Sales tax and VAT software for BUSY

It gets the data there and the portal completes the filing. BUSY documents two routes. You can export the JSON from the GSTR-1 or GSTR-3B screen and upload it on the GST portal yourself. Or you can use direct upload, which BUSY limits to the standard and enterprise models and which needs your GST portal username configured under Administration plus Manage API access enabled for 30 days on the portal, confirmed by OTP. Either way BUSY's own step list ends with uploading to the portal and submitting the return there, and it documents no DSC or EVC inside the software.

Smart or above. BUSY's Start plan at ₹5,000 per 360 days covers billing, inventory, and the financial statements, with no e-invoice or e-way bill. Smart at ₹8,000 per 360 days is where the GSTR-1 and IFF dashboard, GST reconciliation, and an allowance of up to 10,000 e-way bills and e-invoices begin. Power at ₹12,000 raises that to 20,000 and lets you manage multiple GSTINs in one company. Power+ at ₹50,000 covers ten users, 150 companies, and up to 50,000. Worth checking against your invoice volume before you renew.

No. BUSY's tax engine is Indian GST, so a sale to a foreign customer is recorded as a zero-rated export and no destination tax is calculated. Its return formats are GSTR-1, GSTR-3B, GSTR-4 and GSTR-9. Commenda calculates the US or EU tax on the same transaction, registers you where you have crossed a threshold, and files across all 50 states, the EU with OSS and IOSS, and GST in APAC and Canada.

For the Indian side, yes. BUSY handles SEZ entries, keeps a record of your LUTs and bonds, and reports the supply as zero-rated in your GST returns. That covers your Indian filing position and your refund claim on accumulated input tax credit. It does not touch the buyer's country. If the same goods or services go to a customer in the United States or the EU rather than an SEZ, the destination may want its own tax on the sale, and Commenda is what handles that side.

Yes. Commenda registers you for GST in India and files GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B on your return frequency, built from the same sales data BUSY already holds. Your entity records sit alongside it: GSTIN, PAN and TAN are kept updated by our team, with your registrations and licences by jurisdiction, and we incorporate in India. The same connection covers the tax you owe outside India, so one platform handles both sides.

We plan for that rather than around it. BUSY lists Windows 7 or later, an Intel Core i3 or equivalent, 4 GB of RAM, and .NET Framework 3.5 or above, so the data sits on your own hardware and there is no cloud instance to connect to. In practice the handoff is the one Indian finance teams already run for their auditors: agreed exports of transactions and trial balances on an agreed cadence. Raw software exports are fine rather than formatted statements. No engineering work on your side.

Yes, on both sides. BUSY manages multiple GSTINs in one company from the Power plan up, and keeps separate records per registration. Commenda reads all of them and keeps the exposure separate where it needs to be separate. Foreign registrations work the same way: each has its own thresholds, its own return, and its own filing frequency, and you switch between entities on one dashboard rather than running a tool per country.

No, because its reports are organised around the GSTINs on your company. Its GSTR-2A and GSTR-2B reconciliation matches your purchase records against what your suppliers filed, which is a check on registrations you already hold. A state or country you have sold into for two years without registering produces no row anywhere in BUSY. Commenda measures the transactions instead, against economic and physical thresholds in all 50 states and 70+ countries, and notifies you at 80% of a registration threshold.