tBiz vs Tally: which should you run your books on?
Tally is the desktop standard in Indian accounting and it earned that position — a generation of accountants can drive it without looking at the screen. tBiz is built for the businesses that have outgrown a single-PC licence: teams across branches, owners who want the books on a phone, and companies paying separately for payroll and CRM.
Choose tBiz if…
- More than two people need the books at once, in more than one location.
- You want accounts, stock, payroll, CRM and field staff on one set of data.
- You are tired of counting seats and want unlimited users.
- You bill in both India and the UAE and need GST and VAT in one product.
- Owners and sales staff need the data on a phone, not on the office PC.
Stay on Tally if…
- One accountant works alone on one machine and nothing else needs to change.
- Your CA insists on receiving a Tally company file and will not take anything else.
- You depend on a third-party TDL customisation you cannot rebuild.
- You file e-invoices and e-way bills today through Tally’s own connector — ours prepares and validates them but does not yet transmit.
Feature by feature
| Capability | tBiz | Tally |
|---|---|---|
| Accounting | ||
| Double-entry vouchers & ledgers | Yes | Yes |
| Keyboard-first voucher entry | Yes | Yes |
| Trial balance, P&L, balance sheet | Yes | Yes |
| Cost centres & branch reporting | Yes | Yes |
| Audit trail on every posting | Yes | Edition dependent |
| GST & compliance | ||
| GST tax invoice & bill of supply | Yes | Yes |
| E-invoice IRN — payload built & validated | Prepared, not filed | Yes |
| E-way bill from the sales voucher | Prepared, not filed | Yes |
| GSTR-1, 3B & 2B reconciliation | Yes | Yes |
| UAE VAT return & TRN handling | Yes | Separate edition |
| Bilingual Arabic–English invoices | No | Separate edition |
| Inventory & manufacturing | ||
| Multi-warehouse stock | Yes | Yes |
| Batch, expiry & serial numbers | Yes | Yes |
| Bill of materials & production | Yes | Yes |
| Job work in and out | Yes | Yes |
| Barcode entry on mobile | Scanner, not camera | No |
| Beyond the books | ||
| Payroll, attendance & payslips | Included | Higher edition |
| HR shifts, leave & document expiry | Included | No |
| CRM, leads board & follow-ups | Included | No |
| Field staff GPS & geofenced attendance | Included | No |
| WhatsApp invoices & reminders | Included | Via add-on |
| Access & licensing | ||
| Runs in a browser, no install | Yes | Via hosting |
| Windows desktop build | Yes | Yes |
| Android app for billing & approvals | Yes | Limited |
| Unlimited users | Yes | Per seat |
| Multi-company & multi-branch | Yes | Yes |
| Data import from Tally / Busy | Yes | n/a |
Where the difference actually shows up
A second branch
On a desktop licence a second location means a second installation, a sync arrangement and a consolidation exercise at month end. In tBiz both branches write to one company, and the branch-wise trial balance is a filter rather than a merge.
Salary day
Attendance, shifts and advances live next to the ledger, so the salary journal posts itself. No spreadsheet round-trip, no manual journal, and the PF and ESI figures come out of the same run rather than a second one.
The sales team
A quotation raised on a phone becomes an order and then an invoice against the same party ledger — with the outstanding balance and credit limit visible to the person standing in front of the customer.
Where Tally still wins
Filing. Tally’s e-invoice and e-way bill connectors are in production and ours are not: tBiz builds and validates the payload but does not yet transmit it to the portal. If that round-trip is the thing you cannot do without today, that is a real reason to wait.
Questions about moving from Tally
Is tBiz a replacement for Tally?
For most small and mid-sized businesses, yes. tBiz covers double-entry vouchers, ledgers, GST returns, inventory and manufacturing, and adds cloud and mobile access, CRM, payroll and field-staff tracking in the same product. The one place Tally is ahead today is transmitting e-invoices and e-way bills to the portal.
Can I move my Tally data into tBiz?
Yes. tBiz imports Tally masters, opening balances and Day Book vouchers, bringing the vouchers across as balanced journals with exact totals. What it does not do is re-create each old sale as an itemised GST invoice — that line detail stays in your Tally data, which is why most people keep the old file as an archive.
Does tBiz use the same keyboard-first entry as Tally?
Yes. Voucher entry is keyboard-driven with shortcut keys and a visible key strip, and the concepts — groups, ledgers, vouchers, cost centres — are the same, so Tally-trained accountants keep their muscle memory.
What does tBiz cost compared with Tally?
There is no published rate card for either product that would make an honest comparison — Tally is priced per seat and per edition, tBiz is priced per workspace with unlimited users. Tell us what you run and we will price it in writing, which is usually the only comparison that matters.
Bring your Tally data across
Masters, opening balances and Day Book vouchers import from a Tally export as balanced journals. Start on the free plan and run both in parallel for a month if you want to be sure.
Other comparisons
Run both for a month
Import your masters, raise a week of invoices in each, and compare the books rather than the brochures.