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Most accounting software is designed by people who have never had a client ring at ten at night about a notice. This one is not.
Every Indian firm runs the same two systems: one that records the books, and a second, informal one made of spreadsheets, WhatsApp threads and somebody's memory that turns those books into filed returns. The second system is where the week goes.
Nothing about that is inevitable. The tax head is knowable when the invoice is raised. The TDS section is knowable when the bill is recorded. Whether a supply is intra-state or inter-state is knowable at entry, and guessing it at the deadline is how a notice arrives four months later. Almost every deadline-week scramble is a decision that was postponed rather than a problem that was hard.
Autobooks was built to move those decisions back to where they are cheap — the moment of entry — and to make the statutory output a view of the ledger rather than a second assembly of it.
Tally is not the problem. It is genuinely fast for what it does, every article in every firm already knows it, and asking a firm to abandon it is asking them to take a productivity loss for a promise. So Autobooks syncs both ways and produces a reconciliation certificate proving the books tied, ledger by ledger.
Run both for a month. File from whichever you prefer. If you decide against it, you have lost a month, not your books.
Bring a stack of vouchers and time it. If entry is slower than Tally, nothing else on this website matters — and we would rather you find that out in thirty minutes than in month three.
A return is a view of the ledger, never a separate thing to assemble. Everything statutory in Autobooks is derived from what was posted — which is why the return and the books cannot disagree.
Tax head, TDS section, place of supply. Every one of them is knowable when the voucher is recorded and expensive to reconstruct at the deadline. So the software asks then.
A period lock that warns is a suggestion. An unbalanced voucher that saves is a problem for whoever finds it in March. Where the accounting has one right answer, the software enforces it.