A month in accounts
Meera, one container and a month end.
An example, not a customer. Meera keeps the accounts at a forwarder in Navi Mumbai. The company uses Shipment 360, with Books included. Before, she learnt about a job only when someone forwarded her a bill.
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Monday morning
The job comes to her.
Sample Exports has confirmed a quotation for one 20-foot container, Nhava Sheva to Jebel Ali. Ravi in operations opens the job and presses one button. Meera finds a draft sales invoice waiting for her. It has the charges from the quotation and the job's number. She checks it and issues it. Books works out the GST from the place of supply and gives the next number.
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Wednesday
Bills and detention go to the right job.
The shipping line's bill arrives. Ravi ticks the buy lines for that vendor. A draft bill is ready, and Meera adds the vendor's bill number and the TDS. The overseas agent bills in US dollars, at the day's rate. When the empty container comes back late, the job makes a detention invoice. The rate is left for her to fill. CFS charges passed on at cost stay apart, as reimbursements.
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Two weeks later
Each payment is matched to its bill.
Meera loads the bank statement file and matches its lines. Sample Exports paid the amount less the TDS they deducted. The bank also took a fee. One receipt settles the invoices, and posts the TDS and the fee to the right ledgers. The agent is paid in dollars, and Books posts the exchange difference by itself. The job's bills are no longer in Outstandings.
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Month end
The month closes, and the owner gets her answer.
HR & Payroll posts the approved pay run as a journal. GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B are worked out from the same invoices, as drafts for the CA. Meera locks the month. Priya, the owner, asks what the Sample Exports job earned. Nobody opens Excel. The answer is on the job's page, added up from the documents Meera issued.






