Billing that keeps up with your shop

Yes. You can sign up and start billing without paying or adding a card. The paid plans on our pricing page are illustrative: billing is not switched on yet, so no account is charged today. Before any paid plan starts, the final prices will be shown in the app and you choose whether to upgrade.

No. If your business is not registered under GST, mark it as unregistered in your business settings and your bills are made without tax. When you register later, add your GSTIN and new invoices will carry CGST and SGST, or IGST, as applicable.

All the common rates: 0%, 0.1%, 0.25%, 1%, 1.5%, 3%, 5%, 6%, 7.5%, 12%, 18%, 28% and 40%, plus cess as a percentage or a fixed amount per unit. Tax is split into CGST and SGST for sales within your state and charged as IGST for sales to another state, based on the place of supply. Prices can be entered with or without tax. Purchases support reverse charge and per-line input tax credit, and composition businesses bill on a bill of supply. Alongside tax invoices you can make quotations, proforma invoices, sales and purchase orders, delivery challans, credit and debit notes, sales and purchase returns, payment receipts and other income.

Parchi prepares the reports you need for filing from the bills you have already made: GSTR-1 (with a JSON file for the offline tool), GSTR-3B, GSTR-2 purchase and HSN-wise reports, a GSTR-9 annual draft and, for composition dealers, CMP-08. You or your CA then file on the GST portal. Parchi does not file returns on your behalf.

Yes, as JSON files. For an invoice, Parchi creates the e-invoice JSON in the government schema, which you upload on the e-invoice portal (IRP) to get the IRN; you can then record the IRN on the invoice. In the same way it exports e-way bill JSON for invoices and delivery challans, for upload on the e-way bill portal. Direct generation through a GST Suvidha Provider is not connected yet.

You sign in with a one-time code sent to your mobile number, so there is no password to leak. Your session is kept in a secure, HTTP-only cookie and traffic is encrypted over HTTPS. Each business's data is kept separate, and every request is checked against the business you belong to. Party bank account details are encrypted at rest and the database is backed up nightly. You decide what each team member can see with roles, can ask for a PIN before anyone deletes or cancels a bill, and deleted documents can be restored from the recycle bin for 30 days.

Yes. Add team members by mobile number and give each a role: Admin, Accountant, Salesman or Chartered Accountant. A salesman can create sales and record payments but cannot make purchases, delete documents or change settings. A CA gets view-only access to your books and reports. You can narrow any member further to view-only, no-delete or their own documents, and limit which item categories they see. Everyone signs in with their own number.

Partly. Once you have used Parchi on a device, it opens without a connection and shows the parties, items, documents and reports you loaded in the last few days, read-only. A bill you start while offline is kept as a draft on that device. Saving bills and recording payments need the internet, and nothing is posted until you are back online. Because your books are saved online, the same data opens on your shop computer, laptop or phone, and nothing is lost if a device breaks.

Yes. Open Parchi in your phone's browser and the screens adapt to the smaller size. Your browser can install it like an app ("Install app" or "Add to Home screen") for one-tap access, with no app-store download. The same account works on phone, tablet and computer.

Yes. Invoices print in A4 and A5 layouts for regular printers and in a narrow receipt layout for thermal printers, straight from your browser's print dialog, as original, duplicate or triplicate copies. Download PDF gives you a ready A4 or A5 PDF with the ₹ sign and Hindi text intact. You can e-mail it to your customer with one click, e-mail up to 50 documents from a list at once, or share a link to the invoice.

Every invoice shows what is paid and what is still due, and part payments reduce the balance on their own. The Collections page groups unpaid invoices by party with the number of days overdue, and you can send a payment reminder from there as a ready-written WhatsApp message, or by SMS once an SMS sender ID is connected. Each party's ledger shows the full history if a balance is ever questioned.

Yes. Turn on TDS or TCS in your business settings and pick a rate in the totals of a bill. TDS is worked out on the value before GST and TCS on the total including GST; the GST on the bill does not change, and the amount due, payment status, ledgers and reminders all follow the amount after TDS or TCS. Reports show TDS and TCS payable and receivable, plus quarterly 26Q- and 27EQ-style summaries with challan checks for your CA. Filing the TDS / TCS return stays with you or your CA.

Two optional features use AI. Bill scanning reads a supplier bill you upload (PDF or photo) and fills a draft purchase or expense for you to check before saving. "Ask your books" answers questions such as "How much is overdue this month?" from your own reports and lists the reports it used; it only reads and never changes a record, and each person sees only what their role allows. To produce an answer, the bill, or the question with the report figures it needs, is sent to our AI provider; for questions, party phone numbers and GSTINs are left out unless you name the party. Both features can be left unused.

Yes. In Settings, Import data reads a supported desktop billing app's company backup. You see a preview first, then parties, items, past documents and payments come across with opening balances reconciled, and a long import can be resumed if it stops. You can also import sales or purchase invoices from a CSV or Excel sheet, and parties and items from their own spreadsheets. Importing from Tally is not supported yet; exporting your books to Tally is.

Sign up with your mobile number and enter your business name, address and GSTIN. You can make your first invoice straight away and add items and customers as you bill; there is no need to set everything up first. If you would like a hand, book a free setup call and we will go through it with you.