfortable in 30 minutes.

  • On a phone

    Does it run on a phone?

    Around 85% of Indian SMB owners run the business from a phone. Desktop-only means the books update only when you're at the computer, rarely.

    Accountune

    Accountune has a full Android and web app; entries sync in real time.

  • CA access

    Can your CA log in directly?

    The monthly WhatsApp-the-Excel-file routine is where errors and delays creep in. Direct read-only access removes it.

    Accountune

    Accountune includes CA remote access: no extra charge, from the mid plans upward.

  • Backed up

    Is your data backed up and recoverable?

    A desktop crash should not erase three years of accounts.

    Accountune

    Accountune auto-saves every entry to the cloud with automatic backup and encryption.

  • Real cost

    What does it really cost, including renewals and add-ons?

    Compare the realistic annual cost, not the headline. A cheap licence with a mandatory annual maintenance fee, or per-organisation pricing plus GST, can cost far more over three years than a single all-in subscription. The trade-offs of cloud versus desktop accounting shape this more than any feature list.

    Accountune

    Accountune is from ₹799/year, all features included. If the budget is zero right now, start with free accounting software and move up when the books outgrow it.

Compiled from feedback from 12,000+ Indian small-business owners who switched to digital books between 2022–2026 · Accountune Research.

Verified customer reviews

What business owners say about Accountune

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4.9/5 rating · Trusted by 12,000+ Indian businesses

4.9/5 rating · 12,000+ Indian businesses on Accountune. Customer outcomes are representative of feedback from Accountune customers. Names and identifying details have been changed.

  • 90% fewer bookkeeping errors

    Our books used to be a mess: entries here and there, never fully matching. Now sales, expenses, and payments all get recorded automatically. The mistakes have dropped right down and I'm not wasting hours fixing them anymore.

    Rahul AroraArora Traders · Jaipur, RajasthanVerified
  • Monthly closing 2× faster

    Closing the month used to drag on for days: pulling records together, cross-checking everything. Now it's all updated as we go, so by month-end most of the work is already done. Reporting takes half the time it used to.

    Sneha MehtaMehta Enterprises · Ahmedabad, GujaratVerified
  • Roz ka hisab-kitab ab easy

    Pehle cash, kharche aur sales sab alag-alag register mein likhne padte the. Ab software mein sab apne aap record ho jaata hai. Bookkeeping ka jhanjhat khatam, kaam ekdum simple ho gaya hai.

    Pankaj GuptaGupta Kirana Store · Indore, Madhya PradeshVerified
  • Time saved, accurate records

    Har transaction haath se likhna sach mein mushkil kaam tha. Ab saari entries ek jagah track ho jaati hain aur report bhi turant saamne aa jaati hai. Chhote business ke liye toh ye software bahut kaam ki cheez hai.

    Nitin SharmaSharma Electricals · Kota, RajasthanVerified
  • Records & stock 3× faster

    1200 items ka stock manually track karna mushkil tha. Accountune ne sab easy kar diya. Reorder alerts bhi milte hain.

    Amit GuptaHardware Store · Nagpur, MaharashtraVerified
  • GST always correct

    Expiry alerts ne meri bahut badi loss se bacha liya. Batch tracking ab automatic hai. GST bhi sahi hota hai.

    Meena JoshiMedical Store · Pune, MaharashtraVerified

Pricing

The full bookkeeping suite — from ₹1,849/year

Every plan includes the day book, cash book, account book, GST entries and reports. Higher plans raise the user, invoice and e-way-bill limits.

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Perfect for Getting Started

₹1,849/yr

+ taxes · ≈ ₹154/month

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  • Upto 2 Users (Admin + 1 User)
  • Upto 2000 Invoices
  • Bar Code, Categories & Secondary Unit in Item
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Perfect for Growing Businesses

₹3,999/yr

+ taxes · ≈ ₹333/month

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  • Everything in Starter +
  • Upto 5 Users (Admin + 4 Users)
  • Unlimited Invoices
  • Audit Trail
  • TDS Reports
  • Manufacturing
  • Item Categories
  • E-Invoice

Yearly plans from ₹1,849/year. Every plan includes the full online bookkeeping suite: day book, cash book, account book, GST entries and reports · 7-day free trial, no card · Free migration.

FAQ

The bookkeeping handbook

Type a keyword or pick a category. Everything an owner asks before switching is one keystroke away, and free accounting software is worth a look if you are not ready to pay for anything yet.

21 answersUpdated July 2026
  • Bookkeeping Basics

    What is bookkeeping software and do I really need it?

    Bookkeeping software records every financial transaction in your business (income, expenses, cash, bank movements and purchases) and organises them into ledgers and reports automatically. In the Indian market it is sold as accounting software too, because the same entries have to serve GST and the year-end accounts. If money comes in and goes out of your business, you need it. Without it you cannot know your true profit, GST errors creep in, and year-end filing becomes a reconstruction exercise built from memory and loose receipts. The bigger problem is timing: most owners record the books later, at night or month-end, by which point small entries are already lost. Software that captures each entry at the moment of billing removes that gap. Accountune does this automatically as you bill (income, expense, ledger and GST all post in the background) starting at ₹799/year with no accounting knowledge required.

  • Bookkeeping Basics

    What is the difference between bookkeeping and accounting?

    Bookkeeping is the day-to-day recording of transactions: sales, purchases, payments and receipts as they happen. Accounting is the interpretation that sits on top of it: analysis, year-end financial statements, tax planning and advice. Bookkeeping always comes first, and clean books make accounting straightforward; messy or missing books turn accounting into guesswork. In practice the Indian market treats the two as one purchase, which is why an accounting package and a bookkeeping tool are usually the same product. For most owners the gap is not accounting skill, it is that nobody is doing the bookkeeping consistently through the year. Accountune handles the bookkeeping automatically as you bill, then produces the day book, ledgers, profit and loss statement and balance sheet your accountant needs. Your CA then spends time advising you, not reconstructing a year of scattered records from a shoebox of receipts and WhatsApp screenshots.

  • Bookkeeping Basics

    Do I need a bookkeeper if I use bookkeeping software?

    For most small businesses, no, but you probably still want a CA. Those are two different jobs. A bookkeeper's work is the recording itself: entering bills, logging expenses, keeping the cash book and the party ledgers current. That is exactly the part online bookkeeping software automates, because the entry is created at the moment you raise the bill rather than typed again later from a pile of paper. What software does not replace is judgement: what you can legitimately claim, how to structure the business, what the numbers are telling you to do next. Keep the CA for that, give them a read-only login, and let the bookkeeping software do the clerical half. Businesses with high transaction volume or complex operations may still want a bookkeeper; a shop or a small trading firm generally does not.

  • Bookkeeping Basics

    Can bookkeeping software handle GST returns?

    It should prepare the data, and Accountune does. Every sale records its GST rate and splits into CGST and SGST for a local sale or IGST for an interstate one, and every purchase from a registered supplier captures its Input Tax Credit. Because the tax is recorded at the point of billing rather than reconstructed at month-end, your GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B figures come out of the same records you have been entering all along, with no parallel GST register to maintain. Rule 56 of the CGST Rules, 2017 requires a registered person to keep accounts of inward and outward supply, stock and input tax credit, and the day book covers all of it. The actual filing on the GST portal is still done by you or your CA, who can log in and work from the prepared data directly.

  • Bookkeeping Basics

    How long do I have to keep my books in India?

    Section 36 of the CGST Act requires a registered person to retain their books of account and records for 72 months (six years) from the due date of the annual return for that year. Separately, Section 44AA of the Income Tax Act, 1961 makes maintaining books of account a legal obligation once your income or turnover crosses the prescribed thresholds, and those records have their own retention expectations. Six years is a long time to trust to a paper account book or one shop computer: registers fade, get water-damaged or go missing in a move, and a failed hard disk takes the lot. Accountune keeps everything on secure cloud servers with automatic daily backups, so the retention requirement is met without you having to store anything physically.

  • Bookkeeping Basics

    Can I do bookkeeping without any accounting knowledge?

    Yes. Accountune is built specifically for owners with no accounting background, so you will not deal with debits, credits, journal vouchers or double entry rules. It behaves like a bookkeeping app, not an accounting software product aimed at a trained accountant. The screens use plain language (income, expense, cash in, cash out) and the software handles the accounting logic underneath. You simply record what happened: you made a sale, you paid for transport, you received a payment. Behind the scenes, the correct ledgers, GST split and cash position update on their own. Most owners are comfortable within about thirty minutes of signing up, and there are short tutorials for anything unfamiliar. The point of the software is to remove the accounting jargon, not add to it: if a tool still expects you to know debit-credit, it has not actually solved the problem.

  • Bookkeeping Basics

    What is the best bookkeeping software for small business in India?

    For businesses that want automatic bookkeeping without hiring an accountant, Accountune is among the strongest options in India. It records income and expenses directly from your billing, handles GST and Input Tax Credit, maintains the day book, cash book and account book, and generates profit and loss and balance-sheet reports, all from ₹799/year. It is also a genuine bookkeeping app rather than a desktop product with a phone viewer: shop owners and shopkeepers run the whole thing from an Android handset at the counter. The right choice depends on your needs: Tally suits businesses with a dedicated accountant working on a desktop, while Zoho Books fits service businesses already inside the Zoho ecosystem. Always start a free trial, add a week of real transactions, and check whether the reports match how you actually run your shop.

  • Day Book & Cash

    What is a day book and does Accountune maintain it automatically?

    A day book is a chronological record of every transaction on a given day: sales, purchases, expenses, receipts and payments, listed in the order they happened. Accountune generates it automatically; you never maintain it by hand. Every time you create a bill, record a purchase or log an expense, that entry lands in the day book with a timestamp. You can open any day's record, filter by week, month or a custom range, and export it as PDF or Excel to share with your CA. This is also the fastest way to find a discrepancy: if the cash in the box does not match the books at closing, you scan the day book and trace the missing or extra entry in a couple of minutes instead of half an hour.

  • Day Book & Cash

    How does the cash book work?

    Accountune keeps a live cash book that updates with every cash transaction. Each cash sale is added as a receipt, each cash payment (supplier, expense or staff advance) reduces the balance, and the closing figure is always current. You see the opening balance, each movement and the closing balance on one clean screen, for any date you choose. When the physical cash in the drawer does not match the book at the end of the day, you can trace the difference to a specific entry in minutes rather than recounting everything. You can also keep multiple cash accounts (counter cash, petty cash, branch cash) and record transfers between them, so every balance stays accurate even when money moves around inside the business.

  • Day Book & Cash

    Can I track petty cash separately?

    Yes. You can record small daily expenses (tea, transport, courier, stationery, minor repairs) each with a category and a short note, directly from your phone in about fifteen seconds. These are the costs that never generate a proper bill and therefore almost never reach the books in a manual system, quietly adding up to ₹5,000–₹15,000 a month for many shops. Accountune keeps a dedicated petty-cash register that updates in real time, and the monthly summary shows exactly where the small money went, category by category. For most owners, the first month's summary is genuinely surprising, the total is higher than they expected. Tracking it means those costs finally appear in your Profit & Loss instead of vanishing as untraceable cash.

  • Day Book & Cash

    Can I manage shop cash and personal cash separately?

    Yes. Accountune lets you create multiple cash accounts and track each one independently: for example counter cash at the shop, a separate petty-cash float, and cash held at a second branch. Each account keeps its own running balance, so money never gets mixed up in a single undifferentiated pile. When you move cash between accounts: say you take counter cash to top up petty cash, or send cash to another branch: you record it as a transfer, and both balances adjust correctly. This separation matters for two reasons: your day-to-day cash position stays accurate, and at year-end your CA sees clean, distinct cash trails instead of one confusing figure. Keeping business and personal cash apart is also simply healthier for understanding what the business actually earns.

  • GST & ITC

    How does Accountune handle GST bookkeeping automatically?

    Every transaction you record carries its correct GST treatment with no manual GST entry. On a sale, the rate assigned to the product (0%, 5%, 18% or 40%) determines how tax is calculated, and Accountune splits it into CGST and SGST for a local sale or IGST for an interstate sale automatically. On a purchase from a registered supplier, Input Tax Credit is captured so it reduces your tax liability. Because tax is recorded at the moment of billing rather than reconstructed later, your GST books stay balanced and your GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B data is prepared from the same records each month. For businesses that have received mismatch notices in the past, this matters: the mismatch is prevented at the source instead of being chased after filing.

  • GST & ITC

    Do I still need a separate GST register?

    No. Accountune replaces the separate GST register entirely. The tax collected on every sale, the Input Tax Credit on every eligible purchase, and the full CGST/SGST/IGST breakdown are all maintained inside your regular books, there is no parallel register to keep updated and cross-check. Because the GST detail lives alongside each transaction, your GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B figures are pulled from the same records every month, ready to file rather than re-compiled by hand. This removes one of the most common sources of error in small-business bookkeeping: the gap between what the sales register says and what the GST register says. With a single source of truth, the two can never drift apart, and your accountant works from the same numbers you see on screen.

  • GST & ITC

    What if I record a transaction with the wrong GST rate?

    You can edit any transaction after recording it, and the books and GST records update themselves automatically: the corrected rate flows through to the day book, the party ledger, the GST summary and your GSTR figures without any extra steps. This is far cleaner than a manual system, where fixing a wrong rate means crossing out and rewriting the same correction across several different registers, and hoping you caught every place it appeared. To reduce mistakes in the first place, Accountune lets you set the correct GST rate against each product once, so the right tax is applied every time that item is billed. If you do spot an error during a monthly review with your CA, a single edit puts everything right and keeps the records internally consistent.

  • Reports & Insights

    What bookkeeping reports does Accountune generate?

    Accountune generates the full set of bookkeeping reports a small business and its accountant need: day book, cash book, bank book, income statement, expense report, purchase register, sales register, party-wise ledgers, Profit & Loss, balance sheet and GST summary. Every report is available for any date range you choose and downloads as PDF or Excel. Crucially, they are generated from your live books with no manual preparation: because each transaction was recorded at the time of billing, the reports are always current, not assembled in a year-end scramble. This means you can check your real profit, outstanding payments or cash position on any ordinary day, and your CA can pull a trial balance or P&L directly without waiting for you to send files.

  • Reports & Insights

    Can I compare this month with last month?

    Yes. Accountune lets you select any two periods: this month versus last month, this quarter versus the same quarter last year, a festival week versus a normal week: and compare income, expenses and net profit side by side. This is one of the most useful habits an owner can build: trends that are invisible day to day become obvious when two periods sit next to each other. You can spot a month where expenses crept up, a seasonal dip in sales, or a category of cost that is quietly growing. Many owners use this comparison in their monthly review with their CA, turning the books from a compliance chore into an actual decision-making tool. Because the data is already in the system, the comparison takes seconds, not an afternoon of spreadsheet work.

  • Access & Security

    Does it work on an Android phone?

    Yes: the full bookkeeping suite runs on the Accountune Android app, not a stripped-down view-only version. You can create bills, record purchases, log expenses in the field, check the day book at closing time, and review your cash position or Profit & Loss from anywhere. This matters because around 85% of Indian small-business owners manage their business primarily from a phone; desktop-only software means the books only get updated when you happen to be at the computer, which in a busy shop is rarely. The app syncs with the web version in real time and in both directions, so an entry made on the phone appears instantly on the laptop and vice versa. Staff can bill at the counter while you monitor the numbers remotely on your own device.

  • Access & Security

    Can my CA access my books remotely?

    Yes. Accountune includes CA remote access, which gives your accountant a separate, read-only login to your books. They can view records, generate the day book, ledgers, Profit & Loss and GST reports, and prepare your tax data without you being present and without sharing your own password. This replaces the monthly routine of exporting files and sending them over WhatsApp or email, which is where errors, version confusion and delays usually creep in. Because your CA sees the same live data you do, there is no back-and-forth over which figure is correct. The access is included from the mid plans upward onward at no extra charge, which is one reason Accountune is popular with businesses that work with a part-time or remote CA rather than employing a full-time accountant.

  • Pricing & Migration

    How much does it cost and is there a free trial?

    Accountune starts at ₹799/year, with all bookkeeping features included: there is no separate charge for the day book, cash book, GST entries or reports. Higher plans raise the user, invoice and e-way-bill limits, with audit trails, TDS and priority support on the top plan. All plans are yearly, with no hidden costs. The free trial gives you full access with no credit card required: sign up with a phone number or email, add your real data, record a week of actual transactions, and review the reports before deciding to subscribe. Free migration help from Tally, Vyapar or Excel is included with any paid plan.

  • Pricing & Migration

    Can I switch to Accountune from Tally, Vyapar or Excel?

    Yes, and migration help is free with any paid plan. Most small businesses keep years of data in Tally or spread across Excel sheets, and the fear of losing it is the main reason they delay switching. The Accountune team handles the import for you: your existing customers, suppliers, item list and opening balances are brought across, typically within 24 to 48 hours, with your existing data kept intact. You can also run both systems in parallel for a short period while you build confidence, so nothing depends on a risky one-day cutover. No accounting knowledge is needed at your end during the move. If your CA currently works in Tally, they can be given a read-only Accountune login and continue reviewing your books without disruption.

  • Pricing & Migration

    How is Accountune different from Tally for bookkeeping?

    Both keep proper books, but they suit different users. Tally is a desktop-first system built around manual vouchers and double entry, which assumes you either know accounting or employ someone who does, and it is sold as a one-time licence with an annual maintenance fee on top. Accountune is cloud-first and records the books automatically as you bill, in plain language, with no vouchers to pass, and it runs fully on an Android phone, which Tally does not. It starts at ₹799/year with cloud backup, CA remote access and GST built in. Tally remains a strong choice for businesses with a dedicated accountant and complex needs; Accountune is built for the owner who keeps their own books and wants them current without learning debit and credit. Competitor pricing changes frequently, so check each vendor's site for current figures.

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