Bookkeeping on autopilot

From invoices to ledgers, without the manual mess.

Upload your invoices, receipts, and bank statements. Draftbook extracts every field, checks it against GST rules, waits for your sign-off — then posts it straight into TallyPrime.

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Free during the pilot · macOS and Windows · Your data stays in your books

The lifecycle

Every document walks the same five steps.

Nothing reaches your books until you have seen it. Draftbook does the reading, the arithmetic, and the GST checks — you do the approving.

01
Upload

Drop a file, or pull pages straight off your scanner. Draftbook renames, tags, and queues each one.

02
Inbox

Everything lands in one place, gets classified by document type, and deduped automatically.

03
Extract

Party, GSTIN, HSN, line items, tax breakup, totals — each field pulled with a confidence score and a link back to the spot on the page.

04
Review

Draftbook surfaces only what needs a decision. You sign off on every entry before it hits the books.

05
Post

Approved entries become vouchers and ledgers, then sync to TallyPrime over your own LAN.

Why Draftbook

Built for how Indian businesses actually keep books.

  • GSTIN-first isolation

    Multi-GSTIN businesses stay properly separated. Every document, party, and ledger is scoped to one GSTIN and one fiscal year — books never cross-contaminate.

  • Ledger-native vocabulary

    Ledgers, vouchers, groups, narrations. Draftbook speaks the language your accountant and your Tally file already use — not generic ERP jargon.

  • Human in the loop

    No silent auto-posting. Every extracted entry is reviewed and signed off by a person before it lands in your books — with the source document beside it.

  • GST validation built in

    GSTIN format and lookup, place-of-supply, HSN, CGST/SGST/IGST splits, and rounding are checked to the paisa before anything is allowed to post.

  • Scan straight from the device

    Paper invoice? Scan it into Draftbook without a detour through Files. Works with the scanner you already own on macOS and Windows.

  • TallyPrime sync, done safely

    Masters are created before the vouchers that reference them, and every push is read back and verified. Draftbook never closes or mutates your Tally session.

Download

Get the desktop app.

Draftbook runs as a desktop app so it can reach TallyPrime and your scanner on your own machine — neither ever needs to be exposed to the internet.

macOS

Recommended

Draftbook 0.2.0 · Universal

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Requires macOS 12 Monterey or later. Includes the native scanner bridge (ImageCaptureCore) and the local TallyPrime connector.

Windows

Draftbook 0.2.0 · 64-bit

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Requires Windows 10 or later, 64-bit. Includes the WIA scanner bridge and the local TallyPrime connector.

First launch during the pilot

These pilot builds are not yet code-signed, so your operating system will warn you the first time you open them. This is expected — here is how to get past it:

  • macOS — right-click the app in Applications and choose Open, then confirm. Or run xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Draftbook.app once.
  • Windows — on the SmartScreen prompt, choose More info, then Run anyway.

Signed builds ship before general availability.