If you sell COD in India, three numbers never quite agree: what you sold, what the courier collected, and what you were billed for freight. Reconciling them by hand is where founder evenings go to die.
Why it's hard
- COD is remitted in batches that don't map 1:1 to orders
- Freight invoices arrive weeks later with surcharges
- Weight-discrepancy charges appear outside any window you tracked
The three-way match
The fix is a three-way reconciliation: orders ↔ COD remittance ↔ freight invoice. Any mismatch should auto-open a dispute, not sit in a spreadsheet cell nobody revisits.
Make your books audit-ready
Export GST-ready invoices and credit notes to Tally, Zoho Books or Busy on one click. When reconciliation is automatic, closing the month stops being an event.