A modern, AI-native alternative to Swipe
A real double-entry alternative to Swipe billing — offline, with AI.
| This product | Swipe | |
|---|---|---|
| Works fully offline | ||
| Full core in every plan | partial | |
| Posted double-entry GL + Chart of Accounts | ||
| GST returns, e-invoice/e-way & 2B reconciliation | ||
| GST error catcher & notice-risk score | ||
| Deterministic AI insights (offline) | ||
| Modern UI · light & dark | ||
| Your data stays on your machine |
Why teams switch
Proper double-entry books
A posted General Ledger, Chart of Accounts and statutory statements — not billing with reports bolted on.
Own your data, offline
The Desktop edition keeps books on your machine and works with no internet; the Cloud edition adds anywhere access when you want it.
AI workforce in every plan
Cash-flow forecast, customer intelligence and a business health score — deterministic and offline.
Switching from Swipe is low-risk
Bring your data across, run both side by side for a month, and switch for good when you're confident.
- Export from Swipemasters · opening balances · items
- Import to LekhaProvia Excel/CSV, mapped for you
- Run in parallelkeep Swipe for your first month
- Moved inoffline, on your machine
Today you migrate via Excel/CSV with setup help. A direct Swipe connector is on our roadmap — we'll never claim a feature we haven't built.
In fairness, Swipe does a lot well
- Fast, free-to-start GST billing and invoicing popular with small businesses.
- WhatsApp sharing, online payments and quick setup.
- Simple mobile and web experience.
We focus on offline-first data ownership, a deterministic AI workforce, a modern UI, and a fair plan where the full core ships to everyone.
Questions about switching
Can I still share invoices on WhatsApp?
Yes — WhatsApp and email sharing plus a UPI pay-by-QR printed on the invoice.
What do I gain over a billing app?
Full double-entry accounting, inventory with COGS, GSTR filing and 2B reconciliation, and a deterministic AI workforce — a whole business suite, not just billing.
What does Swipe do better than LekhaPro?
fast, free-to-start GST billing and invoicing popular with small businesses, whatsApp sharing, online payments and quick setup and simple mobile and web experience. On the comparison above, Swipe also matches us on 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, Swipe is a reasonable choice and this page is not trying to talk you out of it.
When should I NOT switch from Swipe?
If your accountant is fluent in Swipe 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.
Can I move my data over from Swipe?
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 Swipe 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.
What is the actual difference between LekhaPro and Swipe?
On the matrix above it comes down to works fully offline, full core in every plan, posted double-entry gl + chart of accounts and gst error catcher & notice-risk score. 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.
Is LekhaPro cheaper than Swipe?
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.
Is the GST handling as reliable?
It is correct by construction rather than at filing time: CGST/SGST and IGST split from HSN or SAC and place of supply as each invoice is raised, GSTR-1, 3B and 2B reconciliation come off those same books, and an error catcher flags wrong-head, wrong-rate, missing-HSN and duplicate invoices before you file rather than after a notice.
Will it keep working when the internet is down?
On the Desktop edition, entirely — the database is a file on your machine, so billing, accounting, GST and stock behave identically with the network unplugged. AI and billing are the only two things that reach out. The Cloud edition needs a connection, with the POS till the one deliberate exception.
How do I evaluate the two properly?
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.