Accounting software, offline and AI-ready
LekhaPro is accounting software with the double entry actually posted: General Ledger, Chart of Accounts, vouchers and day book underneath plain-language screens, Trial Balance, P&L and Balance Sheet derived from postings, GST returns and a filing-ready CA pack built from the books, and bank reconciliation that surfaces what does not match — offline on Desktop or in any browser on Cloud.
How it works
Books a CA can sign off
General Ledger, Chart of Accounts, vouchers, day book, Trial Balance, P&L and Balance Sheet — real double-entry, not a spreadsheet.
GST & inventory built in
GST-correct invoices, GSTR-1/3B, inventory with COGS and bank import — one system, not five.
Yours, on your machine
Offline-first with a local database and encrypted backups; no cloud lock-in and no monthly SaaS worry.
Professional tax is the state-level fact your books inherit
Most of accounting is national — the Companies Act, the Income-tax Act and GST do not care which city your books live in. The one levy that genuinely differs by state is professional tax: Article 276 of the Constitution caps it at ₹2,500 a year, and within that cap roughly two-thirds of states levy it under their own Act (a few through municipalities), the rest levy none at all, and several have repealed or suspended theirs — facts that decide whether a line belongs in your compliance calendar. The table below states the position for every state we publish a city page in, each with its source and checked date; unverified rows say so rather than guessing. LekhaPro itself has no payroll module and does not compute the tax — the table is context, not a feature claim.
| State / UT | Professional tax | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Assam | Levied — Assam Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments Taxation Act, 1947 | Assam PT Act 1947 · comtax.assam.gov.in · checked 2026-08-05 |
| Bihar | Levied — Bihar Tax on Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments Act, 2011 | Bihar PT Act 2011 · indiacode.nic.in · checked 2026-08-05 |
| Chandigarh | Not levied | Excise & Taxation Department, Chandigarh · etdut.gov.in · checked 2026-08-05 |
| Chhattisgarh | Levied — Chhattisgarh Vritti Kar Adhiniyam, 1995 (Professional Tax Act) | CG Professional Tax Act 1995 · comtax.cg.nic.in · checked 2026-08-05 |
| Delhi | Not levied | MCD Schedule of Taxes 2024-25 · mcdonline.nic.in · checked 2026-08-05 |
| Gujarat | Levied — Gujarat State Tax on Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments Act, 1976 | Gujarat PT Act 1976 · commercialtax.gujarat.gov.in · checked 2026-08-05 |
| Haryana | Not levied | CAG PA of ULBs, Haryana — Appendices · cag.gov.in · checked 2026-08-05 |
| Jharkhand | Levied — Jharkhand Tax on Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments Act, 2011 | Jharkhand PT Act 2011 · indiacode.nic.in · checked 2026-08-05 |
| Karnataka | Levied — Karnataka Tax on Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments Act, 1976 | Karnataka PT Act 1976 · gst.karnataka.gov.in · checked 2026-08-05 |
| Kerala | Levied — Kerala Municipality Act, 1994; collected by municipalities and panchayats | Kerala Municipality Act 1994 · professiontax.lsgkerala.gov.in · checked 2026-08-05 |
| Madhya Pradesh | Levied — Madhya Pradesh Vritti Kar Adhiniyam, 1995 (Professional Tax Act) | MP Professional Tax Act 1995 · mptax.mp.gov.in · checked 2026-08-05 |
| Maharashtra | Levied — Maharashtra State Tax on Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments Act, 1975 | Maharashtra PT Act 1975 · mahagst.gov.in · checked 2026-08-05 |
| Odisha | Levied — Odisha State Tax on Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments Act, 2000 | Odisha PT Act 2000 · odishatax.gov.in · checked 2026-08-05 |
| Punjab | Levied — Punjab State Development Tax Act, 2018 (₹200/month) | Punjab State Development Tax Act 2018 · psdt.punjab.gov.in · checked 2026-08-05 |
| Rajasthan | Not levied | Rajasthan FD (Tax Div.) notification 23-02-2022 · finance.rajasthan.gov.in · checked 2026-08-05 |
| Tamil Nadu | Levied — Tamil Nadu municipal laws; collected half-yearly by urban local bodies | GCC Revenue Dept (TN ULB Act 1998) · chennaicorporation.gov.in · checked 2026-08-05 |
| Telangana | Levied — Telangana Tax on Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments Act, 1987 | Telangana PT Act 1987 · tgct.gov.in · checked 2026-08-05 |
| Uttar Pradesh | Not levied | CAG PA on 74th CAA, Uttar Pradesh — Ch.7 · cag.gov.in · checked 2026-08-05 |
| Uttarakhand | Not levied | CAG PA on 74th CAA, Uttarakhand (Rep. 2 of 2022) · cag.gov.in · checked 2026-08-05 |
| West Bengal | Levied — West Bengal State Tax on Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments Act, 1979 | WB PT Act 1979 · finance.wb.gov.in · checked 2026-08-05 |
What's included
- Posted double-entry ledger
- GST billing & returns
- Inventory & COGS
- Bank import & reconciliation
- Multi-company & multi-year
- Deterministic AI insights
- Encrypted local backups
Plans are ₹249, ₹449 and ₹2,499 a month — GST-inclusive totals on pricing. The terms above are defined in the place of supply and e-way bill glossary entries.
Accounting software by city
The software is identical in each — these pages exist because the local trade and the state facts differ, not because the product does. Nothing is city-locked.
- Mumbai
- Pune
- Delhi
- Gurugram
- Faridabad
- Noida
- Lucknow
- Bengaluru
- Mysuru
- Hyderabad
- Chennai
- Madurai
- Kolkata
- Ahmedabad
- Vadodara
- Jaipur
- Udaipur
- Indore
- Gwalior
- Patna
- Ranchi
- Bhubaneswar
- Raipur
- Guwahati
- Kochi
- Thiruvananthapuram
- Chandigarh
- Ludhiana
- Jalandhar
- Dehradun
What it does not do
- · It is not a filing service and issues no audit opinion — the books are prepared here; the return and the signature stay with you and your CA.
- · No payroll — salary journals can be entered as vouchers, but computation, PF/ESI, professional tax and Form 24Q are not in the product.
- · No automated Tally import yet: masters and opening balances come across on a cut-over date; transaction history stays archived in the old system.
- · No Ind AS consolidation engine — multi-company books run side by side; statutory group consolidation remains your auditor’s workpaper.
- · The Desktop edition is Windows-only; the Cloud edition runs in any modern browser. Support is online, with no branch offices.
Questions buyers ask
Is it real double-entry accounting?
Yes — every voucher posts to the General Ledger, and the Trial Balance, P&L and Balance Sheet are derived from it. A chartered accountant can work from these books directly.
Does it need the internet?
No. LekhaPro is offline-first; your books live in a local database on your PC and everything works without a connection.
Which plans include the accounting core?
The full offline accounting core is in every plan. Conversational AI copilots are the Enterprise add-on.
I already raise invoices in an app. Why move to a ledger?
Because the questions change as a business grows. An invoice list answers what you billed; it cannot tell you what you owe, what your stock is worth, or what you earned once unpaid expenses are counted. A lender, a buyer or an assessing officer asks the second kind of question, and only posted double-entry produces an answer that ties.
Will my accountant accept books kept by the owner rather than by him?
Generally yes, because the shape is the one he trained on: vouchers, day book, ledgers, Trial Balance, then P&L and Balance Sheet, with drill-down from any line to the document behind it. He can also take a Tally XML export of masters and posted vouchers into his own installation if he would rather review it there.
Can my chartered accountant work directly from these books?
Yes — that is the design. The General Ledger is posted, the Trial Balance balances by construction, per-account ledgers drill to the voucher, and the CA pack exports the statements and registers (PDF and Excel) an audit is built from. Your CA stops reconstructing and starts reviewing.
Does it handle TDS and TCS?
Yes — section-wise tracking with auto-capture on receipts and payments, deposit tracking and summaries. It prepares the figures; filing the TDS return stays with you or your CA, and we would rather state that boundary than blur it.
How many companies and financial years can we run?
Multiple companies and GSTINs under one login, each with separate books and its own financial years, with roles deciding who sees which entity. Group and family structures — several firms, one owner — are the normal case, not an add-on.
What does it cost?
Plans are ₹249, ₹449 and ₹2,499 a month (yearly = two months free), and the full double-entry accounting core is in every plan — the ledger is not an upsell. GST-inclusive totals are on the pricing page.
Can we switch from Tally or manual books?
Yes, on a cut-over date: masters and opening balances come across and you post forward from there, keeping the old system as a read-only archive. There is no automated Tally transaction import yet — most businesses switch at a year or quarter start for exactly that reason.
Why do you have separate city pages for accounting software?
Because the books-and-compliance context genuinely differs — professional tax is a state fact (levied, municipal or absent, and we cite which), and a commodity town, an exporter city and a government capital keep recognisably different books. The software is identical everywhere; the pages carry the local facts, with sources.