I hope that Tally has improved, but in days gone by, when I had seen earlier versions in use, I can tell you that, even as a non-accountancy person, the application was absolutely unsuitable as a tool to deliver auditable information.
One might imagine the income-tax authorities know this. And one might be wrong. Perhaps an opportunity to ask them, via RTI. 1. Does the department accept information uploaded from Tally. 2. Does the department have a list of accountancy tools from which data can be fed directly to the department. 3. Has the requirement reviewed 'nnn' (eg gnukhata) in terms of suitability for accepting information. 4. If so, give the reasons why the department has not made it possible to upload data from 'nnn'; if not, why not. -- Vickram Fool On The Hill "The cameras were all around. We've got you taped; you're in the play. Here's your I.D. (Ideal for identifying one and all.) Invest your life in the memory bank; ours the interest and we thank you." Jethro Tull: A Passion Play (1973) On Sep 9, 2012 7:32 PM, "Venkat Mangudi" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:51 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I wish someone posts a link describing the features and comforts of tally >> and where foss feature-to-feature superior alternatives have also been >> listed with user feedback >> I tried to google a bit but could not locate >> Even a foss project announcing such alternative would be commendable. >> FOSSEE at IIT is a step in that direction but IMHO a commercial approach >> will eventually have to take over >> >> > I had introduced the IT for Change team to an application called Front > Accounting some time ago. They have used it and found that it is a good > replacement for Tally. > > >> I presume developers have not got a business case strong enough to do that >> Hence a mid way house : a wrapper that may allow foss users some kind of >> interface with such hugely popular utility largely used in pirated version >> I hope I am wrong in many points above , but that will have to be >> demonstrated >> >> But I do not believe that popularity is purely due to 'marketing' skill. >> I feel lack of alternative is the reason >> > > The reason for this wrapper is simple. It is not the users who are tied to > Tally. It is the accountants, auditors and even the IT Dept. All of them > force the user to stick with Tally. Unless you implement SAP, Oracle or one > of the big ERP systems, the IT department ends up asking you millions of > questions when you file your returns. However, I am told that if the filing > is from Tally, they mostly accept it without a word. If this is the case, > why would somebody not want to use Tally? So if you end up using some other > application for your business management you will end up entering the > transactions in Tally yet again for the sake of the accountant/auditor. > > The wrapper aims to fill this gap. It will provide an easy way to push > transactions into Tally from any application using web services. In case > there are smallish organizations who do not have such apps, they could even > use the wrapper as a front end. The discussions we are having on this list > is providing insights that will eventually shape the design of the wrapper. > It might be useful if you could join the project and provide some sort of > help be it design, use case, testing, coding, documentation or just about > any way you think you can contribute. > > -- > Regards, > Venkat > > _______________________________________________ > network mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in > >
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