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What changed in Vertex ERP, written the same way the software's own update screen writes it. 20 releases since 4 August 2026, newest first.

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Vertex 1.1.6 is the current version.

A version only appears here if it reached customers. Work built between two releases is delivered by the next one, and that release says so.

1.1.6

19 September 2026 8 changes

Also delivers the work built as 1.1.5, which did not go out on its own.

BACKUPS TAKEN ON THIS VERSION DO NOT OPEN IN 1.1.4 OR EARLIER. Before installing, take a backup on the version you have now and keep it — that one still opens in any earlier version.
THE BOX AFTER SAVING A BILL NOW MENTIONS THE E-WAY BILL ONLY WHEN ONE IS ACTUALLY NEEDED over ₹50,000 of goods, as the law requires — instead of on every bill, over the limit or under it.
DESPATCH DETAILS AND A CALCULATION BOTH OPEN AFTER EVERY SAVE goods bill or service bill alike. The calculation is read-only — gross, discount, taxable amount, tax, cess and round off down to the net — and matches the printed bill exactly, because both are worked out the same way.
A BARCODE LABEL CAN CARRY YOUR OWN NUMBER not only a number this software makes up. Type it on the print row the same way you already can on the Item Master's own Barcodes panel.
BARCODE LABELS ACTUALLY RESIZE NOW Code width, Code height and Font size used to leave the barcode's own size almost unchanged; they now size it directly, so a label set larger or smaller on screen prints that size.
A ROLL CAN PRINT TWO OR MORE LABELS ACROSS A new "Labels across" setting on the layout groups labels into pages that many wide, for a roll that is really several labels side by side rather than one after another. Every layout already saved keeps printing one across, exactly as before, until this is changed.

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THE PRINTED TAX INVOICE IS BIGGER AND BOLDER TO READ MORE EASILY. Every size on the printed bill is a little larger and the text is bold; the buyer's name, the despatch block and the GST/HSN table are bigger still. The HSN, GST%, Qty and UOM columns are a little wider so the bigger figures do not crowd each other. Only the tax invoice changes — quotations, sales orders, purchase orders, delivery challans, goods receipts and bills printed on the 80mm roll all print exactly as before.
A BILL ALREADY CLOSE TO A NEW PAGE MAY NOW TAKE ONE MORE SHEET Because the text is bigger, an invoice with many lines that already almost filled its pages may need one extra sheet where it did not before. Most bills are unaffected.

1.1.4

17 September 2026 4 changes

AN E-WAY BILL RECORDED AS CANCELLED BY MISTAKE CAN BE MADE LIVE AGAIN On the E-Way Bill screen, a bill whose e-way bill was recorded as cancelled now says so and offers "Make it live again" — for when the cancel was pressed by mistake and the portal still shows the e-way bill as active. Nothing is sent to the portal. An e-way bill the portal itself cancelled from Vertex ERP stays cancelled, because the portal does not bring it back.
SAVING THE NUMBER AGAIN NO LONGER FAILS When an e-way bill had been recorded as cancelled on a bill, looking that same number up at the portal and saving it stopped with a long "Failed query" message. It now saves, and the bill's e-way bill is live again. A number that belongs to another bill is named in plain words instead.
BOTH CANCEL BUTTONS ASK FIRST "Cancel" at the portal and "Record the cancellation" now open a window naming the e-way bill and saying what will happen — the first really cancels it at the government portal, the second only writes it down in Vertex ERP — with "No, keep it" to back out.
CANCEL IS GREYED ONCE THE PORTAL'S 24 HOURS ARE OVER The portal cancels an e-way bill only within 24 hours of making it. After that the Cancel buttons are greyed and say why, and recording a cancellation warns that the portal most likely still holds the e-way bill as live.

1.1.3

17 September 2026 21 changes

Also delivers the work built as 1.1.1, 1.1.2, which did not go out on its own.

AN E-WAY BILL CAN BE SENT TO THE PORTAL FROM THE BILL ITSELF When the e-way bill connection is set up, the E-Way Bill window opened from a bill — its E-Way Bill button, or "Raise the e-way bill" after saving — now offers Upload and the portal's own panel, as the E-Way Bill screen under GST Reports always did. Until now, from a bill it behaved as though there were no connection, even when GST Portal Connection said Connected.
THE DISTANCE CAN BE LEFT TO THE PORTAL Beside Distance (km) the E-Way Bill panel now says what 0 does: the portal works the distance out from the two pincodes and sets the validity from it. Once the bill is made, the distance the portal worked out is shown beside its validity.
THE VEHICLE NUMBER IS ASKED FOR AFTER SAVING When a bill of goods is saved, the box that follows now opens "How the goods went" with the cursor in Vehicle no. — type it and press Ctrl+S, and it prints on the bill. On the bill screen, "Fill despatch & other info" is now a button you can see.
THE PRINTED BILL NAMES THE ITEM Each line of the printed bill, and of its Excel copy, now starts with the item's name, followed by any words typed in Description — "LABEL SMARK", or just "MDF" when nothing was added. Until now the paper printed only the Description, so a line whose words had been changed lost its item's name.
DESCRIPTION IS FOR EXTRA WORDS ONLY On the sales bill, picking an item no longer copies its name into Description — the box stays empty for anything you want to add after the name, and a saved bill opened again shows only those words.
DESPATCH DETAILS OPEN IN A WINDOW On the sales bill, "Fill despatch & other info" now opens its own window over the bill instead of opening inside it and pushing the item lines down. Ctrl+S keeps what you typed on the bill, Esc closes without keeping it, and the bill shows the vehicle, transport and G.R. beside the button once they are filled.

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THE UNIT CAN BE CHANGED ON THE BILL The sales bill has a Unit column after Qty. It fills in with the item's own unit as before; press a key in it to choose another from the government's list of units — BOX instead of PCS, say — and that is the unit the bill prints and the e-way bill declares. Modify changes it on a saved bill too. Stock still counts the quantity in the item's own unit.
THE E-WAY BILL NAMES THE ITEM TOO Each product on the e-way bill now goes to the portal with the item's name as its name and the words typed in Description as its description, and our printed e-way bill shows both.
BACKUPS TAKEN ON THIS VERSION DO NOT OPEN IN 1.1.0 OR EARLIER. Before installing, take a backup on the version you have now and keep it — that one still opens in any version.
AN E-WAY BILL MADE ON THE PORTAL CAN BE PUT ON ITS BILL From the bill's menu choose "Enter e-way bill number" (H), and type the number, the date it was made and the date it is valid until, as the portal shows them. No vehicle or distance is asked for. It works on older bills too — including one the E-Way Bill screen cannot make a bill for, such as a bill with no HSN on a line, which now says why beside the box instead of showing only the message.
THE E-WAY BILL NUMBER NOW PRINTS ON THE BILL "E-Way Bill No." on the printed invoice used to stay blank; it now shows the number and the date the portal made it, on the full page and the half page. A bill with no e-way bill prints the blank line on the full page as before, and leaves it off the half page. A cancelled e-way bill is not printed.
BOOKS BROUGHT ACROSS FROM YOUR OLD SOFTWARE KEEP THEIR E-WAY BILL NUMBERS A bill that had an e-way bill number there now shows it on the E-Way Bill screen and on the printed bill. The old software kept only the number, so no date is shown beside it — the dates are on the portal. Books brought across before this version are not changed: type the number in from the bill's menu (H).
THE E-WAY BILL PRINT SAYS WHOSE COPY IT IS AND OPENS THE PORTAL'S. The e-way bill sheet printed from this software now says under its heading that it was printed from Vertex ERP and that the official copy is the portal's. Beside it, and on the E-Way Bill screen, "Open the portal's print" opens the portal's own print page and lists what it asks for — the number, its date, your GSTIN and the bill number — to copy across; the portal then sends an OTP to your mobile.
AN OLD BILL'S E-WAY BILL NUMBER CAN BE LOOKED UP AT THE PORTAL Where the e-way bill connection is set up, "Enter e-way bill number" has "Look it up at the portal": it asks the portal which e-way bill it holds for that bill number and fills in the number and dates. Check them and press Save — nothing is saved until you do. If the bill was entered on the portal under a different number, change the number and ask again.
THE TOTALS ON A PRINTED BILL ADD UP AGAIN On a bill whose rates include tax, the tax used to print a second time as a discount (100 × 5 at 18% showed "Discount.Amt. (76.27)"); such a bill now lists Taxable Amount, the tax and the round off, which add up to the net amount, and names any discount it really gave. On other bills, a discount taken off the whole bill was printed twice; it is now printed once.
AN E-WAY BILL NOW CARRIES THE BILL NUMBER AS THE BILL PRINTS IT The e-way bill used to name the bill with a short year — G27/2026-27 — while the printed bill says G27/2026-2027, so the two papers travelling together did not match, and "Look it up at the portal" could not find a bill your old software had filed. Everything on the E-Way Bill screen now uses the printed number: what is sent to the portal, the file for the portal, the list, the lookup and the details for the portal's print. An e-way bill already made is not changed.
LOOKING A BILL UP AT THE PORTAL CHECKS IT IS THE SAME SALE The portal can hold an e-way bill under the same bill number for a different sale — for example one made from your old software, whose numbers ran differently. The lookup now compares the date, the buyer's GSTIN and the amount with this bill, and fills nothing in when they differ, saying what did not match.
A BILL IS SHOWN UNTIL YOU PRESS MODIFY On the bill screen, Next, Prior, First and Last — and opening a bill from the list — used to open each bill ready for changing, with every box live. The bill is now only shown ("Showing G27 — press Modify to change it"), its boxes greyed and Save off; press Modify to change it. Modify on the list of bills, and Edit on a bill's own page, still open it ready for changing. Add starts a new bill as before.
AN E-WAY BILL MADE ON THE PORTAL CAN NOW BE PRINTED FROM HERE On the E-Way Bill screen, a bill whose e-way bill number was typed in or looked up now shows "Transport details — for our printed copy": type the vehicle, distance and transporter as the portal holds them and press "Save the details", and Print gives our copy — the goods and addresses from the bill, the transport details as typed. The sheet says on it that the e-way bill was made outside Vertex ERP and that the official copy is the portal's. Nothing is sent to the portal; "Update Part B at the portal" is still what changes the portal's own record.
THE PRINTED E-WAY BILL CARRIES ITS NUMBER AS A BARCODE at the foot, as the portal's own copy does.
A BILL FOR SERVICES IS NO LONGER MARKED AS NEEDING AN E-WAY BILL An e-way bill is for goods on the move, but the E-Way Bill screen marked every sale over ₹50,000 "Needed", services included. It now looks at the goods on the bill: a bill of services alone is never marked, and on a bill with both, only the goods and their tax are counted against ₹50,000. The same rule decides the warning on the list of bills. A line typed without an item counts as goods unless its HSN is a services code.

1.1.0

16 September 2026 8 changes

Also delivers the work built as 1.0.99, which did not go out on its own.

BACKUPS TAKEN ON THIS VERSION DO NOT OPEN IN 1.0.99 OR EARLIER. Before installing, take a backup on the version you have now and keep it — that one still opens in any version.
A CANCELLED BILL CAN NOW BE DELETED until the GSTR-1 for its month is filed — from the bill (Alt+X) or from the row menu in All Sales Invoices (D). If it is the last bill in its book, the next bill you save takes its number. A bill whose e-way bill or e-invoice was generated on the portal is kept, because the portal holds that number.
THE DELETE MESSAGE SAYS WHAT HAPPENS TO THE NUMBER taken by the next bill when it is the last one, or left as a gap when later bills exist.
"INCLUDES TAX" NOW CHANGES THE FIGURES ON THE BILL SCREEN. With the box ticked, the screen still added the tax on top — 100 × 5 at 18% showed 590 — while the bill it saved came to 500. The line and the totals now take the tax out of the rate as you type, on a new bill and when modifying one, and the help line under the header changes with the box.
A BILL BOOK CAN OPEN ITS BILLS WITH "INCLUDES TAX" TICKED. On Invoice Series (Master .1 → Z, or Bill and Purchase .8 → S), tick "Rates on its bills include tax" on the book you bill at shelf prices; a new bill in that book starts with the box ticked, and a bill in any other book starts unticked. You can still change it on any one bill, and a bill already saved keeps what it was saved with.
THE E-WAY BILL FILE NOW UPLOADS ON THE PORTAL The file from E-Way Bill → JSON file left out the fields that were blank on your bill — transporter, sub-supply description, second address line — and the portal stopped with "Object reference not set to an instance of an object". It now writes every field, blank ones included, in the order the portal's own tool uses.

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CHANGING THE ITEM ON A LINE CHANGES ITS HSN Picking one item and then changing the line to another — or clearing it and picking again — kept the first item's HSN, unit and GST rate. The line now takes the new item's. Anything you typed by hand on the line is still kept. This applies to bills, purchases, debit and credit notes, and orders.
THE ITEM WINDOW SHOWS WHICH ITEM IS WHICH When you choose an item on a bill, purchase, note or order, each row now shows its group, HSN/SAC, whether it is goods or a service, GST%, rate, stock in hand and unit — so two items with the same name can be told apart.

1.0.98

16 September 2026 14 changes

Also delivers the work built as 1.0.96, 1.0.97, which did not go out on its own.

BACKUPS TAKEN ON THIS VERSION DO NOT OPEN IN 1.0.97 OR EARLIER. Before installing, take a backup on the version you have now and keep it — that one still opens in any version.
THE TOP OF THE BILL SET FOR EACH PAPER. Invoice Print Setup → Numbers → Heading on the bill has one set for a full or half page and one for a thermal roll: where the logo sits (left of the name, on top, on the right, the logo alone, or the name alone), how tall the logo prints, and how big the name prints. Changing the A4 bill no longer changes the roll. A picture of each heading at its printed size sits under its settings.
THE YEAR AFTER THE BILL NUMBER CAN BE TURNED OFF Bills print G22/2026-2027; a series that already carries the year, like T/26-27/, printed it twice. Switch off "Print the financial year after the bill number" under the invoice series and the bill prints T/26-27/62.
NUMBER BOXES ON INVOICE PRINT SETUP TAKE WHAT YOU TYPE A figure such as 12 in a box that starts at 10 can be typed straight in; it used to vanish at the first digit.
CHOOSE THE BILL BOOK WHEN YOU RAISE A BILL If you keep more than one invoice series (Master .1 → Invoice Series), GST Tax Invoice opens a numbered window first: press 1, 2 … and the bill is numbered in that book, each book counting on by itself. The book stays chosen for every bill after; press the box beside Inv. No. to change it. With one book, nothing changes.
A STARTING NUMBER ON AN INVOICE SERIES NOW COUNTS The first bill in a new book takes the number set on it.

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ALL SALES INVOICES ONE BOOK AT A TIME. A Book row — All books, then each book with bills in the period — sits under All / GST invoices / Manual bills, and B opens the same numbered window. The totals, the printout and the exports follow the book on screen, and List from a bill opens on the book it is being raised in.
PRINT ASKS BEFORE IT PRINTS Print, P and Save as PDF open a window first, with the bill numbers from and to, and one box for the copies: 1 the original, 2 the duplicate, 3 the triplicate, 1-2 the first two, 1,2,3 all three. Enter moves from box to box and prints from the last; Esc prints nothing; Preview shows exactly those sheets first. A company that prints one copy can now print its duplicate too.
BACKUPS TAKEN ON THIS VERSION DO NOT OPEN IN 1.0.96 OR EARLIER. Before installing, take a backup on the version you have now and keep it — that one still opens in any version.
EACH BILL BOOK PRINTS ITS OWN WAY On Invoice Series, a book can print the company logo or leave it off, and print on a layout of its own; anything left as "As Invoice Print Setup" follows that screen. Bills brought across from your old books print in their book too. Changing the layout beside Print on a bill changes its book's layout when the book has one of its own.
CREDIT AND DEBIT NOTES USE THEIR OWN BOOKS A credit-note or debit-note series on Invoice Series now numbers the notes: with one such book, notes are numbered in it; with two or more, Debit & Credit Notes asks which when you press Add, with the same numbered window as a bill. The number a note will take is shown before you save it.
INVOICE SERIES IS ALSO ON BILL AND PURCHASE .8 → S, beside Invoice Print Setup, so everything about how a bill is numbered and printed is in one place. It stays on Master .1 → Z as well.
THE SUPPORT EMAIL IS NOW support@vertexerp.co.in, on the home screen and in Help .9 → About, the same address as on our website.
ALSO NEW SINCE 1.0.95 — choosing the bill book when you raise a bill, All Sales Invoices one book at a time, and Print asking which bills and copies before it prints. The 1.0.96 row below has the detail.

1.0.95

15 September 2026 11 changes

BACKUPS TAKEN ON THIS VERSION DO NOT OPEN IN 1.0.94 OR EARLIER. Before installing, take a backup on the version you have now and keep it — that one still opens in any version.
A WARNING ON A PARTY Type a note on a customer or supplier in the Account Master, under Terms, and it opens in a window the moment that party is chosen on a sale, a purchase, a note or an order. Enter or Esc carries on with the bill.
A CREDIT LIMIT ON A CUSTOMER in the same place. Saving a credit sale that takes them past it shows the limit, what they owed before, this bill, what they will owe and how far over that is. Enter saves anyway; Esc goes back to the bill. Leave it blank for no limit.
FOUR DISCOUNTS ON A LINE TAKEN ONE AFTER ANOTHER. The sales bill has a % box for each discount named in Invoice Settings, so 10 then 5 takes 14.5% off. A line giving two or more prints each on the bill, one under the other. A bill saved earlier keeps its discount exactly as it was.
LONG REPORTS KEEP THEIR HEADINGS AND TOTAL ON SCREEN On the A/c Statement, the Trial Balance and reports laid out like them, the column headings stay at the top and the TOTAL row at the bottom while you scroll, and ↑ ↓ move down the rows of a statement straight away.
KEYS OF THEIR OWN ON THREE REPORTS Balance Sheet: F2 Trading and P&L, F5 Balance Sheet, F6 the next schedule, F7 Options, F8 Debtors list, F9 Creditors list. All Sales Invoices: F2 Period, F5 All, F6 GST invoices, F7 Manual bills, F8 Add, F9 Find — Alt+A and Alt+F still work. Outstanding: F2 As at, F6 allocate oldest bill first, F8 Owed to you, F9 You owe.

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IN YOUR PROGRAM SINCE 1.0.64, AND NOT LISTED HERE UNTIL NOW — Chart Reports: nine standard charts of your books, and charts you set up yourself.
SINCE 1.0.64 — an Options window on F7 on the reports: four panels (Based on, Selection, Order, Details) with a box to search them. A set of choices can be saved under a name, and the key shows a dot while anything differs from the ordinary.
SINCE 1.0.64 — Outstanding ages bills in slabs you type yourself, in that Options window.
SINCE 1.0.64 — the window for choosing a party or an account shows the town and the balance beside the code, name and GSTIN, so two parties with the same name are told apart.
SINCE 1.0.64 — the menu on a bill offers View, Print / Save as PDF, Send, Edit, Credit note against this, e-Way Bill, e-Invoice, Remind the party, Interest, the party's ledger, Cancel and Delete — only the ones allowed on that bill are shown.

Also delivers the work built as 1.0.76, 1.0.77, 1.0.78, 1.0.79, 1.0.80, 1.0.81, 1.0.82, 1.0.83, 1.0.84, 1.0.85, 1.0.86, 1.0.87, 1.0.88, 1.0.89, 1.0.90, 1.0.91, 1.0.92, 1.0.93, which did not go out on its own.

BACKUPS TAKEN ON THIS VERSION DO NOT OPEN IN 1.0.93 OR EARLIER. Before installing, take a backup on the version you have now and keep it — that one still opens in any version.
THE INVOICE SERIES CAN BE UP TO TEN CHARACTERS A series with the year written into it, like T/26-27/, can now be the one every new sale takes, so bills carry on from your old book's own numbers. With "Put the financial year in the series" switched on it stays at six, so the whole bill number still fits the GST portal.
BOOKS BROUGHT ACROSS FROM ANOTHER PROGRAM KEEP MORE A party's contact person, legal name, Aadhaar, district and TCS setting come across, and accounts that were closed in the old program come across closed — after their bills are in, so none of those bills is left out.
A GSTR-2A downloaded from the portal can now be KEPT for its month. Open that month again and it is there, with the date it was fetched beside it — no second download, and the portal is not asked again.
This is worth more than it sounds: the portal has no single call for a GSTR-2A, so every download of one costs eleven separate requests. Keeping it pays that once.
The kept statement can be read back and reconciled against your purchases at any time, and DELETED when you want a fresh one. The delete is always on the screen while a month is kept, and it asks once, naming how many documents go.

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Deleting removes the portal\u2019s own statement and nothing of yours \u2014 no entry, no posting, no balance changes.
A GSTR-2A keeps changing as suppliers file late, so the screen says when what it holds was fetched. Downloading again replaces that month.
The Delete on the GSTR-2B screen no longer disappears once you reconcile. It was drawn only while nothing was on screen \u2014 which is the opposite of when you want it \u2014 and it now stays for as long as a 2B is kept for that month.
It also appears the moment you press Keep, instead of waiting until you leave the month and come back.
The GSTR-2A screen no longer says its reader has never been checked against a real 2A. It has been. What it says instead is the limit that is still real: the B2B invoices are read, and credit notes, imports and TDS credit inside a 2A are not read yet.
The GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B screens can now ASK THE PORTAL whether a return has already been filed. One press covers the whole financial year, and unlike everything else on that screen it needs no OTP sign-in.
Where the portal has it, the screen offers to record it with the portal\u2019s own ARN and filing date already filled in. It is still your press: recording a period LOCKS it, so nothing is written on the portal\u2019s word alone.
GST portal access no longer keeps our gateway keys on your PC. The connection screen now asks only for what is yours \u2014 your GSTIN, your gst.gov.in user name and the one-time password sign-in \u2014 and the calls go through Vertex ERP\u2019s own server, which holds the gateway credentials.
Your e-invoice and e-way bill credentials are untouched: NIC requires the business itself to create those, so they stay yours and stay on your machine.
IMPORTANT: a backup taken on this version will not restore into 1.0.74 or earlier.
FIXED: in a selection window opened from inside a dialog \u2014 picking the product on a Bill of Material, an item or an account on the screens that ask inside a window \u2014 the keyboard did nothing. You could not type to search, the arrow keys would not move the highlight, and Enter would not choose. Only the mouse worked. It works again.
Escape in one of those windows used to close the whole dialog behind it, throwing away what you had already keyed. It now closes just the list; press it again to leave the dialog.
Both faults arrived in 1.0.72 and were on every screen that asks for something inside a window \u2014 fourteen of them, the Item Master and Voucher screens among them.
On the Bill of Material grid, a column that does not apply to a line is now a dash with the reason on it, instead of a box that looks typable and is not. Typing into one of those boxes used to put the digits in the column beside it.
FIXED: in a selection window opened from inside a dialog \u2014 picking the product on a Bill of Material, or an item or an account on any screen that asks for one inside a window \u2014 the keyboard did nothing at all. You could not type to search, the arrow keys would not move the highlight, and Enter would not choose. Only the mouse worked. It works again.
Escape in one of those windows used to close the whole dialog behind it, throwing away what you had already keyed. It now closes just the list; press it again to leave the dialog.
Both faults arrived in 1.0.72 and affected every screen that asks for something inside a window \u2014 fourteen of them, the Item Master and Voucher screens among them.
On the Bill of Material grid, a column that does not apply to a line is now a dash with the reason on it, instead of a box that looks typable and is not. Typing into one of those boxes used to put the digits into the column beside it.
The schema does not move, so this restores both ways with 1.0.72.
IMPORTANT: a backup taken on this version will NOT restore into 1.0.78 or anything earlier. The books move forward four steps and cannot be taken back.
GST portal access no longer keeps our gateway keys on your PC. The connection screen asks only for what is yours \u2014 your GSTIN, your gst.gov.in user name and the one-time password sign-in \u2014 and the calls travel through Vertex ERP\u2019s own server. Your e-invoice and e-way bill credentials are untouched: NIC requires the business itself to create those, so they stay yours and stay on your machine.
Portal filing and downloads is now a MODULE you buy for a company, separate from every plan. Preparing a return, printing it and uploading it on the portal by hand are unchanged and are in every edition \u2014 what the module buys is the software reaching the portal for you.
Blocked credit under section 17(5) is tracked. A purchase can be marked ineligible \u2014 a motor vehicle, food and beverages, works contract \u2014 and the credit you claim leaves it out, which the return could not do before.
The GST portal\u2019s THIRD ledger, the liability register, is read and shown. This software only ever showed the cash and credit ledgers.
A GSTR-2A downloaded from the portal can now be KEPT for its month, with the date it was fetched beside it. Open that month again and it is there \u2014 no second download. It can be read back, reconciled against your purchases at any time, and deleted when you want a fresh one.
The GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B screens can ASK THE PORTAL whether a return has already been filed. One press covers the whole financial year.
GSTR-3B can be filed from the software, in the three steps the portal itself uses: put it on the portal, ask for the code it sends to your phone, then offset and file. NOTE: no return has yet been filed through it \u2014 keep the printed sheet and check the portal afterwards until you have seen it work once.
FIXED: in a selection window opened from inside a dialog \u2014 picking the product on a Bill of Material, or an item or an account on any screen that asks inside a window \u2014 the keyboard did nothing at all. Typing, the arrow keys and Enter were all dead, and Escape closed the whole dialog. It works again. This arrived in 1.0.72, so it affects anybody updating from it.
FIXED: when something could not be saved, the screen showed a database statement \u2014 with your supplier\u2019s name, their GSTIN and the amounts in it \u2014 and never said what was actually wrong. It now answers in a sentence, and repeats none of the row.
A PC that would not open Vertex ERP at all now opens it. After Windows was reinstalled, a profile moved, or an administrator reset the password, the program could no longer read the key it had stored and stopped with an error instead of asking for your password. It asks now.
IMPORTANT: a backup taken on this version will NOT restore into 1.0.79 or anything earlier.
The Balance Sheet now reads the way an accountant expects. Sundry debtors, sundry creditors, advances to suppliers, customer advances and fixed assets each show ONE line with their total and \u201cas per list attached\u201d or \u201cas per schedule\u201d, instead of every party on the face of the statement. Press that line and the list opens. Everything else \u2014 the capital account, the tax heads, cash and bank \u2014 still names its accounts, which is what the printed statements you are used to also do.
If you prefer it as it was: Options \u2192 \u201cShow every account on the balance sheet\u201d puts every party back on the face, and the lists stay on their own tabs.
Opening an account from Dr.List, Cr.List, Advance to Supplier, Customer Advance, the Fixed Asset register or the Capital Schedule now opens THAT PARTY\u2019S account statement. Before, a row could not be opened at all, and the menu behind it pointed at the trial balance.
The Balance Sheet options now do something you can see. Unticking a schedule takes its tab off the screen and its sheet out of the exported workbook, and the statement stops saying a list is attached when it is not. Before, the ticks reached the Excel file and nothing else.
TEXT SIZE is now a setting \u2014 Normal, Large or Larger \u2014 beside the colour picker, remembered for this PC. Everything grows together, so nothing on a crowded screen is cut off, and printed documents are not affected at all.
The row of statement links across the top of the final accounts pages is now one button. It says which statement you are on; press it and all of them are listed with the same letters the menu uses. Those two or three lines of tabs were taking room from the statement underneath.
The GSTIN verification and e-way bill screens no longer ask for a Client ID, a Client secret or a registered e-mail. Those belong to Vertex ERP\u2019s own provider account and never belonged on your PC. What each screen still asks for is what is genuinely yours \u2014 for the e-way bill, the API user name and password you created on the e-way bill portal.
Any of those keys left in your books from an earlier version are removed when this version opens them.
The key panel down the right \u2014 F2 Period, F3 Company and the rest \u2014 can be FOLDED AWAY with the arrow at its top, on every screen. Its keys move to the strip along the bottom, so nothing is lost, and the report gets the width. Press the arrow again to bring it back.
The row of statement links across the top of the final accounts can also be folded, to short codes \u2014 TB, BS, CF. All eleven stay on screen and take one line instead of three. Hover any of them for the full name.
Escape now steps back one place at a time on the Balance Sheet. Open a party from the Dr.List and Escape returns you to the Dr.List, then to the statement, then to the menu \u2014 instead of jumping straight out. The Back arrow does the same thing as the key, on every screen that has its own.
ATTENDANCE FROM THE FINGERPRINT MACHINE On the Attendance screen, choose the file the machine writes and the company, and the whole month appears \u2014 every person, every day \u2014 before anything is saved. Four rules sit at the top beside their own answer: what counts as a full day, below how long a day stops being a day, how overtime rounds, and which dates the factory was closed. Change one and the table moves.
Nothing is written until you press Import, and it stops at the daily register \u2014 totalling the days is still a separate press, so an import never quietly changes what somebody is about to be paid. People are matched on the employee code, never the name.
NOTE: the salary run does not yet pay overtime. The hours are recorded and shown; the salary is worked out without them.
NOT in this version: the larger type. It works on screen and it also changed how many pages a bill prints on, which the printed-invoice check caught. It is held back until that is right \u2014 a text size must never change a customer\u2019s invoice.
THE GST PORTAL SIGN-IN WORKS AGAIN Six calls — asking for the OTP, signing in with it, fetching GSTR-2B, fetching GSTR-2A, reading the electronic ledgers, and checking which returns are already filed — answered “this copy is not activated with a licence key yet” on a machine that plainly was. Nothing was wrong with the licence; the calls simply stopped carrying it.
THE ATTENDANCE FILE NOW ADDS ITS OWN PEOPLE Read the fingerprint machine’s file and anybody in it who is not yet on the payroll can be added straight from that screen, under the machine’s own number as their code — sixty-five people in one press instead of sixty-five typed in by hand. However many the file holds is however many it offers.
It is a press of its own and never part of Import, so a payroll can never grow behind an import. Pay basis and bank details are left empty for you to fill in, and a salary run still skips anybody who has none — by name, so nobody is quietly paid nothing.
THE HOME PAGE IS A SMALL BOARD OF TILES and it no longer scrolls. Ten of the screens you open every day, on three tabs — Main, Stock and Favourites — in the middle of a page that now fits the window. Arrow keys move, Enter opens.
And a row of switches along the top of it: Notice Board, GST This Month, Records and the Cash Summary can each be hidden or brought back, on the page itself. Prefer the old full menu? One press of “Full menu” puts it back exactly as it was, and the choice is remembered per PC.
“SOMETHING WENT WRONG” ON A BILL OF MATERIAL NOW SAYS WHAT IS WRONG. Two ordinary mistakes produced that message and nothing else: giving a product a second recipe under a code it already uses, and typing a wastage above 100. Both are refused by name now, naming the line and the item.
NOTE: the salary run still does not pay overtime. The hours are recorded and shown; the salary is worked out without them.
NOT in this version: the larger type. It works on screen and it also changes how many pages a bill prints on, which the printed-invoice check catches. It stays held back until that is right — a text size must never change a customer’s invoice.
YOU CAN MAKE THE WHOLE SCREEN BIGGER Normal, Large or Larger, beside the colour in the title bar, remembered on that PC. Everything grows together — the type, the spacing, the columns — so nothing can be cut off, and a little less fits on the screen at each step. Somebody reading a ledger all day can put it where their own eyes want it and put it back.
And the printed bill does not move. Whatever size the screen is set to, an invoice, a challan, a quotation, a purchase order, a sales order and a goods receipt are all laid out at the ordinary size, so a bill prints on the same number of pages on every desk in the business.
THE TRIAL BALANCE NO LONGER PRINTS EVERY DEBTOR AND CREDITOR ON ITS FACE Sundry Debtors and Sundry Creditors show their total and “(as per list attached)”, and pressing that phrase opens that group’s own list — the S.Debtors and S.Creditors tabs that were already there. Every other head still names its accounts. Prefer the long list? One tick in Options, “List every debtor and creditor”, puts it back.
THE MIDDLE OF THE BILL IS SPLIT EVENLY The band carrying the invoice number and the transport details, and the one carrying the receiver and the consignment, are equal halves now. The receiver used to get the smaller side.
ONE SALARY FIGURE FOR EVERYBODY AT ONCE On Salary Structure, a head now carries “Set for everybody”: every person on the payroll with a box to type in, the ones already set filled in for you, a date for the lot, and one Save. “Fill the empty ones” copies the first figure into every blank and never over anything you have typed.
A blank box is left alone rather than set to nothing — a person you have not got to yet and a person on no pay are different things, and a salary run says so. Setting a higher figure from a later date is recorded as a raise, so a payslip already drawn does not change, and saving the same figures twice changes nothing.
ESCAPE COMES BACK TO THE MENU YOU CAME FROM Employee Master, Item Master, Notes and Rack Layout each sit on two menus, and Escape always returned to the first of them whichever one you had walked in from. It follows you now.
ATTENDANCE PRINTS AND EXPORTS Days, days paid, leave and overtime hours for everybody, plus the daily register behind it, as a printed sheet or an Excel workbook — no salary figures needed, so it can be checked or handed on before any pay is set.
THE HOME PAGE OPENS ON THE TILES ALONE The Notice Board, Records and the Cash Summary start hidden; each is still one press away on the row of switches along the top. A PC that has already chosen keeps what it chose.
NOTE: the salary run still does not pay overtime. The hours are recorded, shown, printed and exported; the salary is worked out without them.
A BACKUP THAT WOULD NOT COME BACK NOW COMES BACK Seven things could stop a restore dead, and every one of them was something ordinary to have in your books: a cash memo, a godown on a bill, a batch or a box on a line, TCS on a sale, one entry of tax deducted at source, or an export proforma that had become an order. The file was fine the whole time — putting it back was what failed. Update, and a file that refused you yesterday goes back in.
This is worth an unhurried sentence, because a backup is only ever needed on the worst day: nothing about the files changed, so a backup you already hold on a disk or a pen drive is covered. You do not need to take it again.
ADDING A SECOND BUSINESS NO LONGER LEAVES IT SLOW Books brought in with “Add another business from a backup” could take ten or fifteen seconds to open a dashboard while the books beside them opened in one — not because they were bigger, and the ones measured were five times smaller. The software now does the same tidying-up after adding a business that it has always done after a restore, and they open at the same speed as everything else.
NOTE: the salary run still does not pay overtime. The hours are recorded, shown, printed and exported; the salary is worked out without them.
YOU CAN NOW FILE A GSTR-1 TO THE PORTAL FROM HERE It is three presses on the GSTR-1 screen: put it on the portal, ask for the code, then file with the code the portal texts you. GSTR-3B has worked this way since an earlier update; the GSTR-1 button before this one could not file at all.
Filing a GSTR-1 pays nothing and moves nothing between your ledgers — it declares what you sold. The screen says so before you press. A GSTR-3B is the one that settles a liability, and it still says that.
Nothing is recorded as filed unless the portal gives back its acknowledgement number. If the portal answers something the software cannot read, it shows you exactly what came back, files nothing, and leaves the month unlocked. Filing needs the GST portal add-on and a portal sign-in on that company.
NOTE: the salary run still does not pay overtime. The hours are recorded, shown, printed and exported; the salary is worked out without them.
BILLS PRINT FULL SIZE AGAIN Since the update that added the watermark, every bill printed at about three-quarters of its size, pushed into the top-left corner of the page, and till receipts at about a third. The bill now fills the paper as it should, with a watermark or without one.
Ctrl+S now saves, wherever Ctrl+A saved: bills, purchases, vouchers, receipts and payments, notes, orders, the Account Master, the Item Master, and the windows that save a record. Ctrl+A still saves exactly as before. Posting a bank statement has a key now too: Ctrl+S.
Filing a return cannot be sent twice by accident. If the portal does not answer, the screen says the result is not known rather than guessing, and the filing cannot be pressed again until you ask the portal or mark it filed yourself. A month already filed says so before any press, and asking for the code checks first.
NOTE: the salary run still does not pay overtime. The hours are recorded, shown, printed and exported; the salary is worked out without them.
ROOM FOR THE CUSTOMER TO SIGN On a bill that prints Customer’s Signature, the name now sits at the bottom right of the terms box, beside the line, with clear space above it to sign. The box is a little taller on those bills. Bills without the customer’s signature print exactly as before.
The bank lines at the foot of the bill: the words Our’s Banker’s now stay inside their own box instead of running across the line.
NOTE: the salary run still does not pay overtime. The hours are recorded, shown, printed and exported; the salary is worked out without them.
THE FOOTER SITS ON THE BOTTOM LINE On a bill that fits one page, the terms, Customer’s Signature and your own signature now sit on the bottom border of the bill, with no blank strip under them, and the line between them runs down to the border. The spare space goes into the item lines above TOTAL instead.
Every bill now prints Customer’s Signature, at the bottom right of the terms box with room above it to sign. The on/off switch for it has gone from Invoice Settings.
NOTE: the salary run still does not pay overtime. The hours are recorded, shown, printed and exported; the salary is worked out without them.
Sending Setup now says, under the password, that a Gmail mailbox needs an App Password rather than your normal Gmail password, and where to make one.
NOTE: the salary run still does not pay overtime. The hours are recorded, shown, printed and exported; the salary is worked out without them.
A HALF-PAGE BILL NOW FITS ITS HALF On the half-page layouts the bill used to run onto a second whole sheet; it now prints inside the top half of one A4, where you cut it. On a half page the boxes that are only there to write on — Vehicle No., GR/RR No., Pvt.Mark, Order No. and the rest — print only when they carry something, and the bank details and the numbered terms come off. Nothing you have typed in is ever left out, and everything the GST rules ask for still prints.
A LONGER HALF-PAGE BILL PRINTS AS TWO HALVES OF ONE SHEET not on two sheets. The top half is ruled down to the fold and says Continued…, the bottom half carries the totals and the signature. Above about fifteen items the bill still runs down the whole page and through the fold.
The calendar button now sits beside the date box instead of inside it, on every screen that asks for a date. Tab and Enter go straight past it, so keying a date is unchanged.
Every password box now has an eye beside it to show what you have typed, and hide it again. Nothing is remembered.
Trial Balance printing now follows the tab you are on. On ALL it prints Sundry Debtors and Sundry Creditors as one line each with the total, marked “as per list attached”; the S.Debtors and S.Creditors tabs print the full lists.
A bill could print before the customer’s district, state and PAN had finished loading, and a bill running to two sheets could print without “Page 1 of 2” and “Continued…” on it. Both are fixed.
NOTE: the salary run still does not pay overtime. The hours are recorded, shown, printed and exported; the salary is worked out without them.
BRING YOUR BOOKS ACROSS FROM YOUR OLD ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE Utility .7 → M, Bring Books Across (other software): choose the folder your old software keeps its books in, pick the firm and the year, and it brings across your chart of accounts, your customers and suppliers, your items with their HSN and tax rate, your opening balances, and every receipt, payment, journal, contra entry, sale, purchase, credit note and debit note of that year as ledger entries.
Rehearse first. A rehearsal does the whole import and then undoes it, and shows you what would come across, with every count adding up on the screen. Bring them across for real turns on only after a rehearsal. Your old software’s files are copied before they are read, and are never changed.
Accounts your old software keeps under Loans that are really bank accounts, such as a cash-credit or overdraft account, are listed after the rehearsal for you to tick, so their payments and receipts show in your Cash Book and Bank Book.
It does not bring invoices and bills as documents you can reprint (their amounts come across in the ledger, under their own numbers), or stock quantities: count your stock and enter it as opening stock.
A LONG HALF-PAGE BILL NOW PRINTS AS HALVES OF A4 TWO TO A SHEET. Above about fifteen items the bill used to run down the whole page and through the fold where you cut it. Now each half is ruled to its own foot and marked Continued… with its page number, and the totals and the signature come on the last half. A very long bill carries on to a second sheet the same way.
START OVER NOW WORKS WHEN THE FIRST SETTING-UP DID NOT FINISH When Vertex ERP offered Start over, pressing it could stop with "Vertex ERP could not start", because the program itself was still holding the unfinished files. It now lets go of them, moves them aside and sets up fresh. If another window still has that folder open, it says so and offers Try again. Nothing is deleted.

1.0.74

8 September 2026 12 changes

Also delivers the work built as 1.0.73, which did not go out on its own.

Downloading GSTR-2B from the portal now works. In the last version the download reached the portal and then said what came back was not a statement — it was, and this reads it.
Downloading GSTR-2A from the portal now works, and its figures are right. A 2A is laid out differently from a 2B in four ways, including where the tax amounts sit; read the old way every figure would have come out as nil.
GSTR-2A currently reads the B2B invoices your suppliers declared. Credit notes, imports and TDS credit inside a 2A are not read yet — no month has carried one to check against, and a credit note read wrongly would overstate the credit you may claim.
YOUR BOOKS a backup taken on this version will NOT open in 1.0.72. Keep a backup taken on 1.0.72 before you install, if you may want to go back.
A purchase can now be marked as one the law does not allow input credit on — a motor car, food and drink, club membership, works contract. Tick it on the bill and the tax becomes part of what the purchase cost instead of a claim, and the return declares it properly. Until now every purchase was claimed in full, and the return said so on every screen.
GSTR-3B can be printed. Print Preview, Print, PDF, Excel and CSV, laid out as the government's own form table by table — so you can read it while you fill the portal. Before this the screen only produced the JSON file.

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The GSTR-3B screen now shows when the return is due, and turns amber in the last week and red once the date has gone.
A party's own account statement in PDF can be read where it could not be before. Statements from other accounting packages came back as "no transaction table was found" even though the table was plainly there; three separate faults in how the text was read.
The GST portal's THIRD ledger is now read and shown. The portal keeps a cash ledger, a credit ledger and a liability register, and this software only ever showed the first two. It does not change what any return works out — it is there to be read against the portal.
Reading the ledgers from the portal now works. The four addresses this software used were wrong and the provider refused them by name; they are corrected against the provider's own published list.
A PC that would not open Vertex ERP at all now opens it. It could happen after Windows was reinstalled, after a profile was moved or copied to another machine, or after an administrator reset the Windows password: the program could no longer read the key it had stored, and instead of asking for your password it stopped with an error. It asks for the password now.
GSTR-3B can now be filed from the software, in the three steps the portal itself uses: put it on the portal, ask for the code it sends to your phone, then offset and file. The second step is why this cannot happen without you — the code is texted to the number on your portal account. NOTE: this is the first version that can file at all, and no return has yet been filed through it. Keep the printed sheet and check the portal afterwards until you have seen it work once.

1.0.72

8 September 2026 142 changes

Also delivers the work built as 1.0.49, 1.0.50, 1.0.51, 1.0.52, 1.0.53, 1.0.54, 1.0.55, 1.0.56, 1.0.57, 1.0.58, 1.0.60, 1.0.61, 1.0.62, 1.0.63, 1.0.64, 1.0.66, 1.0.67, 1.0.68, 1.0.69, 1.0.70, 1.0.71, which did not go out on its own.

The button for a party's own statement has moved to the TOP of A/c Statement, in the row with the dates, where the last version had it at the foot of the page below the whole report. It is always on screen — greyed, with the reason, until you pick an account.
A/c Matching carries the same button now, in its own filter row beside the balance the party states. Both screens run one copy of the comparison, so they cannot drift apart.
A CLOSED YEAR CAN BE REOPENED Books Close Entry now has an Unlock beside every locked year, so a bill that turns up in September for a March you have already closed can be keyed where it belongs. Anyone who may enter a voucher may do it, and the year stays open until you close it again.
Closing a reopened year carries only what you have keyed SINCE — as a second entry, dated the same 31 March, leaving the first one exactly as it was. The profit is not counted twice, and a return already filed from the original still agrees with the books.
A reopened year you have keyed nothing into can still be shut: Close the year locks it without posting anything, and Lock again does the same without leaving the screen.
Your books are unchanged by this version: a backup taken here still opens in 1.0.71, and one taken on 1.0.71 opens here.

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The buttons in the support window are there again. If you opened a reply from the Dashboard in the last update, the window drew your conversation but the buttons underneath it were blank — there was nothing to press to answer or to close it. They were white on a white background. Nothing you had typed or been sent was lost.
You can tell at a glance which of your questions needs you. "We have replied" now stands out in amber; "With us" means it is with us and there is nothing for you to do; "Closed" fades back. Before this, all three were the same grey and a question waiting for you looked exactly like one that was finished.
If you start a new question while you already have one open, we say so and name it, so you can go back to it in one key. You can still ask the new one — it is only there so you know the first has not been forgotten.
Support is now the first thing on the left of the Dashboard, above your Records, instead of below the figures on the right. The telephone number and the way to reach us are where the eye goes first.
Choosing a party or an item on Material Out and Material In now opens a proper list window instead of a drop-down, and those two screens no longer load your whole party and item master just to fill it. On a large master that is the difference between a screen that opens and one that hangs.
You can add a job worker without leaving the Job Order. Before, if the party was not already on your master, the only way forward was to abandon what you were writing, go and create them, and start again.
This update does not change how your books are stored, so it installs over 1.0.48 and you can go back to 1.0.48 if you ever need to.
You now see that we have replied wherever you are in the software, not only on the Dashboard. The count sits at the top of the screen beside our telephone number, and pressing it opens the conversation. Before this it was on the Dashboard alone — so if you were keying invoices, which is where most people are, you did not find out until you went back.
And Windows itself tells you. If Vertex ERP is minimised or behind another window when we answer, a notification appears saying support has replied. It names no detail of your question — what it is about stays inside the software.
This update does not change how your books are stored, so it installs over 1.0.49 and you can go back to 1.0.49 if you ever need to.
The Cash Summary graph is back at the foot of the Dashboard for everybody who lost it. If you had ever used Customise before the graph was added, your saved choice was kept exactly as it was — which meant a panel added afterwards could never appear. Anything added to the Dashboard from now on will reach you the same way, and anything you have deliberately switched off stays off.
The supplier bands on the Shortage List are properly highlighted again — dark, with white lettering, the way every other heading band in the software is drawn. They had faded into plain text, which made a long list hard to read down.
The Keyboard Shortcuts screen on Help .9 is tidier: it now lists the key and what it does, and nothing else.
This update does not change how your books are stored, so it installs over 1.0.50 and you can go back if you ever need to.
The bill screen opens on Bill rather than asking every time. Cash memo is still there in the same box, one keystroke away, and it still does exactly what it did — a cash memo goes to Cash in Hand and never appears in the customer’s outstanding. Only the asking has gone.
The bill you just saved now stays on the screen instead of it going blank. You can look at what you have saved, print it, or raise its e-way bill without going to find it in the list first. Add starts the next bill, the same as always.
First and Last now work on a blank bill screen, so you can reach your bills from the billing menu without going to the list and coming back. Press Last to open your most recent bill; from there Next and Prior walk through the book one bill at a time.
Delete is on the bill’s own row of buttons at last, beside Add and Modify. Where a bill cannot be deleted the button is greyed and says why — a locked year, a filed return, or a posted sale, which is corrected with a credit note rather than removed. That refusal comes from your books, not from the screen guessing.
This update does not change how your books are stored, so it installs over 1.0.51 and you can go back if you ever need to.
You can now correct a bill that has already been filed. Open a new bill in a month that is still open, key it the way it should have read, and press Alt+E to say which bill it replaces — its number and date exactly as they were filed. GSTR-1 then reports it as a correction of that bill instead of as a new sale, which is what the department expects and what the software could not do before.
Until now there was no way to do this at all. A filed month is locked so the original cannot be edited — that is deliberate and has not changed — but there was nothing to put in its place, so a wrong GSTIN or a wrong invoice number stayed wrong.
One kind of correction still has to be done on the portal: small B2C sales are filed as a monthly total rather than bill by bill, so there is no single bill to point at. If you correct one, the GSTR-1 screen now tells you so instead of leaving it out quietly.
IMPORTANT — this update changes how your books are stored. It installs over 1.0.52 as usual, but a backup taken after this update will NOT restore into 1.0.52 or any earlier version. If you keep old backups, that is worth knowing before you update.
Contact Support now shows your questions as soon as it opens. Before this it first tried to send anything of yours that had not gone out yet, and on a poor connection that could take half a minute before a single question appeared on screen.
If your questions cannot be loaded, the screen now says so and tells you it is still trying. Before this it simply said "Looking..." and stayed that way, so a connection that had failed looked exactly like one that was being slow.
A question that could not be sent when you typed it can no longer reach us twice. If it was still going out when the screen next checked, it could be sent a second time.
A Back up now button is on the top bar of every screen. Backing up used to mean going to Utility, and the whole point of a backup is that it should be easy to take without stopping what you are doing.
Backups are now filed in folders and nothing is left loose. "All Companies" holds the file that restores your whole business, and beside it is a folder for each company holding that company on its own, for handing to an accountant. Backups already on your drive are moved into the right folder for you, and nothing is deleted.
When you choose a drive to keep your books on, the folder is now called "Vertex ERP Data" instead of just "Data", so it is clear whose it is and that it must not be deleted. If your books are already on a drive, nothing moves and nothing is renamed.
A new installation now names its books folder after Vertex ERP rather than the old name of the software. Existing installations keep exactly the names they have — nothing on your computer is renamed, and no action is needed from you.
A correction to GSTR-1: on a bill carrying two different tax rates, the second rate was given the wrong item serial number in the file sent to the portal. Bills with a single tax rate were never affected, which is most bills.
IMPORTANT — after installing this version you cannot go back to an older one, because the way your books are stored has changed. If you may want to return to 1.0.55, take a backup on 1.0.55 first and keep it; that file will always open on the old version.
A date outside the year you are working in is now refused when you save, instead of being filed into another year without telling you. It applies to bills, notes, vouchers, receipts, stock, payroll, assets, job work, manufacturing and the export documents alike, and the message names both years and tells you to switch year first.
A GSTR-2B file for the wrong month, or issued to another GSTIN, is now refused when you open it — as it should be — instead of being reconciled and offered for posting. A 2B you have already kept comes back when you return to that month.
Bank statement rows dated outside the open year are refused rather than posted quietly into last year, and printing a cheque is checked the same way.
The Sale Book and Purchase Book now show a GROSS SALE summary: one line for each kind of supply — goods or service, at each rate, within the state or central — and clicking a line shows just those bills. Goods and a service at the same rate are separate lines, which they were not before.
A bill can now be marked as GOODS or as a SERVICE. It decides which account the sale posts to, and it is what separates the two lines at the same rate on that summary.
The figures on your home screen open the right screen now. Sale and Purchase open the books rather than a blank entry form, Debtors and Creditors open the list of who owes what, and the bank figure opens the new balance list. The month you are looking at goes with you.
A new screen — Cash & Bank Balances, under Reports — shows how much is in the till and in each bank, one line each, with a total.
The debtor and creditor list now shows each party\u2019s TOWN, and is easier to find: it sits second under Reports and is called Sundry Debtors & Creditors.
The ageing columns say what they mean. Where they read 0\u201330, 31\u201360 and 91+, they now read "Overdue up to 30 days", "Overdue 31\u201360 days" and "Overdue over 90 days".
Clicking a party on the debtor list or the ageing screen opens that party\u2019s account statement, and clicking a line in a book opens the bill behind it.
Saving a bill against a stock lot that has expired now warns you, the way an e-way bill does.
Escape now takes you back to where you came from. Open a bill from the purchase list, or from the Sale Book, or from an account statement, and Escape returns you to that list — with your dates and your search still in place — instead of dropping you on the Billing menu.
A bill or voucher you only opened and did not change no longer asks "leave and lose them?" on the way out. It still asks whenever you have actually typed something.
Click any line in the Day Book or an account statement and it opens the entry behind it, ready to change. A line that came from a bill opens the bill itself, which is where a bill has to be corrected.
In the Day Book, clicking an account name now opens that account\u2019s statement. It used to go to the Trial Balance whichever name you clicked.
The GSTR-2B screen follows the month you ask for. Changing the period used to leave the previous month\u2019s figures on screen under the new month\u2019s name, with nothing to say they were the wrong month.
If you have already kept a 2B for a month, choosing that month brings it straight back up. You no longer have to find the portal download again to look at a month you have saved.
IMPORTANT — after installing this version you cannot go back to an older one, because the way your books are stored has changed. If you may want to return to 1.0.57, take a backup on 1.0.57 first and keep it; that file will always open on the old version.
You can bring a whole set of books across from your old accounting software yourself, from Utility → Bring Books Across. It reads the folder, lists the companies it finds, asks how far back you want to go, and brings the accounts, parties, items, opening balances, invoices, bills and vouchers across in one go.
Nothing is written until you have seen a rehearsal. The rehearsal does the whole import and throws it away, so the figures you are shown are the ones you will actually get — then you press again to keep them.
Afterwards you get a report that adds up: everything read, everything brought across, and everything left out with the reason. If those do not add up, the import is refused rather than kept, so an entry cannot go missing quietly.
The report is kept. Months later, if a figure disagrees with your old software, open Bring Books Across again and the report of that import is still there to read, print or export.
Entries whose account was left blank in the old software are no longer dropped. They come across against a Suspense account, so the money and your bank balances stay right and the amount sits on the trial balance until somebody works out where it belongs.
Where your old books used one invoice number twice, or billed one supplier daily under one bill number, you are asked what to do about it before anything is written — with an answer already chosen.
Deleting one of these reports throws away the report and nothing else. The entries it brought in stay in your books.
IMPORTANT — after installing this version you cannot go back to an older one, because the way your books are stored has changed. If you may want to return to 1.0.58, take a backup on 1.0.58 first and keep it; that file will always open on the old version.
A supplier\u2019s bill can now become a purchase without keying it. Billing → Import a Purchase Bill reads their PDF, finds the supplier by the GSTIN printed on it, shows every line beside a picture of the bill itself, and fills in the purchase — with the stock — once you have said what each line is.
It checks the bill against itself before it lets anything through: quantity times rate against each line\u2019s value, the tax against the rate charged, and the lines against the total at the foot. Anything that does not agree is shown on the line it came from, and the bill cannot be taken through until it does.
It remembers what each supplier\u2019s wording means. The first bill from a supplier is slow; the next one arrives with its lines already answered, saying \u201csame as last time\u201d. You can see everything it has remembered about a supplier, and forget any of it.
Entering the same bill twice is refused, as it always was — and now you are told before you start mapping it rather than after.
You can photograph a bill instead. The photograph is read on your own computer and never leaves it; the first one downloads a small language file once, after which it works with no internet at all. Recognition is not exact, so every figure it is unsure of is marked, and the arithmetic above still has to agree before anything can be posted.
The HSN list is now in the software. Searching for a code or for words — \u201ccorrugated box\u201d — finds it out of all 22,241, and a bill carrying a code that is not one of them says so.
The original bill is kept with the purchase it became, so the paper is there to look at a year later.
A bill that is already in your books is now refused when you try to import it again, and says so at the top of the screen before you map a single line — with a button to open the bill that is already there.
IMPORTANT — a bill that gives a discount on a line is now refused rather than imported, because a purchase bill has nowhere to record a line discount. Before this it would have been brought in without the discount, for MORE than the supplier charged. If you have already imported a bill with a discount on it, check that bill against the paper. Bills carrying compensation cess are refused for the same reason.
The bill is now shown exactly as your supplier\u2019s own file draws it \u2014 the letterhead, the ruled columns, the signature and the QR code \u2014 instead of a rough redrawing of its words that could run one line over another.
The bill you are importing is now drawn on screen as your supplier\u2019s own file draws it \u2014 letterhead, ruled columns, signature and QR code. In 1.0.61 this showed \u201cit could not be drawn on screen (n.toHex is not a function)\u201d instead; the reading beside it was always correct, and still is.
Import a Purchase Bill is part of the NOVA plan, and can be added to any other plan. Bills you have already imported stay yours on every plan \u2014 they read, print and go into your backup as before.
The A/c Statement, the Voucher List, the Day Book and the Cheque Register now carry F2 Period, F3 Prev Yr and F4 Next Yr along the bottom of the screen. F2 puts the cursor straight in the From date; F3 and F4 move the books a year back or forward without going to the year box on the title bar, and go grey at the first and last year you have open.
The Cheque Register also carries its five views on F5 to F9 — All, Not cleared, Cleared, Bounced and Cancelled — and the one you are looking at is greyed, so the row tells you where you are as well as where you can go. The drop-down still works exactly as before.
FIXED — on the Trial Balance, F4, F5 and F6 did not switch the view as the bottom row said they would. They opened a Contra, Payment or Receipt voucher instead, because the shortcut panel down the right-hand side claimed the same keys first. The panel now greys any key the bottom row has taken, so one key does one thing on the screen in front of you.
Right-click almost anything now and it offers what you can do with it — Open, Modify, open in a new tab, or open beside what you are reading. It reaches every master list (accounts, parties, items, users, companies, godowns, cost centres, price lists and the rest), the registers, the Trial Balance, the Balance Sheet, the Profit & Loss, GSTR-1, GSTR-2A, the GST check, the audit log and the stock lists. On the home screen you can right-click a menu entry to open that screen in a new tab.
NEW — Item Profit, at Reports .3 → V. A row for each item over the year: how many sold, what you bought it at, what it cost you, what you sold it at, the sale value and the gross margin with the percentage. Biggest earner first. From there, break one item down by month to see the good and bad months, or by customer to see who buys most of it. The cost is what those particular goods actually cost, first in first out — not today\u2019s purchase price — and freight is not spread onto the item; the screen says so.
A Balance Sheet can now be saved as one PDF per schedule instead of one file of whatever tab was open — press PDF × 7 and you get Balance Sheet, Fixed Asset, Dr.List, Cr.List and the rest as separate files.
Every report now shows how many rows it is holding, in a box above the bottom row of keys. It was there on some screens and missing on twenty-one of them, including the Day Book, Outstanding and the Balance Sheet.
The Trial Balance says so when it tallies, in green, instead of leaving you to read a difference of 0.00 and work it out.
The company name in the title bar no longer moves about. It used to shift sideways depending on how long the screen\u2019s name was; it now sits in the middle of the window on every screen.
The module row across the top is smaller, so there is more room for the report underneath.
FIXED — the Export tab on that row only opened if you held Shift. Pressing E on its own did nothing, even though the row prints the key as E.
FIXED — the audit log showed raw table names like crm_pipeline_stages, and a long code where a record had no name. It now says Pipeline stage, Transporter, Cost centre and so on, and shows the record\u2019s own name where it has one.
The backup question no longer appears when you open a company. It was asked every morning before your dashboard had drawn, and the backup behind it held the software up while it ran. Backups still happen on their own every day, you are still asked as you close, and Backup and Restore .30 still tells you when the last one was taken.
A backup now shows a real progress bar wherever it runs, with the name of the table under it — so when it stops moving, that name tells you where. It also no longer freezes the window while it packs the file, which on large books was the longest part of the wait.
Restoring a backup asks for YOUR SIGN-IN PASSWORD — the one you type to get into Vertex ERP. There is no separate password on the backup file. The screen said only “Your password” before, which sent people looking for one that does not exist.
The invoice on screen has its column lines back. They had gone from the preview and the view, though the printed sheet was always correct.
In the Purchase Book, clicking a bill now opens it to READ, the way clicking a sales invoice always has — with a View button on every row. Before, it opened the entry form, so looking a bill up and changing it were the same action.
Going Back from a bill you opened out of a list now returns you to that list, instead of the Bill and Purchase menu.
Import a Purchase Bill is now on the purchase screen itself, on Alt+I — so if you reach it by pressing F9 and start typing a supplier’s bill by hand, the software tells you it can read the PDF for you.
NEW — a different plan for a different company. One licence can now put one set of books on its own plan: a business on the full plan can open a second company on a smaller one, or on a stock-only plan. Every company you have keeps exactly the plan it has today unless it is given one of its own.
NEW — two businesses on one computer. If you have Vertex ERP on two PCs and want to bring them together, take a backup on the second and use “Add another business from a backup” on Backup, Restore & Reset. It ADDS that business — nothing already on this computer is touched. Restoring, which is the other panel, still replaces everything and is the wrong door for this. Afterwards you sign in to each business with its own login, and the sign-in screen asks which one. Each set of books still counts against your licence.
Restoring works again on a computer that holds more than one business, and it now replaces only the business the file belongs to. Before, it refused as soon as there was a second one.
Charts now offer 3-D as well — press D on any chart to draw the bars or the line as solids. It is on Ctrl+G over any report and in the Charts module, and it changes only the picture: the figures, the scale and the axis are the same either way.
Vertex ERP no longer runs on Windows Server. It is made for a Windows 10 or Windows 11 PC. If what you want is several people working at once, you do not need a server — put the books on an ordinary PC and connect the others to it, which is Utility .7 → I. Running on Windows Server needs its own licence.
NEW — a licence for a business that is not registered for GST. It carries the whole of the software you use every day — sales, purchases, stock, accounts, items and parties — and leaves out the GST returns and the GST portal. What you paid in tax is still recorded on every bill, still reads and still prints. Ring us if this is you; it is a different price.
IMPORTANT — this version changes the format of your books. A backup taken on 1.0.67 cannot be restored into 1.0.66 or earlier. Before you install, take a backup on your current version and keep it.
“Support has replied” no longer stays on the top bar for ever. It counted every closed ticket, so once you had five finished conversations it read “Support has replied 5” and nothing could clear it. It now counts only a reply that is actually waiting to be read, and opening Contact Support clears it on the spot.
Opening Contact Support now marks your replies as read. Before, only the panel on the Dashboard did, so you could read our answer on the support screen and the top bar would go on telling you about it.
A + on the tab strip opens another tab, so you can have the Dashboard, a stock report and your billing screen open at once.
Right-click now works on the numbered menus and on Dashboard and Help in the top bar — open, open in a new tab, or open beside this one.
The software will not close while more than one tab is open. It names the tabs and asks you to close them first.
While a question like “Leave this screen?” is on the glass, the keyboard belongs to it. Typing no longer reaches the screen behind, and the safe answer is the one your fingers find first.
The backup progress bar now appears on the two buttons that write to your backup drive, not only on the file download.
Import a Purchase Bill can now create the supplier when the bill carries no GSTIN — which is the one case that needed it, and the one case it refused.
THE PRINTED INVOICE TAX INVOICE and ORIGINAL FOR RECIPIENT are now centred on the paper. The line between the heading and your company name has gone. A credit bill is now marked CREDIT, the way a cash memo is marked CASH MEMO — PAID. “Deals in” is larger. The discount total now appears beside the net amount. The signature block is shorter, with the customer’s signature bottom-left. The sheet has a double border.
NEW — a mobile number on the company, printed on the bill under the telephone. It takes more than one: separate them with a comma and they print as you type them.
NEW — a watermark on printed documents. Set a word in Invoice Settings and it prints faintly across the bill, the quotation, the challan, the purchase order, the sales order and the goods receipt. Leave it empty for none.
NEW — “Test” on the GST Portal Connection screen. It tries your credentials against the portal and files nothing — no e-way bill raised, no invoice registered — so you can tell a mistyped key from a portal that is refusing you, without sending a real document to find out.
NEW — the GST portal’s API access expires after 30 days, and Vertex ERP now warns you before it does. Record the day you switched it on and it counts down, quietly until the last week. Your e-way bill connection is not affected — that one never expires.
NEW — a printable sheet, “What the customer does first”, setting out the two steps at the government that only the business itself can do: registering the GSP on the e-way bill portal, and switching on API access at gst.gov.in.
IMPORTANT — this version changes the format of your books. A backup taken on 1.0.68 cannot be restored into 1.0.67 or earlier. Before you install, take a backup on your current version and keep it.
NOTICES FROM THE DEPARTMENT a new screen under GST Reports. Record an ASMT-10, a DRC-01 or any other notice the day it arrives, with the date a reply is due, and it appears on your Reminders screen before that date passes. An unanswered notice becomes a demand; this is the clock nobody could see.
A bank entry can now be corrected. Before, a line brought in from a bank statement could not be changed on the voucher screen, and the message sent you to a screen that could not change it either — so it could not be corrected anywhere. Its date, amount and narration are the bank’s own and still cannot be typed over; the account it was posted against can now be moved.
The invoice screen no longer hides its own bottom on a smaller screen. The notes, the net amount and Save & post are all on the glass now, and the heading scrolls with the lines instead of pushing them off.
The sale, purchase and voucher screens open with four blank rows instead of twelve, and their headings are tinted so the document reads head, body and foot. Typing on the last row still adds another, as it always did.
The right-click menu is smaller and always fits — it opens upwards when there is no room below, and scrolls when there is none either way. On a bill it was running off the bottom of the screen.
A company can be deleted. It asks you to type the company’s own name, and refuses on the last company on the computer and on the one you have open.
Your company’s code is now on screen — on the licence card and as a column on the Companies list. It is the eight characters we ask for on the telephone when a change is bought for one set of books.
GSTR-2B, GSTR-2A and your electronic ledger balances can be fetched from the GST portal instead of downloaded by hand, once the portal connection is signed in. The ledgers record only the date the portal itself states, and a GSTR-2A is shown and not kept — see the note on the connection screen.
A PC holding two businesses backs up BOTH of them again. Adding a second business used to stop every automatic backup on that computer — the daily one, the one on closing, and both Back up now buttons — and the only sign was one line on the Backup screen.
Each business is backed up into a folder of its own, and thirty backups are kept for each set of books rather than thirty shared between them.
Backup files are named after your own business and the day it was taken, instead of "vertex-erp-2026-09-08-0027". The file that restores everything says "all books"; beside it is one file per company, named after that company, for handing to an accountant.
Backups already on your drive are not moved, renamed or deleted. They stay listed and they still restore.
IMPORTANT — a backup taken on this version cannot be restored into 1.0.69 or earlier. If you may want to go back, take a backup on your present version first and keep it; that file will always open on the old one.
Match a party's own statement against yours, and POST what is missing. Upload what they sent — their PDF, their Excel, or a photograph of the paper — and the screen already showed which entries neither side has. Now you can choose an account against each line you accept and post them in one press. Every line is opted into one at a time: nothing posts that you have not picked an account for, and the button counts what will actually post.
Entries posted that way carry THEIR date and THEIR narration, and are marked as brought in from a document — so the voucher screen says where they came from rather than letting them be edited as though they were keyed here.
A PC that holds two businesses gets a Switch business button on the top bar, on Shift+F3. It signs you out and opens the sign-in screen with the other business already chosen and the cursor in the password box. It still asks for that business's password: one login belongs to one business, which is what keeps two sets of books apart on one machine.
Modifying a sale or purchase bill: the item rows were two lines tall because the item's group was printed under its Goods/Service mark. It is on one line now — a row is 30 pixels instead of 50 — so four rows fit where two and a half did, and the fourth is no longer cut in half.
Choosing a voucher type now shows one plain list of the four types, instead of a list with an empty column on the left and explanatory text on the right.
Cash paid out above ₹10,000 now warns before the voucher is posted, naming section 40A(3) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 — and section 40A(3A), which allows ₹35,000 for payment to a goods-carriage transporter. It is a warning and not a refusal: the section disallows the expense, it does not make the payment unlawful, so the voucher can still be posted.
On a voucher, the amount that balances the entry is filled in for you when you reach that line's amount box, once you have chosen its account. Only the side that actually balances is filled, and a figure you have typed is never written over.
No other company is named anywhere in the software any more — not on the screen that brings books across from your old package, not in its folder box, and not in these notes.
Checking a party's own statement against yours now happens ON the account statement itself. Open the account, and under its ledger you can choose the file they sent — their PDF, their Excel, or a photograph of the paper — see what neither side has, and post what is missing, without leaving the screen.
It appears only when you are looking at ONE account, because one party's sheet has nothing to be compared with on a day book or a multi-account run.
A/c Matching keeps what is its own — ticking lines off by hand against a balance a party states — and no longer carries a second copy of the upload.
Your books are unchanged by this version: a backup taken here still opens in 1.0.70, and one taken on 1.0.70 opens here.

1.0.48

1 September 2026 5 changes

The Dashboard now tells you when we have replied to something you asked us. A count appears beside the support button, so you find out where you already are instead of having to remember to go and look. It counts only our answers, never your own messages coming back.
There is a support button on the Dashboard, next to the telephone number that has been there since August. If you have a conversation open it brings it up in a window over whatever screen you are on — reading one sentence should not cost you the invoice you were keying. If you have none, it opens Contact Support so you can start one.
A support conversation now reads like one. Your own messages sit on the right and ours on the left, in all three places a thread is shown — Contact Support, the new window, and the separate Vertex ERP Support program.
If a message to us cannot get through, the software now waits longer and longer before trying again — a minute, then five, then up to an hour — instead of retrying every twenty seconds. Trying too often could get your whole connection blocked at our end for an hour and a half, which stopped the software reaching us at all. Nothing you typed is ever thrown away: it waits and goes when the line is clear.
This update does not change how your books are stored, so it installs over 1.0.47 and you can go back to 1.0.47 if you ever need to.

1.0.47

1 September 2026 10 changes

Also delivers the work built as 1.0.46, which did not go out on its own.

The item card now shows one price list instead of two. Every time stock came in and every change anybody made to the Purchase Price are in the same place, and each line says which it is — Delivered, Opening stock, Price first set or Price changed. Two separate panels asking the same question was confusing to read.
Your opening stock is now labelled as opening stock. It used to sit in the list looking like a delivery from a supplier nobody had named, when it is the value your books opened at rather than a price you paid.
The price an item was first brought in with is now a line of its own. Before, only later changes were shown — so an item could read “95.15 changed to 110.66” with nothing on the screen saying where the 95.15 had come from.
This update does not change how your books are stored, so it installs over 1.0.46 and you can go back to 1.0.46 if you ever need to.
On the Item Dashboard, clicking an item now opens its details underneath the item itself, instead of taking you to the bottom of the page. With a long list you no longer lose your place: the row you pressed stays where it was and the card unfolds beneath it.
An item now shows what it has cost every time it came in — the date, the rate and who delivered it — not just the last price. If it was ₹130 in April, ₹150 in June and ₹160 in August, all three are there, so you can see a price moving instead of only where it landed.

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Beside that, every change anybody made to the Purchase Price on the Item Master: from what, to what, when and by whom. The two are kept apart on purpose — what a delivery cost you and what you decided the item is worth are different things, and your margin depends on both.
The Shortage List has a new Ordered column, next to Short by. Click it and you can write the date you placed the order and a note — “500 ordered, says 10 days”. Anyone opening the software then sees that the order has already been placed instead of ringing the supplier a second time. Nothing removes it by itself, which is why the date is shown beside it: take it off when the goods arrive.
Coming from 1.0.45, this is an ordinary sized update. Coming straight from 1.0.44, it also brings everything 1.0.45 added — Contact Support, and the second Vertex Support program for the day Vertex ERP will not open — and the much larger download those two arrive in.
This build changes the structure of your books. A backup taken on it cannot be restored into 1.0.45, 1.0.44 or any earlier version — so if you want to be able to go back, take a backup on your present version before installing this one.

1.0.45

1 September 2026 6 changes

You can ask us for help without leaving the software. Help .9 → E opens Contact Support: say what is wrong, send it, and read our reply on the same screen. It already knows which screen you were on when you asked, so you do not have to explain that part. It opens even when your licence has lapsed or your company will not load — those are the moments you most need it.
A message that could not be sent is saved, and says so. If the connection is down you are told plainly that nobody has it yet, never that it was sent, and it goes by itself when you are back online — so long as you leave that screen open.
A second program, Vertex Support, is installed beside Vertex ERP with its own icon, for the day Vertex ERP will not open at all. It answers the frightening question first — when your last automatic backup was taken — and then whether your books can be reached, which version is installed, and whether your licence is active. You can ask us for help from it too, or, if there is no internet either, save a report onto your Desktop to photograph or to email from your phone. Because there are now two programs in it, the download is noticeably larger than 1.0.44.
A screen that fails while drawing now says so and tells you to press Esc, instead of leaving a blank white window with the menu gone.
The software keeps a record on your own computer of what went wrong, so that when you report a fault we can see it rather than asking you to describe it. Help .9 → A has a button to save that record to a file you can send us. It holds no party or item names, no amounts and no GST numbers — nothing out of your books.
This update does not change how your books are stored, so it installs over 1.0.44 and you can go back to 1.0.44 if you ever need to.

1.0.44

31 August 2026 32 changes

Also delivers the work built as 1.0.39, 1.0.40, 1.0.42, 1.0.43, which did not go out on its own.

The sales register now flags a bill that needed an e-way bill and has none. Anything over ₹50,000 carrying goods, with no live e-way bill against it, is marked — including bills already in your books, not just new ones. It flags rather than refuses, because an e-way bill is raised on the government’s portal and often after the invoice, and the mark stays until one exists.
A bill of services is never flagged, however large it is. An e-way bill covers the movement of goods, so a design or consultancy bill for lakhs needs none — and a warning that fired on those would be worth nothing.
One support number now, on every screen: +91 90418 83600. It replaces the two that were shown before.
This update does not change how your books are stored, so it installs over 1.0.43 and you can go back to 1.0.43 if you ever need to.
A store-only licence can now reach Other Computers — Utility .7 → I — where before the menu had no way to show it at all. It appears only where networking was actually bought: a store licence without it sees the menu exactly as before, because a door that opens onto “not in your plan” is worse than no door.
This build changes the structure of your books, and it carries the WhatsApp sending work from 1.0.38 with it. A backup taken on this version cannot be restored into 1.0.38 or anything earlier — so if you want to be able to go back, take a backup on your present version before installing this one.

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The bill prints on one page again. A ten-line invoice was running onto a second sheet and taking the signature block with it; the cause was a screen rule reaching the paper, not the paper itself. A bill that genuinely needs two sheets now says “Page 1 of 2” on each and “Continued…” at the foot of every sheet but the last.
A bill can be a Bill or a Cash Memo, and the software asks before it saves. A cash memo posts to Cash in Hand instead of the customer’s account, so it never appears in Outstanding and never in the ageing: the customer owes nothing, which is what a cash sale means. It prints CASH MEMO — PAID; a credit bill says nothing.
A rate can be entered inclusive of tax — the shelf price — and the software takes the tax back out of it.
The e-way bill was sending goods to the wrong address, and now asks where they are despatched FROM. Where a business ships out of a second godown or branch, the e-way bill had been giving the customer’s address as the place the goods started. This is worth checking on any e-way bill you raised for goods that did not leave your main premises.
TCS can be charged on the bill itself under section 206C(1) — the buyer is debited the goods and the tax together, the bill shows the rate and an AMOUNT PAYABLE under the net, and 27EQ and the certificate see it. The commoner 206C(1H) is deliberately not on the bill: that one falls due when the money arrives, not when the invoice is raised.
An agent can be put on a bill and earn commission on it — until now nothing could put an agent on a bill at all. With it comes a Transporter master, so a carrier is chosen rather than retyped.
The bill carries weight, packing and case detail, and the driver and the distance for the e-way bill. The e-way bill window has been rebuilt around them.
Two notes on a bill instead of one, both of them as many lines as you like.
The register stays open behind a bill you opened out of it. One click back, with your dates and your search exactly as you left them — where before it rebuilt the list from nothing and you retyped the search every time. Prev and Next walk the list you were actually looking at.
A bill can be sent straight from the bill — Alt+S, or from the register’s own row menu — and it goes with the PDF attached. A draft is refused, and says why.
A draft now prints DRAFT · NOT ISSUED across the sheet. Until now a draft printed exactly like an issued bill, so one handed across a counter was indistinguishable from the real thing.
A run of bills can be printed by number range, and the logo prints at a fixed 25mm.
New: manufacturing. A bill of material for what you make, production entries that consume the components and receive the finished goods, wastage written off or absorbed, and machine, labour and overhead costs — with a cost sheet and the variance against standard cost. Under Master and the Production menu.
New: the export module. Currencies, ports and exchange rates of your own, an export profile for the business and its buyers, and the four documents — proforma invoice, export order, export invoice under LUT or with payment of IGST, and the packing list with what actually went in each case.
This build changes the structure of your books, and by more than any release so far. A backup taken on this version cannot be restored into 1.0.39 or anything earlier — so if you want to be able to go back, take a backup on your present version before installing this one.
The bill screen has its own row of buttons at last — Add, Modify, Next, Prior, First, Last, Print, List, Find and Exit — and it is there whichever way you reach the screen. Next and Prior walk the book a bill at a time; with a register open behind the bill they walk the list you were actually looking at. Anything that cannot be done to the bill in front of you is greyed and says why rather than disappearing.
How big your company name prints on the bill is now yours to set, on Invoice Print Setup beside the logo, with the name shown at the size chosen as you change it. It opens at exactly what it printed at before, so nothing on your paper moves until you move it.
A purchase can be a cash memo too. Paying a supplier over the counter credits Cash in Hand instead of the supplier, so it never appears in what you owe them. Bills stay on account unless you say otherwise — there is no extra question to answer on an ordinary purchase.
The despatch details after saving a bill are laid out properly — transport, the papers, and the consignment as three groups rather than fourteen boxes crushed into one narrow window.
The quotation, sales order, delivery challan, purchase order and goods receipt now preview exactly as they print. Their rows measured one height on screen and another on paper, which is the same fault the invoice was cured of; a preview that disagrees with the sheet is worse than no preview.
A delivery challan and a goods receipt now move stock. Goods leave the shelf the moment you raise the challan, rather than waiting for the bill — so between sending the goods and invoicing them, the Stock Summary shows what is actually there. The invoice you make from that challan does not take the same goods a second time. A quotation, a sales order and a purchase order still move nothing; they record what was agreed, not what went.
Cancelling or deleting a challan puts the goods back, in the same moment. Nothing is left half-done.
You can find a bill by what was on it. Searching "brass fittings" now finds the invoices those words were typed on, not just the item in the master — which matters most for a line keyed by hand, where there is no item to find at all.
And you can find a bill or a voucher by the file clipped to it, searching the file’s name or the caption you gave it. It searches what the file is CALLED, not what is inside it — a scan named IMG_2231 is still only findable by that.
F8 opens Sales from the home screen again. It has done nothing there for a long time, on every machine, because the key was listed twice and the greyed copy answered first.
IMPORTANT — this version changes how your books are stored, further than any recent update. TAKE A BACKUP ON YOUR PRESENT VERSION BEFORE YOU INSTALL IT. A backup taken after installing cannot be opened by 1.0.42 or anything older. Going forward is safe; going back is not.

1.0.38

30 August 2026 121 changes

Also delivers the work built as 1.0.20, 1.0.21, 1.0.22, 1.0.23, 1.0.24, 1.0.25, 1.0.26, 1.0.27, 1.0.28, 1.0.29, 1.0.30, 1.0.31, 1.0.32, 1.0.33, 1.0.34, 1.0.36, 1.0.37, which did not go out on its own.

WhatsApp can now send the document itself, with the PDF attached, from your own business number — no saving the file and attaching it by hand. It works on invoices, credit and debit notes, quotations, sales and purchase orders, delivery challans, goods receipts, and every report in the software including the Trial Balance and the A/c Statement. This needs a VartaAPI account and is switched on under Utility .7 → K; until then every WhatsApp button behaves exactly as it did before, saving the file for you to attach.
A document sent this way now tells you what happened to it. The Send window shows “delivered 14:32, read 14:41” against each one, a few minutes after it arrives — so “I never received it” is a question the software can answer. A message the software handed to WhatsApp for you to send still says so, because nothing comes back from those and it would be wrong to claim otherwise.
Overdue bills can be chased in one go. On Reminders, tick the bills you want chased and press Send reminders — each customer gets the approved WhatsApp reminder naming their own bill, amount and due date. The screen shows how many messages that is and roughly what they cost before you press it, because every message is charged from your WhatsApp balance. Nothing is ever sent twice: a failure is reported and left for you to decide.
The Send button now carries the WhatsApp mark, on every screen that has one, so it is recognisable without reading it.
Fixed: importing a spreadsheet of opening balances twice doubled every figure. Uploading a corrected file is the natural thing to do when a figure is wrong, and until now it added a second set of opening balances on top of the first — while the Trial Balance went on balancing perfectly, so nothing looked wrong. A second upload now replaces the first.
Fixed: importing opening balances could quietly un-pay a bill. Where a receipt had been set against an opening balance, re-importing those balances threw the settlement away and the bill went back to showing as unpaid, with no message. Opening balances that have been settled against bills are now refused, and the message says to undo the settlement first.

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Fixed: a spreadsheet could put an opening balance on a sales or expense account. Those close to Profit & Loss at the year end, so an opening figure on one counts last year’s result a second time — and the books would still balance. It is refused now, the way it always was when the same figures came from other software.
Create Invoice, Manual Bill Book and GST Purchases open straight away. All three used to fetch the list of financial years — and the sales invoice its own company details as well — before drawing anything, so every single time you opened one you waited through a "Loading" message for facts the software already had in front of it. It now draws the bill immediately and the number, the date and the year are there as it appears.
Added a cut-down "Store" plan for a stock-only business: the menu shows just the inventory screens — item dashboard, stock in/out, rack transfer, shortage list, stock taking, and the masters and registers that go with them — with no accounting, GST or billing tabs at all.
This build does not change the structure of your books, and your backups work in both directions.
Fixed: on a Store licence, the shortcut panel down the right-hand side of every stock screen still offered Contra, Payment, Receipt, Journal, Sales and Purchase — and pressing one opened it. A store plan is meant to show the store’s own screens and nothing else, and those six are now gone from it. Nothing changed for any other plan, where all six stay exactly where they were.
The home screen can now show Shortage — how many items are below the level you set for them — and clicking it opens the Shortage List. On a Store licence it is there from the start; on every other plan it is one more figure to tick on Customise (F6).
Items now record the supplier you used to buy from, beside the one you buy from now. Change an item’s supplier and the old firm moves across by itself, so the pair stays right without anybody keeping it up to date — and it can still be corrected by hand on the Item Master.
This build changes the structure of your books. It installs over 1.0.20 and reads every backup you already hold, but a backup taken on this version cannot be restored into an older one — so keep a backup taken on 1.0.20 before installing, and it will stay restorable there for ever.
New: Rack Layout, at Master .1 → Y. The store drawn as it stands — every shelf as a box on a grid, bay across and level down, with what is on it and how much. The top shelf is drawn at the top, the way the shelves are actually numbered. Shelves with nothing on them show as free, so it answers where there is room as well as where a thing is.
On a Store plan the home screen no longer shows the GST figures for the month, the Cash Summary, or the Balance Sheet, Trial Balance, A/c Ledger and GST Returns shortcuts down the side, or Add Sales, Add Purchase, Add Receipt, Add Journal, Day Book and Outstanding along the foot. A store raises no bills, so every one of those could only ever read nil. Nothing changed on any other plan.
On the Shortage List the "Short by" figure — the number you actually order against — is now a dark box, so it stands out on a page where every row is short. It prints as plain bold, because a dark fill does not come off a mono printer legibly.
This build does not change the structure of your books. It installs over 1.0.21 and your backups work in both directions.
The Rack Layout at Master .1 → Y now reads top to bottom instead of running off the side of the screen. Each bay is its own block — its letter on top and its shelves stacked underneath, top shelf first — and the blocks wrap onto as many rows as the window has room for, so the whole store fits on one screen at any width and nothing scrolls sideways. A level a bay does not have is left as a gap the same size, so a row across the blocks is a real row across the room.
The item list now shows Supplier and Previous supplier as columns, so who you buy an item from now and who you bought it from before both read straight off the list without opening the item. A dash means none is recorded.
This build does not change the structure of your books. It installs over 1.0.22 and your backups work in both directions.
Vertex ERP Reset — the separate rescue program, not part of Vertex ERP itself — can now issue a new recovery key for encrypted books, on the computer those books were made on. If the recovery key was never written down when the books were set up, this is the way to get one.
The new key replaces the old one. Anything written down before stops working the moment the new key is issued, so write the new one down before closing that window — the program will not let you close it over a key nobody has read.
That screen used to say the recovery key was the only thing that could ever open encrypted books, and that nothing could help without it. On the computer the books were made on that was never true, because the machine opens them by itself. It now says what is actually true of the books in front of it.
Nothing inside Vertex ERP changed in this release, and there is no update to install for it.
Fixed: moving your books to another drive now works. It never has — the books are encrypted, and the move could not open them, so it stopped with an error about the database and left everything where it was. Utility .7 → Backup, Restore & Reset, then Move to another drive. Keeping your books off C: means a Windows reinstall does not take them with it.
Fixed: a list no longer chooses for you. Opening any search list — a unit, a supplier, an item, an account — and pressing Enter without picking anything used to accept whichever entry happened to be first, so an item could quietly end up with a supplier nobody selected. Every list now starts on a blank line, so Enter on its own leaves the box empty, and that blank line is also how you clear a box you have already filled. Type first and Enter still takes the best match, exactly as before.
On a Store plan the Stock menu now shows only the store’s own six screens; the Stock List, Stock Summary and Stock Ledger are gone from it. Godown / Warehouse has been added to Master, so a store can set up a second building and give its shelves somewhere to live. Nothing changed on any other plan.
On a Store plan, Stock In and Stock Out now fill in what they already know about the item you picked — the shelf it is on, the last price paid and who it was last bought from — and show the last price on screen. Every one of them can be typed over. The quantity is left for you to key.
On a Store plan, Stock Out no longer refuses to save until "What it is for" has been typed. Goods leaving the store should not wait on a description; the box is still there when you want to record one. A receipt still asks for its bill or note.
This build does not change the structure of your books. It installs over 1.0.23 and your backups work in both directions.
The Rack box on the Item Master is now a list of the shelves you have, and what you choose is where the opening stock actually stands. Before this it was a note nothing read — the item said one thing and the shelf knew nothing about it. Put a figure in Opening qty, pick a shelf, and the item shows on that shelf in the Rack Layout and on its own card.
If an item sits on more than one shelf, this sets only the shelf you picked and leaves the others alone. Use Stock Taking or Rack Transfer to move stock between shelves.
New: a search box can now make what it cannot find. Type a name that does not exist and it offers to create it — a shelf, a supplier, a brand, a colour, a category or a size on the Item Master, and a supplier or a whole new item on Stock In and Stock Out. Goods arriving from a firm nobody has keyed no longer means leaving the entry half done.
Something made this way is given its name and the next free code and nothing else, because a supplier’s GSTIN and an item’s HSN and rate decide how tax is charged and cannot be guessed from a name. Fill those in on the Party Master or the Item Master when you have them.
On the Rack Layout, clicking an item on a shelf opens that item’s card — what is on hand, what it last cost, who it came from, and every movement behind it. The shelf code itself does nothing, because a shelf often holds more than one thing.
This build does not change the structure of your books. It installs over 1.0.25 and your backups work in both directions.
Rack Layout is now on the Stock menu as well, at Stock .5 \u2192 A, so the wall map is one key away from where you work. It is still on Master .1 \u2192 Y beside the Rack Master.
Stock List has been taken off the menus. Stock Summary and Stock Ledger are unchanged and still where they were, and the Item Dashboard answers what an item is and where it is kept.
On Stock In and Stock Out, the shelves under \u201cWhere this item is kept\u201d can now be clicked. Pick the item, then click the shelf you are putting goods on or taking them from \u2014 the Rack box follows, and so does the figure showing what is on that shelf. No typing.
Fixed: that same panel used to read \u201clast paid this much, on this date, from this supplier\u201d as one sentence, when the price came from the last receipt and the name came from the item master \u2014 often a different firm. It now says the price and the date, and separately who you usually buy from.
This build does not change the structure of your books. It installs over 1.0.26 and your backups work in both directions.
Fixed: the Rack Layout no longer leaves stock off the wall. If something was put on a shelf on a date later than the wall is drawn at — a delivery note dated ahead, or a computer whose clock is a day behind — the shelf was drawn without it and nothing said why. The wall now opens showing everything on it, and tells you plainly, with one click to catch up, whenever there is stock dated after the day you are looking at.
On the Item Dashboard, clicking an item now brings its details up to where you are looking instead of opening them far down the page where nothing seemed to happen.
New: a shelf can be told how many different items it may hold. Set it on Rack Master — blank means no limit, which is every shelf until you choose otherwise — and Stock In, Rack Transfer and a new item are refused a fresh item once the shelf is full, naming the shelf and its limit. It caps the number of items, never the quantity.
Rack Transfer is now two panes. Pick the shelf you are taking from and every item on it is listed with a tick box; pick the shelf you are putting it on and you see what is already there. Tick one, several or all — each quantity fills in as the whole of what is on the shelf and can be lowered — and move them together. No more choosing an item before you can see what a shelf holds.
This build changes the structure of your books. It installs over 1.0.27 and reads every backup you already hold, but a backup taken on this version cannot be restored into an older one — so keep a backup taken on 1.0.27 before installing, and it will stay restorable there for ever.
Stock In and Stock Out no longer make you type a bill number or a reason. Goods moving cannot wait on a note that is not to hand — the box is still there for anyone who wants to fill it in, but it is not asked for. (Stock Out was meant to be optional already and quietly was not; it is now.)
Rack Master can change many shelves at once. Tick the racks and set them a limit, move a whole run to another building, or switch them on or off together — instead of one at a time. A shelf that stock has stood on cannot change building and is reported back rather than moved.
Laying out a range of racks now gives each new shelf a limit of two items, which you can change or clear as you add them, and correct any time on Rack Master.
The Stock Taking sheet and the Shortage List now have a Find box. On the sheet a word narrows it to one item or one shelf; on the order list, to one item or one supplier — so you are not scrolling a whole store to reach one line.
On Stock In and Stock Out the Value column is gone. A store keeps count, not accounts, and the rupee value of a shelf is not something it needs on that screen. Nothing about your figures changed — it is a column hidden, not a number removed — and it can be brought back if you ever want it.
This build does not change the structure of your books. It installs over 1.0.28 and your backups work in both directions.
A business with no GST number can now raise a bill at all. The software used to assume every business was registered: the item screen asked for a GST rate it would never charge, the menus offered returns that would never be filed, and a shop below the threshold could not raise a clean bill without working around the program. Where your company record has no GST number, the bill now comes out with no tax on it and the screens that do not apply say so instead of asking.
The GST menu no longer offers what you cannot file. With no GST number, GSTR-1, GSTR-3B, the annual return, the composition forms and e-invoicing are shown greyed with the reason beside them, rather than opening onto a screen that then refuses. Two stay open on purpose: the e-way bill, because the rules provide for an unregistered person to raise one, and Form 3CD, which asks about your supplier’s registration and not your own.
Your own bill can be headed INVOICE or CASH MEMO — your choice, under Invoice Settings. A shop selling over the counter says cash memo and a business invoicing on account says invoice; where there is no GST number the law prescribes neither, so it is yours to pick. Nothing else about the bill changes.
New: a Ship To party on an invoice, for a bill made out to a head office and delivered somewhere else. An invoice could only ever name one party, so that delivery could not be stated; the delivery party now prints on the bill. The tax does not move with it — the place of supply stays with the party the bill is made out to, which is what the law says for a bill-to-ship-to sale.
The HSN code on an item is now picked from the full HSN master instead of typed. Type digits to find a code or words to search the descriptions, and the window shows what each one covers. Where you have used a code before it offers the rate you used, filling an empty rate box only and never one you have already typed. It warns — it never refuses — when a code is shorter than your turnover requires, and a code the Council has added since is still accepted.
Fixed: a mistyped GST number was accepted on a customer or supplier. Change one digit of a real GST number and it still looks right — the length is right, the state is right — so it was saved without a word and went out on invoices, and was caught only in the GST check at the end of a quarter. Every GST number is now checked properly as you save it, and a wrong one is refused there and then with the reason.
New: Verified GSTINs, under GST Reports. Check any GST number without leaving the software; the check that catches a typo is arithmetic and needs no internet at all. It can also fill itself from the GSTR-2B returns already in your books, so every supplier who has ever filed against you is listed with their name, ready before you need it.
New: GST Portal Connection, under GST Reports. This is where an account for sending e-invoices and e-way bills straight to the government will be entered, once one is arranged. Until then the screen says so plainly, and says what is unchanged: every e-invoice and e-way bill is still prepared and checked here, and uploaded on the portal exactly as before.
The Sale Book and the Purchase Book now add up their own columns, with nothing counted by hand.
This build changes the structure of your books. A backup taken on it cannot be restored into 1.0.29 or any earlier version — so if you want to be able to go back, take a backup on your present version before installing this one.
New: Agent Master, on Master .1 → E. The agents and brokers who bring you business, with the commission each earns, and Add, Modify, Delete and List across the top like every other master. An agent who has been named on a bill is switched off rather than deleted, so last year’s bills still say who brought them in.
New: Invoice Series, on Master .1 → Z. A business that bills under more than one name — a tax invoice book and a Bill of Supply book, say — can name each one here with the code its bills are numbered from, and pick which one a bill goes on. Nothing changes for a business with a single bill book: it carries on numbering from Invoice Settings exactly as before. A series that has numbered a bill is switched off rather than deleted, so those bills keep saying what they said.
A bill can now record how the goods actually went: transporter, vehicle number, weight, number of cases, your customer’s order number and date, the GR number and date, and the agent. Until now those were typed again at e-way bill time and kept nowhere on the bill itself.
Where a bill is made from a sales order or a delivery challan, the vehicle, transporter and the customer’s order number now come across with it instead of being keyed a second time.
The e-way bill fills its transport half from the bill. Anything already recorded on the invoice is there when the e-way bill opens, and it can still be changed before the JSON is made.
New — ITC 180-Day, under GST Reports. If you have taken input credit on a purchase bill and have not paid the supplier within 180 days of the date they issued it, the law makes you give that credit back in the next month’s GSTR-3B, and take it again when you pay. Nothing in this software tracked that before, so the credit simply stayed claimed. The screen lists every bill past its 180 days, works out how much of the credit goes back, posts the entry for the month, and puts the figure in table 4(B)(2) of the GSTR-3B and table 7A of the GSTR-9. When you pay the supplier later, it takes the credit back for you.
ITC 180-Day refuses to guess. If a supplier has money paid to them that has not been set against particular bills, the screen cannot tell how much of any one bill is paid — so it leaves those bills out, names the supplier, and asks you to set the money against the bills first. Reversing credit on a bill that was in fact paid means paying tax you do not owe, which is the more expensive mistake of the two.
ITC 180-Day counts from the supplier’s own bill date, not from the day the bill was entered here — that is what the law says. Where a bill has no supplier’s date, the screen uses the entry date instead and says so on the row, because on books brought across from other software that date is usually blank and every date to its right depends on it.
The GST connection screen no longer names the company whose line we use to reach the portal. Where there is only one, there is nothing to choose, so the box is gone. The e-way bill card still names a company and that one is deliberate — it is the entry you have to pick from the government’s own list when you register for a GSP, and no other name on that list will find it.
This build changes the structure of your books. A backup taken on it cannot be restored into 1.0.30 or any earlier version — so if you want to be able to go back, take a backup on your present version before installing this one.
New: a bill can be sent to the customer from the invoice itself. Open a bill and there is a Send button beside Save as PDF — it makes the PDF, fills in the customer’s address or mobile from their master, writes the message, and sends it. Quotations, orders and statements will follow the same way.
New: Utility .7 → K, Sending Setup. Your own mailbox — the server, port and password your mail program already uses — and a Send test button beside it, so you find out it works before a customer is waiting rather than after.
WhatsApp opens with the customer chosen and the message already typed, and the PDF is saved to your computer for you to attach. WhatsApp does not let another program attach a file on your behalf; sending it unattended needs a WhatsApp Business account from Meta, which is a separate arrangement and is not built.
Fill in “Keep a copy at” and every document you send is blind-copied to you. Worth doing: sending leaves no copy in your Sent folder — only a mail program puts one there — so without it there is no record in your own mailbox of anything you sent.
The Send window shows what has already gone out for that document, with the date, the address and who sent it, before you send anything. Sending a second copy is fine; sending one without knowing is not.
A message the mail server refused is recorded as failed, with the server’s own reason. A bill that bounced and nobody noticed is what a business finds out a month later when the customer says they were never billed.
The mailbox password is never shown again once saved, and it does not appear in the Audit Trail — that records only that it changed.
The wording of both the e-mail and the WhatsApp message is yours to change, with the customer’s name, the document number, the date and the amount filled in for you.
New: build your own reports. Reports .3 → Q opens My Reports, where you choose what a report is about — the ledger, or the lines of your sale and purchase bills — then which columns it carries, in what order, what conditions it applies, what it groups by and what it adds up. Preview shows the figures before you name it. It prints, exports to Excel and carries your letterhead exactly like every other report in the software, because it goes through the same page engine.
Your own reports are kept with your books, not with the PC. They are in every backup and they come back with a restore, and everybody who opens these books sees the same list. Anyone who may read reports can run them; changing or removing one needs the right to change settings, so a report nobody meant to touch cannot be deleted from the counter.
New: reports can be sorted and filtered on screen. Click a column heading to order by it — press it again to reverse, and a third time to put the report back the way it came. The small funnel beside each heading opens a window listing every value in that column with how many rows carry it, and you tick the ones you want to see. Both work from the keyboard: in the funnel, type to search, Space ticks, Enter applies and Escape closes without changing anything.
What you sort or filter is what prints, and what goes to Excel. A report narrowed to one party prints that party — with its total re-added over the rows on show, and a line at the foot saying what was filtered and how many rows of how many are on the page, so a sheet that leaves the building cannot be mistaken for the whole report.
New: eight keys that open a screen from wherever you are — Ctrl+T Trial Balance, Ctrl+M A/c Head, Ctrl+I a bill, Ctrl+O opening balances, Ctrl+B the Sale Book, Ctrl+E the Item Master, Ctrl+F the Balance Sheet and Ctrl+Q the Stock Ledger. Nothing you were using has changed: Ctrl+A is still Accept, Ctrl+D is still the Dashboard, F4 to F9 are still the vouchers, and 1 then A still reaches A/c Head. They stand down while you are typing in a box, so they cannot interrupt an entry.
New: Help .9 → D lists every key the software answers to, on one page — the eight above, the voucher keys, Add/Modify/Delete/List, the menu numbers and what a report offers. It is built from the software itself, so it cannot describe a key that does not work.
New: a calculator inside any figure box. Type @ or * in a box that takes an amount and a small window opens with whatever was already there; work out the sum and press Enter, and the answer goes into the box. It understands brackets and percentages the way a desk calculator does — 1180 - 18% is 967.60 — and you can paste a figure straight off one of our own reports, commas and all. F10 opens the same window anywhere.
Reports that would be wrong if the rows moved do not offer it, and that is deliberate. An A/c Statement, a Cash Book, a Stock Ledger or a Month Wise Balance carry a running figure — each line’s balance is the one above it plus that line — so reordering them would print arithmetic that never happened. Those screens show no arrows and no funnels rather than offering something that could quietly produce a wrong statement.
This build changes the structure of your books. A backup taken on it cannot be restored into 1.0.31 or any earlier version — so if you want to be able to go back, take a backup on your present version before installing this one.
Fixed: the Cash Summary graph at the foot of the dashboard was only ever drawing the purchase line. The sale line and the shaded area under it were invisible — not empty, invisible — so the picture showed half of what it said it did. Both lines draw now, and the dot beside “Sale” is filled in.
Fixed: the Rack Layout drew every shelf boxed in near-black instead of a thin rule, so the wall map read as a heavy grid rather than as a picture of the store. The boxes are the same pale green as the rest of the software now.
New: price lists — the same goods sold at more than one rate. Until now an item had one selling price, so a wholesale rate, a counter rate and a rate agreed with one big buyer all had to be typed by hand on every bill. A price list is a named sheet of rates with a date it comes into force. Tag a customer with their sheet once on the Account Master and every bill you raise for them prices itself; pick a different sheet on a single bill when that bill is the exception. Master menus were full, so it is on Billing at P.
A price list is dated, so an April price rise is a new sheet rather than four hundred items retyped — and a bill keyed late, a credit note against an old invoice, or a purchase entered a month after it arrived, all price at the rates that applied on the document’s own date rather than at today’s.
Filling a price list is four buttons rather than a typing job. Populate brings in every item at its current price; Copy clones a sheet under a new name; Change every rate lifts or cuts the whole sheet by a percentage and rounds it; Import merges another sheet in. Copy, then raise 8%, then round to rupees is the whole new-season workflow. Rates are changed first and rounded second, so ₹2.40 raised 8% and rounded to rupees is ₹3, not ₹2.
A rate you type is never overwritten. Changing the price list part-way down a bill re-prices only the lines the software filled in — a price you keyed by hand stays exactly as you keyed it.
Nothing changes for a business that charges everybody the same price. Bills go on taking each item’s own selling price, the Price list box does not appear until you create a price list, and no existing bill or customer is touched.
New: compensation cess can now be charged the way the rate schedule actually prices it. Some goods are charged a flat amount per unit rather than a percentage — coal is ₹400 a tonne — and no percentage of any value can produce that, because it does not move with the price. Others, pan masala and several tobacco products since April 2023, are charged on the price printed on the packet rather than on what you billed. And cigarettes are charged both at once: a percentage plus a figure per thousand. All three are on the Item Master, and a bill adds them together.
Fixed: compensation cess was never charged on any bill. The Item Master had no box for it, nothing carried it onto an invoice line, and the account it posts to was looked up in a way that could never find it. A business selling coal, tobacco, pan masala, aerated waters or motor cars was under-declaring the levy on every return. If you have never sold any of those, nothing about your books changes.
The cess figure appears on the invoice totals only when there is cess to show, and the printed bill carries it as the law requires.
A rate charged on the printed price is refused if the item has no printed price, rather than quietly charging nothing — which would print a bill that looks complete and under-declare the return.
New: every list can be seen as a graph. Open any report and press Ctrl+G — bar, line or pie, with the actual figures listed underneath it. The Trial Balance, the A/c Statement, Outstanding, the registers, the stock reports: all of them, and anything added later.
Choose what to group by and which figure to draw, from the columns the report already has. A report with dates can be drawn month by month, quarter by quarter or year by year — quarters counted from April, so they agree with your returns.
Where a report covers more than one year, Year on year draws them over each other — April against April — so last year and this year are on the same picture.
The graph follows what is in front of you. Sort a column or filter it, and the graph is of what you are looking at, not of the report you started with.
A balance is treated as a balance and not added up: the graph of a running balance shows the closing figure for each month, and a credit balance is drawn below the line. A pie is refused where it would mislead — where the figures go below zero, or where they are balances rather than shares — and it says which chart to use instead.
A business with no GST number is no longer offered a suggested GST rate when it picks an HSN code, nor told that a code is shorter than the returns want. It files no returns, so neither meant anything — they were the last two places on the Item Master still assuming a registration.
This build changes the structure of your books. A backup taken on it cannot be restored into 1.0.32 or any earlier version — so if you want to be able to go back, take a backup on your present version before installing this one.
New: a second look for the software, and a way to switch between them. The colours are chosen from a window at the top right of the title bar, beside your name and the version — the same kind of centred window the company and the year already use. Your choice is remembered per person, and the software opens the way you left it.
New: packing, freight and postage on a bill — and on a purchase too. Until now a business billing ₹300 of freight had nowhere to put it and had to type “Freight” as an item line. Each charge carries its own GST rate, and each one reaches GSTR-1 and the HSN summary properly rather than being added to a total the return never sees.
New: a flat discount off the whole bill, spread across the lines before anything is taxed. Taxing first and deducting afterwards would leave each rate’s tax worked out on a value the customer was never charged, and the two figures on the same bill would disagree by the tax on the discount. A line already marked down takes a proportionally smaller share.
New: the master strip. On a bill, a voucher, a receipt, a note, a statement and Outstanding, the party you are working with is shown with what you need to know about them — and one click reaches their master, their statement or their notes.
Type a bill number you have not created and the software tells you so, and which numbers are missing from the book — instead of finding out at return time.
Ctrl+A now saves what is on the screen on every screen, not only on the ones that happened to have it.
Export to Excel reaches the last twelve report screens that did not have it.
The consignee, and the despatch details — transporter, vehicle, weight, cases — now print on the bill, and the company name prints bigger.
This build changes the structure of your books. A backup taken on it cannot be restored into 1.0.33 or any earlier version — so if you want to be able to go back, take a backup on your present version before installing this one.
The store edition can now raise its own orders. Purchase Order, Delivery Challan and Goods Receipt appear together under an Order Cycle heading on the Billing menu. Until now a store could book goods in but had no way to order them, so the order was written on paper and the same lines were keyed a second time as a stock-in — two records of one delivery, and the usual place the two disagree.
Nothing else about billing opens with them: a store install still has no invoice, no purchase bill and no print setup. Only the three order screens were added.
Every party now appears in every party box. Until now a Delivery Challan or a Sales Order offered only the parties marked “Customer”, and a Purchase Order or Goods Receipt only those marked “Supplier” — so a supplier you also sell to could not be typed onto a challan at all, and the box answered “Nothing matches” over a party list that held the name. The Customer/Supplier mark is now a label on the master and nothing else: which way the money moves is decided by the document you are keying, not by the party.
A party can now be made from inside a Quotation, Sales Order, Delivery Challan, Purchase Order or Goods Receipt. Type a name that is not there yet and the full Party Master opens over the document; what you save drops straight into the box and the document is where you left it. The bill, the purchase, the notes, the receipt and the voucher screens already worked this way.

1.0.17

20 August 2026 26 changes

Also delivers the work built as 1.0.16, which did not go out on its own.

Fixed: the Trial Balance left out customers and suppliers whose balance was brought forward from an earlier year. Somebody who bought in 2018 and never paid was simply missing from it, while the Balance Sheet showed them correctly — so the two reports disagreed about what you are owed, and neither said anything was wrong. The Trial Balance now shows every account carrying a balance, and this year’s sales and expenses beside them.
Fixed: Opening Trial said “No account carries a balance yet” on books that plainly had balances brought in. It now shows what stood on the morning the year opened.
If your earlier years have never been closed, the Trial Balance will now show a difference equal to the profit still sitting in those years. That figure is real and it is telling you those years want closing — Utility .7 has the screen. Once they are closed it tallies as before.
Fixed: an employee could not be keyed in. On Master .1 → K the box for the code took the cursor and Enter went nowhere, so the name could not be reached without the mouse. Enter now moves to the next box and Ctrl+A accepts, the way it does on the Account Master, and the keys are written across the top of the window.
Fixed: leaving a box empty on the employee window answered with the word “invalid”. It now says what is wrong — “an employee needs a name”.
Escape asks before it throws a bill away. On a sales invoice or a purchase with a customer chosen or a line keyed, Escape now opens a window asking whether to leave — Ctrl+A leaves, Escape again stays on the bill. Before this, one press left the screen and the whole bill was gone without a word.

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The question is now a window of the software’s own rather than the browser’s grey box headed “localhost says”. It looks the same wherever it appears — the voucher, receipts, notes, the masters and the order cycle all ask this way now.
New: Reports .3 → J, Debtors & Creditors. Who owes you and who you owe, on one screen, with a tab for each side and the count on the tab. It prints and exports like every other report. The same list is still on the Balance Sheet under Dr.List and Cr.List — it is one list drawn in two places, so the two cannot disagree.
Ctrl+A opens the search for an account, a bill or a report from a report, a list or the dashboard. On an entry screen Ctrl+A is still Accept, exactly as before — the key never changes meaning on a screen that shows it.
Fixed: Payment Receivable / Payable left out any customer or supplier kept as a plain ledger head rather than as a party. Three such customers owed ₹6,400 on the Balance Sheet and the ageing report showed nothing at all, with no sign that anything was missing. The ageing now agrees with the debtor and creditor lists.
The Trial Balance and the Balance Sheet schedules are drawn in the software’s own green instead of a white panel. Nothing about the figures changed, and printing is untouched.
On Cash Flow the account groups can be opened from the keyboard. The little arrow could only be clicked with the mouse before.
New: the e-way bill can be raised from inside the invoice. Save a bill and an E-Way Bill button beside Save opens the whole thing over it — mode of transport, transporter and GSTIN, transport document, vehicle number and distance — with Download JSON for the portal and the printed Form GST EWB-01. It is the same screen as GST Reports .0 → H, so the two can never differ. Opening a posted bill from View All Invoices offers it too.
A bill over ₹50,000 now says so the moment it is saved: “Over ₹50,000 — this consignment needs an e-way bill.” That is rule 138(1) and it applies whatever your turnover. Before this, the only way to find out was to open the E-Way Bills screen and notice one was missing.
Before a bill is saved the E-Way Bill button is greyed and says why — an e-way bill needs a posted invoice.
E-Invoicing on GST Reports .0 is greyed with the reason: it applies above ₹5 crore of turnover and does not apply to these books. Nothing has been removed — it comes back by itself the day the turnover crosses.
Saving an invoice now opens a box instead of showing one line. It names the bill and its total, says whether the consignment needs an e-way bill, and offers Raise the e-way bill and Print the invoice. It says plainly that the bill is saved and that closing the box does not undo it — Escape closes it and the invoice stays exactly where it is.
This build does not change the structure of your books. It installs over 1.0.16 and your backups work in both directions.
The old look is back. The menu down the left has gone and the numbered row of tabs across the top has returned, the way it was before 1.0.14. Nothing you have keyed is affected, and the keyboard is unchanged.
Billing .8 now has View All Invoices on L and View All Purchases on M, so the list of bills is a screen of its own instead of a strip on the entry screen. The invoice screen itself takes the whole window and no longer scrolls — the totals and Save stay in front of you while you key the lines.
New: TDS / TCS certificates. General .4 → U issues Form 16A to a supplier and Form 27D on tax collected, showing who is owed one for the quarter and refusing any whose tax has not reached the government yet. Form 16 for an employee is on → V, and TCS Thresholds on → W shows how close each buyer is to the ₹50 lakh limit.
Fixed: TDS / TCS Deposit could not deposit anything. It never asked which bank account paid the challan, so pressing Deposit always failed; and tax deducted from salary never appeared on the list at all, which meant a Form 16 could not be issued. Both are fixed, and interest under 201(1A) now asks which head to charge it to.
Fixed: TDS / TCS Returns opened blank on any quarter that had a challan against it.
Fixed: figures on the TDS / TCS screens showed four decimals — 12,566.6700 where the rest of the software says 12,566.67.
Fixed: starting a new company no longer shows an example company name and GST number in the boxes, which made the form look as though it had already been filled in.
This build does not change the structure of your books. It installs over 1.0.15 and your backups work in both directions.

1.0.15

19 August 2026 43 changes

Also delivers the work built as 1.0.11, 1.0.12, 1.0.13, which did not go out on its own.

If you installed 1.0.14 and it would not start — saying a financial year is locked — this is the build that fixes it. Nothing in your books was harmed: the upgrade stops itself rather than half-finishing.
The whole look has changed. The numbered row of tabs across the top is now a menu down the left that stays open on one group at a time, the dashboard opens with the year's figures and a cash chart, and the tables are quieter to read. Nothing about the keyboard changed: 1 then A still reaches A/c Head, F4 to F9 are still where they were, and Escape still goes back.
New: a Stock menu at .5 — batches and lots, serial numbers, reorder levels, dead stock, stock ageing, and fast and slow movers. Godown Transfer moves goods between your places on Stock .5 → E and writes both sides of the movement.
New: branches. Branch Master on Master .1 → O, Branch Transfer on Feeding .2 → J, and a Branch-wise Trial Balance on Final .6 → H, so each branch balances on its own and the company balances across them.
New: payroll, on General .4 → G to N — salary structure, attendance, leave, the salary run and register, advances and loans, PF/ESI/Professional Tax, and TDS on salary. It is an add-on: if you have not bought it, nothing on that menu changes for you.
New: job work, on Feeding .2 → K, L and M — job orders and the Material Out and In challans — with Pending Material and Job Cost on Reports .3 → N and O.

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New: your own voucher books and cost categories on Master .1 → T and U, bank accounts on → V, and interest rates on → W, with Interest Calculation on Stock .5 → T.
New: reminders that work themselves out — payment due, GST due, cheque due — on General .4 → E, and EMI or AMC schedules on → F. You can also attach a file to a voucher or an invoice.
New: Universal Search, and importing from a spreadsheet on Utility .7 → E, including books kept in other accounting packages.
New: Funds Flow and Ratio Analysis on Final .6 → I and J.
GSTR-1 table 11 is built. The Receipts screen now asks what money taken before a bill was for, at the moment you key it — that is the one fact in these books that cannot be worked out afterwards. Receipts keyed without saying are listed on the GSTR-1 screen as what the table could not carry.
Every screen that records something now has the same row across it — Add, Modify, Delete and List, on Alt+A, Alt+M, Alt+X and Alt+L — so an entry made on a screen can always be reopened on it. Twenty-one screens gained it in this build.
This build changes the structure of your books. Take a backup on your current version before installing it and keep that file — an older version cannot read a backup made on this one. Going the other way is fine: this build reads every backup you already have.
The GSTR-9 annual return explains table 4G in plain language now. Reverse charge is not recorded in these books, so the figure is left blank rather than estimated — and because 5N subtracts it, showing a zero there would overstate your turnover.
The figures on the return are unchanged. Only the wording of that note is different.
Fixed: on 1.0.11 the Item Master, Parties, Chart of Accounts and five other master screens could stop responding — the screen stayed where it was and there was no way back. They open, close and move between each other normally again.
Nothing was lost while that happened. It stopped the screen changing; it never touched your books.
If you are on 1.0.11, install this one.
New: the Composition Scheme, on GST Reports .0 → J. Record when the business was in the scheme and at what rate. It is a dated fact rather than a setting, so a year you joined or left half way through still reads correctly.
CMP-08 works itself out every quarter on .0 → K, and GSTR-4 once a year on .0 → L — including the file the government’s own offline tool reads.
New: ITC-03 on .0 → M — the input credit you have to give back when you join the scheme. Record the joining date and it tells you the amount, the stock it was worked out from, and the date it is due. It says so on the Composition Scheme screen the moment you record the period, rather than waiting to be asked.
A sale by a composition dealer now comes out as a BILL OF SUPPLY carrying no tax, with the declaration the rules require printed on it. Type a rate and it is taken off — you cannot charge tax you are not allowed to collect.
Reverse charge on a purchase: tick “We pay the tax on this bill”. The supplier is credited only what they actually billed you, and the tax is shown separately as yours to pay the government in cash. The screen shows what they are owed, which is not the bill total.
That tick now reaches GSTR-3B, GSTR-9, CMP-08 and GSTR-4, and the cash figure you have to deposit — where before it reached only the two composition returns.
A sale on which your customer pays the tax now charges none, and the bill says “tax payable on reverse charge basis”.
New: a Fixed Asset Register on Master .1 → L — what the business owns, what it cost, and what is left of it. An asset stays on the register after it is sold, so a year you have already closed still reads the way it did.
Depreciation on Feeding .2 → H works out the year's charge and posts it for you, on either basis. Sale or Disposal of an Asset is on .2 → I, and it works out the profit or loss against what the asset was still worth on the day it went.
New: Budgets on Master .1 → M — what each department may spend and what it should bring in, by head and by cost centre. Actual against Budget on Final .6 → F puts the two side by side with the difference.
New: keeping after a customer, on General .4. Follow-up on .4 → C records what was said and what was promised, and ticking “Only what is due” — or Alt+U — narrows it to what is overdue, due today or coming up. Sales Pipeline on .4 → D shows every open deal by stage, with what it is worth and how long it has sat there.
New: Generate Barcodes on Master .1 → N, for the items that arrived without one. The number it carries on from is kept in your books, so a restore cannot start re-issuing numbers already printed on stock on the shelf.
A barcode scanner now works wherever you are on a bill. Until now a scan only reached the bill if you pressed Ctrl+B first and put the cursor in the Scan box — so if the cursor happened to be in a quantity box, a scan put the whole barcode in as the quantity. Vertex ERP now recognises a scanner by how fast it types, takes the label whatever box you were in, and puts back whatever was in that box. Nothing changes for typing: the Scan box and Ctrl+B work exactly as before, and a scanner is still just a keyboard with nothing to install.
Utility .7 → J is a new screen for the hardware on your counter — the scanner, the cash drawer and the customer display. Each computer has its own, so a till at the counter and a PC in the office are set up separately.
Check my scanner, on that screen, shows exactly what your scanner sent: the characters, how fast they arrived, which key it finished with, and whether Vertex ERP would read that as a label. If it would not, it says which setting to change. Plug a scanner in, scan anything, and you have your answer.
A cash drawer opens by itself when you post a receipt taken in cash, and there is a Test button so you can check it without keying anything. You can also set it to open on every bill, or never — and Ctrl+Shift+O opens it from any screen, for giving change or putting the float in.
A customer display shows the bill to the person on the other side of the counter — either a two-line display on a stalk, or a second monitor turned to face them. Both show the goods as they are scanned and the total underneath, and it never covers the screen you are working on. It goes back to your greeting between customers.
New: the Sale Book on Reports .3 → K and the Purchase Book on .3 → L — every document of the month with its party, its place of supply, its rate and its tax. A cancelled bill is listed and marked, and counted in no total.
New: GSTR-2A on GST Reports .0 → N — every supply of the month a supplier has declared, however late they filed it.
GSTR-9 now carries Part V and table 14, so the annual return is the whole form rather than most of it.
A printed bill now measures its own page instead of counting to a fixed number of lines, so it fills the paper it is actually on. Type on screen is sized for reading; on paper it is the size the paper wants.
The Add, Modify, Delete and List row is now on the Fixed Asset Register, Budget and Sales Pipeline as well — Alt+A, Alt+M, Alt+X and Alt+L — so an entry made on any of them can be reopened on the screen that made it, without reaching for the mouse.
Escape on an entry screen now does one thing at a time. It could close the window and abandon the entry behind it in a single press.
A search box that finds nothing now says so and offers a way on, instead of leaving you at an empty list.
This build changes the structure of your books. Take a backup on your current version before installing it and keep that file — an older version cannot read a backup made on this one. Going the other way is fine: this build reads every backup you already have.

1.0.10

13 August 2026 18 changes

Also delivers the work built as 1.0.7, 1.0.8, 1.0.9, which did not go out on its own.

Printing can now be switched on for one company at a time on an accountant licence. The others stay as they were.
Each company shows its own printing code on Help .9 → A. Read it out when you ring, and printing starts on the next licence check — or straight away if you restart.
A company that has been paid for prints and exports exactly like an ordinary licence, from the computer that holds the books.
Nothing here changes anything for an ordinary licence.
You set your own invoice numbers. Both books have a prefix, a year code and a running number you choose — so a business that has always billed G2627101 carries on billing G2627101, and the year code moves on its own in April.
Manual Bill Book numbers itself. It used to ask you to type every number by hand and remember where you had got to; it now offers the next one, and you can still overwrite it.

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Manual Bill Book and GST Tax Invoice are listed separately, so the two books no longer run together in one list.
Paper sizes take inches or millimetres, whichever you have, and show the other underneath. If your label stock says 3.7 × 5.8 inches you type that, instead of converting it and hoping.
Once you have picked the printer your bills go to, printing a bill no longer stops at the print dialog and no longer needs the paper size choosing by hand each time — the size goes with the job. Every other printer still asks, as before.
The bill printer is remembered against the paper, so a till roll at the counter and a laser in the office are both kept.
A new kind of licence for accountants and CAs, for keeping several clients’ books on one computer. Every screen and every kind of entry works as normal, and any number of companies can be kept.
On that licence the software does not print or export. No printing, no PDF, no Excel, and no print preview \u2014 the figures stay on screen.
Three things still come out on an accountant licence: the journal entry, the account statement, and the GST return files that go to the portal. Filing returns is the job, so it keeps working in full.
Everything about an ordinary licence is unchanged. If you have not been given an accountant licence, nothing on your screens is different.
On an accountant licence the printed bill is no longer shown on screen either. The print view, the delivery challan, the quotation, the orders, the e-way bill, the cheque and the labels are all withheld rather than displayed.
The buttons that led there are gone with it — no Print / Save as PDF on an invoice, and no P: Print — so nothing offers a screen that would show nothing.
Everything you have entered is still there and every screen still works: the invoice’s own record, all the entry screens and all the reports. Journal entries, account statements and the GST return files still come out as before.
Nothing here changes anything for an ordinary licence.

1.0.6

12 August 2026 93 changes

Also delivers the work built as 0.9.84, 0.9.85, 0.9.86, 0.9.87, 0.9.88, 0.9.89, 0.9.90, 0.9.91, 0.9.92, 0.9.93, 0.9.94, 0.9.96, 0.9.97, 0.9.98, 0.9.99, 1.0.0, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5, which did not go out on its own.

Receipts print on one page again. 1.0.5 worked out the length of the bill for itself and got it wrong, so a single invoice came out split across three or four pages with blank paper between the pieces. That is removed.
There is a “Page length” box beside the roll width instead. Leave it empty and the printer decides, exactly as it did before 1.0.5. If your roll has tear lines, measure from one to the next — 152.4mm for a 4 × 6 inch label — and one bill lands on one label.
The roll width and the top, bottom, left and right margins are unchanged from 1.0.5.
The printed invoice has been rebuilt to match the bill your customers already receive: ruled edge to edge, with the transport and despatch boxes, the order and GR/RR references, the reverse-charge line, the receiver’s district, state and PAN, the HSN summary, your bank details, the numbered terms and a place for the customer’s signature.
The invoice number now shows on screen while you are typing the bill, before it is saved — with the book letter yours to change.
Typing a customer, a supplier or a ledger head that is not in your books opens the full master as a window — on the sales invoice, the Manual Bill Book, the purchase bill, Voucher Feeding, Receipts & Payments and credit and debit notes. Nothing is written until you press Accept, so closing the window creates nothing at all.

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An invoice can be corrected after it has been posted, as long as the GSTR-1 for its month has not been filed. It keeps its number and the ledger is rewritten with it. Once the return has gone, it says so and asks you to raise a credit or debit note instead.
The purchase bill opens on item lines, each carrying its own GST rate from the item. It no longer asks for one rate for the whole bill, which was wrong on any bill with two kinds of goods on it.
Vertex ERP opens full screen every time.
On Receipts & Payments the keys along the bottom were being replaced by Print and Export, so Ctrl+A did not post a batch. Both are shown now.
The printed invoice now fills the whole page. It was being squeezed into about half the width with the right-hand side left blank — the sheet was asking for a fixed width the page could not give it, so the printer shrank everything to make it fit.
The column lines run from the headings all the way down to the TOTAL line, whatever the bill carries. On a short bill the middle of the page was coming out completely blank, with no lines at all.
A “Save as PDF” button that makes the file itself, on A4, instead of leaving it to whatever paper the print dialog happened to have selected — which is where the wrong page size was coming from.
An “Export to Excel” button on the invoice: the document on one sheet and the HSN summary on another, as figures you can add rather than as a picture of a table.
The printed invoice fills the sheet properly at last — 194mm of an A4 page instead of about 145mm, with the signature back on the first page instead of alone on a second. This was measured on a real PDF rather than looked at on screen, which is why the last four attempts at it did not hold.
A voucher, receipt or payment that was keyed wrongly can now be changed or deleted, instead of having to be corrected by posting a second entry against it. It keeps its own number when you change it.
Every entry screen now carries the same row of buttons — Add, Modify, Delete and List — with Save and Cancel greyed until you press Add or Modify, and the form itself shut until then, so nothing you type can be thrown away.
A voucher that came from an invoice or a bank import refuses to be changed on the voucher screen, and says which module to go to instead.
A receipt that has already been settled against a bill refuses to be changed until the allocation is undone. Without that, the bill would quietly go back to showing as unpaid.
A Dashboard button on the top bar, so you can get back to it from any screen. Ctrl+D does the same thing.
The Item Master is a full screen now, like the A/c Master — every box in front of you at once instead of a small window you had to scroll. The price, the MRP, the four extra rates, the opening stock and the minimum level were always being saved; they were simply too far down the old window for anyone to find them.
Enter moves to the next box on the Item Master, the way it does on every other entry screen. Ctrl+A accepts and Escape goes back.
The item code is filled in for you the moment the screen opens — the next free number — and you can still type your own over it.
Typing an item nobody has created yet, on a sales invoice or a purchase bill, now opens that same full Item Master over the top rather than a thin four-field box. So a new item gets its HSN, its rate and its price at the moment it is created.
Credit and debit notes now carry the same Add, Modify, Delete and List row as the voucher and receipt screens. Click a note in the list to put it back on the form, press Modify to change it, and it keeps its own number.
A credit note that is changed no longer loses the invoice it was raised against, or its reason. Both were being quietly cleared, and the link to the original invoice is what a GSTR-1 needs.
A credit note can now be raised to the full value of the invoice it corrects. Changing one used to be refused as though the note were crediting the invoice twice — it was counting itself.
One item can now be sold in several pack sizes out of one stock balance. Buy 10 kg of rajma, sell it as 500 g and 1 kg packets, each with its own barcode and its own price — and selling two 500 g packets takes half a kilo twice off the same ten, not two kilos. Set them up on the Packs button in the Item Master.
Scanning an item now fills its price in for you. The selling price on a sales invoice, the purchase price on a supplier bill, and a pack's own price when the label is a pack's. A rate you have already typed is never overwritten.
Two barcodes on one product finally mean two different things. Scanning the 500 g label and the 1 kg label puts them on separate lines at their own prices, where before they were added together on one.
The stock report shows what actually left the shelf. A line selling three packets records the kilograms it took, so the balance and the bill can differ without either being wrong.
You can now sell a pack without a barcode scanner. Choose the item on a bill and a Pack box appears beside it offering 50 g, 500 g, 1 kg — whatever you have set up — with its own price. Type how many packets you are selling and the right weight comes off the shelf: ten 50 g packets bills as ten and takes half a kilogram off your hundred.
And you can buy that way too. A purchase line has a "Came as" box, so ten boxes of ten kilograms puts a hundred kilograms in stock rather than ten. The price stays yours to type — it is the supplier's bill that decides it.
Setting a pack up no longer needs any arithmetic. Write the size into its name — "500 g", "50 g", "20 g", "500 ml", "2 L" — and the software works out what one takes off stock from the item's own unit, then says it back to you in words. Type over it whenever you would rather say yourself.
Opening stock now reaches the shelf. What you type into Opening qty on the Item Master becomes real stock dated at the start of your books. It had been stored and used by nothing at all, so an item you had a hundred of read as none — and correcting the figure now replaces it rather than adding to it.
The Stock List counts your shelf in packets as well as in weight. A hundred kilograms of patisa also reads as 5,000 packets of 20 g, so you can see how much you have left to sell and not only what it weighs.
The Item Master's F4, F5, F6 and F7 keys work again. On a large screen they did nothing at all, because the whole form was already in front of you and those keys only scrolled. They now put the cursor straight into Tax, Rates, Stock or Other.
A new item group can be made from the Item Master itself. Typing a group nobody has entered offers to create it, the way the party and item boxes already do, so filing an item under a new group no longer means abandoning the one you are typing.
A bill for packets now says packets. Selling four 50 g packets printed “4 KGS” — four kilograms — on the invoice and reported the same on your GST return, because the unit came from the item rather than from the pack. It reads PCS now, and your return matches the bill your customer is holding. Worth re-checking any bill raised with packs before today.
The pack has its own column on the printed invoice. “Chana Laddu — 20g” now shows 20g beside the quantity, so a customer can see what they bought without reading the description. It appears only on bills that use packs, and it is in the Excel export too.
An invoice can be deleted, not only cancelled. Until the GST return covering it has been filed, a posted sales invoice can be removed outright — the software warns you first that its number will leave a gap in the book. Once the return is filed it must still be cancelled, because deleting it would contradict a return already with the department.
The Stock Ledger says what was sold, not just what left the shelf. A sale of four 20 g packets showed as “0.08” and nothing else; it now reads “4 × 20 g” beside it, while the columns you add up stay in kilograms.
Before you install: take a backup on 0.9.90 first and keep it. This version stores one extra thing about your invoice settings, and a backup taken on it cannot be restored into an older version. Going forward is safe — it reads every backup you already hold.
Fifteen printed bill layouts, chosen from the print screen, numbered the way you already know them, so if you know one as “style 8B” it is still 8B here. Ship-to column, CGST+SGST or IGST, letterhead, pre-printed stationery, estimate, half page, thermal roll — pick one and it is remembered.
The column widths now come from real printed bills rather than from our guesswork. Several were out — the HSN column was a fifth too wide and the taxable column a tenth too narrow — and because the description column absorbed the difference, the bill looked reasonable while no column sat where it should.
The half page is a half page again. It was being printed at A5 width, three-quarters of the paper; it is the full width of an A4 at half its height, which is what the stationery actually is — two bills to a sheet.
A Zoom box on the print screen, and the sheet now sits on a grey desk so you can see its edges. Your A4 was always printing full width; it looked like half a page because it was drawn at life size in a window twice as wide, on white, with nothing to see it against.
The Stock Ledger counts in packets too. Opening, In, Out and Closing each say how many packets the figure comes to, matching what the Stock List already showed.
A correction worth checking: the packet count was one short wherever the division was not clean. 4.72 kg of laddu in 20 g packets read as 235 and is 236.
The Barcodes panel says which pack each barcode is for. You could choose a pack when adding a barcode and then never see it again, so a 20 g label and a 50 g label were two rows of digits with no way to tell them apart.
The printed bill is now ruled on one grid. Every vertical line in the header, the item table, the totals, the GST summary and the footer comes from the same set of column positions, so they line up by construction rather than by adjustment. This is the fix for lines that did not meet and columns that did not sit under their headings.
The column lines run all the way down to the TOTAL line. On a bill with one or two items the ruling used to stop partway and leave the rest of the box open at the bottom.
There is proper room to sign again. The signature area is a fixed height instead of whatever space happened to be left, so it no longer shrinks on a bill with few items or no terms.
The footer boxes sit on the same column positions as the table above them. They were set in fixed pixels, which put them a few millimetres out on A4 — and made them wider than the paper on a thermal roll.
Nothing about how a bill is calculated, numbered or taxed has changed. This release only changes how the bill is drawn.
Before you install: take a backup on 0.9.92 first and keep it. This version stores one more thing about your invoice settings, and a backup taken on it cannot be restored into an older version. Going forward is safe — it reads every backup you already hold.
You can put your logo on the bill. Invoice Settings → Logo, choose a picture, and it prints beside your company name on every invoice. PNG, JPEG, GIF or WebP. The picture itself is kept with your books, so it is in your backups and it prints from a second PC on the network too — it does not depend on the file staying where you found it.
The two short lines at the top of the bill are gone. They sat between the GSTIN, the title and the phone number, and with those boxes nearly empty they looked like stray marks rather than the edge of anything.
The GST summary under the totals is close together again. HSN, taxable, SGST% and CGST% were spread right across the width of the bill; they now sit as a group on the left, the way they read on a printed bill you would recognise.
The software finally carries its own icon — on the .exe, the taskbar and the installer — instead of Electron's default icon every earlier build shipped with unnoticed.
A Support block on the About screen: phone numbers, a support email and the website, placed where you would look for them rather than at the bottom of the page.
A small mark of the logo now sits in the title bar, and the full wordmark is on the About screen.
The software is green now, to match its own logo — the menus, the title bar, the key panel down the side and the home screen. It was blue everywhere, which looked wrong beside a green mark.
The installer is branded too: the first screen you see when installing, and the one at the end with the Run button, now carry the Vertex ERP logo instead of the stock Windows artwork.
The starting screen shows the logo, and no longer flashes dark before the software opens.
The yellow used for the selected row and the field you are typing into has deliberately not changed — it is what makes the cursor easy to find on a screen you key invoices into all day.
The software now asks which company to open when it starts, instead of opening whichever one it found first. Arrow keys and Enter, with the first one already highlighted — so a single set of books is still one keystroke.
That opening screen carries the Vertex ERP logo, which is the first thing anybody sees now.
It matters most if you keep more than one set of books: until now the software chose one for you, and the only sign of which was the name in the title bar while every figure on screen was that company’s.
Pressing N on that screen starts a new set of books.
Your company name is back at the top of the dashboard, in white and larger. It had disappeared in the last two versions — it was still being drawn, in exactly the same green as the background behind it, so there was nothing to see.
The green is a proper dark green now — a deep forest rather than the olive it was, which read closer to mehendi than to green once it covered a whole screen.
The strip along the very top is darker than the rest, so the two no longer blur into one flat band.
Support numbers are now on every screen — along the top bar, and in full on the dashboard with the email and website. They were only on the About screen before, which is not where you look when something has gone wrong.
The Back button at the top left is readable again. It had been left a grey that all but disappeared once the software went green.
The support email is info@vertexerp.co.in, and the website shown in the software is vertexerp.co.in.
The version is 1.0.0. The software has its own icon, its own colours and its own opening screen now, so it stops being a 0.9.
Before you install: take a backup on 1.0.0 first and keep it. This version changes how your chosen bill layout is stored, and a backup taken on it cannot be restored into 1.0.0 or anything earlier. Going forward is safe — this build reads every backup you already hold.
The Vertex ERP logo now sits at the top left of every screen. It was only on the About screen and the opening screen before, so once you had opened a company the software showed its name nowhere at all.
The numbered menus along the top no longer appear until you have opened a company. Every one of them leads to a screen that needs one, so before you choose your books they were nine tabs that could not do anything. The company and year boxes go with them — on the opening screen they only said “No company” and “No year”.
Thermal printing is a proper till receipt. It was printing the whole A4 invoice onto the roll — transport and despatch boxes, order and GR/RR references, bank details, terms and conditions and a signing box — all squeezed into 80mm, so the words wrapped one to a line and the figures ran into each other. It now prints what a receipt carries: your name and address, the bill number and date, who it is for, the goods, the tax, the net amount and the amount in words.
The GST rate now prints on every line of a thermal receipt, with the rate-wise summary underneath it. The column was missing entirely, so a customer had nothing to claim their input credit from.
Thermal receipts no longer print blank ruled rows at the end. On a roll that was blank paper you pay for by the metre.
The TOTAL line sits under the columns it totals, on every paper size. The quantity, gross and taxable figures were positioned in fixed pixels, which happened to look close enough on A4 and ran off the edge of a till roll.
The fifteen printed bill layouts are now lettered A to O with plain names — “Half page — portrait”, “Thermal roll (80mm)”, “A4 — on your letterhead” — instead of the old numbers with their gaps. Whatever layout you had chosen is carried across to its letter; nothing changes about the bill you print.
Half-page layouts that say “centred” now actually print in the centre of the sheet, and the two that print without the large NET AMOUNT panel now do so. Both settings existed and neither had any effect on the page.
The Vertex ERP icon on your desktop and in the Start menu now updates with the software. It was being left at the old picture whenever you updated through the button — only a full uninstall and reinstall changed it. The shortcut is refreshed as part of the update now. If you had deleted the desktop icon yourself, it stays deleted.
Printing on a till roll: you can now say how wide your roll actually is, and set the margin at the top, bottom, left and right. Invoice settings → Numbers → Paper. Leave the boxes empty and nothing changes — that is the standard 80mm roll. Set the width to 101.6 for a four-inch roll and the bill fills it instead of leaving the right-hand side blank.
A receipt now asks the printer for a page the length of the bill. It was asking for an eleven-inch page on every receipt, which is why blank paper came out above and below it.
The Quotation, Sale Order, Delivery Challan and Purchase Order each choose their own printed layout, instead of all four following the sales invoice.
The five half-page layouts print their own grid rather than A4’s, and the sales invoice prints your PAN.
Every figure on the Notice Board opens the detail behind it.
Dates read the same way everywhere, and the working year is picked from the same one.

0.9.83

10 August 2026 70 changes

Also delivers the work built as 0.9.72, 0.9.73, 0.9.74, 0.9.76, 0.9.78, 0.9.79, 0.9.80, 0.9.81, 0.9.82, which did not go out on its own.

A new screen, Manual Bill Book (Billing .8 → K), for a sale where the printed bill already has its own number — a physical bill book, numbered by hand. Everything else works exactly like an ordinary GST Tax Invoice; only the number is yours to type, and it is what the GST return carries.
The Item Master now offers the next free code before you type anything, the same way the Account Master already does.
Typing a customer or item that is not in your books opens the Party Master or the Item Master right there, ready to fill in — on the sales invoice and now on the purchase bill too — rather than creating a bare record with nothing but a name, or, on the purchase screen, offering nothing at all.
A second computer no longer asks for a licence key, and no longer offers a box to type one into. The licence belongs to the main computer, and the licence screen on a desk now says so and names that computer. Typing a key on a desk turned it into a separate installation with its own empty books, which is not what anybody wanted.
A desk would have stopped working thirty days after it was set up, asking for a licence key it does not need. It does not any more. A desk holds no books and no licence — it is a window onto the main computer, and it opens for as long as that computer is licensed.
The top of every screen on a desk now says which computer the books are on, and About says which computer each thing on it belongs to — the version, the books, the updates. A desk and the main computer look identical, so there was no way to tell which one you were sitting at.

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A desk now shows the same menus as the main computer, covering what the shop actually bought. It used to show every menu, so a screen could be opened and then refused.
The invoice, credit note, purchase and order screens now open straight away however many items and customers you have. They used to fetch every item and every customer before showing you anything.
The item and customer boxes on those screens now search all your records as you type, rather than only the ones already loaded — so a code far down the list is found by typing it.
Where there are more matches than fit on screen, the box now says how many there are in total and tells you to type more, instead of showing the first fifty as though they were all of them.
The item boxes on Stock Ledger, Stock Adjustment and Stock Conversion do the same, and correctly leave out services, which are never in stock.
The Parties screen and the Chart of Accounts now open a page at a time and say which rows you are looking at, however many you have — and searching there looks through all of them, not only the page on screen.
The account boxes on voucher entry, the Statements reports and the stock screens search all your accounts as you type. Voucher entry correctly leaves out accounts you have switched off.
Pressing Export on any of those screens gives you everything your search matched, not just the page in front of you.
Windows now shows Vertex ERP as being from KAVIN INTERNATIONAL. It used to name the toolkit the software is built with, so the program described itself as belonging to somebody else — in the file's properties, and in the list of running programs.
A licence that has been withdrawn now stops within hours rather than after up to a month. Your books still open, and everything still reads, prints, exports and backs up — what stops is entering new work, which is exactly what happens when a licence lapses.
Pressing Enter on an account, item or party field now opens the search window, and a new invoice starts on the Customer field rather than somewhere you have to reach for. Voucher Type and Sale type open as a proper list you pick from instead of a drop-down, and fourteen more screens now open with the cursor already sitting in the field they are asking you for.
The Final menu is one window with tabs across the top instead of a menu you re-enter each time. Opening the Balance Sheet now puts you inside the set rather than back on a menu, so checking one statement against the one it foots to no longer means Escape, find the menu, press a letter.
The Trial Balance, the Cash Flow and the Cost Centre report print as ruled statements rather than as whatever the screen was showing. The Trial Balance was missing four of its seven columns on paper — the serial you count down to find your place, the code an account is looked up by, the town that tells two customers of the same name apart, and the category.
The final accounts export as one workbook of nine sheets instead of a separate download per screen. A balance sheet that reads "SUNDRY DEBTORS (AS PER LIST ATTACHED)" can only be checked if the list attached is in the same file — and six separate downloads is six chances to send five of them.
Last year’s figures can be shown beside this year’s on the Balance Sheet, on screen and on paper. It is a switch rather than always on, because comparing means reading every posting of two years instead of one.
Receipts & Payments can be printed and exported. It could not be at all before — the figures were on the screen and there was no way to get them onto paper or into a spreadsheet.
The Trading and Profit & Loss Account prints as a proper T-form, the two sides facing each other the way the account is set out in a book, rather than as the list the screen shows.
Dates read day first everywhere — 08-08-2026, not 2026-08-08 — on every screen and every printed page.
A second set of books can be started from inside the software, without going back to the setup screen. Financial years can be opened from inside it too: the next one, so April does not wait on anybody, and earlier ones where the figures go further back than the books do.
A licence now covers a stated number of sets of books, and a second set is chargeable — every licence already issued covers as many as it likes, so nothing changes for anybody until a number is set against their name. Where a set of books is beyond what the licence covers, it stops taking new entries and nothing else: it still opens, still prints, still exports, and is still in the backup.
A second computer now warns you when the licence is running out, in the same words as the main computer. It could not before: a desk has no licence of its own, so it had nothing to warn about and said nothing at all — and the first anybody at that desk knew was the morning it stopped.
About now names KAVIN INTERNATIONAL and the copyright, so the software says who it is from where anybody would look for it.
A customer or supplier is now set up on one full screen instead of a small box in the middle. It holds everything a ledger head actually needs — the whole address, the GSTIN and the date it was granted, legal name, PAN, MSME number, the bank name, account number, IFSC and branch, the contact person, standing discounts, commodity and transport.
The account code is filled in for you the moment the screen opens, so you no longer have to work out which number is free. It counts on from the highest one used and never reuses a number that has been given out before.
Enter moves from box to box down the whole screen, and Ctrl+A accepts. Choosing the state, the kind of party or how they are registered opens a list in the middle of the screen that you can type into, rather than a drop-down you have to reach for with the mouse.
TDS and TCS can be recorded against a party — whether to deduct, and at what rate. Nothing is deducted from a bill yet; this records the standing instruction so it is on the record when that part is built.
Opening an earlier financial year now tells you which year your date falls in before you press anything. Picking 31 March 2027 makes 2026-27, not 2027-28, because that is the last day of the earlier year — the software used to let you find that out only afterwards.
A financial year opened by mistake can be removed. It refuses, and says why, if anything has been keyed into it, if it is locked, or if it is the only year left.
A year can now be closed from inside the software. Closing moves that year’s sales and expenses into the Profit & Loss Account so the next year starts them at nil, and it shows you every account and figure it will move before anything is posted. Closing also locks the year.
The e-way bill file now carries the round-off, so the total on the portal agrees with the total on your invoice. Nine fields the portal asks for were missing and are there now.
The printed e-way bill carries its QR code, so an officer can scan it instead of typing the number in.
Please take a backup before you install this one, and keep it. This version records more about each party than any earlier version can read, so a backup made from here onwards cannot be restored into 0.9.76 or older — it will tell you so plainly rather than restore part of it and leave you to find out which part. Backups you already have are unaffected and open normally in this version.
Dates now read day-first everywhere — 10/06/2026 rather than 06/10/2026. This was reported twice before and fixed twice without anything changing on screen; the cause was that the program was asking Windows for an Indian date format it does not carry, and falling back to the American one without saying so.
A company can be corrected after it has been created. There is a Correct button on every company, and it opens the same form used to set one up, so the two cannot drift apart. The PIN code is on it — a despatch address without one has an e-way bill refused, and until now the only place to type it was the form you saw once when you first made the company.
An e-way bill can be recorded as cancelled, with the portal’s own four reasons and a remark. It records that you cancelled it at the portal; it does not cancel it for you, and it says so on the panel — the portal is still where a bill is actually cancelled, within 24 hours and only while the goods have not been checked in transit. Once recorded, the consignment is free for a fresh bill.
The e-way bill date boxes take the portal’s own wording — 10/06/2026 05:51 PM — so the figures can be copied across as they are printed instead of being rewritten. A date that does not exist is refused rather than quietly moved to the next one.
A recorded e-way bill shows its issued and valid-until times the way the printed bill does, instead of the raw internal timestamp it was showing before.
A/c Head now opens the full account master — the same keyed screen the party list uses, with every box a ledger head carries and Enter moving between them. It used to open a small window with room for four fields, so the same head could be set up two ways and only one of them could say who the customer was. The group list on it offers the whole chart, so a bank or a capital account can be started there as well.
The chart of accounts shows a customer’s GSTIN and whether they are a customer or a supplier on the same line as every other head, so one list answers what two used to. The Parties screen is unchanged.
An item can carry barcodes, and scanning one finds it. Open an item in the Item Master and press Barcodes: scan the label, or type the number and press Enter. A scanner needs no setting up — it types the number for you, and the box stays ready for the next one so you can work along a shelf.
An item can have more than one barcode. The same goods bought from two suppliers arrive with two different numbers on them, and both should find the item. One of them is marked as the one your own printed label carries.
A barcode already in use tells you where it is — by item code and name — instead of only refusing. Scanning a label that is already on the item you are looking at says so plainly rather than sending you looking elsewhere.
There is an Employee Master, on Master .1 → K. Name, designation, when they joined, whether they are paid monthly or by the day, PAN, PF and ESI numbers, UAN, and the bank account the salary goes to. The employee code is filled in for you when the screen opens.
Somebody who leaves is given a leaving date rather than being deleted, so they stay on the payslips they are already on. The list shows the people still working unless you ask for everyone.
Who may see the payroll is a separate permission from everything else, because a salary and a bank account number are not the same kind of thing as a customer’s address. Somebody on the counter who can add a customer cannot see what anybody earns.
If your licence covers a set number of companies, starting one past that is now refused as you start it, instead of letting you set the company up and then refusing the first entry in it. The message says how many your licence covers and what to do about it. Nothing changes for a licence with no number set, which is every licence in use today.
Sets of books you already have are never taken away. If your licence is later set to fewer companies than you have, all of them still open, print, export and appear in your backup — only new entries in the ones beyond the number stop.
The Companies screen and Help .9 → B now say how many sets of books your licence covers. Until now nothing in the software answered that until somebody was refused, which reads like a fault rather than like something to ring about.
Please take a backup before you install this one, and keep it. This version records more than any earlier one can read, so a backup made from here onwards cannot be restored into 0.9.79 or older — it will tell you so plainly rather than restore part of it. Backups you already have open normally in this version.
Barcode and Payroll now appear in your plan (Help .9 → B) and can be sold and switched on per licence, the same way Inventory and Banking already are. Nothing changes for a licence you already hold — an existing key still carries everything it did before.
You can scan straight onto a document. There is a Scan box above the lines — scan a label, or type the number and press Enter, and the item drops onto the next free line with its description, HSN code and GST rate already filled. Ctrl+B jumps to the box from anywhere on the screen.
It works on every screen where you key what was bought or sold: a sales invoice, a purchase bill, a credit or debit note, a quotation, a sales or purchase order, a delivery challan and a goods receipt note.
On a credit note raised against an invoice, scanning counts the goods coming back — the first scan of a line sets it to one rather than adding to the quantity that was billed. Type a figure yourself and a later scan adds one to yours.
A credit note raised against an invoice now shows the item on every line it copies in. It was leaving that column blank, which looked as though no item had been chosen.
On a purchase bill the Scan box appears once you break the bill into item lines; a bill kept as a single amount has no lines to scan onto.
On quotations, orders, challans and goods receipts, choosing an item no longer overwrites a description you have already typed — it fills only the boxes you left empty, which is how the invoice and purchase screens have always behaved. The GST rate also shows as 18 rather than 18.000, which could be cut off and read as 3.
Scanning the same label again adds one to that line rather than starting a second line for the same goods, so a customer buying three of something is three on one line. The price is still yours to type.
A barcode nothing recognises says so and changes nothing — no line is added and nothing you have typed is disturbed.
Credit and debit notes, quotations, orders, delivery challans and goods receipt notes now show their keys, like every other entry screen: the period and company keys and F4 to F9 down the side, and Ctrl+A to accept, Ctrl+B to scan and Esc to go back along the bottom. Escape always worked on those screens; it was simply never shown.
Barcode covers putting numbers on items and scanning them onto a bill, buying or selling. Printing your own labels is not part of it yet.
Payroll covers the employee master — the people, how they are paid, and their bank and statutory details. Payslips and the salary run are not part of it yet.
You can now print your own barcode labels — Feeding .2 → G. Pick an item that carries a barcode, say how many, and lay them out as Code 128 bars or a QR code, one per printed leaf. The starting layout is measured for a TVS LP-46 Neo (50 × 25mm, roll-fed); adjust it against your own printer and stationery, and there is a 10mm test grid to print on plain paper first. Name, MRP, selling price and a best-before date are each optional, with their own caption.
Stock Conversion now works out the other side of the sum. Type how many boxes or bunches you produced and the bulk quantity fills in by itself, using the item's weight or a new Pack size — editable if a real batch comes out different.
A cheque layout can now be tied to a real bank account, and whether a cheque prints A/C PAYEE crossed is a choice made on that cheque, not fixed for the whole layout — a self-cheque for cash on the same account no longer has to print crossed.

0.9.71

7 August 2026 33 changes

Also delivers the work built as 0.9.48, 0.9.49, 0.9.50, 0.9.51, 0.9.52, 0.9.54, 0.9.55, 0.9.56, 0.9.57, 0.9.58, 0.9.59, 0.9.60, 0.9.61, 0.9.62, 0.9.64, 0.9.65, 0.9.66, 0.9.67, 0.9.68, 0.9.69, 0.9.70, which did not go out on its own.

A second computer can now be pointed at the main one straight from the first screen, without having to set up an account it does not need. It asks for the main computer’s name and the six-figure code shown there.
If a desk loses track of which computer holds the books, it now says so and offers to be set up again — instead of showing the “let’s set up your account” screen, which looked as though the books had gone.
When the main computer turns a desk away because the licence does not cover it, that desk now shows the reason in plain words. It used to show the message as computer code.
Renamed from Kavin Books to Vertex ERP — the same program and the same books, under its proper published name.
The dashboard no longer asks twice for the same information when you first open it.
Fixed the home screen showing options that were not actually part of your licensed plan.

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Removed an extra delay of about a second and a half that had crept into every startup.
Fixed a problem that could block Vertex ERP from installing any future update once one particular update had been applied.
Added a setup screen for working over a network — Utility .7 → I — so more than one PC can eventually share one set of books. Still being tested; not ready for everyday use yet.
Windows now allows Vertex ERP through its firewall automatically when the networking setup screen is used, on your own trusted network only.
Fixed the password window on books that ask for a password when they open: the correct password closed the window and shut the program down instead of opening the books.
Closing the window on the PC that holds the books no longer takes the books away from everybody else — it now sits in the notification area and keeps serving.
On Windows, the file that lets these books open without a password is now tied to your Windows account as well as to this PC.
The PC that holds the books can now start Vertex ERP automatically when you sign in to Windows, so the other desks can reach it without anyone opening it first.
Clicking the Vertex ERP icon while it is already running now brings its window back, instead of showing an error.
Search now understands dates, written the way they appear on screen — day first. Type 22/04/2026 to find everything on that day, or 04/2026 for a whole month.
The number of PCs your licence covers is now applied by the software. The main computer counts as one; extra desks connect up to the number you have paid for, and a desk already working is never cut off.
Fixed a problem that stopped a brand-new installation from finishing its setup screen on some Windows PCs. Existing installations were never affected.
On a second desk, if the network cable comes out or the main computer is switched off while you are working, Vertex ERP now says so in plain words and names the computer it cannot reach. Before, it showed a browser error with nothing to act on.
If that happens while you are saving an entry, it tells you the entry may or may not have been saved and asks you to check on the main computer before typing it again — because a save that loses its answer on the way back may still have been recorded, and entering it twice would put it in the books twice.
The main computer now reports how many other desks it is serving, so a shop’s real shape can be seen rather than only the computers holding a licence.
Vertex ERP now tells the licence server which version it is running each time it checks in. Until now it reported only the version it had on the day it was first activated, so a computer that had been updated many times still showed the old number.
After an update installs, Vertex ERP now tells you what changed the first time you open it, instead of leaving you to go and look.
Search opens what you picked. Typing a party, an account or an item name and pressing Enter used to land you on the whole list; it now opens that party, that account’s statement, or that item.
Vertex ERP no longer forgets things when you close it. The financial year you were working in, the figures you chose for the Notice Board, and whether you have been shown what changed in a new version are all kept with your books — so they are still there the next time you open the software, and they come back with a restore.
This is why the “what has changed” window did not appear after the last update on a computer that is not sharing its books over the network. It was being forgotten before it could be shown.
Godowns. You can now set up the places your stock sits in — a shop, a warehouse, a back room — under Master, and choose one when you write stock up or down.
A new Godown Report under Stock Reports shows what is held where, with each godown valued on its own purchases so a sale from one shop cannot be costed at what another paid.
Stock keyed before this release is reported as “Not recorded” rather than being left out, so the quantities still add up to the Stock Summary’s.
Vertex ERP now tells you before a licence runs out, instead of the day after. From a month before the date, the first screen carries a line saying how long is left and what to do about it. A licence that does not expire says nothing at all.
If a licence has already run out, that line now says plainly that your books are untouched — every report still opens and a backup can still be taken out — because only entering new work stops.
The Item Master opens straight away however many items you have. It now loads a page at a time and says which rows you are looking at, instead of fetching every item before it can show you the first one.
Searching there — and in the item box on Stock Adjustment — now looks through all your items rather than only the ones already loaded, so a code far down the list is found by typing it.

Updates are included while your licence is current — Vertex ERP fetches them itself. Download or see the plans.