Service billing without the inventory baggage
A consultancy, an agency or a repair business does not have a godown. Most accounting packages still make you walk through stock fields to raise an invoice for work you did with your hands and your time.
- Service items
- Bill-by-bill receivables
- GSTR-1 & 3B
- Financial reports
- Multi-company
- Role-based access
What makes this trade different
Inventory you do not have
Forms built around stock make service billing an exercise in skipping fields and leaving them blank.
Receivables are the whole business
When there is no stock to sell, cash flow is entirely about which invoice got paid and which did not.
GST on services still applies
Place of supply, reverse charge and returns do not get simpler just because nothing moved on a truck.
Features that exist, doing the actual work
Everything below is in the build you can download today.
Service items are first-class
One unified item master with a stock flag. Turn it off and the item behaves as a service: no quantity tracking, no valuation, no warehouse — the form stops asking.
Bill-by-bill receivables
Every invoice is a bill; every receipt allocates against specific bills. Ageing and outstanding are per-invoice, which is exactly the view a service business needs.
The full GST suite
GSTR-1, GSTR-3B, e-invoicing and tax registers work identically for services — driven by the same vouchers, with tax categories per item.
Real financial reports
Trial Balance, P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow, aggregated in SQL and exportable to PDF or Excel.
Multi-company from day one
Run several entities from one install with data separated by company and access governed by role — useful when the practice and the trading arm are different books.
Moving from older accounting software?
Where Acronix is genuinely different — and where the tool you have already does the job. No invented weaknesses.
- Data at restAES-256 encrypted file — unreadable if the disk is copiedUsually a plain local data folder
- Switching machinesSign in on the new device and your books sync downSurrender the licence, copy a backup, restore by hand
- Working offlineFully offline-first — no internet needed to runOffline too, but cloud backup is bolt-on
- Keyboard-first entryEvery action has a shortcut; hands never leave the keysKeyboard-driven — the one thing they got right
- The interfaceA modern, high-density UI built this decadeFunctional, but a 1990s screen
- GST suiteGSTR-1, 3B, e-invoice, e-way bill from the same vouchersPresent, often as paid add-ons
Questions
Services — questions, answered
Can I raise an invoice without walking through stock and quantity fields?
Yes. Items live in one master with a stock flag — turn it off and the item behaves as a service, with no quantity tracking, no valuation and no warehouse. The form stops asking for the things a service does not have.
Does GST work for a service business, including place of supply and reverse charge?
Yes. GSTR-1, GSTR-3B, e-invoicing and the tax registers work identically for services, driven by the same vouchers with a tax category per item. Nothing about GST gets simpler because nothing moved on a truck, and none of it is left out.
Can I track which invoices are still unpaid, bill by bill?
Yes. Every invoice is a bill and every receipt allocates against specific bills, so ageing and outstanding are per-invoice — which is exactly the cash-flow view a business with no stock to sell actually needs.
Can I run more than one entity from a single install?
Multi-company is there from day one, with data separated by company and access governed by role — useful when the practice and a trading arm are different books kept by the same people.
What financial reports can I give the auditor?
Trial Balance, P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow, all aggregated in SQL and exportable to PDF or Excel.
Does it run offline?
Yes. The book is a local encrypted database and the whole app runs on your machine without the internet. Cloud sync is an optional backup you switch on, not a requirement to bill or report.
Try it on your own books
14 days, every feature unlocked, no credit card. Your data stays encrypted on your own machine.