ProfitBooks is online bookkeeping software for Indian businesses. Record sales, purchases and expenses as they happen, match them against your bank statement, and review your day book, cash book and ledgers from any browser. Your CA can work on the same books remotely, so no files travel to an office. The free plan has no time limit.
Sample day for illustration
Good books come from small, regular steps, not a weekend before the GST due date. This is the routine ProfitBooks is built around.
Raise invoices, enter vendor bills and expenses with the receipt attached, and note cash deposits, withdrawals and transfers. You fill in simple forms and ProfitBooks makes the entries.
Import your bank statement and match each line to an invoice, bill or expense. Anything that does not match is a missing or wrong entry, caught while you still remember it.
Read the day book for the month, check the cash book and ledgers, and look at the Trial Balance and Profit & Loss. Then hand your CA books that are already clean.
A sample routine for a small Indian business. Pick a day, tick tasks as you finish them, and see how much of the week is done. Your ticks are saved in this browser only.
Bookkeeping week
0 of 15 tasks done
Record: catch up after the weekend
Record: money in and out
Reconcile: bank day
Record: vendors and stock
Review: close the week
Reconciling is where bookkeeping mistakes get caught. Import a statement, let ProfitBooks suggest matches, and spend your time only on the lines that need a decision.
When every entry carries its tax as you record it, filing is a matter of reviewing figures, not finding them.
Invoices and bills carry GST as you create them, with HSN or SAC codes and GSTIN on each contact. GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B reports are on paid plans from Essential.
See GST accounting →Set how much TDS or other deductions come off each salary, and the entries are posted when you run payroll. Payroll is on the Growth and SMB Pro plans.
See payroll →Invoice clients in the currency they prefer and track foreign income and expenses. A report shows your gain or loss from currency movements.
See invoicing →Set up pay heads once and ProfitBooks runs payroll from them every month.
Every entry feeds 50+ reports. These are the ones a bookkeeper opens most:
Keep the books yourself with your CA logged in, or hand the bookkeeping to our team. Both work from the same online books.
Invite your accountant as a user on a paid plan. Each user gets a role, so an employee with the inventory manager role only opens inventory, while your CA works on the accounts.
Send your bank statements, invoices and expense bills, and a dedicated bookkeeper keeps your books current. You get a monthly report on how the business is doing.
A walkthrough for service providers: invoices, receivables, payables and the books behind them.
Stuck on an entry? Ask in the app. Real people reply with the exact steps, in one of three languages.
Every new account starts with a free 15-day SMB Pro trial, then moves to the free Startup plan unless you upgrade.
For trying it out or very small volumes
For solopreneurs filing GST
For growing teams and service firms
For established businesses
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Ideal Accounting solution for Small companies. Extremely User friendly, Cost-effective, Good Support Ideal for Small companies.
Very Satisfied! Very convenient to make customer invoices and apply taxes as needed. Invoices are the Key. Easy Creation, modification, and Generation.
This is the best software so far that I have encountered for use by small commissaries. It can function as an alternative to other expensive ERP solutions.
Yes. The Startup plan is free with no time limit. You can create 10 invoices a month, track expenses, manage up to 50 customers and 10 products, and see basic financial reports. There is no pressure to upgrade. Use it as much as you want, for as long as you want.
Bookkeeping is recording each transaction: sales, purchases, expenses, receipts and payments. Accounting uses those records to prepare statements such as the Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet, plan taxes and advise the business. ProfitBooks does the bookkeeping entries as you work and builds the reports from them. Read more in accounting vs bookkeeping.
Record transactions on the day they happen, match your bank statement once a week and review the books once a month. Small, regular steps take about 15 minutes a day. Leaving it to the end of the quarter usually means hunting for missing bills just before the GST due date.
Yes. Download your statement as a CSV or Excel file from net banking and import it into ProfitBooks. Each line is matched to an invoice, bill or expense where possible, and you categorise the rest in a few steps. Unmatched lines show you what is missing from your books.
Yes. ProfitBooks backs up all data every hour and keeps each backup for 2 weeks. Your data is stored on Amazon Web Services and encrypted. If you need backups kept for longer, contact our sales team. The data security page has the details.
Yes. On a paid plan, invite your accountant as a user with the role that fits their work. They log in to the same live books from their office, so you never email files or carry a laptop to them. The free Startup plan has a single user.
There is nothing to download or install. ProfitBooks is online software, so you register with your email ID and start using it in the browser. The iOS and Android apps are optional and stay in sync with the web app.
Yes. With the ProfitBooks online bookkeeping service, you send your bank statements, invoices and expense bills, and a dedicated bookkeeper keeps your books up to date. You get a monthly report on how the business is doing.
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