Tally.ERP 9

Business owners in India know Tally for accounting software, and the product behind this listing, Tally.ERP 9, has since been succeeded in the company's range by TallyPrime. The current site presents TallyPrime as business management software for small and medium-sized businesses, covering billing, inventory, accounting and GST.

The product family

Tally's range includes TallyPrime for growing businesses and TallyPrime Server, an enterprise-class edition aimed at improving efficiency. Tally Software Services is a set of connected services for TallyPrime, and extensions and integrations let users customise the software or link it to other systems to meet specific needs. The company also mentions TallyIra, which it says saves up to 80 per cent of the time spent on manual data entry.

Designed to be simple

The company says TallyPrime can be set up in under a minute and that invoicing can begin almost at once, with no prior training required. It describes the aim as software that adapts to the way a business works rather than the other way round.

Reports and decisions

A set of ready-made business reports covers areas such as cash flow and inventory. Users can personalise a report by saving several views of the same data, so that a decision does not depend on one fixed layout.

Access and security

Business reports can be reached from a web browser from anywhere, and the data is available only to its owner. User and feature-based security levels control who sees what, and an added layer called TallyVault encrypts data in a way that, the company says, even Tally cannot read.