tBiz vs Vyapar: when billing-only is not enough
Vyapar does one thing well and cheaply — it gets a small business billing on a phone in an afternoon, and for a shop with a few hundred invoices a month that is genuinely the right answer. This page is about the point where it stops being the right answer.
Choose tBiz if…
- Your accountant wants a trial balance, not a sales summary.
- You hold stock in more than one place, or with batches and serials.
- You have staff to pay and attendance to keep.
- You have a second branch, or a second company.
- You need purchase orders, GRNs and payables ageing, not just purchase entries.
Stay on Vyapar if…
- You are one or two people billing from a phone and it is working.
- Your accounting is a CA’s job once a quarter and you are happy with that.
- You have no stock to speak of and no staff on a payroll.
- Cost is the deciding factor and the feature list is not.
Feature by feature
| Capability | tBiz | Vyapar |
|---|---|---|
| Accounting | ||
| Double-entry vouchers & ledgers | Yes | Simplified |
| Keyboard-first voucher entry | Yes | No |
| Trial balance, P&L, balance sheet | Yes | Limited |
| Cost centres & branch reporting | Yes | No |
| Audit trail on every posting | Yes | Limited |
| GST & compliance | ||
| GST tax invoice & bill of supply | Yes | Yes |
| E-invoice IRN — payload built & validated | Prepared, not filed | Yes |
| E-way bill from the sales voucher | Prepared, not filed | Yes |
| GSTR-1, 3B & 2B reconciliation | Yes | Reports only |
| UAE VAT return & TRN handling | Yes | No |
| Bilingual Arabic–English invoices | No | No |
| Inventory & manufacturing | ||
| Multi-warehouse stock | Yes | Limited |
| Batch, expiry & serial numbers | Yes | Plan dependent |
| Bill of materials & production | Yes | No |
| Job work in and out | Yes | No |
| Barcode entry on mobile | Scanner, not camera | Yes |
| Beyond the books | ||
| Payroll, attendance & payslips | Included | No |
| HR shifts, leave & document expiry | Included | No |
| CRM, leads board & follow-ups | Included | Basic |
| Field staff GPS & geofenced attendance | Included | No |
| WhatsApp invoices & reminders | Included | Yes |
| Access & licensing | ||
| Runs in a browser, no install | Yes | Desktop & mobile |
| Windows desktop build | Yes | Yes |
| Android app for billing & approvals | Yes | Yes |
| Unlimited users | Yes | Per seat |
| Multi-company & multi-branch | Yes | Plan dependent |
| Data import from Tally / Busy | Yes | Generic CSV |
Where the difference actually shows up
The first time your CA asks a question
A billing app produces a sales register and a purchase register. It does not produce a trial balance that ties, a balance sheet, or cost centres — so the accounting work gets done again, outside the software, once a quarter.
The second godown
Stock held in one place is a number. Stock held in three is a system, with transfers, per-location reorder levels and the question of where to sell from. That is the transition most businesses make without noticing until a stock count goes badly.
The first employee on a payslip
Attendance, statutory deductions and a salary journal that posts to the ledger are not a billing problem, and a spreadsheet answers them until roughly the tenth employee.
Where Vyapar still wins
Getting started, and cost. If you are one person billing from a phone, tBiz is more product than you need, and honestly saying so is more useful than pretending otherwise.
Questions about moving from Vyapar
When should I move from Vyapar to a full accounting system?
Usually at one of three moments: when your CA starts rebuilding your accounts outside the software, when stock is held in more than one place, or when you start paying salaries. Any one of them means the billing app is now the smaller half of the job.
Is tBiz harder to use than Vyapar?
It asks more of you at setup — a chart of accounts, warehouses, a numbering policy — because it is doing more. Day-to-day billing is comparable, and the Android app covers the same ground.
Can I import my Vyapar data?
Parties, items and opening balances, by CSV. Transaction history is usually better left where it is and started fresh from a period boundary.
Does tBiz do proper double-entry accounting?
Yes. Every document posts a balanced voucher to the general ledger, and the trial balance, profit and loss and balance sheet are computed from those postings rather than summarised from the sales register.
Growing out of Vyapar
Parties, items and balances come across as CSV. Most people move at a financial year boundary, which makes the change clean and the comparatives easy.
Other comparisons
Move at the year end
Start free, import your parties and items, and open the new year on books that will still make sense in five.