The CA's veto
Most workshop software conversations in India end the same way: the owner is convinced, and then the CA asks one question. “Does it work with Tally?” It is a fair question, and the honest answer from most products is a long pause. The CA's books are in Tally, the CA's staff are trained in Tally, and no owner is going to change accountants to change software. So the real question is not whether the floor system replaces Tally. It is whether the two can live together without someone retyping invoices at month-end.
What stays where
Kenro runs the floor: job cards, quotes, GST invoices and Bills of Supply, payments and part-payments, the udhaar ledger, expenses, purchase invoices and stock. Tally runs the books: the ledgers, the trial balance, the filings your CA signs. Nothing in Kenro pretends to be an accounting package, and nothing in Tally knows which bay the Innova is in. The link between them is an export, produced by you, imported by your CA. It is not a live sync, and we say that plainly because a live sync that breaks quietly is worse than a file you can see.
What the export actually contains
- Sales vouchersEvery invoice and its payments, as a CSV whose column names match the Tally sales voucher import template most Indian CAs already use. Taxable value and tax split are computed per invoice; dates are in Tally's own DD-MMM-YYYY format.
- Payment vouchersExpenses as Tally payment vouchers, with category hints so the CA can map them to the right ledger without asking you what “misc” meant.
- GSTR-1An invoice-level outward-supplies export in the standard B2B / B2C layout — B2B where the customer has a GSTIN, B2C where they do not — with the CGST, SGST and IGST split per invoice.
- The year-end packOne click on the reports page for a chosen financial year downloads four files: the sales ledger, a month-by-month GSTR-3B summary with input tax credit from purchase invoices, the expenses ledger, and a one-page annual summary by quarter.
How the month actually goes
On the first of the month the owner opens reports, picks last month, and downloads the sales and expense exports. The CA imports them into Tally through its voucher import utility, the same way they import a bank statement. The GSTR-1 export goes into the return. If the CA's template differs from the common one, the column order is a one-time adjustment, not a monthly negotiation. What used to be a bag of counterfoils and a voice note becomes two files and a WhatsApp message saying “sent.”
What this does not do, on purpose
Kenro does not post entries into your Tally company by itself, does not read your Tally data back, and does not try to be the place your CA keeps the books. Those boundaries are what let the floor system stay simple enough for a technician to use on a phone and let the CA keep the tool they trust. If you have a CA who wants to see the exports before you decide, send them this page; the honest answer to “does it work with Tally” is “it produces what Tally imports, and here is the list.”