Brief About Bill of Supply
You have to make a bill of supply when you are registered for GST and you are selling an exempted good or service, or if you have chosen the composition scheme. In such a case, you can neither charge tax from your customer, nor show the tax on your bill.
How to Create Bill of Supply
Here’s how you can make a bill of supply:
- Select the option of ‘Sales Invoices’ on your dashboard
- Now, you will get the option to create different kinds of sales documents
- If you want to make a bill for any goods, then click on ‘New Bill of supply’
- To make the bill, you have to fill in all the information you see on your screen
Let’s understand these fields one by one:
- Enter the serial number of the bill under bill number.
- If you have not already set the serial number on the bills, then click on Set Sequence
- Now select Bill of Supply under Document Type
- Now choose the GSTIN that you want to set a bill number for and add a prefix such as BOS and a series start such as 001. Save it, and this serial number will now show on every bill you make
- Under reference number, enter information such as order number, etc
- Under due date write the date on which you will receive payment against the sale. It is not mandatory to fill this date
- Under customer name, write the name of your customer. If the name is not saved already, then you can add a new customer
- Now fill the information you see on your screen. Here, write the name of your customer’s business
- Under Contact Person, write the name of the person you will communicate with in their business
- Write the customer’s GSTIN here. After you have filled all the other information, click on Save
- Under billing address, your customer’s address will be auto-populated. If you want to change it, then click on Edit and after you enter the information, click on Save
- Under shipping address, write the address where you will deliver your goods. If the shipping and billing address are the same then tick the box that reads Same as Billing Address. Remember, it is not necessary that these addresses be the same
- Enter the details of goods to be sold under the Item Description tab. If you want, you can create the information here
- Now click on Save
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