GST accounting, built for construction & trades
Know what each site actually costs you. LekhaPro records material purchases against jobs, keeps vendor payables straight, exports e-way bill JSON for moving materials, and forecasts cash across long project cycles.
What gets in the way today
Site costs are hard to pin down
Materials, labour and vendor bills spread across jobs, and without work-wise costing you can not tell which site is bleeding money.
Vendor payments lose track
Advances to suppliers, part payments and retentions pile up, and it is easy to overpay or miss what is due.
Material movement to site stalls
Moving materials between godown and site, or inter-state, needs e-way documents, and missing them holds up the work.
How LekhaPro fits your work
Every capability below is built in — offline-first, GST-correct by construction, and posted to a real double-entry ledger.
Work-wise material costing
Record purchases and consumption against each job, so you see the real material cost per site and project, not a lump sum.
Vendor payables and purchase ledger
Track advances, part payments and bills per vendor on the supplier ledger, so you always know what is owed and to whom.
E-way bill JSON for site movements
Generate e-way bill JSON offline for moving materials to site or inter-state; go live through your own GSP connection when needed.
GST purchase invoices and ITC matching
Capture GST on material purchases and match against GSTR-2B, so you claim only the input tax credit suppliers have actually filed.
Cash-flow forecast for long cycles
Project payments come in stages while material and labour are due continuously; the forecast shows inflows against commitments.
How a typical day looks
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Record material purchases and tag them to the right job or site.
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Track vendor advances, part payments and bills on the supplier ledger.
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Generate e-way bill JSON to move materials to site or inter-state.
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Match purchase GST against GSTR-2B before claiming input tax credit.
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Review work-wise costing to see which sites are on or over budget.
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Watch the cash-flow forecast against staged project receipts before committing spend.
Questions construction & trades ask
Can I track costs separately for each site or job?
Yes. Material purchases and consumption can be recorded against each job, so you get real work-wise costing and can see which sites are over budget.
Does it produce e-way bills for moving materials?
It generates e-way bill JSON offline for site and inter-state movements. A live e-way bill number requires connecting your own GST Suvidha Provider (GSP); without it, the JSON export keeps your records correct.
How does it handle vendor payments and ITC?
Vendor advances, part payments and bills post to the supplier ledger so payables stay clear, and purchases can be matched against GSTR-2B so you claim only the input tax credit suppliers have filed.
Is there a dedicated Construction & Trades pack, or is this the general product?
There is a dedicated pack: Construction & Projects. It ships as a real application rather than a renamed field set — Project portfolio, BOQ and rate analysis, WBS and CPM scheduling, measurement book to RA billing, and earned-value costing. It runs over the same double-entry books as everything else, so nothing about your ledger changes when you switch it on.
Which edition should a construction & trades business choose?
The Cloud edition. Construction & Projects is a Cloud Suite application, so the depth described on this page is not in the Desktop edition. The Desktop edition still runs your books, GST and stock offline — it just does not carry this pack.
What does LekhaPro give a construction & trades business specifically?
Material purchases, work-wise costing, vendor payables and e-way bill JSON for moving materials to site. Concretely: work-wise material costing, vendor payables and purchase ledger, E-way bill JSON for site movements and GST purchase invoices and ITC matching — every one of them a working screen described in full further up this page, not a roadmap item.
What problems does this actually solve?
The ones this trade runs into rather than the ones that demo well: site costs are hard to pin down, vendor payments lose track and material movement to site stalls. Each is set out with its cause above, because a business recognising its own problem in writing is worth more than a feature list it has to translate.
What does a normal day look like once it is running?
In order: record material purchases and tag them to the right job or site., track vendor advances, part payments and bills on the supplier ledger., generate e-way bill JSON to move materials to site or inter-state. and match purchase GST against GSTR-2B before claiming input tax credit.. It is one sequence in one application, which is the point — the alternative is the same day spread over a billing tool, a spreadsheet and an accountant's inbox.
Is GST handled correctly for this trade?
Yes, and by construction rather than at filing time. CGST/SGST and IGST are split from HSN or SAC and place of supply as each document is raised, the sale posts to a real ledger, and GSTR-1, 3B and 2B reconciliation come off those same books — so the return matches the accounts because it was never a separate exercise.
Can I move across from what I use today?
Masters and opening balances come across; transaction history does not. There is no automated Tally import yet — it is on the roadmap, and we would rather say so than oversell it. You start clean on a date you choose and keep the old system as a read-only archive, which is why most businesses switch at the start of a financial year or quarter.
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