7 signs your business has outgrown Tally
Tally is one of the best accounting tools ever made for Indian businesses. But accounting is only part of running a growing trading company. These are the signs you need more.
- Your margins live in Excel. Costings, factory quotes and price lists sit in spreadsheets next to Tally, and only one person understands them.
- You see the real margin after month-end. By then the order has shipped and the price cannot change.
- The same order is typed three times. Into an email, into Excel, then into Tally. Every copy is a chance for a mistake.
- Credit limits depend on memory. Someone has to remember to check before goods go out to a customer who already owes too much.
- Approvals happen on WhatsApp. Purchase orders and discounts are approved in chats nobody can audit later.
- You buy or sell in several currencies. Factory quotes in other currencies are converted by hand for every order.
- Month-end means late nights. Your best people spend evenings reconciling instead of selling or buying better.
What to do about it
Outgrowing Tally does not mean throwing it away overnight. The safest path is to keep Tally running while the work around it moves into one system, one area at a time: the sourcing desk first, then purchasing and credit control, then the books. Tally is retired only when the numbers match.
That is how BOEY is introduced: it starts beside your current system and takes over one module at a time. Read the step-by-step move.