See the hours and close days manual bookkeeping costs a month, and how fast a Tally or Zoho setup pays back.
Reviewed by CA Apurav GargUpdated Calculated in your browser; copied links include your figures
Each marketplace, your own site and any quick-commerce or offline channel.
One for each state where you hold stock.
Illustrative default — replace with your own. Used to estimate annual turnover for the e-invoicing check.
Checks whether the audit trail (edit log) and daily India backup rules for companies apply.
Your own estimate for the chart of accounts and ERP workflow setup.
The figures below start with illustrative defaults — replace them with your own data.
Your monthly software or automation cost, for the net gain and payback.
For example, from the Settlement Leakage Checker.
Leave blank to use the estimate above.
Used to take GST out of the average order value.
Team hours saved
94 h a month
About 108 h of manual work a month against 14 h with a structured setup, worth ₹47,000 a month of team time.
Checks from the figures you enter, as on 2 November 2026. Confirm against your own turnover and registrations.
| Item | ₹ a month |
|---|---|
| Team time (94 h × ₹500) | ₹47,000.00 |
| Recoverable settlement leakage | ₹0.00 |
| Gross monthly value | ₹47,000.00 |
| Less: software budget | −₹12,000.00 |
| Net monthly gain | ₹35,000.00 |
| Setup pays back on the net gain in | 2.14 months |
Gross value = hours saved × hourly cost + recoverable settlement leakage. Net gain = gross value − software budget.
| Task | Hours |
|---|---|
| Voucher entry for orders and channels | 66 h |
| Multi-state GST return preparation | 12 h |
| COGS valuation and MIS | 30 h |
| Manual total | 108 h |
| Structured setup total | 14 h |
| Hours saved | 94 h |
Planning estimates from the assumptions listed on this page, not a time study of your team.
As orders, channels and warehouse states grow, entering vouchers, splitting GST by state and valuing stock by hand takes more of the finance team’s month, and the books close later.
Enter your volumes to see the hours spent each month, the hours a structured chart of accounts and ERP setup saves, how quickly that setup pays back and how many days sooner the month could close.
2 warehouse GSTINs, 150 SKUs, team cost ₹500 an hour, setup estimate ₹75,000.
6,000 orders a month at ₹1,180 incl. 18% GST (₹1,000 excl. GST), 3 GSTINs, a private limited company; your own figure of 45 hours saved at ₹600 an hour, ₹35,000 of settlement leakage recoverable and ₹12,000 of software a month.
Our ERP & COA Setup work sets up the chart of accounts, voucher series, stock groups and close checklist in Tally Prime or Zoho Books.
They are planning assumptions for a typical multi-channel seller, listed under Assumptions on this page: time per order for voucher entry, per channel for imports and MIS, per GSTIN for return preparation and per SKU for stock valuation. Your team’s actual time depends on your data and tools.
A chart of accounts and ERP workflow built for ecommerce: a sales and fee ledger per channel, a voucher series per GSTIN, warehouse-wise FIFO stock and landed-cost COGS, with summary imports in place of order-by-order entry and a written close checklist.
Yes. The same structure can be set up in either. The tool does not depend on the software; it estimates the time a structured setup saves against manual entry.
Every GSTIN files its own returns, so sales, credit notes and input tax credit must be split by state each month. Without a voucher series per GSTIN, that split is done by hand from reports.
No. It is your own estimate, used only to work out a payback period. Enter whatever figure you have in mind.
We keep books, file GST and TDS returns and prepare monthly MIS for D2C and marketplace sellers. Share your figures and we will walk you through what we find.
An estimate for general information only, based on the figures you enter and the planning assumptions listed. Actual time and savings depend on your data, tools and team.
