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Glossary
Key Billing terms in one place.
Terms
- Business (tenant) — the company whose data you are working in; selected in the top bar.
- Party / customer — a person or company you bill.
- Item — a product or service in your catalog.
- Draft — an unissued, editable document shown as "Draft N".
- Issue — finalise a document: assign a number, snapshot totals/tax, and generate the file.
- Tax invoice — a GST sales invoice (revenue).
- Quotation / proforma — non-revenue documents used before billing.
- Credit note — reduces what a customer owes and reduces net sales.
- Debit note — increases what a customer owes and increases sales.
- CGST / SGST — intra-state GST split (each roughly half the tax).
- IGST — inter-state GST (the full line tax).
- TDS — tax deducted at source; reduces the invoice total.
- TCS — tax collected at source; adds to the invoice total.
- HSN / SAC — GST classification codes for goods / services.
- Paise — money is stored as integer paise (₹1 = 100 paise).
- VPA — a UPI virtual payment address (your UPI ID).
- Series — a numbering sequence with a prefix and next number.
- Entitlement — whether the business is licensed to use Billing.
- Permission — whether a user may perform an action.
- Dunning — retrying failed subscription charges.
- Audit trail — the log of billing actions and who performed them.
- Team seat — one accepted member slot on a business (owner excluded from the count).
- Supplier payment receipt — proof of payment issued to a vendor, shareable by link.