Accounting automation around Tally, GST, payables and payroll

Where does your accounts team lose the most time?

Follow a typical month of work and the packages line up against it. Sales and purchase data gets retyped from other systems into Tally. Invoices need an IRN where e-invoicing applies, and goods moved above the value threshold need e-way bills. Vendor bills arrive by email and on paper and wait for approval. Then come salaries, statutory deductions and GST returns. Each of those has its own package, so you can start with the one that hurts most.

• Daily entry: Tally Integration & Automation (₹12,000) posts sales, purchase and receipt vouchers through TallyPrime’s XML or ODBC interface.
• Invoices and dispatch: GST & E-Invoice Automation (₹30,000) generates IRNs and e-way bills from your own data.
• Vendor bills: Accounts Payable Automation (₹45,000) reads invoices, matches them to purchase orders and GRNs and routes approvals.
• Salaries: Payroll & Statutory Setup (₹12,000) sets up salary structures and statutory deductions so payroll runs the same way every month.
• Access: Tally on Cloud Migration (₹7,000) puts the same Tally on a cloud server with nightly encrypted backups.

Do we have to leave Tally?

No. Three of the five packages list Tally in their stack and work alongside it rather than replacing it. Tally Integration & Automation writes into TallyPrime through its XML or ODBC interface, so entries land in the books you already keep, mapped to your existing ledger and item masters. Tally on Cloud moves the same Tally to a cloud server, and GST & E-Invoice Automation works from your own data next to it. Accounts Payable Automation runs on its own stack but ends in a payment file for your bank or Tally, and Payroll & Statutory Setup lists Zoho and Node.

How is payables automation different from document automation?

Both read documents so nobody has to retype them, and both use OCR. Document & Data-Entry Automation (₹16,000, in the Automations category) is general-purpose: several document types, field-level extraction, validation rules and an exception queue, posted into your ERP, CRM or Tally. Accounts Payable Automation (₹45,000) is built for vendor bills, and adds what a finance team checks before paying: line-item extraction, a three-way match against the purchase order and goods receipt, an approval matrix by value and cost centre, and duplicate and fraud checks.

What stays with you and your CA?

The judgement calls. GST & E-Invoice Automation prepares GSTR-1 and 3B data, reconciles 2B against your purchases and raises mismatch alerts before filing, with an audit-ready archive of the documents; who reviews and files each return is agreed on the scope call. Tally on Cloud configures multi-user licensing on the new server; which Tally licence you hold, and whether it needs to change, is checked on the same call. The packages remove retyping and chasing, not your sign-off.