Manufacturing Billing Software. Know Your Cost Per Unit. File GST.

• Getting Started

  What is manufacturing billing software, and how is it different from regular billing software?

  Manufacturing billing software tracks production costs — raw materials, labour and overhead — at the same time as it creates GST invoices for finished goods. Regular billing software only invoices items you buy and resell, so it's built for traders with one cost and one price. A manufacturer buys raw materials, spends money turning them into a product, then sells the finished goods. Manufacturing software follows that whole journey, so you can calculate real cost per unit and true manufacturing profit — per product and per month — numbers a trader app can't produce.

• Getting Started

  Does Accountune work for small-scale manufacturing units in India?

  Yes. It's built for owner-operated units — 2 workers or 50, one product line or twenty, local or interstate buyers. It is deliberately not an ERP for large factories: no shop-floor scheduling or machine integration. Setup takes about 30 minutes and most owners raise their first GST dispatch invoice the same day. Plans start at ₹799/year with a free trial and no credit card.

• Getting Started

  What types of manufacturers use Accountune?

  Furniture and wood, garments and textiles, food processing and FMCG, metal fabrication and engineering, chemicals/pharma/cosmetics, plastics and packaging, agarbatti/candles/leather goods, and construction materials like bricks, tiles and blocks. The features work across all of them because they target the universal manufacturing challenge — recording true production cost and billing each dispatch correctly under GST — not one product.

• Getting Started

  Do I need accounting knowledge to use it?

  No. If you can use WhatsApp, you can use Accountune. Plain language — record a purchase, add an expense, create an invoice — no debit-credit jargon, nothing to install. Most owners set up and raise their first invoice within about 30 minutes. Your CA can log in separately for formal filing, so you get clean books without learning bookkeeping.

• Cost & Per-Unit Pricing

  How does Accountune calculate my cost per unit?

  It takes three numbers for a batch — total raw material cost, total production expenses, units produced — and divides total cost by units produced for your exact per-unit cost. Because purchases and overhead are already recorded, you re-enter nothing. Do it per batch and per product, compare across months, and when timber or steel rises your per-unit cost updates the same day.

• Cost & Per-Unit Pricing

  How do I track production expenses like labour and electricity?

  You create custom categories matching your factory — daily labour, electricity, fuel, packaging, transport, tool maintenance — and record each cost as it happens, ~15 seconds an entry. At month end overhead is summarised by category in actual rupees, not an estimate. This is the cost most factories never add up, and it feeds both per-unit cost and the monthly P&L.

• Cost & Per-Unit Pricing

  What does the manufacturing P&L report show?

  Total finished-goods sales, total raw material cost, production expenses by category, and net manufacturing profit for any date range — built automatically from your daily records. View one month, place three side by side for a trend, and see which product line is most profitable rather than just busiest. For many owners it's the first time they see real profit separate from bank balance.

• Cost & Per-Unit Pricing

  Can I track different products separately?

  Yes. Each product is set up with its own raw materials and tracked separately, giving a distinct per-unit cost and margin per line. Most factories make several things and they're rarely equally profitable — one may carry the unit while another loses money on every dispatch. Tracking each line shows where to push, reprice or drop.

• Cost & Per-Unit Pricing

  Can I record scrap and wastage?

  Yes — as a production expense, or as a stock entry if it has resale value. Unrecorded wastage understates true cost and flatters margins. Saleable scrap (metal offcuts, fabric remnants, wood shavings) can be its own product and billed separately, turning waste into a small recovered revenue line. Either way it keeps costing and stock honest.

• GST, ITC & e-Invoicing

  Does Accountune handle GST correctly on manufacturer invoices?

  Yes. Assign each product an HSN code and GST rate once at setup; every invoice applies them automatically. Same-state buyers get CGST+SGST; interstate gets IGST. You never select tax manually — removing the most common GST error. Buyers claim ITC cleanly and your GSTR-1 lines up at month end.

• GST, ITC & e-Invoicing

  Can I capture Input Tax Credit from raw material purchases?

  Yes. Every purchase from a GST-registered supplier captures ITC automatically when you enter the bill with its GST amount and the supplier's GSTIN. That credit flows into GSTR-3B, reducing net tax. Missing 15% of bills on ₹2,00,000/month of materials at 18% GST is ~₹64,800/year of lost credit — recording each bill as it arrives keeps it on your side.

• GST, ITC & e-Invoicing

  Does it generate GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B for manufacturers?

  Yes. Every sale feeds GSTR-1 outward-supplies data; every GST purchase captures ITC for GSTR-3B. At month end you or your CA download filing-ready returns without compiling by hand. Your CA logs in from their own office — no scramble, no WhatsApp files. Data builds continuously, so filing is a review, not a reconstruction.

• GST, ITC & e-Invoicing

  Are e-way bills and e-invoicing supported?

  Yes, on Growth and Pro. Generate e-way bills from the billing screen with data pre-filled — required above ₹50,000 when goods move (CBIC). E-invoicing connects to the IRP and prints the IRN automatically; mandatory once turnover crosses ₹5 crore (CBIC, w.e.f. 1 Aug 2023, still current in 2026). An invoice without a valid IRN is legally invalid and the buyer can't claim ITC.

• CA, Cloud & Security

  Can my CA access my accounts remotely?

  Yes, on every plan at no extra cost. Your CA gets a separate read-only login to view reports, download GSTR-1/3B data, and review purchases from their own office — no factory visit, no waiting for files. Read-only, so they can't alter daily entries; revoke access in one click when your CA changes.

• CA, Cloud & Security

  Does it work on an Android phone, and is it cloud-based?

  Yes to both. The full suite runs on Android, iOS and web, synced in real time — record a purchase at the market, log an expense on the floor, raise an invoice at the dock from one account. Fully cloud-based, data on AWS India servers with 256-bit AES encryption and hourly backups. Unlike Tally and BUSY, no single office computer.

• Pricing & Migration

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

  Accountune starts at ₹799/year with all manufacturing features included. Growth ₹1,849/year adds e-way bill, e-invoicing and up to 3 users; Pro ₹4,490/year supports unlimited users plus multi-GSTIN. For comparison, Tally Prime is ₹26,550 one-time + ₹4,500/year TSS and needs Windows. There's a free trial with no credit card, and free migration help from Tally, Vyapar or BUSY.

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