A modern TallyPrime alternative for India
Everything you rely on TallyPrime for — double-entry, GST, inventory, offline desktop — but faster to learn, with barcode POS, batch/expiry pharma and an AI workforce built in.
Live product UI — sample data.
Familiar, but easier
The same offline, keyboard-first, double-entry accounting Tally users expect — with plain-language screens and less setup.
More in the box
Barcode POS, batch & expiry (pharma), price lists, loyalty and one-tap WhatsApp share — without add-ons.
AI you don’t get in Tally
A business health score, cash-flow forecast, revenue-leak scan and a copilot over your own books.
What this actually means in practice
A business replacing its core accounting package is not shopping for invoices; it is shopping for a ledger its auditor will sign off. That means posted double-entry rather than printed documents, a chart of accounts that survives a financial-year rollover, multi-company handling for group entities, voucher-level drill-down from any statement, and a keyboard rhythm quick enough for an operator entering two hundred vouchers a day. Statutory output — GSTR-1, 3B, TDS — must fall out of the same books, not a parallel sheet.
Be clear-eyed about what actually travels. Masters — customers, vendors, ledgers, items, tax rates — import cleanly, and so do opening balances as at your cut-over date. Transaction history does not: there is no automated import from TallyPrime or any other package yet, so past vouchers stay where they were entered. Most businesses therefore switch at the start of a financial year or a quarter, carry balances forward, and keep the old installation running read-only as an archive for audit and comparison.
LekhaPro keeps the ledger at the centre: every invoice, receipt and stock movement posts a balanced journal, so the Trial Balance, P&L, Balance Sheet and GSTR-1 all read from one set of books. Multi-company, multi-year, e-invoice, e-way bill and 2B reconciliation are in the offline core from ₹249 a month. TallyPrime is long established and deeply known by Indian accountants — that familiarity has real value, and replacing it deserves a trial period rather than a leap.
| What to check before switching | How LekhaPro answers it |
|---|---|
| Do invoices post to a real double-entry ledger, or only print? | Every invoice posts a balanced journal; Trial Balance, P&L and GSTR-1 all derive from the same books. |
| Can I keep several companies and past financial years open? | Yes — multi-company and multi-year are in the core, with year-end rollover and comparative statements. |
| Will my CA accept the output? | Books are standard posted double-entry with day book, audit trail and a filing-ready CA pack. |
| What happens to my existing vouchers? | They stay in your old system. Masters and opening balances come across; transaction history is not imported. |
| Does it keep working when the internet drops? | Desktop edition runs entirely offline on local SQLite; only licensing, updates and AI need a connection. |
| Is the full feature set in the entry plan? | Yes — the complete offline core ships at ₹249 a month; conversational AI is the only Enterprise addition. |
| Can I get my data out again if I leave? | Yes — exports to Tally XML, Excel and PDF, plus encrypted local backup files you hold yourself. |
| How many people can work at once? | Desktop runs LAN client-server with seats capped by plan; Cloud edition is browser-based and multi-device. |
What’s included
- Offline double-entry accounting
- GSTR-1/3B, e-invoice & e-way bill
- Inventory, batch & expiry
- Barcode POS & thermal receipts
- Deterministic AI insights
- Multi-company & LAN multi-user
- Encrypted local backups
What it does not do
- · There is no automated import of transaction history from TallyPrime or any other package — masters and opening balances only.
- · No payroll or HR module; salaries are recorded as journal entries or expenses in the ledger.
- · The Desktop edition runs on Windows only; choose the Cloud edition for Mac, Linux or browser access.
- · Support is by email and WhatsApp with remote onboarding — there are no local branch offices or on-site engineers.
Frequently asked
Is it as capable as TallyPrime for GST and accounting?
Yes — posted double-entry, GST returns, e-invoice/e-way bill, inventory and multi-company are all built in, offline.
Can I import my Tally data?
LekhaPro exports to Tally XML today; guided import from Tally is on the roadmap. You can start fresh or migrate masters manually in the meantime.
What does LekhaPro add over Tally?
Barcode POS, batch/expiry pharma billing, price lists, loyalty, one-tap WhatsApp share and a deterministic AI workforce — with a gentler learning curve.
When in the year should I cut over from TallyPrime?
At the start of a financial year, if you can wait — that keeps one full year in one system and makes comparatives clean. A quarter start is the next best option. Enter masters and opening balances as at the cut-over date, bill from LekhaPro from day one, and file the closing period out of the old system.
Do I have to uninstall my old software?
No, and we would advise against it. Keep the previous installation on one machine as a read-only archive — you will want it for audit queries, notices covering earlier periods and year-on-year comparison. It costs nothing to leave in place, and it removes the pressure to migrate history you do not actually need day to day.
What exactly is included in Alternative · offline?
offline double-entry accounting, GSTR-1/3B, e-invoice & e-way bill, inventory, batch & expiry, barcode POS & thermal receipts, deterministic AI insights and multi-company & LAN multi-user, and 1 more. Every item on that list is a working screen you can open in the trial rather than a capability described in the abstract.
How is alternative · offline handled differently here?
It rests on familiar, but easier, more in the box and AI you don’t get in Tally. The distinction that matters is that these are structural rather than cosmetic — the behaviour is built into how records are posted, not layered on as a report you have to remember to run.
Does Alternative · offline work offline?
On the Desktop edition, yes — completely. offline double-entry accounting and GSTR-1/3B, e-invoice & e-way bill run against a local database on your own machine, so the screens behave the same with the network unplugged as with it connected. AI and billing are the only two things that reach out. On the Cloud edition alternative · offline runs in the browser and needs a connection.
Does Alternative · offline cost extra?
No. Alternative · offline is part of the accounting core rather than a paid add-on, so more in the box is there on the entry tier exactly as it is on the highest one. What the tiers change is reach and depth — devices, multi-branch and multi-warehouse reporting, and whether the conversational AI copilots are switched on.
Can I try Alternative · offline before committing?
Yes — 14 days, no card. Test alternative · offline against your own masters and your own transactions rather than sample data: the questions worth answering here are about your business's edge cases, and a demo dataset is built not to have any.