GST accounting, built for legal & consulting

Yes. You record advances and retainers as they arrive and adjust them against later fee notes, so each client’s balance always reflects what is genuinely outstanding.

Yes. Service invoices are raised with the correct SAC and GST split, so legal and consulting fees stay compliant and feed your GSTR-1/3B cleanly.

Yes. Every fee note and receipt posts to the client ledger, so you get client-wise outstanding and a receivables ageing report to chase overdue fees.

There is a dedicated pack: Contract Lifecycle. It ships as a real application rather than a renamed field set — Contract register, clause library, redlining and amendments, obligation and SLA tracking, renewals — alongside SAC fee notes from the core. It runs over the same double-entry books as everything else, so nothing about your ledger changes when you switch it on.

The Cloud edition. Contract Lifecycle 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.

Service invoices with the right SAC, retainer and advance tracking, and clean receivables ageing for fees. Concretely: SAC-based service invoices, retainer and advance tracking, client-wise receivables ageing and expense capture and posting — every one of them a working screen described in full further up this page, not a roadmap item.

The ones this trade runs into rather than the ones that demo well: retainers and advances get muddled, fees age quietly and service GST gets the SAC wrong. 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.

In order: record a retainer or advance from a new client against their account., raise SAC-based fee notes as work is completed, adjusting the advance held., capture matter-related and firm expenses to the correct ledger heads. and record receipts; client-wise outstanding and ageing update instantly.. 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.

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.

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.