Shipping costs are messy: freight on one invoice, COD remittance on another, weight-discrepancy charges weeks later, GST spread across all of it. Reconciling by hand is where compliance risk creeps in.
Three habits that keep you audit-ready
- Reconcile orders, COD and freight together — not in separate spreadsheets
- Generate GST-compliant invoices and credit notes at the source, not after the fact
- Export to your accounting tool (Tally, Zoho, Busy) on a schedule, not in a year-end panic
When reconciliation is automatic and export is one click, closing the month stops being an event — and an audit stops being a threat.