The ledger your shop already keeps — that adds itself up.
Khata Simple is a GST-ready accounting and billing app for Indian shops, restaurants, traders and service businesses. Raise bills at the counter, keep every customer's khata, track stock and see what you owe — on your phone, your PC or in a browser, in the same shape as the book you keep now.
Everything a small business actually posts, and nothing it doesn't.
PartiesCustomers and suppliers in one list. Pull a name straight from your phone contacts, add GSTIN and PAN, and every invoice and payment files itself under that party automatically.
InvoicesGST-ready billing. Tax-wise breakup, HSN codes, and totals that match what your accountant expects to see. Share as PDF over WhatsApp or print it.
ScanningPurchase bills, read by camera. Point the camera at a supplier invoice and the line items come through as a draft entry for you to check and post.
StockItems with rates and balances. Know what moved, what's left, and what a line is worth at the moment you're billing it.
OutstandingWho owes you, at a glance. Party-wise balances that update as payments land, so the follow-up list writes itself.
CounterA billing counter for shops, restaurants and hotels. Tap-to-bill menu, tables and stewards, bills on hold, split and merge, kitchen tickets that name the table, and a shift close that tells you what should be in the drawer.
QuotationsQuote, revise, then bill. Quotations, proforma invoices and delivery challans that turn into a bill in one tap — under the number the customer already has.
NotesCredit and debit notes that settle the bill. Returns, rate differences and short billing, reflected on the bill, the khata and the GST summary alike.
GST reportsGSTR-1, GSTR-3B and HSN summaries, registers, P&L and balance sheet. Thirty reports, each as Excel or PDF for your accountant.
LanguagesIn the language of the counter. English, हिन्दी, मराठी, ગુજરાતી, ਪੰਜਾਬੀ, தமிழ், తెలుగు and ಕನ್ನಡ.
OfflineWorks without a signal. The books live on your device. Sync catches up when the network comes back, not the other way round.
Fast counter billing with barcodes, stock that keeps up, and a khata for every regular customer.
Food & stay
Restaurants, cafés and hotels
Tables, kitchen tickets, split bills and a shift close that tells you what should be in the drawer.
Trade
Wholesalers and distributors
Quotations that become bills, credit periods, ageing and reminders that chase dues for you.
Services
Tuition, salons, repair shops
Bills for services, with or without GST, and job cards for work received.
Professionals
Consultants and freelancers
Clean invoices, receipts for every payment, and expenses kept under the right head.
Many businesses
One owner, several firms
Switch between businesses in a tap — each with its own books, numbers and GSTIN.
How it works
From signing in to the first bill in a few minutes.
Sign in with your email or phone.Name your business, add your GSTIN if you have one, and pick the kind of shop you run.
Bring in what you already have.Add customers, suppliers and items one by one, or import them all from an Excel sheet.
Bill, collect, buy.Every bill, receipt and purchase lands in the khata, the stock and the GST summary by itself.
Hand your accountant the reports.GSTR-1 and 3B summaries, registers and ledgers as Excel or PDF — no retyping.
Security
Your books are encrypted before they ever leave the phone.
Khata Simple holds trade data — what you sell, to whom, at what rate. That is commercially sensitive, so the app is built so that nobody but you can read it, including us.
The database on your device is encrypted with SQLCipher, and its key is held in the Android Keystore. Anything synced to the cloud is encrypted on the device first — what gets uploaded is ciphertext we cannot decrypt.
When the app connects to Google Drive it asks only for the drive.file permission, which lets it see files it created itself and nothing else in your Drive. That is a deliberate limit, not an oversight.
Where your data lives
Three choices, and you pick.
Backup and multi-device sync are optional. The app is fully usable without either.
Tier 01
On this device only
No account, no cloud, no sync. The books stay on the phone and are backed up by hand from Settings.
Tier 02
Your own Google Drive
Encrypted backups go to a folder in your Drive. Your storage, your control, readable by nobody without your key.
Tier 03
Khata Simple cloud
Encrypted backups on storage we run, for people who would rather not manage a Drive account. Still ciphertext to us.
Who makes it
Built by people who file the returns.
Khata Simple is made by Acconix Technologies, Ajra, Maharashtra. It is shaped by practising Chartered Accountants and Company Secretaries, because the same problem kept arriving at the desk: shop owners keeping honest books in a notebook, then losing a day a month turning them into something GST-shaped.
Khata Simple is free while we are finding our feet. If that changes, you will hear it from us first — and your books stay yours either way.
Does it work without the internet?
Yes. Your books are kept on your device and the app works fully offline. If you turn on sync, it catches up when the connection returns.
Can I use it on my phone and my computer?
Yes — in any browser, on Android phones and on Windows PCs. With sync on, the same books follow you between them.
Is my data safe? Can you read it?
Your books are encrypted on your device, and anything synced is encrypted before it leaves. We cannot read your ledger, and Google Drive access is limited to the files the app itself creates.
Will it file my GST return?
No. It prepares the GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B summaries and the registers behind them, so your return can be filed without retyping anything. Filing stays with you or your accountant on the GST portal.
My shop is not registered under GST. Can I use it?
Yes. Unregistered businesses bill without GST, and the documents say so.
Get started
Open your books in a browser.
Sign in with an email address and start recording. Nothing to install, and the ledger you build here is the same one the phone app reads — the books follow you between the counter and the desk.