A modern, AI-native alternative to HostBooks

GST returns build correct by construction with e-invoice/e-way and 2B reconciliation, and TDS/TCS is tracked with auto-capture on receipts and payments.

Yes — the Desktop edition is fully offline; only AI and billing need connectivity.

cloud accounting and automated GST/TDS compliance, reconciliation and reporting for growing teams and broad compliance automation. On the comparison above, HostBooks also matches us on posted double-entry gl + chart of accounts, gst returns, e-invoice/e-way & 2b reconciliation and modern ui · light & dark. We would rather list those than pretend otherwise — if they are what your business turns on, HostBooks is a reasonable choice and this page is not trying to talk you out of it.

If your accountant is fluent in HostBooks and your year-end depends on that fluency, the switching cost is real and it is yours to pay, not ours. If you need a public API to wire accounting into other systems, we do not have one. And if payroll must live in the same product, we have none at all. Those are three good reasons to stay.

Masters — customers, vendors, products — and opening balances come across; transaction history stays where it is, as a read-only archive. There is no automated import from HostBooks today, and we would rather say so than oversell it. You start clean on a date you choose, which is why most businesses switch at a financial-year or quarter boundary.

On the matrix above it comes down to works fully offline, full core in every plan, gst error catcher & notice-risk score and deterministic ai insights (offline). Underneath those rows the difference is one decision: everything posts to a single double-entry ledger that the returns, the reports and the AI all read from — so there is no second set of numbers anywhere in the product to reconcile.

Often — our entry plan carries the whole double-entry core, GST returns, inventory and banking, with no separate AMC and no module that unlocks later. Compare what is inside the tier rather than the headline number, though, because that is where these products usually differ. Prices are shown ex-GST with the rate and gross beside them, and there is a 14-day trial with no card.

Run a fortnight of your own real documents through both. 14 days, no card. Enter your awkward cases rather than clean ones — the inter-state sale, the credit note, the scheme discount, the batch return — because those are where accounting products differ, and where a demo dataset is designed to be silent.

Yes, and you should check this about any product including ours. On the Desktop edition your books are a database file on a disk you chose, with scheduled backups you control — stopping payment leaves you holding readable data. On Cloud, your data is isolated to your business and exportable from the reports it feeds.

Email and WhatsApp, from an India-based team that reads ledgers rather than scripts. The realistic expectation for the first month is that things you did by muscle memory in HostBooks take longer here — that is a real cost of switching, and pretending otherwise would just make the second week worse.