Guides for people running distribution and trading businesses
Six guides, written for owners and accountants rather than for search engines. None of them is a product brochure, and none of them will tell you what a competitor's software does or costs.
Owners, accountants and the person who got handed the project
These are written at the level of somebody who runs a distribution business or keeps its books — not a software buyer, and not an accountant writing for other accountants. Where something is a legal question we say so and send you to your own advisor rather than guessing on your behalf.
- Proprietors weighing up whether to change systems at all
- Accountants who will have to live with whatever gets chosen
- Distribution businesses with a batch and expiry problem they are solving in a spreadsheet
- Anyone opening a branch in a second state and wondering what changes
If you are thinking about switching
Switching checklist
What to prepare before you move — masters, opening balances, stock with batch and expiry — plus how to run in parallel and train staff. Read the checklist →
Choosing a trading ERP
The questions worth asking before you commit: party ledgers, what multi-branch really means, module bloat. Read the guide →
Easyy Accounting ERP vs Tally vs Zoho
A question-by-question framework for running your own comparison, and a clear statement of what we will not tell you. Read the comparison →
Guides on the day-to-day
Batch and expiry tracking
Why batch and expiry beat a plain quantity for medical distributors, and how to manage them without a side register. Read the guide →
Multi-branch GST accounting
Branch-wise registration and moving stock between your own branches, in general terms, with the legal detail left to your advisor. Read the guide →
UAE VAT vs India GST
For businesses running a branch in each country: where the two regimes differ structurally, not just in rate. Read the guide →
A suggested order
Start with whether to move at all
The choosing guide and the comparison guide are both written to help you decide not to switch, if that is the right answer.
Then work out what you would need
The feature pages describe modules; the industry pages describe which combinations suit which businesses.
Then plan the move
The switching checklist is the practical one — it is the list we work through with customers anyway.
Keep the operational guides for later
Batch and expiry, and multi-branch GST, are more useful once you know what you are running.
Three rules these guides follow
It is worth saying out loud what the editorial line is, because it explains some of what is missing from these pages as well as what is in them.
- No claims about other vendors. We name Tally, Marg and Zoho Books because those are what people are comparing against. We do not tell you what they cost, what they include, or where they fall short — a competitor is the worst available source on any of that. Ask each vendor directly, in writing.
- No statutory specifics that will go stale. Where a guide touches GST or VAT it describes the shape of the rule rather than the current rate, threshold or due date. Anything that would affect a filing goes to your advisor, not to a marketing page.
- No invented customers. There are no testimonials, ratings, case studies or logos on this site, because we are not going to manufacture them. What you get instead is a specific description of what the software does, which you can ask us to demonstrate.
Questions we get asked
Are these guides about your product?
Mostly not. The feature and industry pages describe the product; these guides are about the problems, and they are written to be useful even if you never become a customer.
Do they give legal or tax advice?
No. Where a guide touches statutory ground it stays general and tells you to check current rules with your own advisor.
Do you compare competitors in them?
We name Tally, Marg and Zoho Books because those are what people compare against, but we do not publish claims about their pricing, features or shortcomings.
How often are they updated?
When something material changes. Each guide carries its published and modified dates in its page data.
Can we suggest a topic?
Yes — email info@easyyaccounting.com. Most of these came from questions asked during demos.
Question a guide does not answer?
Ask it directly. Most of these guides started life as a question somebody asked on a demo call.
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