Tally ERP

The latest release from the Tally ERP Stable, some enhanced features as PDF Export, integration and enhancements on TDL makes it a more stable release.
1. New Features
New improved Licensing Experience
• The licensing mechanism has been revamped. It’s made simple, faster and comes with an improved user experience which includes troubleshooting connectivity issues.
Licensing enhancements are broadly categorized as follows:
User Experience
License Reactivation is a single step process. The concept of unlocking the license file is eliminated.
Multiple menus removed from License Activation and Reactivation
Single form provided to activate Single Site and Promo Rental license.
Multi Site Activation form available at the click of a button
In case of multi-site reactivation, Tally.ERP 9 prompts for resolution on detecting the Site/ Account Administrator is attached to more than single site
Force password change on logging in to any one of the following Tally.NET Services for the first time.
- Surrender License
- Update License
- Remote Tally.NET
- Control Centre
- Support Centre
Redirected to the appropriate form on attempting to activate a surrendered license or reactivate an un-activated serial number.
Troubleshooting
Connectivity issues: Network problems detected while Activating or Reactivating the license are provided with detailed reasons and possible solutions.
Client in Educational Mode: While establishing a connection with the license server, the system detects and lists the problems, if any, along with the possible solutions and
actions.
New Service Tax
• The Service Tax feature in Tally.ERP 9 has been revamped to handle all the functional, accounting and statutory requirements of your business in an accurate and simplified manner.
The new/enhanced Service Tax features are:
1. Option to have common/Tax head specific tax ledger to account both Service Input Credit and Output Tax of all service categories.
2. Option to create common Purchase (expenses)/ sales (Income) ledger to account pur- chase and sale of services of all categories.
3. User can record Service Tax transactions in Journal or Purchase/Sales Voucher
4. Service Tax Billing (for professionals) through Receipt Voucher and print Receipt -Cum- Challan
5. Provides an option to record multiple services in a single voucher
6. Supports booking of service Bills Inclusive of Service Tax
7. Both service tax related and non- service tax related services can be accounted in single invoice (Works Contract)
8. Users can record Cash Purchases and Sales and print the invoice in the name of the party.
9. Manage Advance Receipts and adjust the advances towards the service bill
10. Users can Record purchase of services from (GTA) and calculate the service tax payable.
11. Provides option to record Import of services and calculate the service tax payable
12. Handle Exempt, Export, Pure Agent and Abatement services
13. Manage Advance Service Tax payments to Government and adjust the tax payable towards the advance
14. Support for Amount deducted as TDS on Services Received are considered as realised
15. Supports Service Tax Calculation in Sales / Purchase Orders
16. Users can adjust Service Consideration in Journal Vouchers
17. Adjust Full / Partial Service Tax input credit towards Service Tax payable and CENVAT
credit towards service tax payable
18. Facility to Record Money Equivalent Transactions
19. Provision to account Service Tax Opening Balance
20. Supports Reversal of Service amount with Service Tax (before realisation)
21. Facility to generate G.A.R. 7 Challan
Service Tax related reports in Tally.ERP 9
1. Service Tax Payables report - Under this report 4 separate reports are provided
Bill date wise: Displays the details of Tax payable based on Bill Date for the period selected
Receipt Date wise: Displays the details of Tax payable based on Receipt Date for the period selected
Tax on Service Received: Displays the details of Tax payable on services received
(GTA)
Import of Services: Displays the details of Tax payable on services Imported
2. Input Credit Summary: displays details of service Input credit for the period selected
3. ST 3 Form: Half Yearly return of Service Tax Charged and paid.
Service Tax Migration
The old Service Tax Data will be automatically migrated to the new Service Tax (Data
Structure).
!!! Ensure to take Data Backup before installing the latest Release.
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Tally Audit (Data Audit) for Masters & Vouchers
• Tally Audit feature is enhanced with new reports to display Voucher Type wise and User
Wise, list of unaccepted Vouchers for Audit for a Specific Period.
It provides a dashboard displaying statistics on number of vouchers created or altered and also allows drill down facility for audit/verification purposes.
It also gives the changes that are made TODAY on one click. It is very helpful for the company owner or admin user, to see all the Altered Vouchers that are done by ANY User for ANY Voucher Type on that particular day (system date) irrespective of the date of the transaction.
Quick Setup for Tally.NET
• A new capability titled Quick Setup for Tally.NET is introduced which allows the user to configure and connect to Tally.NET from a single screen. The Quick Setup allows the user to perform the following tasks from a single screen
Enable Security prepares the company for connectivity with Tally.NET
Connect Company connects the company to Tally.NET
Configure Users to setup Tally.NET Users in order to access the company locally or remotely
Configure Security Levels to setup additional security levels for Tally.NET Users and
Tally.NET Auditors
Configure Connection parameters such as Connection Timeout, Non HTTP ports and
Proxy Server
While retaining the previous Tally.NET configuration screens intact, this new feature is aimed
at easing the configuration process and preventing the user from moving across different screens to configure Tally.NET.
Send information in PDF and Image (JPEG) Formats
• Tally.ERP 9 now supports the Export/E-Mail of reports in JPEG (Image) file and PDF
(Portable Document Format) formats. This ensures that the documents are non-editable, independent of the platform being used and mailed to the recipients.
Portable Data Format (pdf) documents are independent of the application software, hardware and operating system. They are protected from alterations using passwords and viewed using the Adobe Acrobat reader or a compatible reader.
Image (JPEG) file generated supports the highest level of compression. This image file can be viewed using an image viewer and printed.
Index Printing for Multi Account Printing
• Index Page has been provided while printing All Ledger Accounts/All Items and Group
of Accounts/Group of Items from Multi Account Printing.
Now the user can print Index page to summarise page wise printing of Ledger Accounts/ Items. This feature serves as a Table of Contents(TOC) and helps identifying the required Ledger Accounts/Items without going through the entire Printouts.
2. Enhancements
2.1 General Enhancements
Control Centre
• On attempting to surrender the license from the Control Centre, Tally.ERP 9 prompts the user with an appropriate message.
This message will help the user to avoid a license compromise situation.
Data Issues
• On detecting errors while accessing or creating the data from the client. Tally.ERP 9 prompts the user with the following message: Attempting to Read/Write
File: <Filename>
Error Code: <Error Code>/1
Position: <Error Position>
File Size: <Size of the file>
This enhancement avoids data corruption especially in the multi-user environment.
E-Mailing
• While emailing the reports related to single Ledger the respective E-Mail ID is prefilled in the
To Email Address field.
• A list of commonly used email services such as Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo Mail is provided. This list serves as a template and contains the SMTP server address and port, the authentication methodology used on a secured SMTP server and standard port for the selected email service provider.
• Tally.ERP 9 now supports mail servers that work with SSL/TLS on standard ports. This is provided to send emails using SMTP servers on Standard SMTP port 25 which is SSL/TLS
enabled for commonly used email services such as Hotmail.
Import/Export
• Tally.ERP 9 can now be configured to omit errors while importing data through SOAP request. This configuration can be set by enabling the option Ignore errors & continue during data import available in F12: Configure > General. Earlier this option was available for the manual import using the option Import of Data, from this release it is extended to importing data through SOAP request.
• On detecting an existing file with the specified filename at export location, Tally.EPR 9
displays the filename and prompts the user to overwrite the existing file.
New License Server for Multi User environment
• Tally.ERP 9 License Server Version 4 is now incremented to License Server Version 5. Tally.ERP 9 Release 1.8 will not be compatible with the earlier versions of license servers running on your systems or the previous releases of Tally.ERP 9 will not be compatible with License Server Version 5.
Hence, while installing Tally.ERP 9 Release 1.8 is the License Server Version 1.5 should also be installed in the Multiuser environment.
Printing & Rendering
• The user can configure Tally.ERP 9 to always display the Info Panel. This is done by enabling the option Always Show Info Panel which is available in F12: Configure > General.
• The information or messages in Calculator Pane appeared in a single and could be read clearly only when the calculator pane was enlarged. An enhancement is made to accommodate the information/messages appear in multiple lines with the calculator in normal mode thereby improving the readability.
• The keyword in screen title while Printing/Exporting/E-Mailing /Uploading were commonly displayed as Report Generation. This is now enhanced to display the relevant titles based on the action performed.
Rewrite/Backup/Restore/Split
• The Backup and the Restore is enhanced. It allows the user to backup or restore all the available companies in the current directory. This is achieved by introducing the keyword All Items in the List of Companies displayed.
Security Control
• A new security control titled Quick Setup is introduced. On selecting this option in combination with the required access control will enable or disable the user from utilizing all the available quick setups.
Support Centre
• Users can now search for TI’s (Tally Integrators) using the Preferred Partner search option available in the Support Centre.
• The TallyAdmin tool facilitates the user to provide the HTTP Connection Timeout and the
Absolute URL. This option is available in the TallyAdmin tool under the option Configuration
> Proxy Configuration.
• On detecting a communication failure on the network a new dialogue box appears displaying
the, Reason for failure, Possible Solution and actions that need to be performed by the user. This dialogue box is available during license activation, reactivation, surrender and update.
Synchronisation
• Detailed messages during Import, Export and Synchronisation of data are logged into the tally.imp file. This is achieved by enabling the option Enable Detailed Log (tally.imp) available under General Configuration.
• Tally.ERP 9 supports NTLM authentication protocol. You can now connect through Proxy Servers that require NTLM authentication.
Tally.NET
• In the Tally.NET Features screen the heading Registration Details is changed to Connection Details.
2.2 Functional Enhancements
Accounting Vouchers
• Print Amount in Foreign Currency option has been provided in Printing Configuration of Payment Voucher and Receipt Voucher, Debit Note and Credit Note.
Now the user can print Total Amount in Multi-currency while printing above mentioned Vouchers/Note.
• In Remote Access, Cheques Printing facility has been provided at the Client side. Now cheques can be printed from Remote client also to ensure Payment convenience.
Accounting Reports
• In Ratio Analysis, for Columnar reports, the column width has been optimised to accommodate more columns in the report.
• While printing Ledger Vouchers Report and Daybook, an option Show Voucher Numbers also has been provided in Printing Configuration to enable or disable printing of voucher numbers in report. Now the User can disable the voucher numbers while printing Ledger accounts or daybook.
• In Remote Access, the feature Set Exclude Group has been provided under Multi Account Printing of Ledger Accounts.
Now the user can print the report for the required ledgers during remote access.
• While printing All Ledger Accounts and Group of Accounts from Multi Account Printing,
Sorting Method has been provided containing two methods:
Default: This option will print Ledgers in Alphabetical order.
Group: This option will print Ledgers in Alphabetical order under respective Groups (which are in turn alphabetically arranged).
• The Option Show Group Name has been provided in the Print Configuration for all Ledger
Vouchers Report, to print the group name of the respective ledger.
Now the user can print the ledger’s group name in the vouchers Printout.
Excise for Dealers
• A new Nature of Purchase – Manufacturer Depot has been provided. This helps the users to
Record the purchases from manufacturer depot
Capture Name, Address and Excise Registration details of Manufacturer Depot in
Excise Sales Invoice (on sale of goods purchased from Manufacturer depot).
• In Select Excise Unit screen of Excise Stock Register,
Name of Tariff option has been provided to select stock Item based on Tariff Classification.
Alias or Part Numbers (Part No.) specified in Stock Item Master will appear in List of Excise Stock Items for stock item selection in Name of Item field.
• The option to print Company’s and Supplier’s Excise Details (Excise Registration Number, Range, division and Commissionerate) in Excise Purchase Order has been provided. To capture Supplier’s Excise Details, Excise Registration Number, Range, Division, Commissionerate fields are provided in Supplementary Details (Party Details) screen of Excise Purchase order.
Note: Company and Supplier excise details can be printed in purchase order, only from the Purchase
Order Voucher which is identified as excise voucher type by enabling the option Use for Excise.
• When the Excise for Dealer Data migration is not complete, Tally.ERP 9 displays the Warning message Excise for Dealer Migration did not complete successfully! with additional details to check and correct the un-migrated data.
• Ex-Bond of Imported Goods (Customs Clearance) has been supported.
In case of Imports, goods imported on receipt will be stored in Customs Bonded Warehouse. Imported goods will be released from the bonded warehouse only on the payment of Customs duty. In practice Importers withdraw the goods partially or wholly from the bonded warehouse
as and when they require by paying the customs duty.
Tally.ERP 9 supports to record the full /partial clearance of goods imported and pass on the CENVAT Credit.
• A new Nature of Purchase – From Agent of Manufacturer has been provided. This helps
to record the purchases from the agent of a manufacturer, who issues a commercial invoice along with his manufacturers Rule 11 Excise invoice.
• A new report Customs Clearance Register has been provided from Excise for Dealer Statutory Reports. This reports displays the goods Imported, Cleared from customs warehouse and stock Pending for clearance. This report can be viewed for One or All the imported items.
• Conditional pass on of Special AED of CVD (special Additional Duty) amount has been supported in Dealer’s Excise Sales Invoice. Passed on Duty details will be captured in Excise Stock Register, Form RG 23D and Excise Purchase Bill Register reports.
Excise for Manufacturers
• Removal As Such means removal of Raw materials and Capital Goods as it is (without using in the production process/conversion). In Tally.ERP 9, support for recording Removal as Such (removal of Inputs/ Capital goods on which CENVAT Credit availed) transactions has been provided in Excise Sales Voucher. To Record removal as such transactions a New Type
of Removal – Removal As Such is provided.
• New Excise Duty Classification – Other Cess has been provided to account other cess levied in on goods manufactured in Paper/Cement/ Sugar/Rubber industries etc.
• Support for calculation of NCCD and AED (PMT) on Assessable Value has been provided.