GST & tax
How Ezvento handles GST — automatic tax on bills, GSTIN, and the GSTR-1 / GSTR-3B files you file.
Ezvento does most of the GST heavy-lifting for you. It works out the tax on every bill, keeps your bills GST-tagged, and prepares the return files (GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B) you upload to the government portal.
Read this first — an honest promise. Ezvento is not an auto-filing service. It gives you correct, ready-to-upload files and shows you every warning — but you (or your CA) should check the numbers and file them. Every export screen says exactly this. We'll never tell you to "file blindly."
How tax gets onto a bill (automatically)
- Each product has an HSN code, and each HSN maps to a GST rate. When you bill a product, Ezvento applies the right rate for you — you don't do any tax maths.
- If a bill has a discount, tax is calculated on the price after the discount (the correct, law-abiding way — you don't over-pay tax on a discounted sale).
- CGST + SGST or IGST? Ezvento decides this for you from where the customer is:
- Selling inside your own state → CGST + SGST.
- Selling to another state → IGST. It works this out from the customer's GST number (if they have one) or their state.
- The tax is worked out and stored on our server, so the figure on your bill is the same figure that goes into your return. A stale price on a phone that was offline can't quietly change what you file.
Setting your GST number
Go to Settings → Account and enter your GSTIN. Ezvento checks it's a valid GST number (the format and its check digit) as you type — a typo is caught immediately.
Your customers can have GST numbers too (on their customer record). A customer with a GSTIN makes the sale a B2B sale, which is reported differently in GSTR-1 — Ezvento sorts that out.
If you sell from more than one state
GST registration is per state — a business in two states holds two GST numbers and files two separate sets of returns. Ezvento supports this properly:
- Add each state's registration under Settings → GST (owner only).
- Assign each shop to the registration for its state.
- When you export a GST return and you have more than one registration, Ezvento asks which one you're filing, and prepares a separate return for each GST number — with the right tax treatment. The same out-of-state customer is correctly inter-state for one registration and intra-state for another.
See Multiple shops & states for setting this up.
The GST reports (menu: Business → "Reports")
All of these are under Reports. You'll see:
GST summary
A simple HSN-wise view of your tax for a period — useful to eyeball what you collected. This is a summary, not a return file.
GSTR-1 (your outward sales return)
- Choose the period: monthly, quarterly (QRMP), or IFF (the first-two-months upload for quarterly filers — Ezvento won't let you pick IFF for the third month of a quarter, because that isn't allowed).
- Download it as Excel or JSON — both are made for the government GST Returns Offline Tool.
- Before you file, Ezvento shows an amber warnings box for anything that needs your eye — products missing an HSN code, a missing place of supply, or repeated invoice numbers. Fix those, then file.
GSTR-3B (your monthly summary return)
- Monthly or quarterly. Downloads as Excel (there's a "keying summary" sheet laid out in the same order as the portal, to make typing it in easy).
- It nets off your credit notes (returns) for you.
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There's no PDF — check the numbers on the sheet before you file.
How to actually file (the honest full picture)
- In Ezvento, download the GSTR-1 file (JSON or Excel) for your period.
- Open the government GST Returns Offline Tool, import that file, and generate the return there.
- Upload it on the GST portal and file as usual.
- Check the figures before you submit — either yourself or with your accountant/CA.
Ezvento gets you a clean, ready-to-import file and flags the risky bits. It does not press the final "file" button for you, and it doesn't replace your CA's judgement. If your CA wants to review the export first, that's exactly the right thing to do.
What Ezvento does not do yet (so nothing surprises you)
- E-invoicing (IRN) is built, but it needs special government (GSP) credentials set up first. Without those it stays switched off. B2C bills (no customer GST number) don't get an e-invoice.
- Ezvento doesn't yet handle exports, advances, or e-way bills inside the returns — those are entered the usual way on the portal.
Returns and credit notes
When you return items on a bill, Ezvento creates a credit note and reverses the tax correctly. That credit note flows into your GSTR-1 (Table 9B) and reduces your GSTR-3B liability — so your returns already account for it. You don't do anything extra.
Every GST claim in Ezvento is deliberately careful: "download, review — or hand to your CA — then file." That's the honest truth of what the app does, and it's what keeps your filings safe.