GST accounting, built for manufacturing
Know what each product actually costs to make. LekhaPro values raw materials and finished goods on weighted-average or FIFO, posts a real double-entry ledger, and flags reorder points before a line stalls.
What gets in the way today
You guess at product margins
Without real costing, pricing is a hunch. A small move in raw-material cost can quietly turn a product loss-making.
Lines stall on missing material
When reorder points live in someone’s head, a stock-out on one input idles the whole run.
Supplier ITC and payables get messy
Purchase invoices, advances and credit notes pile up, and ITC claimed does not always match what suppliers actually filed.
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.
Raw-material and finished-goods stock
Track inputs and outputs as distinct items, each valued on weighted-average or FIFO, so consumption and production both hit the books correctly.
True COGS-based margins
Because every issue and receipt is costed, you see real cost of goods sold and the actual margin per product, not a rough markup.
Reorder points and low-stock alerts
Set a reorder level per material and get alerted before it runs out, so a critical input never idles the line.
Supplier payables and purchase ledger
Every purchase, advance and debit/credit note posts to the supplier ledger, giving you live payables and a clean purchase register.
GSTR-2B ITC matching
Match your purchase register against GSTR-2B to confirm input tax credit before you claim it, and catch suppliers who have not filed.
Business Health Score
A single read on margins, stock turns, payables and cash — so you can see whether the factory’s numbers are trending the right way.
How a typical day looks
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Record raw-material purchases; stock and supplier payables update together.
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Issue materials to production and receive finished goods, each costed on your valuation method.
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Raise GST sales invoices for finished goods with the correct HSN and tax split.
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Reconcile purchases against GSTR-2B to lock in only the ITC you can actually claim.
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Watch reorder alerts and restock before a line runs dry.
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Check the Business Health Score and true per-product margins before your next pricing decision.
Questions manufacturing ask
How does it calculate the cost of my products?
Materials and finished goods are valued on weighted-average or FIFO, whichever you set. Every issue to production and every receipt is costed, so you get true cost of goods sold and real per-product margins.
Can it warn me before a material runs out?
Yes. Set a reorder level on each material and LekhaPro surfaces a low-stock alert before it depletes, so a missing input does not idle the line.
Will it help me claim the right input tax credit?
Yes. You can match your purchase register against GSTR-2B to confirm ITC before claiming and flag suppliers whose invoices are not yet reflected.
Is there a dedicated Manufacturing pack, or is this the general product?
There is a dedicated pack: Manufacturing. It ships as a real application rather than a renamed field set — Work centres and machines, multi-level BOMs and routings, production orders, standard costing and variance, MES, quality and traceability. 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 manufacturing business choose?
Either — Manufacturing ships in both. Choose Desktop if the business runs from one site and you want the books on your own machine with the network unplugged; choose Cloud if several branches or roles need the same books at once, with approvals and an audit trail.
What does LekhaPro give a manufacturing business specifically?
Raw-material to finished-goods stock, true COGS-based margins, reorder alerts and clean supplier payables. Concretely: raw-material and finished-goods stock, true COGS-based margins, reorder points and low-stock alerts and supplier payables and purchase 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: you guess at product margins, lines stall on missing material and supplier ITC and payables get messy. 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 raw-material purchases; stock and supplier payables update together., issue materials to production and receive finished goods, each costed on your valuation method., raise GST sales invoices for finished goods with the correct HSN and tax split. and reconcile purchases against GSTR-2B to lock in only the ITC you can actually claim.. 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 manufacturing books in minutes
Offline-first, GST-correct, no card required.