e-Invoices, e-way bills and GSTR-2B

Get the IRN and QR code on your B2B invoices, make e-way bills, and check your input tax credit against GSTR-2B.

e-Invoices, e-way bills and GSTR-2B matching are part of the Standard plan and above. They show under Sales › e-Invoices once your GSTIN is in Settings › GST.

e-Invoices

e-Invoicing applies to B2B invoices and credit notes when your turnover is over the government's limit. You can make them two ways. Choose under e-Invoices › How they are made.

JSON file (free)

1. Go to Sales › e-Invoices. The To do list shows B2B invoices and credit notes without an IRN.
2. Tick the invoices and click Download JSON for the portal.
3. On the e-invoice portal (einvoice1.gst.gov.in), use Bulk upload with that file.
4. Download the portal's result file and click Upload the portal's result here.

Each invoice gets its IRN, acknowledgement number and signed QR code. They print on the invoice PDF and show on the invoice's page.

Straight from here (Beta)

Through your GST provider (GSP) or the government's API, without files.

1. Ask your GST provider for API access, or register on the e-invoice portal under API registration. You get an API address, a client ID and secret, an API user name and password, and the e-invoice public key.
2. In How they are made, choose Straight from here, enter them and click Save & test the login. They are kept encrypted.
3. In the To do list, tick invoices and click Make e-invoices now.

If an invoice is refused, it moves to Failed with the portal's reason, and Admins and Accountants are told in the bell. Fix the invoice and try again.

Made on the portal by hand?

Open the invoice and use Enter the IRN by hand in its e-Invoice box.

Cancel an e-invoice

Open the invoice and use Cancel the e-invoice in its e-Invoice box: choose why (Duplicate, Data entry mistake, Order cancelled or Other) and click Cancel e-invoice. With Straight from here it is cancelled on the portal too; with JSON files, cancel it on the portal as well.

It can only be cancelled within 24 hours of making it. After that, make a credit note.

E-way bills

Needed when goods worth over 50,000 travel.

1. Open the invoice or delivery challan and fill in its Transport & e-way bill box: how it travels, the vehicle number (or the transporter's ID) and the distance in km.
2. Go to Sales › e-Invoices › E-way bills, tick the documents and click Download e-way bill JSON.
3. Upload it on ewaybillgst.gov.in, then upload the portal's result back here with Upload the portal's result.

The e-way bill number and its validity show on the document.

GSTR-2B matching

Check that your suppliers have filed the bills you are claiming input tax credit on.

1. Download your GSTR-2B for the month from the GST portal as a JSON file.
2. Go to Sales › e-Invoices › GSTR-2B matching and click Upload GSTR-2B (JSON).

Each bill is matched by the supplier's GSTIN and the Supplier bill number on your purchase bill. Amounts may differ by Rs 1. Click a tile to see its bills:

• Matched: in GSTR-2B and in your books, with the same tax
• Differs: in both, but the amounts or tax are different. Check the bill.
• Not in your books: in GSTR-2B, but you haven't entered the bill yet
• Not in GSTR-2B: your bills the supplier hasn't filed yet, or filed with another number or month. You can't claim their credit until they show in GSTR-2B, so remind the supplier.

After you correct a bill, click Match again.