Joining the worldwide celebrations of International Women’s Day, Truecallerreleased its most comprehensive report yet, titled Understanding the Impact of Harassment & Spam Calls on Women. The report looks into the state of harassment calls made to women, what steps they can take to prevent them, and how big of problem they are, encouraging women facing harassment and spam to ‘Call It Out’.
Sexual Harassment: Where does it stop?
It comes as an ugly truth that 1 out of 3 [36%] women in India is receiving sexual & inappropriate calls or SMS’. Of those, 78% of women claimed to receive harassment calls with inappropriate and sexual content at least once a week, and 82% claimed to receive unsolicited videos and pictures with inappropriate and sexual content at least once a week.
On average, 50% of these calls and texts were anonymous, 11% were made by stalkers, and 3% were from a person known to them.
In particular, 90% of respondents in Jaipur reported receiving calls and texts with offensive and sexual imagery or videos on a weekly basis, making it the highest in India.
The Fine Line between Nuisance and Harassment
While most women viewed cold calls from telemarketers, salespeople and fraudsters as a ‘nuisance’, 81% of women surveyed that blank calls were ‘harassment’. Blank calls in the survey were defined as an anonymous phone call made with the intention to threaten, harass or offend a caller, without a sales or phishing-related objective. In fact, blank calls were the one type of spam call overwhelmingly felt to be harassment as opposed to nuisance.
Payments and Phishing: The double-edged sword
As per Truecaller’s Insights 2017 report, India is plagued by the highest number of spam calls in the world, with the average Truecaller user receiving 22.6 spam calls per month. With India’s ever-expanding payments landscape, phishing calls collecting payment information have become rampant.
At least once a week, 72% of the women surveyed received calls from fraudsters seeking to collect payments or sensitive personal data, with 4% receiving counterfeit calls almost daily.
Calling It Out
Close to two-thirds [65%] of women reported feeling angry or irritated by harassment calls, while almost one-fourth [22%] felt troubled, worried or offended. The report also found that close to two-thirds [62%] of the women have taken measures against these calls, which is very encouraging.
The most common [65%] way to tackle this problem was to block the harasser’s number, install a call blocking app [48%] or search for the number online [41%]. Only 10% of all women filed a complaint to the police [10%] or named and shamed the spammer on social media [7%].
Truecaller found that 90% of women in India use Truecaller to block harassers and spammers and 95% use Truecaller to identify, name and shame unknown callers. According to Truecaller’s internal data it was found that, overall, women in India report 18% more unwanted calls than men do, which is not surprising at all considering all the harassment calls they receive. This is an increase with 5% from last year, which was at 13%.
Research Methodology
This research was conducted by Truecaller in collaboration with an independent market research, Ipsos Research in India. More details about them can be found here. Ipsos used the mobile based approach of data collection. The survey was conducted January 20th – February 22nd 2018 among 2,004 women aged 15-35 across 15 cities in India [SEC A & B1.] This was done on a smartphone interface, using a self-complete methodology ensuring short length of interview in an engaging format. The internal data in this article was aggregated anonymously from spam reports in India during the period of December 1st, 2017 to December 31th, 2017 to understand the trends and usage.
Criteo, the leading commerce marketing technology company, debuted findings from its Global Commerce Review, analyzing shoppers’ activities, behaviors and preferences across all devices and browsing environments. The report, which highlights a growing importance of mobile apps among shoppers, reinforces the ‘mobile-first’ mindset, and will help inform omnichannel commerce marketing strategies worldwide. Another key finding includes the relevant touch points for a shopper’s journey.
Expressing his views on the findings of the research, Siddharth Dabhade, General Manager, Criteo India said
With increase in smartphone usage, app adoption and mobile browsing is the largest media consumption for Indian consumers. And with this, an interesting omnichannel shopping pattern has also emerged. Our latest study also illustrates this, where smartphones are seen contributing to nearly fifty percent of the total online transactions in India. It is the perfect time for brands and retailers to leverage the rise of mobile-commerce in India and invest in mobile apps and mobile advertising, to effectively connect with shoppers to yield greatest possible commerce results.
Research Highlights
Mobile Growth
Mobile web usage has reached a maturity point, but shoppers rarely stay in one place for long, moving in and out of walled gardens, and are still buying on-the-go, with varying levels of frequency, on all connected devices. Also with rise in the mobile usage, the frequency of the shopper engagement is also increasing.
In India, smartphones contributes 45% of total transactions [App excluded].
Smartphone usage has been increasing at 6% since Q4 2016, showing that smartphones continue to be the most preferred environment.
Omnichannel Matters
The omnichannel strategies help educate shoppers during their winding journey, which in turn drives positive online results.
Global omnichannel customers offer the highest lifetime value to brands and retailers, generating 27 percent of all sales, despite representing only 7 percent of all customers.
Globally, retailers that are successful in combining offline and online data are able to apply more than four times [4X] as much sales data to improve marketing efforts.
App Opportunity
App has now become a crucial touch point for a shopper’s journey. Owing to this fact, apps are presenting a huge opportunity in terms of reaching out to the mobile first shoppers. In order to better connect with these mobile-first shoppers, enhance mobile shopper engagement and get substantial sales, retailers and brands need to invest in mobile app optimization and build a targeted marketing strategy.
Conversion rates are 5 times higher on app, about 20% then on mobile web, which is 4%, in the Asia-Pacific region.
Globally, advertisers saw nearly a 50 percent year-over-year increase of in-app transactions, climbing to 46 percent in the fourth quarter of 2017.
Shopping Moments
Consumers continue to trade desktop for mobile, and back again, depending on the time and day they are shopping online.
Retailers looking to target the busy working customer cannot ignore the dominance of desktop during business hours, especially between 9 A.M ~ Noon.
Alternatively, optimizing for smartphone and tablet targeting remains critical in the evenings and throughout the weekend.
Cross Device Data
Cross-device data combinations can help retailers make up lost ground from lower shares of mobile sales. It also helps in revealing where the shopper will go based on where their journey began.
In India, 25% of post click sales are preceded by a click on another device.
Combining cross-device data to better understand and target shopper intent allows marketers to capture higher-value shoppers. This trend is apparent in Travel & Retail category.
VuLiv Player, the most advanced and intelligent audio-video platform that uses Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to build predictive & prescriptive content recommendations, today announces the launch of EyeVu™ .
An A.I. powered advanced tracking technology marvel that gauges a viewer attention to digital content and enables brands & marketers to track even the slightest eye movement of a consumer while watching brand advertisement’s or digital video content . This will generate accurate data as to which part of the advertisement was actually viewed [not just played passive] and at which part of the viewers’ attention was lost.
Built on native android library , EyeVu™ ,is an intelligent technology that works on human eye movement across a set of angles or even eye blinking to create an algorithm that calculates the exact number of seconds or video frames a consumer’s attention was lost or regained and generates real time data that provides rich creative insights for brands to investigate a consumer’s viewing interest pattern to a particular ad campaign or video content.This eliminates the problems of misleading data on consumer’s viewing patterns and combats frauds in digital advertising.
The data generated can also help decode the science of compelling storytelling by advising marketers to rework on the content frame by frame and create A-B video testing samples to analyze audience response by exposing them to different edits of video under controlled conditions.
AI and Big data Analytics powered EyeVu technology empowers marketers and creative story tellers to create insightful, creative and unique content to ensure that the message weaved in an advertisement or the entertainment video reaches to the right audience, at the right time.
Speaking on launch of the feature, Manoj Kumar Gupta, Founder & CEO, VuLiv Player, said
In a world of technology as marketing becomes increasingly automated, brands need to ensure creativity and innovation don’t suffer as a result. Today, human attention to an advertising campaign on digital platform is being measured by the number of seconds a video content is played without assigning any importance to what is actually being watched/viewed.
With EyeVu AI, marketers first time will receive scientific measurement of a video content’s emotional engagement and predictive effectiveness of target audience, thereby creating the most effective formulae of gripping story telling for brands. This technology combined with AI and Big Data can unearth human science data to build right creative content, be it for advertising or entertainment.
According to marketing research firm eMarketer’s data, mobile will account for more than half [~62.0%] of overall digital ad spending, which is expected to hit a total of $2.8 billion by 2020. Globally, mobile ad spending touched $36.6 billion in 2016, accounting for 51% of overall digital advertising spending, according to IAB’s Internet Advertising Revenue Report.
With VuLiv Player’s EyeVu data, marketers can analyze the creative lift of entertainment video piece that is been targeted to the consumer, predict and analyze their actual viewing pattern, understand where the customer’s attention is dropping or where they are most attentively watching in a video advertising session and create more relevant, compelling and gripping brand advertising content, saving almost 90% marketing dollars and generate accurate conversions to the campaign.
About VuLiv
VuLiv Player, is native media platform, that bridges offline-online entertainment playback experience on smartphone, by bringing users all Videos, Music, Photos & 400 hours of popular online entertainment into just 1 smartphone application, thereby Simplifying Entertainment for the emerging market internet consumer. For more information, please visit VuLiv Player
Picture these simple yet ideal use-cases while you are at your workplace:
You want to give instructions to the nanny who takes care of your little one
You want to check on how your little one is doing at home
You want to see how your parents are doing at your home-town since each one of us are emotional and deeply care for elders!
Well, in such scenarios either a simple phone call or a video-call could come in very handy since it keeps you informed that your loved ones are safe & secure at that very moment. However, if you are looking for a more secure, robust and long-term solution, you have the option to go for ‘Security Camera’ since trouble is real and it can knock at anyone’s door, anytime.
Whenever we think about security cameras, we visualize it as a camera that would be stationary, wall-mounted, involve a complex installation setup and require drilling for the wiring. These are all concerns of the past since Godrej Security Solutions [GSS], India’s leading security solutions provider recently launched a range of products based on the SmartLife concept. These products have been designed based on consumer insights and following a design-led approach, with a view to make the category increasingly relevant, convenient and affordable for consumers specifically in the children and senior citizen category.
These innovations were based on the findings of the survey ‘Consumer Attitude towards Home Security‘ that had very important findings
Only 34% of women take security measures while traveling.
Biggest security measure taken by women while traveling [28%] was to inform their relatives.
Only 9% of women use security applications on their mobile phone.
A minuscule [2%] were using pepper spray as a measure of their security.
These are problems that needed to be solved but via a secure & long-term solution. This is where Wi-Fi enabled home cameras – EVE Series and video door phone SEE THRU PRO from Godrej Security Solutions could be a real game-changer in the Home & Office security segment.
EVE is a contraction of the product’s core USP – Easy Viewing Everywhere andcomesinthree different variants – EVE Mini, EVE Cube and EVE PT.
EVE – Easy Viewing Everywhere
The EVE series of products from Godrej Security Solutions [GSS] is capable of directly streaming live feed of a premise to the smart phones of the home owners, and helps one to watch over their loved ones remotely from anywhere in the world. The EVE range of Home Cameras is also equipped with an auto- record function based on motion sensing and triggers notifications to the owners handset everytime it senses some untoward motion.
The EVE series starts at a price point of around Rs. 5,000, and has a range of models to suit the security requirements of the customers. Since Bengaluru has a strong affinity for high-tech solutions, Bengaluru has been delivering an annual revenue growth of 18% for GSS.
Also, Bengaluru is a mature market with strong understanding and appetite for technology based products since a majority of the working population comprises of young professionals related to the technology affiliated industries. Due to all these favorable factors, GSS chose Bengaluru as a launchpad for these innovative products.
Today, we review the EVE PT Wi-Fi Network Camera system from GSS w.r.t useage, installation and features perspective.
EVE Feature Overview
As mentioned earlier, EVE PT is a Wi-Fi Network Camera whose major focus is on the security of children and senior citizens. PT in the name stands for ‘Pan and Tilt’. Some of the salient features of the EVE PT are below:
0 to 355 degree PAN
-10 to 90 degree Tilt control to choose a desired view using the app
IR LED’s for clear images in a dark environment [up to 10m]
Works on Wi-Fi, no additional cabling required for installation
Supports up to 128 GB SD Card for on camera recording
Built in Mic and Speaker for high quality two way audio communication
Instant alerts on the Mobile App
1 MP, 720p HD video to view each detail clearly
EVE Design and Installation
The EVE PT is light weight, elegantly designed and made of superior plastic material. Since the camera serves a very different market when compared to normal CCTV camera, hence lot of thought has gone into making the camera more portable. You can easily carry the camera from one room to another, but it would need either Wired or Wi-Fi internet connectivity.
There are no buttons on the camera which was huge surprise for us, but it is designed in order to make it more secure so that there is no tampering done on the receiver side. The Camera runs on external power source that is connected via a normal micro USB cable. Since there are no specific power requirements, you could even use your normal phone charger [that has micro USB support] in order to power-up the EVE PT. You could even power up the camera using an external power bank, if it satisfies the input current requirement of the EVE PT.
Along with the LAN input, there is a slot for external SD Card that can be used in case you want detailed video recording. There is a Speaker and a Mic on the camera that is used for two way communication. We connected the camera to a Jio Fi Dongle and there was no lag whatsoever in the video or audio output.
There is an indicator LED in the front of the camera that indicates the status of the camera. Since there is no physical wiring required, you do not have to worry about dangling wires and even a novice can setup the camera. In order to setup the EVE PT, you need to download the EVE app from the Play Store or the iOS store.
EVE App Overview
Since there are no physical buttons on the camera, the EVE PT can be controlled only via the mobile app. For the review, we downloaded the Android app and the setup was super-easy. The Godrej EVE app is designed to work with DNRs, NVRs and IP cameras which support Cloud P2P function. Once you install the app on your mobile phone, you need to create an account and add the EVE PT camera device to your device list.
It took less than 20 seconds for the entire installation and setup [including pairing with the camera]. At each step, the camera would inform the status of the installation. In case you need to give access of the camera to your family members, they just need to follow the same steps and you can configure their Access Rights from your app since that would have the admin access control. You can add more than 10+ slaves whereas there would only one master. The other devices that are connected to the camera can also use the app for simultaneous viewing.
Since the Master app has access to all the camera controls, you can use the app for Pan & Tilt, capturing camera snapshot, recording live video, addition & deletion of slaves, access control of the slave app, two way voice communication, etc.
The EVE app also allows you to play back recorded video to search every milestone of your life.When motion detection alarm is triggered, you can get an instant message notification from Godrej EVE app.
Other notable features of the app are:
Real-time monitoring
Video playback
Motion detection alarm notification
Addition and monitoring of upto 16 EVE cameras from the app
EVE Camera and Audio Quality
When we talk about any camera, the quality of the pictures is what defines the overall experience. Godrej EVE PT comes in two different variants – 1 MP, 720p HD and 2 MP, 1080p HD. We received the 1 MP, 720p HD variant for review.
The picture quality is very good and there is not much lag when you perform a Pan or Tilt operation. Also, since EVE PT is a security camera, it becomes primarily important that the core subjects are identifiable. The camera scores well in that area, even when it is used in low-light conditions. The camera comes equipped with an IR illumination LED for enhanced night viewing.
The audio quality also is very good. We used the Mic for giving voice commands from the EVE PT and sent some Audio commands from the mobile App. In both the scenarios, the audio quality was top notch and this feature can be used in case you want to give some instructions to someone at your home, whether it is your parents/care taker/nanny, etc. The audio is encrypted, which ensures that the focus of this product has been on ‘Security’!
The recorded video/photos are usually saved in the gallery of your mobile but you always have an option to save the same on external SD card on the EVE PT. With the advent of IoT, devices are becoming more connected and hence, it would be great if the future versions of the EVE PT app could bring in the ‘interoperability‘ so that it could be used in conjunction with the Amazon Echo, Amazon Alexa, Google Home, etc.
EVE – Closing Thoughts
The EVE PT is an ideal fit for the urban working class people who have to manage their personal as well as professional time effectively. With this camera, you can keep a watch on your kids, elderly parents since it is better to be safe than sorry. Priced at around INR 10,000, it has all the features to ensure that you can focus on your work and leave some of your household worries to the EVE camera 🙂
What do you think about the Godrej EVE series, please leave your feedback in the comments section…
Microsoft Corp. has announced the completion of its first renewable energy deal within the Karnataka state of India. The agreement will see Microsoft purchase 3 megawatts of solar-powered electricity from Atria Power to help power its new office building in Bengaluru. This will meet 80 percent of the projected electricity needs at the new facility.
This deal is part of a state government of Karnataka program to encourage investments in local solar energy operations, in line with the larger Indian government goal to ramp up solar power generation to 100 gigawatts by 2022, as part of India’s efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change.
Investing in local solar energy to help power our new Bangalore office building is good for Microsoft, good for India and good for the environment. We are proud to be deepening our long history of partnership and investment in India with this agreement. This deal will help us grow sustainably and supports the growth of the Indian solar energy industry, so that the entire country can more easily and reliably access clean electricity.
Rob Bernard, Chief Environmental Strategist, Microsoft, said
Microsoft, like India, has ambitious commitments to use more renewable energy. By purchasing local solar power to meet some of our local electricity needs, we’re not only meeting our goals but also supporting the growth of local clean energy industries. This growth leads to more clean electricity capacity, which will help India meet its targets for the Paris Agreement, reduce carbon emissions and provide clean electricity to its growing population. We’re proud to play a small role in this Indian energy transformation.
This is Microsoft’s first solar energy agreement in India, and one of the first in Asia — the company completed a new solar agreement in Singapore last week. Once completed, this project will bring Microsoft’s total global direct procurement in renewable energy projects to nearly 900 megawatts. The deals in Asia follow windprojects in Europe and a substantial portfolio in the United States, and mark continued momentum toward the corporate clean energy commitments set by the company in 2016. Microsoft’s goal is to rely on wind, solar and hydro-power electricity for at least 50 percent of its energy usage worldwide by the end of 2018.
Trend Micro Incorporated, a global leader in cyber-security solutions had their global executive Steve Quane, Executive VP, Network Defense and Hybrid Cloud Security in India recently, stressing on the unprecedented pace of infrastructure changes engulfing enterprises. He stressed on cloud adoption, particularly moving to ‘container’ and ‘server-less’ architecture having huge benefits for organizations. The benefits which translate not only to cost, but include stability, scalability and ultimately the security aspect.
With respect to trends around the threat landscape in Asia, which includes India, he opined that he could draw parallels to what is happening globally, in that they are very similar. While there is still a significant amount of Ransomware activity currently, Crypto Mining will rise to equal Ransomware if not exceed it.
While delving on the ‘mentality shift’ of organizations sharing responsibilities, Steve said
There is a new model that needs to be in place for cloud security that is different than on- premise. The word ‘hybrid’ is very specific here, the ability to live in both places at the same time. That is, to live in an older legacy network-based environment that you have complete control over, while moving to a cloud environment where you share responsibility with your service provider. For organizations that do make the shift, they find that the cloud security model is as-good-as if not better than their on- premise security model.
On the role of next-gen technologies in security, Steve opined that the role of Machine Learning and Artificial intelligence [AI] would be to essentially sieve through data and find anomalies and trends that either humans can’t see or don’t have time to see. When it comes to blockchain, its application would be to help secure a very insecure environment.
People, Process and Procedures need to be addressed particularly in this age of impending data regulations and privacy regulations. Also, organizations are increasingly seen grappling with newer issues – How do we deal with AI driven security fighting AI driven threats ? At some point the infrastructure fights itself. Interestingly, we have started to see attacks on AI done by AI.
On Trend Micro’s cloud offering, Steve highlighted on their Connected Threat Defense approach. Their cloud offering – ‘Deep Security’ is tied to network-based IPS, which is in-turn tied to their sand-boxing technologies. The ability to detect suspicious behavior anywhere in the enterprise environment and submit that malicious activity to a centralized investigation service is unique to anyone in the industry.
The second aspect, is the ability to follow the workload, building the security profile around a computing workload and following it anywhere in the world from virtual infrastructure to multi-cloud. Trend Micro is one of the most critical partner for AWS, Azure and VMware in India and they work hand-in-hand with them to offer customers a seamless hassle free experience.
He emphasized the two big areas which are unique to Trend Micro. First being the Security Universities, where they plan to graduate about 300 to 400 security professionals a year, once they reach a particular scale. With presence in Egypt and Brazil they now plan to expand to Eastern Europe and Asia as well. The second one being around identifying talent through Ethical hacking,and the tremendous growth witnessed around The Zero Day initiative bug bounty program which has roughly 3500 researchers. He opined that Asia has lost the sheen of being the land of the ethical hackers, and the most prolific at that, with the decrease in ethical hacking in Asia. Also, they plan to organize probably the biggest hacking event in the world, called Pwn2Own scheduled next month, with an estimated prize money of USD 2 million for the grabs.
Close to home, Nilesh Jain, Vice President – South East Asia and India, Trend Micro, said
In India, we are seeing two trends, very specifically to large enterprises. One, is the adoption of new technologies of AI, Big Data & Blockchain. Secondly, it’s the cloud adoption related migration happening across sectors. Also, customers are increasingly evaluating vendors who can deliver EDR [Endpoint Detection and Response] as well as who can deliver security on Cloud, and move on those latest technologies faster.
Our major investment is in engaging and developing the different categories of channel partners in India. We are building a big team for channels, which includes, channel sales, channel technical and channel services. There are channel partners who are doing large sized infrastructure projects, there are pure-play MSSP [Managed Security Service Providers] partners, and there are largely cloud services partners.
About Trend Micro
Trend Micro Incorporated, a global leader in cyber-security solutions, helps to make the world safe for exchanging digital information. Their innovative solutions for consumers, businesses, and governments provide layered security for data centers, cloud environments, networks and endpoints. With more than 5,000 employees in over 50 countries and the world’s most advanced global threat intelligence, Trend Micro enables organizations to secure their journey to the cloud. For more information, please visit Trend Micro
The The GLOMO Awards are considered the Oscars of mobile industry to recognize and celebrate the best of the best, highlighting the technologies, products, companies and individuals that are pushing the boundaries of ingenuity and innovation thereby creating a better future for all of us.
Speaking about the award to JioTV, the judges said
In a country where less than half the population has access to television, this is delivering a wide range of channels with a unified & personalized experience for everyone.
We are excited & humbled to win the prestigious GLOMO awards. It shows that all our initiatives at Jio are driven by customer obsession & innovation. The intent to empower every Indian has been our guiding philosophy throughout.
JioTV’s prime motto has been to bring the best in class content, be it entertainment or news or movies or sports, to all its users on the go. It houses 575+ Live TV channels showing content across 15+ Indian languages & 7 days of catch up for most of the shows thereby enabling Jio Digital Life.
JioTV has been a leader in the infotainment space with its100 million+ downloads coming in a real short time. Ever since its launch, it has consistently been ranked amongst the ‘Top Entertainment’ apps on Google Play with a 4.4 star rating. JioTV also won the award for the ‘Innovative Mobile TV App’ in the recently concluded Aegis Graham Bell Award on February 23rd 2018 in New Delhi.
JioTV not only brings forth the Indian gamut of entertainment to its users but also opens up the world of international events to Indians. JioTV was the official broadcast partner for recently concluded PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games. It is also the exclusive digital broadcaster for the upcoming T20I tri-series ‘Nidahas Trophy’ being played between India, Sri Lanka & Bangladesh stated to begin on March 6th 2018.
The government has recently announced the implementation date of the e-Way Bill as 1st April 2018. e-Way Bill as a mechanism helps reduce tax evasion and ensures seamless inter-state transportation of goods, with minimal loss of time at check-points. With the introduction of e-Way Bill, invoicing will become a more frequent activity than before. Businesses will be required to record sales invoices, and then generate the e-Way Bill. Invoice generation and dispatching of goods will have to take place simultaneously. Tally Solutions, the country’s premier business software, has launched its latest software Tally.ERP 9 Release 6.4 which caters to effective e-Way Bill compliance.
With e-Way Bill being introduced in a month’s time, it will be critical for businesses to adopt a solution which assists in generating and managing e-Way Bills, and at the same time facilitates recording and maintenance of accurate invoices. Tally has been the invoicing and accounting solution of choice for more than 1.3 million businesses and with the new release the company is extending a simplified e-Way Bill compliance solution.
How Tally. ERP 9 Release 6.4 offers an effective solution
Generate e-Way Bill and print invoices with EBNs [e-Way Bill nos.] – Tally. ERP 9 allows businesses to capture all the mandatory details required for generating e-Way Bill in the e-Way Bill portal. These details are not required to be entered in the portal again, reducing time consuming repetitive tasks. At the time of saving the invoice, the user can choose to generate a JSON/Excel of the invoice which has to be uploaded on the e-way portal for generating e-Way Bill with EBN.
JSON of single or multiple invoices for generating e-Way Bills – In order to generate e-Way Bills, businesses will need to upload invoice data in JSON. The software gives flexibility to businesses to generate JSON for a single invoice, or a single JSON for multiple invoices, to reduce operational effort. This will help generate multiple e-Way Bills from a single JSON.
Manage varied business scenarios – With Tally.ERP 9, businesses can generate JSON in situations when they wish to get e-Way Bills generated for their purchases, or for purchases made from unregistered dealers.
e-Way Bills for consolidated invoices – Once e-Way Bills are generated for individual invoices, the user can group invoices with their e-Way Bills as per mode of transport, vehicle nos., place of supply or State, and generate a consolidated e-Way Bill on the portal, to make transporter’s life simple.
Commenting on the launch, Tejas Goenka, Executive Director, Tally Solutions, said
Over the last few weeks we have been focusing on getting businesses ready to operate the e-Way Bill system to ensure that they remain compliant with the law. Our latest release Tally.ERP 9 Release 6.4 is designed to make it very simple for businesses to generate and manage e-Way Bills.
We have made a conscious attempt to make the solution flexible to accommodate various exceptional circumstances that different businesses might find themselves in, while complying with the new reform. We have also extended a solution to businesses who have registered under the composition scheme, who can now generate bill of supply and file GSTR-4 with ease. With these additions to our latest release, we are confident that businesses will find it easier to transition to the new reform.
Tally.ERP 9 Release 6.4 will also enable businesses registered under the composition scheme to become GST compliant. With Tally, businesses can generate Bills of Supply for their sales. Businesses can also export GSTR4 in JSON at the click of a button and upload it to the GST portal. The product is priced at INR 18,000+GST for a single user edition and INR 54,000+GST for a multi-user edition, the same as earlier.
The latest version of GST-ready Tally continues to be available for purchase at an affordable EMI. The single user edition can be purchased with a down payment of INR 5,287, and the remaining amount can be paid in equal monthly installments over a period of 7 months.
