Billing Pack

Billing Pack is the accounting engine cut down to the two things a billing desk actually does: sales and purchase, with e-invoicing on top. It is the same program as Company Accounting with the accounting half switched off — no ledgers, no cash and bank books, no journal, no final accounts, no balance sheet. Someone raising two hundred invoices a day never opens those screens, and here they are not in the way.

That is the whole design of it. If the books are kept elsewhere — by the accountant, in Tally, in Company Accounting on another machine — this is what sits at the counter.

Sales and purchase

• Sales entry and invoicing, customized to your own format
• Purchase entry and purchase register
• Sales Register and Sales Register (GST)
• Invoice printing with bulk printing on a single click, and voucher printing
• Item and item group masters, finished-goods and other price lists with update screens, and party-wise item rates, so the right rate is picked up rather than remembered
• Consignee master, for delivery addresses that differ from the billing address
• Item label printing and address label printing
• Digital signature inserted in the invoice, on request

GST and e-invoicing

• Sales Register (GST) and GSTR-1 generation into the GST offline utility’s own Excel template, or as the separate CSV files it accepts — B2B / SEZ / deemed export, B2CL, B2CS, CDNR, exports, HSN summary and documents issued
• HSN summary sanity check before export: the same HSN code against two different units is flagged and can be merged on approval, and units are normalised to the portal’s UQC codes
• Generate e-invoice JSON — select the invoices and a schema-conformant IRN JSON file is written for upload to the IRP or its offline utility
• Import e-invoice details — the portal’s returned Excel is read back, bringing IRN, acknowledgement number, e-way bill number and the signed QR string onto the invoice that produced it
• The QR code image is generated locally from that string and printed on the invoice — no internet call at print time
• GST debit and credit note entry screens, enabled alongside e-invoicing

What is deliberately not here

Turning Billing Pack on hides the accounting side rather than greying it out: ledgers and ledger statements, cash / bank / petty cash books, journal and Dr/Cr note registers, payments and receipts, bank reconciliation, cheque printing and cheque books, final accounts and the balance sheet, outstanding and aging, expense entry, Tally import and export, and the audit report set. If you need those, the product is Company Accounting — same data model, same screens, nothing to re-enter when you move up.

How it works day to day

• User-wise login and user-wise rights on every single menu and report, so a counter operator gets billing and nothing else
• Several windows open at once, kept open and switched between freely — unlike Tally
• Every grid filters, sorts, groups, hides, wraps and re-orders columns like Excel, with subtotals on the grouped column and sorts that can be saved or cleared, and exports exactly as you left it
• Any report generated or mailed as Excel or PDF on a single switch
• Accounts merged where a duplicate crept in, and unused account and group masters removed in one click
• Start date, current date and calculator on a right-click from the main screen
• Reminders for day-to-day tasks, shown on startup and at the times you set
• Document tracker for scanning and filing important documents alongside the entry
• F1 help on every module
• Automatic online live update, so every machine at the counter is on the same version

Technical details

• Front end: Microsoft .NET (VB.NET) on Windows, .NET Framework 4.8
• Back end: Microsoft SQL Server, from SQL Server 2005 through SQL Server 2022
• Output: native Excel and PDF, SMTP mail, SMS