What ERPNext actually does.

Runs your books and keeps you compliant, without you having to keep a parallel set of records in Tally.

• —Chart of accounts, fiscal years, accounting periods
• —GST configuration, e-invoicing, TDS
• —Payments, receipts, journal entries, debit and credit notes
• —Bank and payment reconciliation
• —Balance sheet, P&L, trial balance, general ledger, cash flow

Takes you from an enquiry to a paid invoice without re-typing the same information four times.

• —Customer master, price lists, territories
• —Quotation, sales order, delivery note, sales invoice
• —Automatic accounting and stock impact
• —Sales analytics, order trends, item-wise history
• —GSTR-1 and GST sales registers

Brings purchasing under control, so what was ordered, what arrived and what was billed are the same three numbers.

• —Supplier master, payment terms
• —Material request, RFQ, supplier quotation
• —Purchase order, receipt, invoice
• —Import purchases and landed cost
• —Single-level PO approval

Tells you what is where, in real time, including across multiple warehouses.

• —Items, groups, units of measure, brands
• —Multiple warehouses
• —Batch and serial number tracking
• —Stock entries and reconciliation
• —Stock ledger, stock balance, reorder levels, batch expiry

Connects what you planned to make with what you actually made and what it cost.

• —Bills of materials, including multi-level
• —Operations and workstations
• —Work orders and job cards
• —Production stock entries
• —Work order, BOM stock and production reports

Not standard: capacity planning, forecasting, machine or PLC integrations.

Handles attendance, leave and payroll, with Indian tax rules configured.

• —Employee master
• —Attendance and shifts
• —Leave policies and applications
• —Expense claims
• —Salary structures, payroll cycle, salary slips

Not standard: biometric integration, advanced KPI frameworks, scripted salary calculations.

Tracks whether a project is on schedule and whether it is making money, while it is still running.

• —Projects, tasks and dependencies
• —Timesheets
• —Budgets and milestones
• —Cost versus progress reporting

Tracks fixed assets from purchase through depreciation to disposal.

• —Asset purchase and capitalisation
• —Depreciation schedules
• —Maintenance schedules
• —Disposal and asset registers

Manages leads before they become customers, and tickets after.

• —Leads, opportunities, pipeline
• —Activity and follow-up tracking
• —Support tickets and SLAs