Allow Back-Dated Transaction Entries | Update Financial Year in TallyPrime

If you have maintained your books of accounts prior to the current financial year, you can add all of the back-dated transactions to your company in TallyPrime. Let us assume that you started your business in 1-Jun-2019 and have maintained your business transactions since then. However, you created a company in TallyPrime on 1-May-2019. By default, the books and financial years in TallyPrime are both set to 1-Apr-2020.
To allow entries of transactions in TallyPrime starting 1-Jun-2019, you will need to update the financial year information of the company.

  1. Press Alt+K (Company) > Alter.
  2. In the Company Alteration screen, update the Financial year beginning from as 1-Apr-2019 and the Books beginning from date as 1-Jun-2019.
    Allow Back-Dated Transactions in TallyPrime
  3. Accept the screen. As always, you can press Ctrl+A to save.

You can change the Books beginning date in the Company Alteration screen anytime to make back-dated entries up to 1-Apr-2019 for the financial year 2019-2020.

Update Company Details | Alter Company in TallyPrime

If your company address, phone number, or any other contact information was not provided earlier or has changed, you can update such details in TallyPrime. Any changes made to these details will be reflected accordingly in your reports and printed invoices.

  1. Press Alt+K (Company) > Alter.
  2. In the Company Alteration screen, make the necessary changes.
    Alter Company Details
  3. Accept the screen. As always, you can press Ctrl+A to save.

If you do not need the company anymore, you can delete the company as well.

  1. Press Alt+K (Company) > Alter.
  2. In the Company Alteration screen, press Alt+D. The company will be deleted permanently.

If you want to access the business transactions recorded in the company at a later time, you can take a backup of the company before you delete it. Note that once you delete the company, you cannot retrieve it, and therefore keeping a back up of the company data is recommended.

Load company in TallyPrime

Once you have created a company, you can load the company in one of the following ways:

Select company

  • Open TallyPrime > Alt+F3 (Select Company) > and select the company from the List of Companies.
  • If you have created more than one company, you can browse to the data path and select the required company to open.
    Select a Company

Set Up Your Company

Maintaining your business transactions on a day-to-day basis is critical to your business. To keep a record of all your business transactions, you need to first create a company in TallyPrime. Through the company, you can also view and update all your transaction entries, as needed, and go through the financial reports based on the transactions that you maintain.

Create company: To create the company, just enter the company name, address and other details, such as financial year, security, and base currency information. Once you have created your company, based on your business preferences, you can use the accounting, inventory, payroll, and taxation features. You can also specify the tax registration details as applicable, such as GST, VAT, Excise, TCS, or TDS, which can be accounted for your transactions.

Security: All the business transactions that you maintain in the company remain safe. You can enable additional security options for your company to prevent unauthorised access to your transaction records.

If you have more than one user accessing your company, you can set up security for each user based on their roles.

You can create an account in TallyPrime for each user. Based on the user’s roles, you can access to the tasks the user can perform.

 

Multiple companies: Do you have more than one business? If yes, you can create multiple companies in TallyPrime, maintain transactions separately for each business, and also manage the returns for each company accordingly.

Group company: If you are maintaining multiple companies, you can get a consolidated view of such business reports by using the Group Company feature. Viewing the financial reports separately for each business and consolidating the accounts manually can be a tedious task.

Once you have set up your company in TallyPrime based on your business requirements, you can record and manage your day-to-day transactions, and track them – even remotely.

Create a Company to Record Business Transactions

You need to create a company to keep record of all your business transactions and view related financial reports. To create the company, just enter the company name and address and update other details, such as contact and financial year information.

In this section

  • Create a company
  • Set up company features
  • Load company

Create a company

 

  1. On launching TallyPrime, select Create Company.
    • If you already have one company open and would like to create another company, press Alt+(Company) > Create.
  2. Provide the Company details.
    1. Enter the Name, Mailing name, and Address. For more information, click here.

      By default, your company data will be saved in the location specified under Company Data Path, which is the same as the folder where TallyPrime is installed.

    2. Enter the StateCountry, and other contact details. A sample image is shown below. These details can be printed on your invoices, if needed. For more information, click here. State and Country in Company Creation
    3. Accept the screen. As always, you can press Ctrl+A to save the details and create the company. You can set up the remaining company details (steps 3 and 4 below) anytime later.

      The name of new union territory Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu is provided in Release 6.6.3. All masters with Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli are automatically updated with the name of new union territory. The state/union territory name before merger is captured in State (before reorganisation) field. Retaining the pre-merger state/union territory name helps in managing transactions and tax returns from that period.

  3. Set up financial year details and security options.
    1. Financial year beginning from: TallyPrime pre-fills this field based on the date settings of your computer and the Country selected in the Company Creation screen. For more information, click here.
    2. Books beginning from: By default, TallyPrime fills this field with the Financial year beginning from date. You can update this, as needed. Say you started your business and have maintained all business transactions since 1-Oct-2020. You can update the Books beginning from date to 1-Oct-2020, while the financial year will be 1-Apr-2020.
    3. Enable Edit LogThis is optional, available from TallyPrime Release 2.1 onwards. You can enable Set Edit Log applicability under F12 and enable Edit Log for the Company. This will help you to view Edit Log for the future activities that you will perform in masters and transactions.
      Furthermore, Company-level activities such as enabling or disabling the Edit Log feature, data migration, or data split that affect the Edit Log report of masters and transactions will be recorded in the Edit Log report under Company.
    4. Security: This is optional. You can enable security features such as TallyVault and User controls for your company anytime later.
      If you do not see the Security option, press F12 (Configure) > set the following options to Yes:

      • Use TallyVault Password to encrypt Company Data
      • Use User Access Control
        For more information, click here.
  4. Specify the Base Currency Information.
    You can set up the base currency depending on the currency used in your business to record transactions.
    To view all the options related to base currency, press F12 (Configure) > set Provide Additional Base Currency details to Yes.
  5. Accept the Company Creation screen. As always, you can press Ctrl+A to save.
    Saving the company takes you to the Company Features screen, which displays that the company is created successfully.
    Company Features

Set up company features

As you create a company in TallyPrime, you can set up the necessary features, either now or anytime later, based on your business needs. The basic minimum key features required for you to start recording your business transactions are enabled and displayed by default. To view other features in the Company Features screen

  • Set the Show more features option to Yes.
  • Set the Show all features option to Yes.
Features Description
Accounting
Maintain Accounts This option is set to Yes, by default. Setting it to No will disable accounting-related options for your company.
Enable Bill-wise entry Enable this option to display the option Maintain balances bill-by-bill created under sundry debtors and creditors.

When you enter details of sales and purchases with the bill-wise option activated, TallyPrime prompts you to identify the invoice with an appropriate reference number.

The reference number can then be used to allocate payments to the correct invoice to maintain an accurate account of outstanding.

Bill-wise details for non-trading accounts are useful when one needs to track either an installment to be paid or a loan amount to be received over a certain period.

Enable Cost Centres Set Show more features to Yes to view this option.

Used for maintaining and allocating expenses to cost centres.

Enable Interest Calculation Set Show more features to Yes to view this option.

Enable this option to calculate interest automatically based on the interest rate and the style of calculation specified.

This is useful when interest rates change from time to time.

Inventory
Maintain Inventory This option is set to Yes by default. This allows you to maintain your stock or inventory. Setting this to No will disable Inventory-related features for your company.
Integrate Accounts with Inventory Set Show more features to Yes.

Maintain your stock or inventory along with your books of accounts.

Stock records may contain errors caused by wrong allocation to items. This feature enables finalization of financial books without waiting for the reconciliation of stocks.

You can drill down from the Balance Sheet to view the Stock Register.

Enable multiple Price Levels Set Show more features to Yes.

Create multiple price levels for your stock items.

Enable Batches Set Show more features to Yes.

Maintain batch information pertaining to Stock Items. Setting this option to Yes displays the Maintain in Batches field in the Stock Item Creation screen.

Maintain Expiry Date for Batches Set Show more features to Yes.

Set expiry dates for the batches. This displays the Use Expiry Dates field in the Stock Item Creation screen.

Enable Job Order Processing Set Show all features to Yes.

Create Job Work Out or Job Work In orders.

Enable Cost Tracking Set Show all features to Yes.

Analyse and track the cost of an item in transactions.

Use Discount column in invoices Set Show more features to Yes.
Use separate Actual and Billed Quantity columns in invoices Set Show more features to Yes.

Specify quantities that are different from those delivered/received when invoicing.

Taxation
Enable Goods and Services Tax (GST) If your business is under the GST regime, set this option to Yes and specify the GST Details for your company.
Enable Tax Deducted at Source (TDS) If your business considers TDS payments, set this option to Yes and specify the TDS deductor details along with the applicable Rates and Exemptions.
Enable Tax Collected at Source (TCS) Set Show more features to Yes.

If your business considers TCS payments, set this option to Yes and specify the TCS collector details along with the applicable Rates and Exemptions.

Enable Value Added Tax (VAT) Set Show all features to Yes.

If your business is under the VAT regime, set this option to Yes and specify the VAT Details for your company.

Enable Excise Set Show all features to Yes.

Allow considering excise-related details during voucher entry.

Enable Service Tax Set Show all features to Yes.

If you pay service tax as part of your business transaction, set this option to Yes and specify the service tax details and set the preferences for your company.

Online Access
Enable Browser Access for Reports Set Show more features to Yes.

Once your company is connected to Tally.NET server, access the key business report from the broswer in any device using your Tally.NET credentials.

Enable Tally.NET Services for Remote Access & Synchronisation Set Show more features to Yes.

Use features like Remote Access and Synchronisation.

Payroll
Maintain Payroll Set Show all features to Yes.

Maintain payroll information in TallyPrime for the selected company.

Enable Payroll Statutory Set Show all features to Yes.

Maintain payroll-related statutory information.

Others
Enable multiple addresses Set Show more features to Yes.

Add multiple addresses for your company, as per your business needs.

Mark modified vouchers Set Show more features to Yes.

For audit purposes, view all vouchers that are altered after creation.

After you have created the company, in the Gateway of Tally screen, under Name of Company, the company name appears in bold.

Multiple companies: Do you have multiple businesses to track and manage? You can create as many companies in TallyPrime and manage your business transactions in each company separately. If you also prefer to get a consolidated view of the health of multiple businesses or submit summarised reports for auditing purpose, you can use the Group Company feature in TallyPrime.

TallyPrime Release 2.0

Release Notes – What’s New in TallyPrime

You can count on us for a delightful journey with TallyPrime as we work to enhance the product with new features and fix issues, which will make your experience even simpler and more seamless.

Highlights – TallyPrime Release 2.0

Connected experience for e-Way Bill

With the connected experience for e-Way Bill, TallyPrime enables you to –

  • Generate e-Way Bill online at the time of voucher creation.
  • Generate multiple e-Way Bills online at one shot.
  • Cancel e-Way Bill, update Part B & Transporter ID, and extend validity for transactions in bulk.
  • Print e-Way Bill for invoices with e-Way Bill number and QR Code as per the government’s requirements.
  • Track the status of e-Way Bills using the e-Way Bill report and e-Way Bill Register.
  • Get the latest e-Way Bill information and status from the e-Way Bill system to a transaction using e-Way Bill report and e-Way Bill Register.

As a result, you need not juggle between TallyPrime and the e-Way Bill system for various e-Way Bill activities, as everything can be done from within the product.

 

Save View for reports

The Save View feature will delight you with a personalized experience for viewing reports in TallyPrime.

You can now:

  • Save a preferred view for a report with your desired configurations.
  • Save a view for a report for a specific period.
  • Save a view for a report opened for a particular master such as Party ledger, Stock Item, and others.
  • Save views, as per your requirement, for:
    • All companies on a particular computer
    • A specific company
  • Set a saved view as the default view.
    Henceforth, the report will always open as per the configurations applied in the saved view.
  • Change the default view, whenever needed.
  • Delete a saved view or all the views from all companies or a specific company, as needed.
  • Restrict users from saving views for reports or deleting views saved in a specific company.

Saving your preferred views saves a great deal of time as you need not apply the configurations time and again.

 

Online GSTIN/UIN and HSN/SAC validation

TallyPrime is here with a quick and simple process to validate:

  • GSTIN/UIN information for single and multiple Parties.
  • HSN/SAC information for single and multiple Stock Items.

As a result, you get to know if the information entered in your books is authentic and update it, if needed.

 

TallyPrime Reports in browsers

Mobile-responsive design

The all-new mobile-responsive design provides you with an intuitive experience right from company selection to downloading a voucher.

Additionally, you can now enjoy the benefits of the following features:

Quick access to change date in Day Book

You can now view Day Book for the previous and next dates by tapping on the left and right arrow keys, respectively.

Scale Factor in selected reports

You can now apply Scale Factor in a report to view the values in hundreds, lakhs, and so on.

Introduction of Show Details

You can now view additional information in selected reports by tapping on Show Details.

Simpler way to change period

You now have a better experience in changing the period of reports in browsers.

File Name of Report downloaded from browser

The file name of the report downloaded from the browser will now have an underscore, which will separate the date and timestamp for easy identification of the date and time of the download.

Furthermore, if the hour, minute, or second is in single digit, it will be preceded by 0.

 

e-Payments in TallyPrime

TallyPrime’s easy-to-use e-payment feature is now extended to RazorpayX Bank and Axis Bank.

Product Improvements – TallyPrime Release 2.0

File your GSTR-1 returns with HSN Summary as per the latest change

As per the latest amendments, in Table 12 of GSTR-1 (HSN Summary) the column Total Value is replaced with the column Rate of Tax. This release of TallyPrime enables you to file your returns with this change.

Party details in exported Ledger Group Outstandings

When you exported the Ledger Group Outstandings report to an MS Excel file, the details of some Parties were missing.
This issue is resolved.

Voucher Register with Verification Status

In the Voucher Register under Verification of Vouchers, the transactions did not appear for the selected Verification Status.
This issue is resolved.

e-Mailing Ledger and Group Outstandings

When you sent Ledger and Group Outstandings to parties via e-mail, the parties that did not have any outstanding amount received a blank report.
This issue is resolved.

GST calculation in sales transactions

When you recorded a sales transaction using Voucher Class, TallyPrime rounded off the tax value with three decimals to two decimals. Consequently, the calculated tax amount was lesser by 1 paisa.
This issue is resolved.

Terms of Delivery in Sales Invoice

Only the first line was visible in Terms of Delivery when you altered a Sales Invoice and provided the Order No.
This issue is resolved.

Performance enhancements in navigation

The performance enhancements in navigation will make your experience with TallyPrime all the more delightful. It will take fewer seconds to:

  • Navigate to Credit Note voucher from Gateway of Tally
  • Switch between Voucher Types
  • Display the List of Ledgers
  • Change Buyer Name
  • Accept the Supplier Details screen

TCS transactions and reports

The TDL storage error appeared in the TCS transactions and reports, when Use TCS Allocations was enabled in the sales transaction.
This issue is resolved.

Error while uploading Delivery Note on the e-Way Bill system

An error appeared while uploading a Delivery Note on the e-Way Bill system. This happened when you had selected Others as Sub Type while recording the Delivery Note.
This issue is resolved.

Change of ledger in a columnar report

The report details were not getting refreshed when you changed the ledger in a columnar report.
This issue is resolved.

e-Way Bill Number in Multi-Voucher Printing

In multi-voucher printing, the last e-Way Bill number was printed in all the invoices.
This issue is fixed.

TCS Debit Note not linked to TCS Receipt voucher

TCS Debit Notes were not getting linked to TCS Receipt vouchers.
This issue is resolved.

TRN in Sales invoice printed in Arabic

The TRN did not appear when you printed a sales invoice in Arabic.
This issue is resolved.

e-Way Bill number in altered invoice

The e-Way Bill number did not appear in the print when the invoice was altered.

 

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