Release Notes for Tally.ERP 9 Series A Release 1.5
1. Major Enhancements
1.1 Functional and General Enhancements
Licensing
Rental Licensing introduced
From this Release, Tally.ERP 9 Licence in Rental mode is supported. The License mechanism, license servers, activation, renewal & purchase processes have been enhanced to support the various operations that will be needed. In simple words, Tally.ERP 9 license will now be
available on rent. At any time during or at the end of the rental period, the License can be
extended or moved to perpetual (Permanent License) mode.
Running Balance display in Ledger Voucher Reports
The option Show Running Balance in F12: Configuration has been provided to display the
Cumulative balances (Running Balance) for Ledger Voucher reports only.
Cost Centre
In F11: Features (Accounting Feature) a new option Show Opening Balance for Revenue Items in Reports has been provided to display the opening balance in Cost Centre Report for the cost centres which are allocated to the Ledgers, grouped under Income and Expenses Group.
Excise for Dealers
Dealer Excise Closing Stock Report has been provided to support excise opening stock entry. Excise opening stock entry can be updated (in a split company) by exporting the Dealer Excise Closing Stock Report to XML file and by importing the same into Tally.ERP 9
as Excise Opening Stock Vouchers after splitting the Company Data.
In Excise Purchase Voucher selection of same Excise Stock Item multiple times with different Quantity and Rate has been supported and in Excise Stock Register, Excise Purchase Bill Register, Sales and Purchase Extract, Form RG 23D and Form 2 reports, details of Total Quantity purchased is displayed.
Excise for Manufacturers
RG 23A Part II, RG 23C Part II and their respective Annexure 10 and Abstract reports
are provided.
RG 23A part II: This report displays the details of Fresh Credit Allowed Amount, Total Credit Available, Credit Adjusted with Opening and Balance Credit of Principal Inputs for the Period selected.
RG 23C part II: This report displays the details of Fresh Credit Allowed Amount, Total Credit Available, Credit Adjusted with Opening and Balance Credit of Capital Goods for the Period selected.
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Annexure 10: It is a monthly return under Rule 7 of the Cenvat Credit Rules, 2001. This report displays the Details of CENVAT credit taken for the Main Item in the Document.
Note: This annexure is omitted (w.e.f 1-10-2003) by M.F. (D.R.) Notification No.70/2003- C.E. (N.T.), dated 15-9-2003. But most of the assessees still submit their monthly returns in Annexure 10. On Customers requirement Annexure 10 is provided in Tally.ERP 9.
Abstract: This report display the details of Credit Availed on Inputs/capital goods/ inputs services, Credit Utilised for Payment of Duty on Goods/Services, Credit Utilised When the Goods are removed as such with Opening and Closing Balance
of Credit.
Note: These reports will be available in Tally.ERP 9 Release 1.5 with Stat.900 version 89
Excise Details of Company and Customer are now being printed in Purchase Orders, Delivery Notes, Sales Orders and Receipt Notes.
In Manufacturer’s Statutory Report Menu a New option CENVAT Registers is provided.
In CENVAT Registers Menu following CENVAT Reports are listed.
Credit Summary (earlier displayed as CENVAT Credit Register)
Credit Availed (earlier displayed as CENVAT Credit Availed)
RG 23 Part II
Annexure – 10
Abstract
Knowledge Base
Access to Online Help is enabled from Tally.ERP 9 using Alt + H. Tally.ERP 9 now give you option to choose from Online and Local Help. This feature will enable users to access Technical & Functional Articles, FAQ’s, Trouble Shooting Methodologies and Case Studies available online on the Tally Knowledge Base.
Payroll
Payslip Note
The option to enter the Payslip Note is provided in F12: Payroll Configuration from Gateway of Tally. The user can enter a general note that will appear in the Payslip at the end instead of the Authorised Signatory details while printing OR E-mailing the Payslip.
e.g. This is a Computer generated Payslip and does not require any signature.
Payslip Message
The option to enter the Payslip Message is provided in F12: Payroll Configuration from Gateway of Tally. The user can enter the required message which will appear on all the Payslips for a particular occasion while printing or E-mailing the payslip.
e.g. Wish you a Happy New Year!!!!.
Pay Sheet Report
Employee Filter screen to filter the Employees based on Payroll Category or Employee Group has been provided before the Pay Sheet report. This will help in viewing the Paysheet faster by selecting the required Group/Category when the data size is very large.
Payment Advice Date
The option to enter the user defined date is provided while printing the Payment Advice for Salary Payment. By default the actual date of printing the Payment Advice will be printed, which can be changed by the user.
Performance
A Considerable improvement is made in the speed while accessing the Sales Register, Purchase Register, specific voucher selection from Day Book report, specific voucher selection from Statistics, Purchase and Sales Order Book and other related specific & filter voucher collection reports.
For more information, refer the Performance Fact Sheet available at the Download
Center.
Tax Deducted at Source (TDS)
TDS calculation on Contract or Sub-Contracts on Net Amount (payable to party after deducting expenses) is provided.
Example: ABC Company hired 10 Dusters on Contract of Rs.50000 per month. While making the payment to the contractor, ABC Company deducts Rs.5000 towards PF and ESI and makes the payment of Rs. 43980 after deducting TDS of Rs. 1020 (TDS is calculated on Rs.
45000).
Track Migrate Vouchers report displays TDS Party-wise Total, Migrated and Un- migrated vouchers details. On selecting a particular party from this report Tally.ERP 9 displays the Track TDS Vouchers report. Track TDS Vouchers report displays the TDS vouchers with reasons for non-migration.
TDS calculation in Purchase Voucher (in Item Invoice mode) with Voucher Class is supported.
In TDS party ledger the option Use Advanced TDS Entries will always be set to Yes, if any
of the parameter in Advanced TDS Entries screen is enabled (set to Yes).
Tax Collected at Source (TCS)
TCS Entries now can be recorded using Voucher Class when in a single invoice multiple calculations are involved like TCS, VAT additional ledgers etc.
Installer
Multi-Product License Server Installation
The Installer is now enabled to install Multi-Product License Server. This feature enables the user to install a common License Server for Tally.ERP 9 Series A Release 1.5, Tally.Developer 9 Release 1.0 and Shoper 9 Series A Release 1.0 on a single computer.
When the option Do you want to use common License Server for more than one Tally
Product is selected, the License Server is installed in C:\TallyLicenseServer by default.
Silent Installation
Large businesses that frequently install Tally.ERP 9 can now record the entire installation process in a script file and play the script file for installations later on. The installer uses the script file for subsequent installations and does not prompt the user for the required installation parameters; this process is called Silent Installation. The procedure to use Silent installation is as below:
The syntax to Record the installation in a script file is given below:
install /r /f1 “<path\filename>”
Eg: install.exe /r /f1 “C:\Tally.ERP 9\recordscript.txt”
To playback the recorded script, type the following command at the command prompt:
install /s /f1 “<path\filename>”
Eg: install.exe /s /f1 “C:\Tally.ERP 9\recordscript.txt”
For a detailed reading on silent installation refer to the topic Silent Installation of Tally.ERP 9
(Advanced User) in Tally.ERP 9 Reference Manual (Help file).
1.2 Auditors’ Edition
Tax Audit
A new Report Clarification List has been provided from the Tax Audit dashboard. This report will display all the Vouchers with Audit Status as Need Clarification and Clarified in one screen irrespective of the Clauses. The Auditor can view the details of all the Vouchers that were sent to the Client for Clarification from one click of a button.
1.3 TDL Enhancements
General Enhancements
A new attribute Trigger Ex is introduced at the field level which allows addition of values dynamically to table using TDL functions and expressions.
The variable frame work is enhanced and the new variable type List variable is introduced.
Command line parameters are now supported by Tally.ERP 9.
Dynamic actions with the capability of specifying the Action Keyword and Parameters as
Expressions.
Collection Enhancements and Function Enhancements
Collection now supports of context free constructs Source Var, Compute Var and Filter
Var.
$$TgtObject function is now supported in collection. It allows to evaluate the expression in the context of target object while populating the collection and can be used in the attributes Compute, Aggr Compute and By.
$$ContextKeyword function is introduced to get the title of current report or menu.
Note: For Detail documentation on TDL enhancements, refer What’s New in TDL document available at the Download Center.
2. Minor Enhancements
2.1 Functional Enhancements
Accounting Masters
The Font used in Name field in Ledger Creation is changed from Times New Roman to Arial
for better display of Numerical.
Accounting Reports
While printing of Confirmation of Accounts, ‘Show Contact Details‘ option is provided in
F12: configuration to print the same below the Party Address detail.
Excise for Manufacturers
Now in Tally.ERP 9, Tariff wise - Daily Stock Register, CENVAT Credit register and
CENVAT Credit Availed reports are provided.
Provision to print period wise Multi Item Daily Stock Register is available.
In Excise Purchase Voucher, Assessable Value alteration option is provided to record the purchases from Importers.
Export/Import
Users can now specify the location where the exported files can be stored. A new field Location of the Export Files is provided in the Data Configuration screen, this allows the user to provide the default location where the exported reports/files can be stored. The default export path for an individual report can be changed in the respective export configuration screen.
Inventory Reports
The Discount column will appear in Sales Bills / Purchase Bills Pending report, when in
F11: Inventory Features, the option Separate Discount column on Invoices is set Yes.
In purchase order summary and in sales order summary report Order Ref No column has been provided and in Purchase Order Book and Sales Order Book Columnar report has been introduced. Now the user can search the report based on the Order number.
Payroll
The option to print the Payroll Voucher with details of Employee wise salary breakup has been provided.
POS
When a POS Invoice containing one item, was altered by adding multiple items having different VAT Ledger selected, then an error message appeared ‘No Accounting Allocation for second selected Item. Now the user can alter the POS Invoice without getting the error message.
POS voucher type has been removed from the List of Voucher Types, while printing
Multi-Vouchers from Multi Account Printing.
Printing and Rendering
The progress bar in the Printing screen now displays the page numbers while generating the preview or print.
Print Serial No. option is provided in the Printing Configuration window for Purchase order, Receipt note, Rejection Out, Purchase Invoice, Debit Note, Sale order, Delivery Note and Rejection In vouchers.
Security Control
CST Reports has been added to the List of Reports in Security Control. Users will now be able to provide access rights for CST Reports.
Support Centre
Partner search has been enabled from Tally.ERP 9. While adding New Issues, the partner search feature enables the user to search for the partner based on the Location or Name.
Tax Deducted at Source (TDS)
Mailing Details and PAN No. can be entered for the TDS Ledgers (treated as Party ledgers)
grouped under Fixed Assets, Current Assets, Unsecured Loans etc.
VAT/CST
In Forms Issuable Report, the option has been provided to print the report based on
Effective Date or Voucher Date for the selected declaration form.
2.2 Auditors’ Edition
Tax Audit
The relevant sections for TDS deductions made at Zero rate or Lower rate are displayed in the TDS Summary screen for Auditors’ reference.
The option to Export the Tax Audit Annexures in the HTML format has been provided.
While drilling down into the Clarified (To be re-audited) column on the Tax Audit
Dashboard, the Customers Clarification will be displayed by default for all Clauses.
The Audit Status captions for the Payments to Specified Persons u/s 40A(2)(b) - Clause 18 has been change from Allowed & Disallowed to Not to be Reported & To be Reported.
During Audit process, if To be Reported is selected as Audit Status, then the Voucher Amount will be reported in the Annexure to Clause 18 and if Not to be Reported is selected, then the Voucher Amount will not be reported in Clause 18.
The option to print the Tax Audit Annexure, Form 3CD, Annexure I & Annexure II in other Languages has been disabled, since these reports needs to be submitted only in English.
3. Issues Resolved
3.1 Functional Issues
Accounting Transactions
While creating a sales voucher class, when two discount ledgers were selected under additional accounting entries where the ‘Type of calculation‘ is set to ‘As user Defined Value’. Now while altering sales invoice the ‘Rate’ of second discount ledger was not getting displayed.
This issue has been resolved.
Accounting Reports
If a cash or bank payment is made against multiple expenses, the entire amount was getting displayed against the first expense ledger.
This issue has been resolved. Now, ‘as per details‘ is displayed and the break-up of each ledger is also displayed.
While printing Ledger Outstanding reports from Multi-Account Printing, if the option Start fresh page for each account was set to No then the party details of All Cleared Bills were also getting printed along with the outstanding party ledgers.
This issue has been resolved.
While printing Reminder Letter of Ledger Outstanding reports from Multi-Account Printing, if the option Include Post-Dated Transaction was set to yes by default, then on enabling the Print Reminder Letter, the Company Ageing alteration sub screen was not getting displayed.
This issue has been resolved. Now the ‘Company Ageing alteration‘ sub screen is getting displayed as the option ‘Include Post-Dated Transaction’ is set to No by default.
Accounting Vouchers
For an item with batches the window that is present to enter New number for batches, during voucher entry is having the tag of ‘bank name‘ instead of ‘New Number‘.
This issue has been Resolved.
When a receipt voucher was entered in a single entry mode by selecting cash as mode of payment and print Formal Receipt, then ‘Cash‘ was displayed instead of party name in the section “Recd with thanks from:”
This issue has been resolved.
Budgets
When a Budget was created using Cost Centre allocated to expense ledger and a Journal voucher was entered using cost centre, then under cost centre summary report, in Budget column, the value was shown under Credit column instead of Debit Column.
This issue has been resolved.
Cost Centre
Cost Centre details were not getting displayed in Ledger Voucher report, when ‘Inventory values are affected‘ is set to yes in expense ledgers.
This issue has been resolved.
Email
While emailing, the Original copy of a Tax Invoice is emailed as an attachment ignoring the
Duplicate and Triplicate copies of the Tax Invoice. This issue has been resolved.
Excise for Manufacturers
In Daily Stock Register, Tariff-wise Stock Items list was not displaying in the Selected
Excise Unit screen.
This issue has been resolved.
In VAT Computation report Company TIN Number was getting displayed instead of Party
TIN Number for the transactions recorded with Excise and VAT. This issue has been resolved.
Columnar Excise Vouchers Report (drill down report from Excise Computation) was displaying incorrect details.
This issue has been resolved.
Import/Export
When a XML file has a single line of data with too many characters, Tally.ERP 9 was not importing the same.
This issue has been resolved.
When exporting the Vouchers in HTML format the Voucher Date was split into two lines. This issue has been resolved.
Inventory Reports
If ‘Inventory values are affected‘ is set to Yes in the party ledger master and a Debit note was entered then the same was not getting affected in Stock Vouchers report.
This issue has been resolved.
While generating Budget variance statement from ‘Sales/Purchase Order Summary report’, Tally.ERP 9 was displaying ‘Memory Access Violation‘.
This issue has been resolved.
When the option Complete Accounting allocation in order/delivery note under F12: Configuration was set to No then in Delivery note columnar report, the rate and quantity values were not getting displayed.
This issue has been resolved.
In the Sales/Purchase order pending report, the Name Style selected from F12: configuration, the ‘Appearance of Stock Item Name’ was not getting affected as per the selected option.
This issue has been resolved.
Inventory Vouchers
While altering a Rejections In or Rejections Out voucher, if an item was selected with different Units of Measurement in place of existing item, then Tally.ERP 9 was displaying
‘Memory Access Violation‘ This issue has been resolved.
Masters
The option provided in company creation, ‘Disallow opening in Educational mode‘ was not working, Since this option works only if the security feature is enabled, now this option has been provided after the Security Control Option.
Payroll
The Autofill option was not calculating the values when the Sub Employee Groups were used instead of main Employee Groups for the calculation of PF Admin Charges using Journal Voucher and Salary, PF, PT & ESI (Salary, PF, PT & ESI) using Payment Voucher.
This issue has been resolved and the calculation happens correctly when the Employee Sub
Groups are used.
When the Deduction Pay Heads were entered using as a separate Voucher (using a Voucher Class). The Payment Voucher was not considering the Deduction values calculated separately.
This issue has been resolved.
The sorting method in the Payment Advice was not working properly.
This issue has been resolved and the Payment Advice can be sorted as per the Bank
Details or Employee Number.
The Voucher Date was not displayed as entered in the Payment Auto Fill process for the
Payroll (Salary Payment, PF Challan, ESI Challan, PT Payment) transactions.
This issue has been resolved and the Voucher date is displayed as entered during the Auto Fill process.
The Employees joined in the middle of a month were not appearing the Payroll Auto Fill
when the option Show Deactivated Employees was set to No. This issue has been resolved.
The Rounding off was not happening correctly in the Journal Voucher using Employer Other Charges Autofill process for PF Admin Charges Calculation, even though Normal Rounding method was selected.
This issue has been resolved and the Rounding off is happening correctly. The Rounded off amount is added or deducted from the last employee for each PF Admin charges, EDLI Contribution and EDLI Admin Charges.
The Salary was not getting calculated correctly when the existing Earnings Pay Heads were replaced with new Earnings Pay Heads in the Salary Details Master.
This issue has been resolved.
The Pay Head computation was not working properly when the value of one Pay Head was divided by another Pay Head to obtain the final values.
This issue has been resolved and now any Pay Head can be used as divide by to obtain correct values.
e.g. the user can Divide the Pay Head value by Present Days and Multiply with sick days to get the per day deduction/payable value.
POS
While passing POS invoice the first ledger from the list of ledgers appeared in the Cash field. This issue has been resolved.
Printing and Rendering
When sales vouchers were printed from Multi-Account Printing, the name provided in
‘Default print title‘, in voucher type masters was not getting printed. This issue has been resolved, now the print title is printed by default.
On printing Multi-Part (Columnar Purchase/Sales Register) reports and selecting a print range Tally.ERP 9 was displaying the Syntax Error.
This issue has been resolved.
Tally.ERP 9 now uses large font size in lower resolutions.
The font size has been increased and is similar to that available in earlier versions of Tally.
When more companies were loaded and the List of Selected Companies sections begins to scroll, In such a scenario when the user clicks More…., Tally.ERP 9 crashes.
This issue has been resolved.
Tally.ERP 9 crashes while generating the print preview of a POS Invoice. This issue has been resolved.
Tax Collected at Source (TCS)
TCS payments made through Bank (grouped under Bank OD or Bank OCC account), such entries were not getting displayed in TCS Challan Reconciliation Statement.
This issue has been resolved.
Tax Deducted at Source (TDS)
TDS was not getting calculated when the language selected was other than English. This issue has been resolved.
When the references selected in TDS Payment entry is more than 150, Application was displaying the Out of Memory error.
This issue has been resolved.
In TDS Deduction entry if the Education Cess amount is less than 0.50 then Tally.ERP 9 was applying Downward Rounding and Cess amount was displayed as Zero.
This Issue has been resolved. Education Cess amount less than 0.50 will be rounded upward and will never display Zero as Cess amount.
Security Controls
Excise related reports were displayed even after selecting Excise Reports in from the List of
Report in Security Controls. This issue has been resolved.
Synchronization
In Sales/Purchase Order when number of days was entered instead of date in the field Due on, the synchronization process stops and displays a message as Line Error: Order Date Remote ID.
This issue has been resolved.
VAT/CST
The Supplier Invoice number entered in the Inter-state purchase entry was not being captured in the Effective Date field of Forms Issuable Report.
This issue has been resolved.
In cash transactions, the party details as entered in Supplementary Details screen were not being captured in the printed Purchase Invoice.
This issue has been resolved.
3.2 Auditors’ Edition
Tax Audit
The Audited By details were not displayed when the TDS Need Clarification Summary
was accessed by the Client remotely.
This issue has been resolved and the Audited By details are displayed correctly.
When the option to print the Anneuxre were set to No from the TDS Need Clarification
Summary screen, Tally.ERP 9 was crashing.
The option to print the Anneuxre is removed from the TDS Need Clarification Summary for
Client.
During the Remote access, while drilling down from Deducted on Time - Expense summary to TDS Bills, the Other Status is not displayed correctly.
This issue has been resolved and now correct Other Status is displayed.
The option to copy Clause information from one Form 3CD to another Form 3CD using
Alt+R keys was not working.
This issue has been resolved and not the individual Clauses can be copied.
The Overdue by days displayed in the Other Status for TDS Bills for which Payment is pending was not displaying the correct value for the dues for the month of March.
This issue has been resolved and the Overdue by days displays the value based on the date
of Auditing.
The Due Date and Payment Status was displayed incorrectly for the Altered Payment Vouchers under Bonus, PF, ESI Recoveries when viewed from Payroll Re-audit Summary report.
This issue has been resolved.
While E-mailing the Tax Audit Annexures to Form 3CD, Tally.ERP 9 was crashing. This issue has been resolved and the Annexures can be E-mailed now.
The Payment Status and Due Date were not displayed for the Under Observation, Need Clarification, Clarified (To be re-audited) and Altered (To be re-audited) reports for TCS during the Remote Audit process.
This issue has been resolved now and the Payment Status and Due Dates are displayed correctly.
The count for the FBT Vouchers sent for Clients Clarification was not displayed in the Tax
Audit Information screen under Need Clarification column.
This issue has been resolved.
The Annexures to Form 3CD were printed as continuous pages with the page numbers displayed in sequence (incremental order).
This issue has been resolved and the pages numbers will not be printed for Tax Audit
Annexures.
The F4: Ledger button displays all the Ledgers when drilled down from the from TDS Summary report to TDS Bills instead of displaying only TDS related Ledgers.
This issue has been resolved and now F4: Ledger displays only TDS related ledgers.
The TCS Payment Status as shown in the TCS Monthly Summary screen (All Vouchers)
and in the TCS Payment Vouchers screen (respective Voucher) was not matching. This issue has been resolved.
The option to export the Tax Audit Annexures (Annexures to Form 3CD) was not working from the Print Configuration screen from Tax Audit Dashboard.
This issue has been resolved and the Annexures can be exported from anywhere.
While printing the Annexure for Service Tax and VAT payable under Clause 21 from Under Observation, Need Clarification, Clarified and Altered reports, it was displaying the title for the respective reports.
This issue has been resolved and now the printed Annexure for Service Tax and VAT
displays the correct title.
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While exporting the Annexure for Payroll Payments under Clause 16 and 21, the output sheet was blank.
This issue has been resolved and now the Annexures for Payroll are exported correctly.
The total Voucher Count shown on the Tax Audit dashboard for the Employer Contribution
under Clause 21, was different from the total Vouchers shown in the subsequent screen. This issue has been resolved and the Dashboard displays the filtered Voucher Count.
Statutory Compliance
When the upward Rounding Off method is selected for VAT the Statutory Compliance tool was displaying the Vouchers with Rounded off VAT values (e.g. actual VAT value is Rs. 119.60
is rounded to Rs. 120) under Possibly Incorrect (to be verified) with Wrong Tax
Calculation as the reason for non Compliance.
This issue has been resolved and the Vouchers with Rounded Off value of VAT are now listed under In Accordance.