Garage Master vs paper, Excel and TallyWhat each way of running a garage does.
Paper, a spreadsheet, Tally and Garage Master, side by side, for the work a garage does every day.
The comparison
| The job | Paper | Excel | Tally | Garage Master |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Find a returning car | Search the register by hand | Filter a sheet, if it was kept up | Not built around vehicles | Search by registration or mobile |
| Job card the bay can see | A card carried by hand | A row someone updates later | Not part of it | One card per visit: waiting, in bay, ready, delivered |
| Estimate approval | A phone call | A phone call | Not part of it | A link the customer approves |
| GST invoice | Tax worked out by hand | Formulas you maintain | Yes: GST invoices and books | From the job lines, CGST and SGST or IGST |
| Bill without GST | A hand-written cash memo | A sheet with the tax columns deleted | A ledger entry outside GST | Plain bill or bill of supply, set by the registration |
| Part payments and dues | A notebook | A column, if updated | Yes, in the ledgers | Each payment against its invoice; one dues list |
| Books and GST returns | Your CA rebuilds them | Your CA rebuilds them | Yes: accounts and returns | No return filing: export the figures for your CA |
Tally is accounting software, and good at it. Many garages keep it for the books and run the counter and the bay in Garage Master, then export the invoices for their CA.
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