GST software in Kerala

What Kerala-specific compliance looks like

Kerala's GST is administered by the State GST Department, Government of Kerala, and supplies inside the state attract CGST + Kerala SGST. Multi-GSTIN is common for the Kochi trading and export houses and the Thrissur jewellery groups holding separate registrations — each needs its own GSTR-1, GSTR-3B and input-tax-credit ledger. HelloBooks ships multi-GSTIN per entity, so a Kerala group files every registration from one login, and inter-branch stock transfers raise on delivery challans that reconcile back to e-way bills.

Kerala levies a profession tax, but unlike most states it is collected by local bodies — municipalities, corporations and panchayats — on a half-yearly basis rather than as a monthly state challan. HelloBooks computes Kerala PT inside payroll at the applicable local-body slabs, applies the half-yearly cadence, and tracks the deduction alongside PF, ESIC and salary TDS, so a Kochi or Thrissur employer doesn't manage it in a separate spreadsheet.

LUT exports, e-invoice and e-way bills in one pass

Kerala's spice, seafood and cashew exporters ship overseas, much of it zero-rated under a Letter of Undertaking. HelloBooks bills these without IGST, flags them on GSTR-1 Table 6A, keeps the LUT reference on the invoice, and carries the supply into the refund workflow so the shipping bill and GST return line up. Any business above the ₹5 crore threshold is on mandatory e-invoicing — HelloBooks generates the IRN and signed QR on NIC in the background and surfaces failures on the invoice itself.

For domestic and gold movement, e-way bills flow from the same invoice record — gold and jewellery have their own value-based EWB considerations, and HelloBooks applies the right requirement from the consignment. A Kochi spice trader selling into Tamil Nadu shows IGST under POS Tamil Nadu, while an intra-Kerala supply shows CGST + Kerala-SGST; HelloBooks derives the head from the buyer's GSTIN and reflects the split on GSTR-3B Table 3.1, with nightly 2A/2B reconciliation.

Built for Kerala spices, seafood, gold and IT

Kerala's commercial base spans Kochi's port, spice trade and Infopark/SmartCity IT; Thrissur's gold and jewellery cluster; Kollam's cashew processing; the coastal marine-exports belt; and a dense, high-consumption retail and services economy fed by NRI remittances. HelloBooks supports the mix on one platform: lot- and grade-based inventory for spices, cashew and gold, batch tracking for processed foods, LUT-based zero-rated export billing with refund tracking, project-based revenue for IT services, and multi-store retail with POS-style billing. India payroll runs end-to-end with PF, ESIC, gratuity and Kerala local-body profession tax, and Tally voucher sync is built in for firms keeping a parallel Tally book.

Cash flow forecasting for Kerala businesses

A Kochi spice exporter waiting on an IGST refund and a Thrissur jeweller carrying gold stock face the same squeeze — inventory is paid for upfront, but cash lands weeks or months later. Meanwhile GST settles on the 20th and TDS deposits land by the 7th. HelloBooks cash flow forecasting reads AR ageing, recurring revenue and vendor bills, applies driver-based assumptions (order pipeline, collection lag, refund timing), and projects a 13-week and 12-month cash position so a Kerala business sees when GST and supplier outflows force the next working-capital draw. Best/base/worst branches model an export-refund delay or a gold-price-driven stock build — the same model a CFO would build in Excel, but linked live to the books.