GST Software Price varies more than the products do. Here is how to compare it properly, and why the honest starting number here is ₹0.
The costs that are never on the pricing page
Setup. Hours to configure, plus whatever it costs to have someone do it if you cannot.
Time per invoice, forever. Thirty seconds saved on each of forty invoices a day is an hour a week. Over a year that dwarfs any licence in this market.
Errors. An invoice with the wrong tax split costs a credit note, a reissue, sometimes an amended return, and a phone call about a customer’s missing input credit.
Leaving. If the export is poor, the cost of a bad choice compounds because the exit is expensive. Test the export before you buy, not after.
The licence fee is usually the smallest of the four.
The costs that are not on any pricing page
- The second user. This is where most pricing steps up, and it is what most small businesses need within a year.
- Renewal, as against any first-year or introductory price.
- The edition you actually need, rather than the one that was quoted.
- Setup, data migration and training — real money for installed software, and usually quoted separately.
- Time per invoice. Thirty seconds against two minutes, across a year, costs more than any licence difference. Nobody invoices themselves for it.
- Errors the system lets through, paid for at return time in somebody's hours.
- Being late, which carries a per-day late fee per return plus interest on tax paid late.
- Getting your data out, if export turns out to be a paid feature.
How Billixo is priced
- Free plan — ₹0. No card, no expiry. Volume limits, one login, a watermark on the PDF, no GST return export and no AI features. Everything else works.
- Paid plans — bought for a term. One payment for the period, not a subscription.
- No auto-renewal. No card is kept on file. When a term ends the account settles back onto Free rather than stopping or charging.
- No per-invoice charge. Volume is a plan limit, not a meter.
- Team logins included on the paid plans rather than sold per seat.
- Export on every plan, free included — CSV, Excel and JSON.
- Fourteen days of the full paid product on every new account, free, so you know what you are buying before you buy it.
- A money-back window on paid purchases, stated on the pricing section.
Working out what you should actually pay
- Count your invoices in a normal month, and in your busiest month. The busy month is the number that matters.
- Count how many people need to raise an invoice or see the numbers. That decides whether per-user pricing works for you.
- Decide whether you need the GST return export monthly, or whether your CA assembles it anyway.
- Decide whether the AI features — bill scanning especially — would actually save you time. If you enter more than twenty purchase bills a month, they will.
- Start on the free plan and see which limit you hit first. That limit is what you are buying, and nothing else.
Free, cheap, and expensive — in the long run
The cheapest software in this market is not the one with the lowest price. It is the one that stops you making the expensive mistakes: wrong tax heads, broken invoice series, a return that does not reconcile, purchases entered twice.
That is why the free plan here is a real plan rather than a demo. If a ₹0 tier removes those mistakes for a small business, the business should be allowed to stay on it — and upgrade when its own growth, not a countdown, makes the case.
Why we do not publish competitors’ prices
Pages comparing gst software price usually list every vendor’s pricing in a table. Those tables are almost always out of date, and being wrong about somebody else’s prices is both unfair to them and useless to you.
Ours are on the home page and are current by definition. For anybody else’s, go to their site. Any comparison table on a vendor’s own website — including this one — should be read with that in mind.
HSN and SAC codes, and how many digits you need
Every line on a tax invoice needs an HSN code for goods or a SAC for services. How many digits depends on your aggregate turnover in the preceding financial year — smaller businesses report fewer digits than larger ones, and B2B and B2C invoices are treated differently.
Because the requirement is tied to turnover and has been tightened in stages, the practical answer is to store the fullest code you can against each product once, and let the software report at the level required. A six-digit code can always be truncated; a two-digit one cannot be expanded.
Billixo keeps the code on the product record and carries it onto every line automatically, and its AI HSN lookup will suggest one from a plain description when you genuinely do not know.
Invoice numbering: one unbroken series per year
The invoice number has to be consecutive, unique within the financial year, and no more than sixteen characters of letters, numbers, slashes and hyphens. Gaps invite questions. Duplicates cause them.
This is the single most common reason a spreadsheet-based billing setup fails an audit: two people billing on two machines, both starting from the last number they remember. A system that issues the number centrally cannot make that mistake.
The series restarts on 1 April, and Billixo restarts it for you rather than waiting to be told.
Who this actually suits
It fits a business that raises between a handful and a few hundred invoices a month and would rather not think about GST between the 10th and the 20th: traders, distributors, retail counters, workshops, agencies, consultants, contractors and manufacturers who sell on invoice.
It fits less well if you need deep manufacturing costing, multi-currency consolidation, or payroll — those are different products, and pretending otherwise wastes your evaluation time.
If you are not sure which side of that line you fall on, the free plan answers it in an afternoon at no cost. Start free now.
Free, and what it costs you instead
Free software usually costs you something that is not money: your data held hostage, an export that does not work, ads inside your invoice, or a "free" tier so narrow it is a demo with a login screen.
The line here is drawn differently. Export works on the free plan — CSV, Excel and JSON — because data you cannot get out is not data you own. The invoice is a real compliant invoice, not a sample. The limits are on volume and on the conveniences, not on whether the thing works.
Start free now. If it does not suit you, take your data with you.
Where your data lives
On the server this platform is installed on. Every record carries a company identifier and every query is scoped to the signed-in account at the framework level, so one business cannot read another’s data by any route, including a crafted one.
Sign-in is rate limited, sessions can be restricted to one device per user, and passwords are stored hashed. Exports are available on every plan, free included: if you ever want to leave, your data leaves with you.
Frequently asked questions
What is the cheapest way to run GST billing legally?
A free plan that produces complete, compliant invoices. That is genuinely enough for a small business — the paid features here are conveniences and reports, not compliance.
How much does Billixo cost?
The Free plan is ₹0 with no card and no expiry. Paid plans are bought for a fixed term with a single payment; current prices are on the pricing section of the home page, which is the only place they are guaranteed current.
Is there a monthly subscription?
No. Plans are bought for a term and paid once. Nothing auto-renews, and no card is kept on file — when a term ends the account settles back onto the Free plan until you choose to buy again.
Do I need to install anything?
No. It runs in a browser, on a laptop, desktop or phone, so there is nothing to install, nothing to update and nothing tied to one machine. If the office computer dies, you sign in from another one and everything is there.
Are the invoices valid for GST?
Yes. Every invoice carries the fields Rule 46 requires — GSTIN, HSN/SAC on each line, place of supply, the correct CGST/SGST or IGST split, and a consecutive invoice series that restarts each financial year.
Start free, decide later
You do not have to choose a plan to begin. Start on Free, use it for as long as it suits you, and upgrade only when a limit actually gets in your way — never automatically, and never because a countdown ran out.
Open the software demo → — or create the free account from the same page.
Read the full details → on the home page, including pricing and the AI features.
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