Migrate from Tally UAE trading books to a cloud ledger

You ask in plain English, the AI does the bookkeeping work, and you or your accountant approve the result.

• You ask: “Import the Tally ledger masters and closing stock, and group the ledgers into a UAE chart of accounts.”
• The AI agent: The AI reads the exported ledger list and groups, proposes a mapping to HelloBooks accounts, splits sundry debtors and creditors into customer and supplier records, and loads stock items with quantities and values.
• You review: Your accountant reviews the account mapping, especially VAT ledgers and stock valuation, and approves the opening balances.

Tally's help pages describe exporting masters, vouchers and reports in formats including Excel and XML. For a migration you need ledger masters with groups, stock item masters, the trial balance and outstanding bills for debtors and creditors at cut-over.

• Ledger masters with groups and opening balances
• Stock items with units, rates and closing quantities
• Bills receivable and payable outstanding at cut-over
• VAT ledgers and the last return reports

Tally groups ledgers such as Sundry Debtors, Duties and Taxes and Indirect Expenses. HelloBooks uses customers and suppliers as records plus a chart of accounts. The AI suggests the mapping; an accountant should check VAT input and output ledgers carefully, because the VAT 201 draft relies on them.

If you hold stock in more than one location, set up warehouses before importing quantities. Multi-warehouse and batch inventory are on the Business plan.

At 1 January the Tally data has 1,240 stock items valued at AED 1.86 million, 180 debtors owing AED 742,000 and 64 creditors owed AED 415,000. The AI maps 212 ledgers to 74 accounts and flags 23 ledgers with nil balances and no use in two years, which the accountant drops.

Opening stock, receivables and payables match the Tally closing reports. Bank statements from Emirates NBD and a second bank are uploaded and matched from January onward. A custom chart of accounts that mirrors the old Tally groups can be set up if the owner prefers familiar names; book a call at /book-a-demo.