Accounting software for manufacturers
For manufacturing units — bill of materials, production, raw-material and finished-goods stock, costing and GST — on one offline app.
Live product UI — sample data.
BOM & production
Define a bill of materials, run production, and consume raw material into finished goods.
Costing & stock
Track raw-material and finished-goods stock with production cost folded into valuation.
GST & books
Job work (ITC-04), GST returns and a posted double-entry ledger.
What this actually means in practice
In a factory the accounting question is narrow and hard: what did the finished unit actually cost. Stock exists in three states at once — raw material waiting, work in progress on the floor, finished goods ready to invoice — and value moves between them every day. A bill of materials tells you what a unit should consume; the production run tells you what it did consume. The gap between those two numbers is where a factory's margin quietly goes.
The Desktop edition carries the costing workflow. You define a bill of materials with component quantities and expected scrap, roll it up to a standard cost per unit, then record a production entry that consumes the raw material and receives the finished goods with that cost folded into valuation. Actual issues are compared against standard, so the variance is visible per run. Job work is handled properly: material issued under challan, the pending quantity still with the job worker, and ITC-04.
Be clear about the boundary. Multi-level MRP explosion, work-centre scheduling, shop-floor job cards, quality management and OEE are the Cloud edition's Manufacturing pack — a separate, much larger product, not part of the offline Desktop workflow described above. If you plan production against capacity, book operation time on machines and run inspection plans, that is the pack you want. If you make to order and need the costing and the GST right, Desktop is enough.
| Manufacturing capability | Desktop edition | Cloud Manufacturing pack |
|---|---|---|
| Bill of materials with scrap and standard cost roll-up | Yes | Yes, multi-level |
| Production entry consuming raw material into finished goods | Yes, posts stock and cost | Yes, against production orders |
| Actual versus standard cost variance | Yes, per run | Yes, with operation-level detail |
| Job work, ITC-04 and quantity pending with the job worker | Yes | Yes |
| MRP explosion, work-centre scheduling and job cards | No | Yes |
| Quality management and OEE | No | Yes |
What’s included
- Bill of materials (BOM)
- Production & consumption
- Raw-material & finished-goods stock
- Production costing
- Job work / ITC-04
- GSTR-1/3B
- Offline-first
What it does not do
- · The Cloud edition's Manufacturing pack — multi-level MRP, scheduling, quality management and OEE — is a separate product, not part of the offline Desktop BOM-and-production workflow.
- · There is no payroll module, so factory wages and contract labour are posted as expenses or journal entries rather than computed per worker.
- · Transaction history does not import from Tally or any other package; masters and opening balances come across, and bills of materials are set up in LekhaPro.
Frequently asked
Does it support BOM and production?
Yes — define a BOM, run production, and the read-model consumes raw material into finished goods with cost.
Does it handle job work?
Yes — job work with ITC-04 is supported alongside standard GST returns.
Is it offline?
Yes — production, stock and GST all run offline.
Do I need the Cloud Manufacturing pack, or is the Desktop edition enough?
If your questions are what a unit costs, what was consumed against the bill of materials, and how job work and GST are recorded, the Desktop edition covers it offline. If you schedule work centres, issue job cards to operators, run quality inspections or measure machine effectiveness, you need the Cloud edition's Manufacturing pack — a separate product.
How is material sent out to a job worker tracked?
Material goes out on a delivery challan and processed goods come back against it, so issued quantity less received quantity is your pending exposure at any moment — the figure that matters for the return window, as notified. The job worker's processing charge and its GST fold into the finished cost, and ITC-04 reporting draws from the same movements.
What exactly is included in Manufacturing · BOM?
bill of materials (BOM), production & consumption, raw-material & finished-goods stock, production costing, job work / ITC-04 and GSTR-1/3B, and 1 more. Every item on that list is a working screen you can open in the trial rather than a capability described in the abstract.
How is manufacturing · bom handled differently here?
It rests on BOM & production, costing & stock and GST & books. The distinction that matters is that these are structural rather than cosmetic — the behaviour is built into how records are posted, not layered on as a report you have to remember to run.
Does Manufacturing · BOM post to the real books?
Yes, and that is the whole reason it lives in this product rather than beside it. What BOM & production records lands in the same posted double-entry ledger the Trial Balance, P&L and GST returns are built from — so there is no second set of manufacturing · bom numbers to reconcile against the first.
How does Manufacturing · BOM affect my GST?
It feeds it directly rather than sitting alongside it. CGST/SGST and IGST are split from HSN or SAC and place of supply as each document is raised, so whatever manufacturing · bom produces is already correct when GSTR-1, 3B and 2B reconciliation are drawn off the same books. The return matches the accounts because it was never a separate exercise.
Does Manufacturing · BOM cost extra?
No. Manufacturing · BOM is part of the accounting core rather than a paid add-on, so costing & stock is there on the entry tier exactly as it is on the highest one. What the tiers change is reach and depth — devices, multi-branch and multi-warehouse reporting, and whether the conversational AI copilots are switched on.