Billing Indian businesses

Stop chasing payments. Stop dreading filing season.

They deduct TDS, they want a GST-correct invoice, and the returns are on you. HourSlip sends the invoice out right, reconciles the TDS against your 26AS, and keeps March from ever ambushing you.

Founding cohort

Free Pro through beta · founder pricing locked in · no card

After you hit sendHSL/2026/0142 · SENT
₹3,30,400
GST treatment
CGST 9% + SGST 9% · correct first pass
Done
₹28,000 TDS withheld
logged & matched to your 26AS
Done
GSTR-1 · GSTR-3B
sorted into the right tables
Done
Advance tax
scheduled from real receipts
Done
The ₹28,000 they held back — credited at ITR, not lost
+₹28,000
Nothing due in March
The whole job, end to end

One invoice, five things to get right.

Billing an Indian company isn’t just sending a PDF. The GST has to be correct, the client withholds TDS, and that single invoice has to reconcile across three government systems before the year closes. HourSlip carries it the whole way.

Invoice issued
₹3,30,400
GST-correct · sequential no.
GST charged
+₹50,400
CGST 9% + SGST 9%
TDS withheld
−₹28,000
194J · held vs your PAN
Paid to bank
₹3,02,400
Net of TDS
Reconciled
26AS ✓
GSTR-1 · 3B · ITR-4
Get the treatment right

CGST + SGST, or IGST? Decided by where your client sits.

Pick the wrong split and the client’s accounts team bounces the invoice — and your payment slips a fortnight. HourSlip reads place of supply and applies the right treatment every time. No dropdown, no guessing.

Place-of-supply logic
You supply from
Karnataka (29)
Place of supply
Karnataka (29)
Same state → CGST + SGST

Your GSTIN, the SAC code 998314, place of supply and reverse-charge flag land on every invoice — exactly the way a finance team’s books expect them.

Invoice · HSL/2026/0142
GSTR-1 ready
Taxable value₹2,80,000
CGST · 9%₹25,200
SGST · 9%₹25,200
Total incl. GST₹3,30,400
This is the part nobody else does

The 4-state reconciliation worksheet.

Every deduction you log is checked against the matching 26AS line and sorted into one of four states. You work the board until everything’s green — then the FY total is one you can defend.

Matched
4
Your record = 26AS
Indus BPM194J₹25,000
Meridian Tech194J₹10,000
Saffron Media194H₹2,250
Axiom Consulting194J₹18,000
Pending
2
Not in 26AS yet
QuickCart · platform194O₹800
Kestrel Digital194J₹14,000
Mismatch
1
Figures differ
Greywing Labs194J₹32,000
Unmatched
1
In 26AS, not yours
Unknown deductor194J₹3,500
Resolving · Greywing Labs mismatch
Your record
₹32,000
vs
26AS shows
₹31,500
Δ ₹500 short

Client deposited ₹500 less than they deducted. HourSlip flags it so you chase the deductor — not the refund you’d have lost.

Filing without the scramble

Every invoice files itself into the right return.

GSTR-1 isn’t one list — it’s a dozen tables, and a row in the wrong one is a notice waiting to happen. HourSlip sorts each invoice into its table as it’s raised, so the return is built by the time the filing date arrives.

GSTR-1 · auto-sorted · May 2026
QRMP · quarterly
B2B18 inv · Registered clients₹18,42,000
B2CL3 inv · Large inter-state B2C₹4,10,000
B2CS11 inv · Small consumer₹96,400
CDNR2 inv · Credit / debit notes₹-34,000
GSTR-3B summary
Output tax₹4,38,120
ITC · GSTR-2B−₹61,400
Net payable₹3,76,720
Govt JSONExport CSV
Sections 234B / 234C

Advance tax, before the interest bites.

Tax isn’t due in one March lump — it’s four instalments across the year. HourSlip schedules each one from your live estimate and reminds you before the date, so interest under 234B/234C (now ss.424/425 of the Income-tax Act 2025) never starts.

15 Jun15% cumulative
₹16,380
Paid
15 Sep45% cumulative
₹32,760
Due now
15 Dec75% cumulative
₹32,760
Upcoming
15 Mar100% cumulative
₹27,300
Upcoming

Miss an instalment and 234B/C interest accrues at 1% per month on the shortfall. We push a reminder days before each date — so you pay tax, not penalties.

The number that matters

What you keep, known all year — not in March.

Gross billings are a vanity number. After the TDS clients withhold and your advance-tax instalments, your real take-home is what’s left. HourSlip runs old-vs-new regime live — and 44ADA (now s.58(2) Sl. 3) presumptive where you’re an eligible professional — so you set money aside before the demand, not after the 234B/C interest.

Gross billed · FY 2026–27
₹18,00,000
₹16.2L
Take-home · ₹16,20,000
90% keptIncome tax · mostly covered by TDS · ₹1,80,000

Under the 2025 new regime the tax on this income is modest — and most of it is already covered by the TDS your clients withhold, credited against your bill at ITR. 44ADA can lower it further if you’re an eligible professional.

And the rest of it

One tool, not five tabs and a CA.

The headline features are the spine. Around them sits everything else a freelancer billing Indian businesses actually needs — invoicing range, getting paid, and the year-end hand-off — all in the same ledger.

Invoicing
05
  • 6 PDF layouts — Standard, Timesheet, Milestone, Proforma, Compact, Export
  • Recurring & retainers — auto-generate and send
  • Advances applied — credit / debit notes, quotes
  • Sequential numbering — Void / Replaced keep the series unbroken
  • Amount in words — reverse-charge flag, SAC, place of supply
Getting paid
05
  • No-login share link — UPI deep-link, amount pre-filled
  • Razorpay + NEFT/IMPS — card, netbanking, wallet
  • UPI QR on the PDF
  • Automated reminders — skip the awkward follow-up
  • DSO per client — ranks your slowest payers
Year-end & books
05
  • Expense capture — receipt OCR, bank-CSVPro
  • Live P&L — bill-back, RCM flag
  • GSTR-2B reconcile — reclaim input creditPro
  • Tally XML · ITR-4 CSV — export-ready
  • Read-only CA access — a clean cockpitPro
Early access · 2026 cohort

Built by a freelancer who got tired of the spreadsheet.

Invoices that go out correct, TDS that gets credited back, and tax dates that never ambush you again — in one place instead of three spreadsheets.

Founding cohort: free Pro through beta. No card needed.