Sleek Bill

Sleek Bill: GST billing software for Indian businesses

Sleek Bill is an online billing platform aimed at businesses operating in India. According to its own presentation, more than three million businesses use the tool to create invoices, manage GST, and issue e-invoices. The service is offered with a free plan limited to ten invoices per month and a paid version whose price indicated on the site is 5,999 rupees per year for e-invoicing and e-way bill.

Customer profile and usage modality

The solution is intended for MSMEs, small businesses, freelancers, and accountants. It allows multi-user access from any computer or tablet, so that several team members work on the same cloud-hosted database. The company highlights that financial information remains secure in the cloud and that access is possible from any location.

Invoicing and tax compliance in India

The software issues GST invoices, quotes, proforma invoices, delivery notes, purchase orders, purchase bills, credit notes, and debit notes. It includes support for GSTIN, HSN columns, GST tax rates, and subject to reverse charge. It also generates GSTR-1, GSTR-3B, and GSTR-4A reports for filing returns. For businesses under the composition scheme, it offers the Bill of Supply. Additionally, it allows the conversion of invoices into e-invoices and the generation of e-way bill with a single click from the invoice itself, without the need to export JSON files.

Inventory, purchases, and expenses

The system incorporates inventory functions: creation of purchase orders that convert into purchase bills, expense recording, and real-time stock tracking. Inventory reports include the stock ledger and the inventory ledger with details of inflows and outflows, both in quantity and amount. It also allows recording advance payments received or made, as well as the opening balance of customers and suppliers.

Financial and management tools

The platform includes a cash book for cash control, profit and loss reports, accounts ledger, and stock ledgers by item. It also allows generating UPI payment QR codes to streamline collection, and offers the possibility of issuing invoices in multiple currencies, showing both the company's currency and the customer's. Sales reports can be exported by product, service, customer, user, and inventory.

Documents and templates

The software has templates for different print formats: A4, A5, A6, and thermal rolls of 2 and 3 inches. It allows customizing taxes, creating tax groups, and adding service charges. It also facilitates copying recurring documents, such as previous quotes or invoices, to save time in issuing periodic documents.

Other functionalities

Additional features include management of transport details for the e-way bill, export invoice for foreign customers, export invoice for units in Special Economic Zones (SEZ), and deemed export invoice for road shipments to suppliers that export to third countries. The system also allows registering customers and suppliers with their tax and contact details, and managing items with name, description, unit price, unit of measure, HSN or SAC number, purchase rate, sale rate, and tax rate.