Busy Accounting Software: GST Billing and Reports for Small Businesses

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⏱ 2 min readUpdated 28 September 2026

Busy is a popular alternative to Tally among Indian traders and distributors, known for strong inventory and billing features. Here is the path from installation to monthly GST reports.

In this article
  1. 1. Company and GST settings
  2. 2. Masters
  3. 3. Make a sale invoice
  4. 4. Monthly routine
  5. Busy or Tally?
  6. Continue learning

1. Company and GST settings

  • Company → Create: name, address, state, financial year (April–March), and GST applicable: Yes with your GSTIN.
  • Under Configuration → Features/Options, enable item-wise tax, batch or serial numbers if you need them, and multiple price levels (retail/wholesale).

2. Masters

Master What to set
Account (customers/suppliers) Group Sundry Debtors/Creditors, state, GSTIN, type of dealer (registered/unregistered/composition)
Item Unit, HSN, tax category (e.g. GST 5%), sale and purchase price, opening stock
Tax category One per GST rate — Busy splits it into CGST/SGST or IGST automatically
Sale type Local (L/GST) or central (I/GST) — decides the tax split

3. Make a sale invoice

  1. Transactions → Sales → Add.
  2. Choose sale type (local/central), party and items; Busy calculates tax from the item’s tax category.
  3. Save and print; Busy can also generate e-way bill JSON and e-invoice data where applicable.

4. Monthly routine

  • GST reports → GSTR-1: check B2B/B2C summaries, then export the JSON for the GST portal.
  • GSTR-3B summary for tax payable.
  • Stock status and party outstanding reports for follow-ups.
  • Take a backup (Company → Backup) to a separate drive.
💡 Both Busy and Tally export reports to Excel. Keep one reconciliation workbook per month — see GST reconciliation in Excel.

Busy or Tally?

Busy TallyPrime
Strong inventory, multiple price lists and schemes out of the box Most widely used — easier to find trained staff and CAs who know it
Popular with traders/distributors Huge ecosystem of add-ons and connectors
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