Features/Billing/Purchase Bill Import

Coming in an updateIn testing now, and arriving in a software update.

A supplier's bill becomes a purchase.

Choose the supplier's PDF, or a photograph of a paper bill. It finds who sent it by the GSTIN, reads every line, proves the bill's own arithmetic, and hands you a purchase with its stock, ready to save.

Open it with 8R on the Bill and Purchase menu

NovaIncluded in Nova, or bought as an add-on.

Tax Invoice 09/34 Sunrise Lighting Works 03/09/2026
From06ZZZZZ6666Z1ZU→ the supplier, by its GSTIN
Billed to03ZZZZZ9999Z1ZIHaryana to Punjab: IGST
ItemQty × rateTaxablechecked
LED Panel Light60 × 248.0014,880.00✓
LED Batten80 × 152.0012,160.00✓
Ceiling Fan12 × 1,095.0013,140.00✓
Solar Lantern25 × 372.009,300.00✓
+ IGST 7,697.40 − 0.4057,177.00adds up ✓
A specimen bill, made from the demo company's own items and suppliers.
Import a Purchase Bill in Vertex ERP: Sunrise Lighting Works' PDF drawn on the left, and on the right the supplier found by GSTIN, bill 09/34 dated 03/09/2026, taxable 49,480.00, total 57,177.00, and 'The bill against itself: 7 checks agree'.
Bill 09/34 drawn beside what was read from it. Seven checks, and all seven agree.
On menu 8R

The bill, beside what was read from it.

You check the reading against the page itself, not against a memory of it. Anything that does not add up is marked before you go on.

  • The GSTIN says who sent itIts check digit is proved, and the party is found by it. If two carry the same GSTIN you choose; if none does, you create the supplier from the bill.
  • The arithmetic finds the columnsQuantity times rate must give the taxable value, and the lines must come to the bill's total. No two suppliers lay a bill out alike, so the sums decide.
  • Items it remembersWhat this supplier's wording meant last time is kept, so the second bill from them matches itself.
  • Tax heads from the two statesCGST and SGST, or IGST, follow where the supplier is and where you are, not what the paper happens to print.
From paper to purchase

One bill, start to finish.

The import reads and checks. The purchase itself is saved on the GST Purchases screen, like a bill you keyed, so the stock and the input tax go in exactly as they always do.

Read
  1. Choose the PDF or photo
  2. Supplier by GSTIN
  3. Lines to items
Save
  1. The sums checked
  2. GST Purchases
  3. Saved, with stock
A line for freight, packing or postage is taken as a charge, not as stock.
The careful parts

And the mistakes it will not let through.

  • The same bill twice is refused"Bill is already in the software", with a button to open the one already there, so its input tax is never claimed a second time.
  • Every line is answeredEach line goes to an item, a charge or a plain line of its own. Nothing is swept into a suspense heading.
  • HSN codes are checkedAgainst the master of 22,241 HSN and SAC codes that ships with the software.
  • Photographs stay on your PCCharacter recognition runs on your machine. It fetches its language file once, about 11 MB, and works offline after that.
  • An unsure reading is markedA figure on a photograph that was hard to read is flagged for you to look at, not taken on trust.
  • A password PDF opensThe password is used to open the bill and stored nowhere.
Where it lives

The screens around it.

Each one opens from its menu number and its letter.

Bills you receiveBill and Purchase menu 8

  • 8BGST PurchasesRecord a supplier bill and its input tax
  • 8RImport a Purchase BillRead a supplier’s PDF and turn it into a purchase, with its stock
  • 8MView All PurchasesEvery supplier bill entered — view, modify or delete

Master, in partMaster menu 1

  • 1BPartiesCustomers and suppliers, with GSTIN and state
  • 1CItem MasterGoods and services, with HSN and GST rate
  • 1GHSN / SAC LookupSearch 22,241 HSN and SAC codes
Free for 30 days

Bring in this week's supplier bills from their own PDFs.

The complete software, every module. On day thirty-one it asks for a licence key, and everything you entered stays exactly where it is.

Vertex ERP for Windows and MacFrom vertexerp.co.in
Windows
1.1.12 · 183 MB
Mac
Apple silicon
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