GST Software Recommendation

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Now that they are offering above GST software free for SME's........ Any feedback on above.

I am particularly interested in the offline versions. i.e. Marg GST Pro, Cygnet FACE, FocusLyte.

I have been using Tally for a long time now..... including customizations done by me in design, fields & invoice format through TDL.

But my Tally is old version.....

Do share your experience in terms of ease of use, learning curve, invoice format etc.
 
I have started using Zoho from about a week.

And it seems to be fantastic and very intuitive and carefully made software with detailed help.

For testing I entered April months data. And generated GSTR-3B for that month (via Zoho)

And then I cross verified with my April return (which I had already filed in May)

Figures match correctly.
 
Which one would you consider online vs offline?

The reason I do not want to use Online is that all our invoices/ ledgers/ party data will be with the provider and they may use it, in whatever way they like.

One more thing...... since they are going to change the returns format/ filing from October.... will that also effect the accounting software or should we wait for October and choose the software after the implementation...
 
Well you never know what so called "offline software" does too! It may be recording things too.

I think even tally is now online and they would have all data too.

Zoho seems to be an old company, so I think to certain extent we can trust them.

If return format changes, Zoho will (hopefully) implement those changes automatically. For us end users there should be no change in accounts.
 
I migrated 3 months (this financial year) of data to Zoho and it detected minor error (oversight) in GSTR-3B that I had made. But it cant be corrected now. But atleast the Zoho showed me that I had forgotten to enter one composition entry.

Overall - if you really want to migrate to Zoho (or any other free GST software)... Do it now or as early as possible.

Because it takes lots of time to understand new system / software.

More data that you have to feed means more time consuming (and more tiring) it will get.

It took me one full day today to enter data of 3 months.

And one full day to understand all the features.
 
The good thing about Zoho is that it can fill in your GST returns directly. (you have to enable API based access to your GST account)

Then all you need to do is create challan and file the return.

I am not sure if other tools (online or offline) can do that. (because I havent checked any other)

I just pushed my April to June GSTR1 data... and it filled all the invoice details automatically. (this otherwise takes 1 to 2 hours if you do it manually)
 
Just realized that Zoho has mobile app too... so I can add entries, check pending payment etc while travelling too.

But then well no software is perfect.

Here is first bug that I found.

If you forget a purchase bill when filing GSTR 3B return, and then add the bill afterwards, then Zoho does not consider that pending bill when calculating values for next months GSTR 3B. i.e. it just sums of purchase bills of current month only and does not consider previous months bill which you had forgotten to add.

So unless you are alert, you may lose that much money by way of ITC. So better to cross verify before filing the return.
 
Yes. Format is not completely customizable but there are many templates (currently 16 templates)

You can customize color, font size, logo, headers, footers, address format, terms and conditions etc.

But you can not change basic layout. (I was able to customize it to my liking)


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Yes, you can add additional fields. I havent tried that feature but I can see that option is there.


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