Real estate builder software in Chennai
Yes — LekhaPro's Real Estate pack runs booking-to-possession operations for Chennai developers: project → tower → floor → unit inventory, deterministic unit pricing, five payment-plan types and a collection desk that reconciles to the paise. Tamil Nadu projects register with TNRERA (rera.tn.gov.in), and the pack keeps the per-project figures those filings are built from. Cloud edition, any browser.
What Tamil Nadu sets for a Chennai developer
| Item | Tamil Nadu | Source |
|---|---|---|
| GST state code | 33 — first two digits of every GSTIN here | Statutory |
| RERA authority | TNRERA (rera.tn.gov.in) | rera.tn.gov.in · checked 2026-08-05 |
| Intra-state e-way bill | ₹1,00,000 (100 annexure goods exempt at any value) | Ntf No. 09/2018 Rc.46/2018/Taxation/A1 (31.05.2018) · ctd.tn.gov.in · checked 2026-08-05 |
| Professional tax | 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 |
The full Tamil Nadu compliance table — every state-level fact we track, with sources — is on the Tamil Nadu state page.
The Chennai market, honestly
Chennai’s demand splits along two axes: the IT corridor down Old Mahabalipuram Road, and the industrial belt towards Sriperumbudur and Oragadam with its auto and electronics plants. CMDA planning approval and TNRERA registration are the compliance gates, and Tamil Nadu’s guideline values anchor registration values. The buyer base is predominantly end-user and documentation-conscious, so builders gain from clean audit trails — approval-linked project records, unit-wise agreements referencing guideline values, and instalment receipts that reconcile to the project account without manual patching.
What a Chennai developer gets
- Project → tower/wing → floor → unit inventory (bulk grid)
- Deterministic per-unit price build-up + price history
- Booking desk (token → confirmed → refunded), atomic unit status
- Five payment-plan types + installment engine (reconciles to the paise)
- Delay-interest & penalty accrual with grace; oldest-due-first waterfall
- Collection desk with as-of due register & overdue accrual
- Construction stages, contractors, work orders & project costing
- Broker commissions via an approval workflow
- Channel-partner desk — broker portal access, ledger & commission ranking
- Loan desk with disbursements, registration & possession handover
- Rental desk — rent schedules, escalations, renewals & a vacancy read
- Facility desk — AMCs, society bill runs & maintenance ageing
- Investor register with holdings and a portfolio roll-up
- Legal & RERA register with a compliance dashboard
- Site operations and work orders
- Unit-availability board, booking register & profitability dashboards
- Deterministic AI: project health, collection & pricing advisors
- Buyer statement bundle — booking, installments, agreements, progress
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 Chennai or anywhere
- · The Real Estate pack is Cloud-only — it runs in a browser, not in the offline Windows desktop edition, in Chennai or anywhere.
- · It does not submit RERA filings or GST returns for you. It produces the project, booking and collection figures the filings are built from; submission stays with you or your CA.
- · Collections live in the installment ledger as the money-of-record today; posting those receipts into the double-entry General Ledger is a documented next step.
- · No office in Chennai — sales and support are online (email and WhatsApp) from an India-based team, with no local branch, reseller or on-site visit.
- · No payroll, attendance or HR module — staff salaries and professional tax stay with your CA, in Tamil Nadu as everywhere.
- · No automated Tally import yet. Masters and opening balances come across; transaction history stays in the old system as a read-only archive.
Questions Chennai builders ask
Does LekhaPro's Real Estate module work for builders in Chennai?
Yes. It is a Cloud-edition pack that models a Chennai project as project → tower/wing → floor → unit, prices every unit deterministically, and runs bookings, installment schedules and collections against it. Nothing is city-locked — the same pack serves a developer anywhere in India, and multiple projects and companies live under one login.
Which RERA do Chennai projects register with?
TNRERA (rera.tn.gov.in) — the Tamil Nadu authority (rera.tn.gov.in, checked 2026-08-05). LekhaPro tracks bookings, instalments and collections per RERA-registered project and holds the project's RERA details on its master; registration itself and the quarterly filings stay between you and the authority.
Can it produce the numbers a RERA quarterly progress report needs?
Yes — the booking register, collections against each project and construction-stage progress rolled up per tower are exactly the figures a quarterly progress filing draws on. It does not submit the filing: LekhaPro produces the numbers, and the upload to the Tamil Nadu authority stays with you.
How does unit pricing work for a Chennai project?
Deterministically: base area × rate + floor-rise + charge heads − discount + GST split, with full price history kept on every re-price and the server recomputing each total so a stale quote cannot slip through. Agreement values in Chennai are checked by the registrar against locally notified circle or ready-reckoner rates — the software records the price you agreed; verifying the current rate stays with you and the Tamil Nadu registration department.
Which payment plans can we run?
Five types — construction-linked, time-linked, milestone, down-payment and custom — each generating an installment schedule that reconciles to the paise, with delay interest and penalty accrual after a grace period you set. Receipts apply oldest-due-first through the collection desk, and an as-of due register shows every buyer's position.
How is GST handled on under-construction sales in Tamil Nadu?
GST applies to under-construction sales but not to sales after completion — that is the national scheme, and the applicable rate structure is set by notification rather than by Tamil Nadu. LekhaPro splits the tax on each installment demand under the head place of supply dictates (CGST + SGST within Tamil Nadu, IGST for an out-of-state buyer entity) and posts it to the books; confirm the current rate schedule with your CA.
Can buyers in Chennai log in and see their own account?
Not yet as self-service — and we would rather say that than imply a portal that is not there. The buyer statement bundle (booking, installment schedule, receipts, agreements, construction progress, scoped to that one booking) exists today as a staff-facing preview you can share; a buyer login is on the roadmap as a separate portal app.
How do broker commissions work?
Each booking can carry a broker, and commissions route through an approval workflow before they pay out — so a Chennai channel partner's claim is visible, approved and traceable rather than settled from a spreadsheet. Profitability dashboards then show project margins net of those commissions.
Do you have an office in Chennai?
No. LekhaPro is sold and supported online across India — email and WhatsApp support from an India-based team, with no Chennai branch, no reseller and no site visit. If your buying process requires a vendor with a local office, that is a fair reason to choose someone else.
How do we try it on a real Chennai project?
14 days free, no card. Model one actual tower — real unit areas, your real rate card and one of your live payment plans — and check the installment engine's schedule against the one your CRM or spreadsheet produces today, because the paise-level reconciliation is the part worth testing. The market context matters too: Chennai’s demand splits along two axes: the IT corridor down Old Mahabalipuram Road, and the industrial belt towards Sriperumbudur and Oragadam with its auto and electronics plants.