GST accounting, built for hardware & electrical
Hardware and electrical counters juggle hundreds of SKUs at different GST rates. LekhaPro gets HSN and tax right on every line, turns a quotation into an invoice in a click, and keeps stock and vendor dues under control.
What gets in the way today
Mixed GST rates cause billing errors
Wire, switches, fittings and tools sit at different tax slabs, and a wrong rate on a line means a wrong return. You need the right HSN and rate applied by the item, not by memory.
Quotes get retyped into invoices
Contractors ask for a rate quote first, and re-keying it later as a bill wastes time and introduces mistakes. The quote should become the invoice without redoing the work.
Vendor dues and stock drift apart
Buying on credit across many suppliers makes it hard to know what you owe and what is genuinely in stock. Payments and quantities need to stay in step.
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.
HSN-accurate GST invoices
Bill across mixed tax rates with correct HSN, CGST, SGST, IGST and CESS on every line, on any of 11 print templates including 80mm thermal.
Quote to invoice in one click
Raise a quotation or proforma for a contractor and convert it straight to a sales order or tax invoice with no re-entry.
Delivery challan and e-way bill
Issue delivery challans for site deliveries and generate e-way bill JSON offline, ready for the portal when goods move.
Purchase orders and vendor ledger
Raise purchase orders, book purchase bills, and track vendor outstanding with ageing so you always know what is due to whom.
Live stock and real margin
Track on-hand quantity with weighted-average or FIFO valuation, get low-stock alerts, and see COGS-based profit on every sale.
Barcode and multi-series numbering
Scan barcodes to add fast-moving items and keep counter, project and branch bills separate with multiple numbering series.
How a typical day looks
- 1
Send a contractor a quotation with the right HSN and rate on each item.
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Convert the accepted quote to a sales order and reserve the stock.
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Bill the order as a GST invoice and print or share it by WhatsApp or email.
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Raise a delivery challan and e-way bill JSON for the goods leaving the shop.
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Book supplier purchase bills to update stock and watch vendor outstanding with ageing.
Questions hardware & electrical ask
Can it handle items at different GST rates on one bill?
Yes. Each item carries its own HSN and tax rate, so a single invoice can mix slabs and still compute CGST, SGST, IGST and CESS correctly line by line.
Do I have to retype a quotation to make an invoice?
No. A quotation or proforma converts directly into a sales order or tax invoice, carrying the items, rates and taxes across without re-entry.
Can I generate e-way bills for deliveries?
Yes. LekhaPro produces e-way bill JSON offline that you upload to the government portal. Live IRN and e-way generation uses your own GST Suvidha Provider.
Is there a dedicated Hardware & Electrical pack, or is this the general product?
No dedicated pack — this trade runs on the core suite, and we would rather say so plainly than imply a vertical exists. The core covers it — mixed-rate HSN invoicing, quotations that convert to bills without re-keying, vendor ledgers and live stock. For most businesses in this line of work that is the whole requirement, but if you were expecting trade-specific screens, this is the honest answer.
Which edition should a hardware & electrical business choose?
Either edition covers this trade, so pick on how you work rather than on features. Desktop keeps the books on your machine and runs with the internet off; Cloud puts the same books in a browser for a team spread across locations.
What does LekhaPro give a hardware & electrical business specifically?
HSN-accurate invoices across mixed tax rates, quotations that convert to bills, and vendor and stock control for a busy counter. Concretely: HSN-accurate GST invoices, quote to invoice in one click, delivery challan and e-way bill and purchase orders and vendor ledger — 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: mixed GST rates cause billing errors, quotes get retyped into invoices and vendor dues and stock drift apart. 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: send a contractor a quotation with the right HSN and rate on each item., convert the accepted quote to a sales order and reserve the stock., bill the order as a GST invoice and print or share it by WhatsApp or email. and raise a delivery challan and e-way bill JSON for the goods leaving the shop.. 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.
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.
What happens when the internet goes down?
On the Desktop edition, nothing — billing, stock and the books run against a database on your own machine, so an outage is invisible. On Cloud, the POS till is built to keep selling when the line drops and replay what it took once it returns.
Set up your hardware & electrical books in minutes
Offline-first, GST-correct, no card required.