Accounting software in Bengaluru
Yes — LekhaPro keeps a Bengaluru business's books as posted double-entry: General Ledger, vouchers and day book, Trial Balance, P&L and Balance Sheet, with GST returns and the CA pack built from the books rather than a sales export. Professional tax in Karnataka: levied under the state Act — context your books should reflect, though LekhaPro itself has no payroll module and does not compute it.
What Karnataka sets for a Bengaluru business
| Item | Karnataka | Source |
|---|---|---|
| GST state code | 29 — first two digits of every GSTIN here | Statutory |
| Professional tax | Levied — Karnataka Tax on Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments Act, 1976 | Karnataka PT Act 1976 · gst.karnataka.gov.in · checked 2026-08-05 |
| Intra-state e-way bill | Set by state notification | set by state notification — verify before relying on it |
The full Karnataka compliance table — every state-level fact we track, with sources — is on the Karnataka state page.
The Bengaluru trade, honestly
Bengaluru’s books answer to investors as often as to the taxman. Venture-funded companies must keep ledgers that survive due diligence; GCCs and software exporters must reconcile invoicing against inward remittances and hold the documentation their bankers need for export realisation. The professional bench is deep — ICAI’s Bengaluru branch and the Karnataka State Chartered Accountants Association serve a community accustomed to Ind AS, ESOP accounting and transfer pricing. The practical implication is a posted ledger with clean revenue recognition, because someone qualified will read it soon.
What a Bengaluru business gets
- 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. New to the terms? Place of supply decides the tax head on every invoice, and goods movements may need an e-way bill.
What it does not do — in Bengaluru or anywhere
- · It is not a filing service and issues no audit opinion — it prepares books; 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 branch accountant network in Karnataka — the books are self-serve software, deliberately.
- · No office in Bengaluru — sales and support are online (email and WhatsApp) from an India-based team, with no local branch, reseller or on-site visit.
- · No automated Tally import yet. Masters and opening balances come across; transaction history stays in the old system as a read-only archive.
Questions Bengaluru businesses ask
Can our CA in Bengaluru work from these books?
Yes — the books are posted double-entry: General Ledger, Chart of Accounts, vouchers and day book, with Trial Balance, P&L and Balance Sheet derived from postings, plus a filing-ready CA pack (PDF and Excel). Your CA works from real books rather than reconstructing them from printouts.
Is this real double-entry accounting or billing software with reports?
Real double-entry — every sale, purchase, receipt, payment and manual voucher posts a balanced journal, so the Trial Balance balances by construction. The plain-language screens sit on top; the ledger underneath is what your auditor reads.
Does professional tax apply to a Bengaluru business?
Levied — Karnataka Tax on Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments Act, 1976 — per Karnataka PT Act 1976 · gst.karnataka.gov.in, checked 2026-08-05. Note the honest limit: LekhaPro has no payroll module, so it does not compute or file professional tax; this is context for your compliance calendar, and the levy itself stays with you or your CA.
Can we keep several firms under one login?
Yes — multiple companies and GSTINs run side by side with separate books, separate financial years and role-based access, which is how most Bengaluru family and group businesses are actually structured. Cross-firm dealings stay arm's length because each entity's ledger is its own.
How does bank reconciliation work?
Import the bank statement, match receipts and payments against your postings, and the unreconciled remainder surfaces instead of hiding. Month-end stops being a hunt through passbooks — the books and the bank agree, or the difference is listed.
Does it capture TDS and TCS?
Yes — section-wise TDS/TCS tracking with auto-capture on receipts and payments, deposit tracking and summaries. What it deliberately does not do is file the TDS return; the figures are prepared, the filing stays with you or your CA.
Can we move from Tally or manual books mid-year?
You can, though most Bengaluru businesses switch at a year or quarter start: masters and opening balances come across and you begin posting from a cut-over date, with the old system kept as a read-only archive. There is no automated Tally import yet — we would rather say that plainly than oversell the migration.
What happens at audit season?
The day book, vouchers and per-account ledgers drill down to the entry, and the CA pack exports the statements and registers the audit is built from. Handover stops being a scramble for files — the books were audit-shaped all year because posting made them so.
Where do our books actually live?
On the Desktop edition, in a local database on your own machine with encrypted backups — nothing leaves the office unless you send it. On the Cloud edition, in your tenant of the hosted service, reachable from any browser. Either way the books are yours, exportable, always.
How do we try it on real Bengaluru books?
14 days free, no card. Post one real month — sales, purchases, a bank import, a couple of manual vouchers — then read the Trial Balance, because derived-and-balanced is the whole point. We sell and support online only, with no Bengaluru branch. Local context: Bengaluru’s books answer to investors as often as to the taxman.