Mumbai businesses carry two costs nobody else carries as heavily: space and time. Godown rent makes slow stock expensive in a way it simply is not elsewhere, and a team spread from Andheri to Bhiwandi cannot share one office PC. Both are reasons the books need to be reachable and the stock ageing needs to be honest.
| Age | Items | Value | % of stock |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0–30 days | 412 | 38,42,000.00 | 54.2 |
| 31–90 days | 186 | 19,16,400.00 | 27.0 |
| 91–180 days | 94 | 8,84,200.00 | 12.5 |
| Over 180 days | 61 | 4,46,800.00 | 6.3 |
Where godown space costs what it costs in MMR, knowing what has not moved in six months is a balance-sheet decision rather than a curiosity.
Stock in Bhiwandi or Panvel, an office in town and a shop in between — three locations, one company, one stock ledger.
Mumbai runs on services as much as goods. SAC codes, service place-of-supply rules and TDS on receipts are handled properly rather than approximated.
Receipts short by a TDS deduction settle the invoice in full and book the deduction as receivable, ready to match against Form 26AS.
Which location actually makes money, as a filter on the same postings rather than a month-end consolidation.
The books open on a phone in a taxi, which in this city is a genuine operational feature rather than a slogan.
Yes. Each location is a warehouse of the same company, so you bill from the office and issue stock from the godown, with transfers between them posting a document that an e-way bill can be raised from.
Yes — SAC codes, service place-of-supply rules, retainers, milestone billing and TDS on receipts. A services firm can run without touching the inventory screens at all.
Record the receipt at the amount actually banked; the shortfall books as TDS receivable and the invoice settles in full. The balance in that account is what you match against your 26AS.
Yes, with a read-only role of their own. Users are unlimited, so there is no reason to share a login.
Import your stock free and get an ageing report that prices the rent you are paying to store it.