What's new in Billees Business
08 January 2023
Version 1007
for Windows
Download Billees Business V1007
Operating system supported: Windows7SP2, Windows10 and Windows11
Today, we are pleased to announce the release of V1007, It's been two months since the V1006 release, but in that short time we've added a couple of important new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
New Features
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WhatsApp Integration
Share Quotation/Oder/Invoice/Cr.Note through WhatsApp for Free.
Prerequisites: install WhatsApp Desktop APP to enjoy this add-on feature.
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Variant item inward entry made easy.
Allows you to set incremental and decremental value to a size range based on a mid size as base purchase price. -
Quotation to Invoice
Convert customer approved quotation to invoice with a click to avoid data entry mistakes and save time as well. -
Inventory : Markup%
To protect your margins, set markup% in product master to calculate Sell price automatically. When you ring an item in purchase entry screen, system calculates Sell price from your purchase price + other expenses + markup +taxes. So, you need not to worry when your purchase price fluctuates. -
Dynamic pricing during Sell.
Set the Inventory rule in Product master to ask sell price every time you ring an item to sell. -
Standard reorder
Billees already has smart reorder module. Now it also supports generating purchase orders based on standard reorder point and reorder quantity. -
B2C: Sales return entry made easy
Now, you can add sell/replacement/return items in the same sales invoice itself with (-qty). If the invoice value turns negative, system allowes you to generate an Credit note / refund without leaving the current screen. -
Adding Accounting Ledgers are made easy
Add new accounting ledgers right from ledger search page of Journal/Expense/receipt voucher entry screen. -
Add notes to Receipt/Payment transactions
Add notes, comments to receipt / payment transaction entries and see those notes in respective ledger reports. -
Config: MRP as Sell price
Business Vertical like Readymade Garments uses a single price column (MRP). Sell price column will be hidden when this config is enabled.
Enhancements & Fixes
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Barcode Label:
A new data field has been provided to print item cost encoded with alphabets.
-- Enhancement -
Smart reorder:
Group,Sub-group data fields has been provided for better productivity.
-- Enhancement -
Tender Screen:
Shows only applicable tender types to respective transaction to avoid mistakes.
-- Enhancement -
Manual Barcode search simplified:
When a barcode is not readable through scanner, user can righ the item by entering the last 4 digits of barcode value prefixed with % (Ex: %1004)
-- Enhancement -
Product Master Bulk-update:
Markup % data field has been provided for mass updates.
-- Enhancement -
PriceLevel screen:
For quick updates, (Alt+R) short key has been provided to replace all cell values of a column.
-- Enhancement -
Print Receipts/Payments:
Now, you can print receipts/payments right from tender screen.
-- Enhancement -
Print Profile: Quotation
Customize the quotation print design layout the way you want.
-- Enhancement -
Expenses Screen:
Control center feature not working.
-- Bug fixed -
Opening Stock:
Always asking to enter Sale price even though MRP is entered.
-- Bug fixed -
Barcode Label Printing Screen:
Margin% column showing wrong data.
-- Bug fixed -
Email-payment receipt:
This was not working as expected
-- Bug fixed

Operating system supported: Windows7SP2, Windows10 and Windows11
05 November 2022
Version 1006
New Features
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Quick Payments
A new Pay/Receipt button is added to make payments directly from the transaction details view screen. -
Reports
Introducing two new reports to analyze inventory data.
1. FSN analysis (fast, slow, non moving inventory)
2. Aging analysis (inventory aging breakup). -
Financial debit/credit note
Now, you can create financial credit/debit notes, which will not have any impact on your GST returns. Open Sales return / Purchase return screen, select respective contact. Now, click on Add other charges button (bottom left corner) and select respective ledgers, set price/amount and finally save the transaction. -
Online Orders
With this release, online orders support batch,expiry and serial inventory types.
The system picks batch numbers automatically while converting the Sale Order to an invoice. -
Variant | Matrix
While entering the purhcase transaction, you can set the purchase price and apply the markup rate to calculate SP/MRP at once to minimize data entry time. -
Service Items
You can record the description for each service line item while invoicing (short key: Shift + Ins). -
Customer / Supplier Outstanding
Pending debit/credit note(s) are also listed along with current overdue(s) in the overdue results tab. -
Credit note refund
A new refund button is added to issue a refund right from the transaction view screen. -
Customer advance refund
A new refund button is added to issue a refund right from the transaction details screen (similar to quick payment as mentioned above). -
Print Profiles
Introducing! separate print profile templates for Bill of supply, PO and payment receipts. You can also customize the print design according to your requirements.
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Drilldown
You can drill down to transaction details view page from (reports and wherever applicable) for editing, printing, and export. With this release, all accounts-related transactions are supported.
Enhancements & Fixes
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Customer / Supplier Statement:
A couple of format changes have been done for a better user experience.
-- Enhancement -
Customer / Supplier Master List:
GSTN, Registration type column(s) added.
-- Enhancement -
Barcode Label Print for Serialized items:
A quantity field is added to select and print serial numbers in bulk.
-- Enhancement -
Stock Query:
Matrix/Variant: if Variant Parent Product is selected, system shows stock query results of all it's child combinations.
-- Enhancement -
Payments History:
Trade/Cash discount, bad-debt tender values are not showing in this report
-- Bug Fixed -
Customer / Supplier Statement:
Trade/Cash discount, bad-debit tender values are not showing in this report
-- Bug Fixed -
Money Transfer:
If the money is transferred from Cash to Petty cash or vice versa, the report shows it as net backing, which is confusing.
Note: this fix works for future transaction(s). Past transactions still shows as it was.
-- Bug Fixed -
Receipts / Payments:
Rounding problem when a debit/credit note is adjusted.
-- Bug Fixed

Operating system supported: Windows7SP2, Windows10 and Windows11
12 October 2021
Version 1005
New Features
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Stock query
Scan barcode / Search a product for complete product transaction details along with current stock status and also allows to drill down till respective transaction details. (Supports all inventory product types -- Standard, Variant, Serialized, Batch-Expiry, Best Before etc.,) -
Serialized Inventory Tracking
This release brings you 100% Serialized unit inventory count and history tracking of each serial number. -
Matrix / Variants
Now, you can delete unwanted variant combinations.
Example: In: Color : Red, Size XXL. -
Barcode Label Printing
a) Select any inward transaction and print Barcode labels.
b) Printing Barcode labels right from the production entry. -
Price Level | Price List
You get great flexibility in applying price levels, Simply choose a price list just before invoicing to customer. -
Purge data
Delete unwanted transactional data permaninently from database. -
Weighing Scale integration
Enable weight scale option works with all inventory product types. -
List Price and QOH.
Display price and QOH option added to Sales settings.
When enabled, system pops price list along with available quantity while adding a product to cart. -
Notifications
While invoicing to customer, system notifies if you have
a) Prepayment balance from customer.
b) Pending credit notes available for adjustment. -
Clone a Product
Quickly create a new product from a similar product.
how to: In the product search page, hit Alt + C to clone the focused record.
Enhancements & Fixes
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Invoice : Cart list is not scrolling properly and cursor is not visible when the cart list is
long. Noticed when batch / best before inventory products are added to cart.
-- Fixed - Usability issues in Image mapping screen for variant items. -- Fixed.
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Barcode Label Printing : Printing wrong price while barcode labels are printed from Purchase
transaction.
-- Fixed. -
Barcode Label Design: Product Shelf Life in days and Product description data attributes added.
-- Enhancement -
System not showing MRP list to user for rate selection, when a product contains multiple MRPs.
-- Fixed. -
Average cost calculating wrongly in a specific case.
-- Fixed. -
Service Item HSN Codes are not capturing in transactions.
-- Fixed. -
Customer | Supplier Statements : These statements are now formated for better usability. It also
allows you to drill down to transaction details.
-- Enhancement -
Expense Entry : Supplier selection is now optional.
-- Enhancement
19 July 2021
Version 1004
Billees Busines APP - Billees Online Store(mobile commerce)
- This release brings you the convenience of managing the online store configurations, including template design from any computer (server/client)
- Upload product images to the online store from any computer (server/client).
Billees Business APP
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Introducing two new editions of Billees
In addition to the smart-cloud edition, we are introducing two new editions for small businesses.
Basic Edition : Limited to single Computer
This edition is best suitable for small businesses that need only one computer to manage entire store operations.Standard Edition : Unlimited multi-users | computers
This edition is best suitable for businesses that need more than one computer to manage store operations. This edition requires a local area network (LAN) at your business premise. -
Access transaction details
Now, it's super easy to know the details of each transaction with a single click from reports, customer & supplier ledgers, bank ledger, Accounts receivables & payables, and payment history. In addition to that, it also allows you to edit, delete, print the transaction.
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GST Returns filing (update).
Export GSTR-1, GSTR-3B data to Excel format and process your GST returns filing through GST offline tool.
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Accounts Receivables & Payables
Now you can adjust post-sale discounts, prepaid balances, credit notes, and write-off dues.
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Chart of Accounts
Define sub-groups of your choice for ledgers.
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Expences | Receipts
The user experience got better and simplified.
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Prepayments | Credit Note | Debit Note Balance Notification
When you select a customer/supplier on any transaction, the system will notify on screen if any balance left
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Quick keys
Quick keys allow you to Create:[Alt+A] and Edit:[Alt+Enter] a Product, Customer, Supplier right from the search screen.
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Fixes
1. Barcode Design template files missing in v1003 setup
2. Customer/Supplier/Product master: Copy & Paste text was not working.
3. Bulk-Update: The user experience got better and simplified.
4. Sales order to Invoice: System calculating sale price from current inventory rather than committed price in sales order
07 April 2021
Version 1003
Billees Busines APP - Billees Online Store
- Introducing Real-time Online order notifications in Billees Business APP, which helps you to get attention to new orders and process them quickly.
- Customers get Real-time mobile notifications about their order status.
- Online Store performance tuned to support huge product catalogue (3,00,000+ products). Now, we proudly announce that product search is fluid and superfast.
Billees Insights APP
- Now, you get online order notifications in your mobile! It helps store owners/dispatch managers to track and manage pending orders from anywhere.

Billees Business APP
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Bulk update Product catalogue using Excel
Now, you can export product catalogue to Excel format, update data in excel and import back to Billees. It's a Time saver feature and super simple to manage large product catalogue.
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Electronic Weighing Scale device integration
How it works?
a. Enable Weighing Scale option in your product master for products that you weigh and sell.
b. Select a product in sell screen, System pops a small screen, here you can enter weight manually. To read weight from weighing scale, click on settings icon, choose a COM PORT weighing scale which is attached to it. Save settings, power on the weighing scale, put some weight on it and see the weight appears on screen. When the reading stops ticking, press enter to accept the weight and continue to next item.
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Weighing Scale with Lable printing device Integration
How it works?
To support various models of such label weighing scales, Billees proposes a predefined generic format which contains 10 digits. First 5 digits are the unique product code and rest of the 5 digits are weight.
Example: suppose if the unique product code is '00100' and weight is '150grams' then the printed barcode would be '0010000150'
How to configure?
a. Label weighing scale vendor to configure the device to print barcodes in the 10 digit format as proposed above.
b. In Billees APP you need to define a unique product code for each product that requires this integration and share the product catalogue with the scale vendor to configure the same in the device. -
Price Books | Price Levels
In addition to existing formulas, a new option is added to set flat price for a product. -
Free Billees Email Service
Now, with a click, you can send invoices, statements and payment reminders to your customers. Purchase orders to your suppliers and share reports with your team and more.
How to setup?
It requires no setup. This feature is in-built and available by default to all users.
Can I configure my email account?
Yes! This feature is already available from V1002. Go to Organization > Settings, click on Setup Email and follow the instructions as shown on the screen. -
Audit Trail | Activity Log
The Corporate Affairs Ministry (MCA) has mandated every company that uses accounting software to maintain its books of accounts to only use software that has the feature to record audit trail of each and every transaction put through after April 1. Also, companies have now been mandated to create edit log of each change made in account books with the proper dates. As per the amendments, companies must ensure that the audit trail is not disabled.
Billees has this feature from day one. It logs each and every activity of the user.
Now the Reporting tool comes with zoom-in feature, which helps you to know the details of each and every activity of the user (or) a transaction.
How to access this report?
Go to Reports >> User Activity Log -
Keyboard Shortcuts
Keyboard Shortcuts has been unified to give better user experience.
How to know shortcut keys?
Click on Main Menu, and then click on keyboard icon which you can find in the left bottom of the Main Menu.
11 January 2021
Version 1002
Billees Online Shop
We are excited to introduce built-in Online Shop platform for your business.
Covid-19 is affecting businesses globally. It is utmost important than ever to have a multi-channel
business strategy. Let's prepare for the resurgence with Billees-Business.
Hybrid: digital-physical seamless experiences will be the future
We are bridging this gap by introducing one box solution to manage in-store operations using full
featured (Invoicing, Inventory, Accounting and Taxation) beautifully designed cloud enabled Windows APP.
With no other efforts seamlessly sell online through your own online shop (Billees Online Store
Platform)
Works for any size of business. Whether you run single store (or) chain of stores.
24 July 2020
Version 1001
We are delighted to announce The all-in-one software platform to start, run, and grow a business.
We are bringing one platform to sell products to anyone, anywhere, in person with Billees Business and
online through Billees Online Shop.