What zybra accounting software price looks like once you count the things no pricing page lists — setup, time per invoice, and the errors a cheap system lets through. Plus a free plan that makes the first comparison easy.
The three ways GST software is priced
Per user, per month. Cheap to start, and it grows exactly as your team does. Fine if headcount is stable; unpleasant if it is not, and it quietly discourages giving people their own logins — which is bad for your audit trail.
Per invoice or per document. Rare but it exists. It prices your growth, and it makes you think about cost at the moment you should be thinking about the customer.
Per term, flat. One payment for a period, everything included. Predictable, and the model Billixo uses — bought for a fixed term, no auto-renewal, no card kept on file.
None is dishonest. But they behave very differently at three times your current size, and that is the number worth modelling before you commit.
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.
Why we do not publish competitors’ prices
Pages comparing zybra accounting 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.
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.
CGST, SGST and IGST — worked out, not chosen
Whether a sale attracts CGST and SGST or IGST is not a preference. It follows from the place of supply: same state as your registration means the tax splits into central and state halves, a different state means one integrated tax at the combined rate.
That sounds simple and goes wrong constantly, because it is a dropdown in most billing software and a dropdown is something a tired person clicks past. In Billixo the split is derived from the state on the customer record against the state on your registration, and it changes the moment either does.
The consequence of getting it wrong is real: an IGST invoice raised as CGST/SGST has to be credited and reissued, and if the return has already gone in, amended.
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.
Who it is built for
Small and mid-sized Indian businesses that are registered under GST and bill regularly. One person doing everything, or a counter with three people billing at once and an accountant who needs the month to close cleanly.
The design assumption throughout is that whoever raises the invoice is busy and is not a tax specialist. So the tax is computed rather than asked for, the compliance fields are populated rather than presented as questions, and the report the accountant wants is a download rather than a request.
Try it free — the free plan needs no card and does not expire.
The price, plainly
Free is ₹0 and stays ₹0. The paid plans are bought for a fixed term, paid once, with no auto-renewal and no card kept on file — when a term ends the account drops back to Free until you decide to buy again.
There is no per-invoice charge, no per-user surprise on the free plan, and no feature that is technically included but practically throttled. What the plan says you get is what you get.
Compare the plans on the home page, or just start free now and look at the ceiling from the inside.
Reliability, backups and getting your data out
Cloud billing software is only as good as its worst day. Two things matter more than any feature list: that your data is backed up somewhere you can reach, and that you can export it in a format something else can read.
Exports here are CSV, Excel and JSON, on every plan including the free one, covering customers, products, invoices and payments. That is the honest test of whether software respects you — not what it promises, but what it lets you take when you leave.
Frequently asked questions
Is there a refund if it does not suit me?
There is a money-back window on paid purchases — the current period is stated on the pricing section. More usefully, the free plan and the 14 days of full access mean you can answer the question before paying at all.
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 it really free?
Yes. The Free plan is ₹0, needs no card and has no expiry. It has volume limits and leaves out the paid conveniences — watermark-free PDFs, GST return exports, the AI features, extra logins — but the invoices it produces are real GST invoices, and you can export your data from it whenever you like.
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.
See it working on your own bills
The fastest way to judge billing software is to bill with it. Photograph one supplier invoice, raise one sales invoice, and look at the PDF your customer would receive.
Open the software demo → — free account, no card, about a minute to set up.
More details on the home page → — what it does, what it costs, and where the limits are.
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