More Than Just
Bookkeeping.
Outgrowing Tally or Zoho Books? Books is double-entry bookkeeping built for Indian businesses: GST that splits itself, a bank reconciliation that finds the difference, and payroll and TDS that come out of the same ledger as everything else.
- Free tier, no card
- Your books stay yours
- Early access
60
built-in reports, from trial balance to cash flow, every one exportable
CGST · SGST · IGST
decided from the GSTIN on the document, not from a dropdown
Multi-GSTIN
several registrations, several centres, one set of books
23 languages
including Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi
What it does
One ledger. Every module posts into it, so the balance sheet is never a separate spreadsheet that quietly disagrees.
Accounting that closes
Double-entry vouchers, a real trial balance, and a balance sheet that balances. Every figure traces back to a voucher.
GST, not a spreadsheet
CGST/SGST or IGST decided from the GSTIN on the document. GSTR-1, 3B and 9 worksheets, e-invoicing and e-way bills.
Banking that reconciles
Upload a statement, match it against your vouchers, and clear the difference. Uncategorised lines stay visible until dealt with.
Inventory with real costing
FIFO and weighted-average costing, batches and serial numbers, expiry dates, stock transfers between locations, and a valuation you can defend.
Payroll and TDS
PF, ESI, professional tax and TDS computed per employee, with payslips and Form 16 built from the same ledger.
60 reports, all exportable
Trial balance to cash flow to ageing. Every one exports to CSV, TSV or Excel with the period you were looking at.
An assistant that reads your books
Ask it what your trial balance says, attach a spreadsheet and have it read, or take a report away as a file.
Fixed assets that depreciate themselves
A register for every machine, with the depreciation journals posted on a schedule you set.
Recurring revenue, billed for you
Subscription plans with free trials, and the invoices raised and sent every period.
Chasing money, not spreadsheets
Reminders for unpaid invoices, credit limits that stop the next sale, and interest on what is late.
Projects, hours and budgets
Bill the time you spent, and see where you came in against what you planned.
Documents that look like yours
Your own invoice and document templates, so what you send is your business and not ours.
Trading, booked properly
Trade book, positions and turnover across brokers, with realised and unrealised P&L and SEBI/IT turnover heads.
Multi-currency, rupees in the ledger
Raise an invoice or bill in dollars; the ledger, GST and reports stay in rupees at the rate frozen on the document.
More than one company, one login
Workspaces keep several books apart, and a single login switches between them.
Documents and folders
A document library for agreements, licences and paperwork, in nested folders with uploads up to 50 MB.
Import, export and backup
Bring customers, vendors, items and accounts in from CSV, TSV or Excel, export any of them, and take a full backup that restores.
An activity log you can check
Every create and edit is written to a tamper-evident chain, with filters by module, record, user and date.
Users and roles
Invite people, give them read or write access per module, and keep the last administrator from being removed.
Custom and scheduled reports
Build your own report from any module, share it, and have it emailed on a schedule.
Manufacturing and job work
Production orders that consume components into work in progress and receive the finished item at rolled cost, plus Form ITC-04.
Stock take and reordering
Count sheets with a variance, and a restock list for items at or below their reorder point.
Bill-wise settlement
Apply a payment to the invoices it actually pays, so the ageing reports stop guessing.
Refunds and bad debts
Refund a customer against the credit they hold, and write off what you will not collect, with the GST reclaimed.
Custom fields
Define your own fields on items, customers, vendors and documents, and they appear on the forms and pages.
TCS and the direct-tax reports
Collect tax at source where section 206C applies, with the 26Q and 27EQ registers.
Cheque printing
Print a payment on a cheque leaf in CTS-2010 format, from the same voucher.
Warranty on serial numbers
A warranty term per item, frozen onto each serial unit, with a register of what is still covered.
Group consolidation
Read several company books together, with the unrealised profit on goods still in transit taken out.
Keyboard shortcuts
Tally-style shortcuts to every screen and form, plus a shortcuts drawer.
Who it is for
Indian businesses that file GST, run a bank account someone else has to reconcile, and are still doing it in a spreadsheet. If you are a sole trader, the free tier does the filing and the ledger. If you have staff, a stock room or more than one GSTIN, the paid tiers add payroll, inventory, multi-registration bookkeeping, recurring billing and fixed assets.
It is not a billing tool for freelancers and it is not a warehouse system. It is the bookkeeping, and it tries to be right.
How we handle your data
- Your books, your machine. Books runs on the cloud by default, and can also run entirely on your own computer if you choose, with the file encrypted at rest. Nothing leaves it unless you decide otherwise.
- No passwords. Sign-in is a single-use emailed link or a passkey. There is no password for us to lose or for you to reset.
- An activity log you can check. Every create and edit is written to a tamper-evident chain, not just an audit column.
Books is not hosted yet
It is being finished and hardened now. Join the waitlist and we will write when there is a public build to sign in to.