A ₹42L year isn’t ₹42L in your account.
Retainers and milestones across three clients, each deducting TDS, each with its own GST. More revenue, more to track. HourSlip holds it all — and shows the one number that matters: what you actually keep after 194J and advance tax.
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Fewer invoices. Far more to keep straight.
Retainers and milestones mean fewer, larger bills — but spread across several engagements at once, each deducting its own TDS, each with its own GST treatment. The complexity isn’t volume; it’s keeping three businesses reconciled in one head. HourSlip holds them in one ledger.
Every client, its own P&L — in one place.
Fractional work means you’re effectively running three businesses at once. Each client gets its own financial summary, GST treatment, and TDS trail — switch between them, or see the whole book combined, without three spreadsheets fighting each other.
Advances drawn down cleanly, GST on the right base.
You took an advance up front; each month’s work draws it down. Get the GST base wrong and the invoice is off — and your client’s auditor notices. HourSlip applies the advance correctly, charges GST on the right amount, and keeps the running balance in view.
- ›Auto-recurring — monthly retainers generate and send themselves
- ›Milestone & Proforma — firm-grade layouts with PO reference and signature
- ›Formula columns — custom templates that look like a firm sent them
The TDS they all hold, added up and credited.
Each client knocks 10% off under 194J (s.393 from April 2026) before paying. Spread over three engagements, that’s lakhs sitting as credit against your PAN — easy to lose track of, easy to under-claim. HourSlip aggregates it across clients and reconciles the lot against your 26AS/AIS.
Credited against your tax in full — not the fraction you remembered to track across three clients.
A ₹42L year is not ₹42L in your account.
After 194J TDS and four advance-tax instalments, what’s left is the only figure that matters. HourSlip compares old-vs-new regime on your real receipts — and applies 44ADA (now s.58(2) Sl. 3 of the Income-tax Act 2025) presumptive only where your work is an eligible profession (many management and strategy consultants aren’t) — then schedules advance tax, so you set money aside before the demand, not after the 234B/234C (now ss.424/425) interest.
The TDS your clients withhold is credited against your total tax at ITR — claimed in full, not lost. Your effective tax here is about 20% under the new regime; the take-home is known in June, not discovered the following March.
Hand your CA one clean cockpit, not a drive of PDFs.
At year-end your accountant gets an OTP-protected, read-only link spanning every client — GSTR exports, the TDS reconciliation, ITR-4 summary and a tidy P&L, already done. Revocable any time. They never need your password.
Firm-grade, without the firm.
The multi-client machinery is the spine. Around it sits the everyday tooling that lets one person bill like an established practice — getting paid, billing back, and handing off — without hiring a back office.
- ›Recurring retainers — auto-generate and send
- ›Advances drawn down — GST on the right base
- ›Milestone & Proforma — PO reference, signature
- ›Custom templates — formula columns
- ›CGST+SGST / IGST — correct per client location
- ›Share link — UPI · Razorpay · bank
- ›Automated reminders — skip the awkward follow-up
- ›Payment prediction — per-client DSO
- ›Billable expenses — bill back, mileage
- ›Receipt OCRPro
- ›Per-client P&L — project codes & tags
- ›Client health — shareable statements
- ›GSTR-2B reconcile — input creditPro
- ›Read-only CA access — all clientsPro
- ›Tally · ITR-4 export — spanning the book
Your time is worth more than reconciling 26AS by hand.
You closed the engagements. Don’t lose evenings to the billing and tax that follow. Put it in one place and get back to the work clients pay you for.
Every plan starts with a 14-day Pro trial, no card. Ask about the early user program for 90 days of Pro.
Before you switch.
- Is HourSlip invoicing software for consultants, or a time tracker?
- Invoicing and compliance first. You bill retainers, milestones and fixed fees — not hours — so invoicing, advances, TDS tracking and the tax view are the product. Time tracking exists and is entirely optional; plenty of consultants never switch it on.
- Can I bill a monthly retainer automatically?
- Yes. Set the amount, the cycle and the client once, and the invoice generates and goes out on schedule with the right GST treatment and your numbering series intact. Payment reminders follow on their own, so you are not the one sending the awkward second email.
- How do advances against a retainer get handled?
- An advance is recorded against the client and drawn down as you invoice, so each invoice shows what was applied and what is still outstanding. GST is computed on the correct base rather than on the gross, which is the part that usually goes wrong in a spreadsheet.
- Do I need a GSTIN to use it?
- No. Under the ₹20L threshold (₹10L in Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura) you issue a plain invoice with no GST on it, which HourSlip produces correctly — and it tracks your receipts against the threshold so registration is a decision you make on time rather than discover late.
- My clients deduct TDS under 194J. Does that get tracked?
- Yes — per client, per invoice, at 10% under 194J for professional fees (s.393 of the Income-tax Act 2025 for payments from 1 April 2026). It reconciles against your Form 26AS and AIS (Form 168 from tax year 2026-27), and carries into the ITR summary, so the tax already withheld reduces the advance tax you still owe instead of being paid twice.
Want the tax and registration detail rather than the product? Read the GST and invoicing guide for independent consultants.