GST billing & accounting for Indian small business
Vyapar is one of the few Indian business apps with a genuinely usable free tier — the mobile app costs nothing and handles invoicing, GST and basic inventory for a shop or small trader. Paid plans start from around ₹3,399 a year for the desktop edition and about ₹4,010 for desktop plus mobile, with a seven-day trial before you commit. That per-year model is what separates Vyapar from Tally and Marg, which sell one-time licences costing ₹8,100 to ₹67,500 upfront. Which is cheaper depends entirely on how long you keep the software, and that arithmetic is worked through below.
1 device
1 desktop
1 desktop + mobile
Multi-user
Same as chosen edition
Vyapar is built for Indian billing specifically, which is why it competes with Tally rather than with global accounting tools: GST is native rather than configured, e-invoicing and e-way bill support are included, and the invoice formats match what Indian buyers and auditors expect. Two things worth understanding before you buy. First, the pricing model — Vyapar is a yearly subscription while Tally and Marg sell perpetual licences, so over five years a ₹22,500 Tally Silver licence can work out cheaper than ₹3,399 a year, but you pay it all upfront and upgrades cost extra. Second, the free mobile tier is real and permanent, not a trial, so a small trader can run on it indefinitely and only pay when they need desktop billing or multi-device sync. Prices shown are indicative "from" figures — Vyapar varies pricing by edition and term, and 18% GST applies on top, reclaimable as input tax credit for registered businesses.
We supply Vyapar with INR billing and a proper GST invoice, along with setup, chart-of-accounts configuration, opening-balance entry and migration from your existing books or Tally data. Typical go-live is two to three working days for a shop, up to a week where several years of history need importing. WhatsApp +91 98119 98370 with your business type and whether you bill from a counter or a phone, and we will tell you which edition fits — including when the free tier is genuinely enough.
The mobile app has a permanently free tier. Paid plans start from around ₹3,399 per year for the desktop edition and about ₹4,010 per year for desktop plus mobile, with Gold editions priced above that. Three-year bundles cut the effective annual cost. All prices attract 18% GST, which registered businesses can reclaim as input tax credit.
The mobile app is genuinely free, permanently — not a time-limited trial. It covers GST invoicing, basic inventory, customer and supplier ledgers and payment reminders, which is enough to run a small shop indefinitely. You pay when you need desktop billing, sync between devices, or the deeper reporting and multi-user features in the paid editions. A seven-day trial is available on the paid plans.
Renewal is charged at the same annual rate as your original plan, so roughly ₹3,399 a year for Desktop Silver or about ₹4,010 for Desktop plus Mobile, subject to any price revision. This is the key difference from Tally and Marg, which are one-time purchases with no compulsory annual fee — though those charge separately for version upgrades and support. Budget Vyapar as an ongoing subscription, not a one-off cost.
It depends entirely on how long you keep it. Tally Prime Silver is ₹22,500 as a one-time purchase; Vyapar Desktop is about ₹3,399 a year. Vyapar is far cheaper in years one to five and roughly breaks even around year six or seven, after which Tally is cheaper on licence cost alone. What tips it in practice is that Vyapar needs no accountant to operate, while Tally usually does — and that ongoing cost dwarfs the licence difference for a small shop.
Yes, and this is one of its real strengths for Indian retail. Vyapar works fully offline — you can bill, manage inventory and record payments with no connection, and data syncs when you are back online. For shops in areas with unreliable connectivity, or businesses that cannot risk billing stopping when the internet does, this matters more than most feature comparisons acknowledge.
Vyapar generates GST-compliant invoices and produces the reports needed for GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B, and supports e-invoicing and e-way bill generation. It prepares the data; you or your accountant still file on the GST portal. For a small business this is usually the right split — you get correct invoices and clean reports without paying for a full accounting suite.
The free mobile tier and Silver editions are single-user. Gold editions add multi-user support, which is what you need once more than one person bills simultaneously — a counter operator plus the owner, for instance. Work out your concurrent billing users before choosing, because upgrading later means moving edition rather than simply adding a seat.
Yes, buying through us as an Indian supplier gets you a GST invoice with your GSTIN recorded correctly, which makes the 18% reclaimable as input tax credit. That is effectively an 18% saving against paying by card without usable tax documentation. You also get INR billing with no exchange-rate variation and a local point of contact for setup and support.
We supply Vyapar with INR billing and a GST invoice, plus setup and data migration. WhatsApp +91 98119 98370.