GST software in Punjab

What Punjab-specific compliance looks like

Punjab's GST is administered by the Excise and Taxation Department, Government of Punjab, and supplies inside the state attract CGST + Punjab SGST. Multi-GSTIN is common in Ludhiana's manufacturing groups and Jalandhar's export houses that hold separate registrations for plants or verticals — each needs its own GSTR-1, GSTR-3B and input-tax-credit ledger. HelloBooks ships multi-GSTIN per entity, so a Punjab group files every registration from one login, and inter-unit stock transfers raise on delivery challans that reconcile back to e-way bills.

On payroll, note that Punjab does not levy a classic 'profession tax' but instead charges the Punjab State Development Tax (PSDT) — a flat ₹200 per month on salaried employees and professionals above the income threshold, functionally similar to PT. HelloBooks payroll applies the PSDT deduction where applicable alongside salary TDS, PF and ESIC, so a Ludhiana or Jalandhar employer's monthly statutory run is complete in one place rather than split across spreadsheets.

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

Punjab's hosiery, sports-goods, hand-tool and leather 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 movement, e-way bills flow from the same invoice record — frequent for Ludhiana auto parts and woollens trucked across the north and Jalandhar consignments railed to ports. A Ludhiana cycle-parts maker selling to a Delhi buyer shows IGST under POS Delhi, while an intra-Punjab supply shows CGST + Punjab-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 Punjab manufacturing, exports and agri

Punjab's economy is manufacturing- and export-led: Ludhiana for hosiery, woollens, bicycles, auto parts and hand tools; Jalandhar for sports goods, hand tools and leather; Amritsar for textiles, food and cross-border trade; Mohali for IT and pharma; and a state-wide wheat, rice and agri-processing base. HelloBooks supports the mix on one platform: BOM, work-order and job-work (ITC-04) flows for the component and hosiery clusters, LUT-based zero-rated export billing with refund tracking, lot-based inventory for agri-commodities, and multi-warehouse stock for distributors. India payroll runs end-to-end with PF, ESIC, gratuity and the Punjab State Development Tax, and Tally voucher sync is built in for firms keeping a parallel Tally book.

Cash flow forecasting for Punjab businesses

A Ludhiana hosiery exporter waiting on an IGST refund and an auto-parts maker selling on OEM terms face the same squeeze — material and wages are paid upfront, but cash lands weeks or months later, often in foreign currency. 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 Punjab exporter sees when GST and supplier outflows force the next working-capital draw. Best/base/worst branches model an export-refund delay or a buyer slipping payment — the same model a CFO would build in Excel, but linked live to the books.