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Guides for every part of Finocket
Getting started, day-to-day operations, personal finance, CRM & outreach, partner commissions, GST filings, modules & plans, and inviting your Chartered Accountant. Every article in plain English.
Getting started
Get started with Finocket
Sign up, tell Finocket who you are, finish the short onboarding wizard, add your first client and send your first GST invoice — in under ten minutes.
Install Finocket as a real app
Add Finocket to your home screen on Android, iPhone or desktop so it launches like any other app — opens instantly and works offline.
Try Finocket with sample data
Seed a realistic sample business with one tap, explore every screen with believable numbers, then clear it all safely — your real entries are never touched.
Run more than one company under one login
Keep separate books for each business you run — its own GSTIN, invoices, stock and reports — and switch between them from the sidebar.
Day-to-day
Clients, projects and invoices
Add clients with GSTIN + state auto-fill. Send invoices — tax invoice, bill of supply, export invoice, receipt or credit note — start from an estimate, or split an invoice into a deposit + milestone schedule.
Estimates, deposits and payment schedules
Send an EST-numbered estimate with a hosted accept link — your client accepts with a typed name recorded with a timestamp — convert it to an invoice in one tap, and collect through a deposit or milestone schedule that chases itself.
The client portal and statements of account
One branded link shows your client their balance, open invoices with pay actions, estimates to accept, payment history and a statement download — plus how to run a per-client statement with running balance and ageing.
Getting paid faster
Reminder sequences on offsets you control with escalating tone, automatic late fees after a grace period, one-tap WhatsApp nudges, the net-7 terms nudge, and UPI Autopay on retainers (early access).
Payments received and TDS
Record every payment your clients make — link it to the invoice so it flips to paid automatically. Capture TDS your client deducted at source, reconcile against Form 26AS at year-end.
Expenses, ITC and reverse-charge
Log business expenses with CGST / SGST / IGST and claim input tax credit. Turn on reverse-charge when you (not the supplier) pay the GST.
Scan-to-Add — photograph a bill, get an expense
Point your camera at a bill and Finocket reads the vendor, date, total, GST split and GSTIN, prefilling the expense form — you check the numbers and save, with the photo kept attached.
Day Book, Cashbook and Outstanding
The three books you open every morning: chronological Day Book, cash-vs-UPI-vs-bank Cashbook, and Outstanding with WhatsApp reminders.
Bank reconciliation — match your statement to your books
Import a bank statement CSV and match each line to a recorded payment or expense, so your books agree with your bank and nothing goes unrecorded.
Inventory & stock — track what you have on hand
Turn on stock tracking for a product to get a running stock ledger: sales draw stock down automatically, low-stock items flag, and you record what you receive.
Sales & purchase orders
Raise sales and purchase orders, track them open→fulfilled, and convert a completed order into an invoice or a bill in one tap — kept out of your books until you do.
Cost centres — profit & loss per branch, project or team
Tag invoices and expenses to a cost centre and read a profit & loss for each one, so you can see which branch, project or team actually makes money.
Projects & time tracking — organise work and track billable hours
Group work under client projects and run a one-tap timer with an hourly rate and billable flag — then turn unbilled time into a draft invoice in a couple of taps.
Manufacturing & bill of materials
Define a bill of materials per finished product and record production runs — Finocket consumes the raw-material stock and adds the finished goods at their rolled-up cost.
Recurring rules — retainers, salaries & SIPs
Set a rule once — income, expense or invoice, daily to yearly with an every-N interval — and Finocket posts the entry on schedule, even when the app is closed. Invoice rules create drafts for you to review and send.
GST & filings
GSTR-9 annual return summary
See a full financial-year GST summary built from your invoices and expenses — outward supplies by rate, ITC and tax paid — to prepare and cross-check before filing GSTR-9.
Reports, GSTR-1 / 3B and Hand-to-CA
Cashflow, income vs expenses, projects, GST returns (GSTR-1, 3B, 8, ITC summary), TDS summary and the one-tap Hand-to-CA ZIP bundle.
Financial statements — trial balance, P&L, balance sheet & cash flow
The four core statements built straight from your books — trial balance, profit & loss, balance sheet and cash flow — recomputed from every invoice, payment and expense, with a period picker and a clean CA handoff.
GSTR-8 reconciliation for marketplace sellers
Every month, diff your marketplace-derived invoices against each marketplace's settlement view. Catch mismatches before filing.
E-invoicing (IRN) and e-way bills
For GST-registered businesses under the e-invoice mandate: export the IRN payload JSON and UBL XML for IRP upload, and generate the e-way bill JSON for consignments of ₹50,000 and above.
GSTR-2B purchase reconciliation
Upload your GSTR-2B JSON from the GST portal and Finocket buckets every purchase — matched, tax mismatch, missing in books, missing in 2B — so you claim exactly the ITC you're entitled to.
Distributor finance — payables, price lists, challans, e-way bills & GSTR-2B
Run the full trading cycle: record purchase bills and age your payables, set per-customer credit limits and price lists, raise delivery challans and e-way bills, and reconcile purchases against GSTR-2B.
For your CA
Budgets & ratio analysis
Read your books like an analyst: standard financial ratios (profitability, liquidity, leverage, efficiency) and a budget-vs-actual comparison, both from your double-entry books.
Closing stock & cost of goods sold in your accounts
Fold inventory into your final accounts: closing stock on the balance sheet and cost of goods sold / gross profit on the P&L, at weighted-average cost — a presentation overlay that keeps the sheet balanced.
Invite your Chartered Accountant
Add your CA as a read-only workspace member. They see everything they need to file — nothing they can accidentally change.
One-click Tally XML export for your CA
Hand your CA Tally-ready books in one tap — a single import XML of masters and vouchers they load straight into Tally Prime, instead of a backup over AnyDesk. The no-migration way to run Finocket alongside Tally.
Personal finance
CRM & outreach
CRM & deals — pipeline, follow-ups and the customer ledger
Work a sales pipeline inside your books — follow-ups on WhatsApp or email, a per-client money ledger, and consent-safe lead import.
Visits & field work — log site visits with voice notes
Record client site visits in seconds — dictate notes by voice, swipe to duplicate or delete, and check the muhurat strip before you schedule.
Forms and landing pages
Build hosted lead-capture forms and mobile landing pages with a first-class consent block — every submission stores the exact opt-in text as proof and lands in your CRM as a lead.
Email, campaigns and consent
Launch email campaigns with audience counts up front while one send chokepoint applies consent, suppression, quiet hours and your country's rules to every single message — blocked sends are logged, never silently dropped.
Email sequences (automatic follow-ups)
Build a day-offset email drip — enrol a contact once and each step sends automatically on schedule, with every step consent-checked and the whole sequence stopping instantly when someone unsubscribes.
Dynamic QR codes & scan tracking
Print a branded QR once and repoint it forever — the code encodes a short redirect, every scan is counted by day and device with hashed-IP privacy, and a scan that fills your form lands as an attributed lead.
Bring your own outreach keys (Email, WhatsApp, SMS)
Send on your own Email, WhatsApp and SMS provider accounts — keys are encrypted per workspace and never shown again, company keys apply to everyone while personal keys override them, and the consent chokepoint is unchanged.
Sending & deliverability
Prepare your domain with SPF, DKIM and DMARC for the dedicated-sending rollout, register your brand for US SMS (A2P 10DLC), and connect a Gmail or Outlook mailbox — nothing sends until a channel is fully set up.
Partners
Partner programs and commissions
Run a referral program with links, coupon codes, milestones and a referee discount — commission accrues only on collected revenue into an append-only ledger, flagged accruals wait for your review, and partners track everything in a self-serve portal.
Monthly commission statements
Build a per-partner monthly statement with payable amounts, GST and TDS-194H columns and tax-detail flags, reconcile it to the ledger, finalize to lock the period, then record your CA's payment reference — Finocket never executes the payout.
Platform
Modules & plans — run only what you need
Turn modules on and off from one switchboard, discover the rest in the Explore panel, request locked ones, and understand Trial, Managed and Beta states.
India, Australia & the US
Three tax systems in one platform: India GST/TDS (live), Australia Tax Invoices with ABN, GST-free lines and PayID/BSB + Spam Act (early access), and US named sales-tax rates you define + CAN-SPAM/TCPA/CCPA + 1099 (early access).
Developers — API keys, webhooks, OAuth & payments
Register products, create scoped API keys (shown once), receive HMAC-signed webhooks, use OAuth for whole products, onboard sub-merchants for payments, and debug with request logs and the live API reference.
Usage & activity — who did what, and what AI costs
A read-only log of workspace activity plus a monthly AI cost estimate broken down by feature and by user.
Bring your own AI keys
Run Finocket's AI features on your own Anthropic, OpenAI or Google account — personal key first, then company key, then Finocket's included AI.
The Finocket AI assistant — chat with your books
Ask questions about your own clients, payments, expenses and pipeline in plain language — the assistant reads your books live, draws charts, and asks before it writes anything.
Team & roles — invite an assistant or your accountant
Share your books with a read-write assistant or a read-only accountant — invite by email, they accept on their next login, and every action they take is logged.
Marketplaces
Connect Amazon.in and reconcile settlements
Connect your Amazon Seller account with one tap (or paste tokens), let Finocket pull GST MTR and settlement reports nightly, then convert marketplace orders into real GST invoices.
Flipkart, Meesho & quick-commerce (Blinkit, Zepto, Instamart, JioMart)
Connect Flipkart by API, and bring Meesho and quick-commerce sales in by CSV — Finocket auto-detects the report type and feeds orders, settlements and GSTR-8 reconciliation.
Tips & shortcuts
Coming from Tally?
Every Tally term mapped to its Finocket equivalent — Voucher / Ledger / Party / Narration / Day Book / F-key shortcuts and more.
Run Finocket alongside Tally
The no-migration switch: record new work in Finocket from today, keep Tally for final accounts, and hand your CA the monthly export. Step-by-step first month.
Keyboard shortcuts
Single-key shortcuts for power users — P / E / V / J / O / R / A / C and ⌘K quick-open. Press ? on any screen to see the overlay.
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