Why Tally 9 ?
The people who are close to Tally know it very well that the naming convention of Tally has a very particular pattern and the sum of digits of version is always 9. You can have a look at its previous version like Tally 4.5 , then Tally 5.4 then Tally 6.3, Tally 7.2 now Tally 8.1 and now coming is Tally 9. Tally has adopted this convention in its license no. also. You would find that the total sum of all digits of Tally serial no is 9 or multiple of 9. You would see the pricing of Tally also as 4500/- or 4950/- or 9,900/- or 10800/- etc a combination of 9 .
However the price tag of new version for new users and its existing users is a question of guess for every one.

Tally 9 Payroll bug and its solutions

reader figured out a bug in Tally Payroll in release 2.1. According to him while working in payroll in tally 9 rel. 2.1 you would get problem while altering salary voucher.
The bug
According to ApniTally ReaderMahender Rana from Rajkot, if we credit salary to employee A, B and C for Rs. 1500, 1700 and Rs. 2000 on 31st Jan, 2008 and later try to modify the voucher, it would not accept. Tally would not show the employee under primary cost category and courser wouldn't move. For example if have to do deductions for employee A say for Rs100/- then voucher alteration is not possible while going to voucher via Display -> Account Books-> Ledger Account -> Salary payable.

The solution
This problem can be overcome by altering the date of joining of the employee below 1/4/2007. Dates above this date would not work. However the joining date of the employee can be altered again after doing the modifications in voucher.

Starting a New Financial Year : Avoid Duplicate Invoice Numbers

Few of my customers faced a special hurdle in starting the new year. They have the problem of duplication
of Invoice number, purchase order form numbers, journal voucher numbers etc. In one way this is not a problem at all, If we are using simple numbering of vouchers in Tally. Tally has a feature to repeat it on what ever basis you want e.g. yearly, monthly, daily or even never get repeated . If you have put it on Yearly basis which is default in Tally then it would get repeated after every financial year. The invoice number on 1/04/07 would be 1 and Invoice number on 1/04/08 would also be 1. As the financial year has changed this numbering would start again and there is nothing to worry at all.

Gateway of Tally -> Account Info. -> Voucher Type -> Alter

Now select the voucher type you have to alter. Here we are going to alter Sales voucher. You would find a field of Use Advance Configuration under Method of Voucher Numbering.


Put it to Yes. Another screen would appear, here you would find another screen in which you can try various options. Here you would also see what you have done to specialised last year's voucher number in Prefix Details. Just add another entry below it. If you have put S/07/ then you can put S/08/ applicable from 1/04/08.

Same thing can be done for all type of vouchers which has special kind of numbering.

For those who are starting invoicing in Tally for this year and having a bill book also may face a problem of starting bill number. Their bill book may be having bill no. 1134 as the first bill on 1/04/08. They also want Tally to show similar invoice number.
They have solutions on this very form. At the beginning just put the starting number as 1134 or what ever you have instead of 1 and wohlah its done!! Your first bill on 1/04/08 would be 1134.

Faster data entry in Tally

Although working in tally is quite easy but when work load increases then faster data entry is required. Faster data entry in tally may lead to incorrect entry if done in usual way. There are some inbuilt features and shortcuts which can help any user to enter the data faster. Activating these features and using the short cut key would minimize the time consumed in data entry and accurate data feeding. Here are the tricks.

Skip date : First thing is to activate skip date field during data entry in voucher configuration screen. While in any voucher type press F12 put first option of Skip date field in create mode (faster entry) to Yes.
This would save you from the hassles of entering date in every voucher.
Use defaults : If entry is in same sales or purchase register where VAT rate is same then you can put Common ledger A/c for item Allocation to Yes and Use defaults for Bill allocation to Yes.
This would let you select minimum ledgers in a single entry.

Use Voucher types and Voucher classes : Different types of vouchers can be made to enter payments and receipts. For example bank payments and receipts can be entered in separate voucher types like Bank payment and Bank receipt. Same way cash receipts and payments can be using separate voucher types.
this would reduce the error chances during entry. This task can be further simplified by making separate voucher classes for sales and purchase related entries by making separate voucher classes for different VAT rate. For example seperate voucher class in sales can be made as sales VAT4 % and by defining ledgers commonly used in that voucher.
This would make entries faster as ledgers would be selected automatically what you have to do is just enter the figures.

Use short Cut Keys : While removing backlog or handling heavy work load we face almost similar types of entry which has to be made repetitively in different dates . Figures and accounts involved in these types of vouchers are almost same only few things are different like date. In this situation short cut keys can be of great help.
Use Alt+2 for duplicating any entry while you are in day book. If salary of 12 months has to be entered then duplicate this entry 12 times and then after wards change the date one by one. Here just change the date and use Ctrl+A to accept the entry.
In the same manner If we have common narration in voucher then it can be entered by pressing Alt+R . It would rewrite the previous narration.
If there is an entry missing then that can be entered by selecting the entry after which you want to insert it. Now press Alt+I to insert that entry on that particular place.

Faster data entry in tally also depends on your knowledge of hot keys in tally and it also depends on time you spend on tally

Faster data entry in Tally

Although working in tally is quite easy but when work load increases then faster data entry is required. Faster data entry in tally may lead to incorrect entry if done in usual way. There are some inbuilt features and shortcuts which can help any user to enter the data faster. Activating these features and using the short cut key would minimize the time consumed in data entry and accurate data feeding. Here are the tricks.

Skip date : First thing is to activate skip date field during data entry in voucher configuration screen. While in any voucher type press F12 put first option of Skip date field in create mode (faster entry) to Yes.
This would save you from the hassles of entering date in every voucher.
Use defaults : If entry is in same sales or purchase register where VAT rate is same then you can put Common ledger A/c for item Allocation to Yes and Use defaults for Bill allocation to Yes.
This would let you select minimum ledgers in a single entry.

Use Voucher types and Voucher classes : Different types of vouchers can be made to enter payments and receipts. For example bank payments and receipts can be entered in separate voucher types like Bank payment and Bank receipt. Same way cash receipts and payments can be using separate voucher types.
this would reduce the error chances during entry. This task can be further simplified by making separate voucher classes for sales and purchase related entries by making separate voucher classes for different VAT rate. For example seperate voucher class in sales can be made as sales VAT4 % and by defining ledgers commonly used in that voucher.
This would make entries faster as ledgers would be selected automatically what you have to do is just enter the figures.

Use short Cut Keys : While removing backlog or handling heavy work load we face almost similar types of entry which has to be made repetitively in different dates . Figures and accounts involved in these types of vouchers are almost same only few things are different like date. In this situation short cut keys can be of great help.
Use Alt+2 for duplicating any entry while you are in day book. If salary of 12 months has to be entered then duplicate this entry 12 times and then after wards change the date one by one. Here just change the date and use Ctrl+A to accept the entry.
In the same manner If we have common narration in voucher then it can be entered by pressing Alt+R . It would rewrite the previous narration.
If there is an entry missing then that can be entered by selecting the entry after which you want to insert it. Now press Alt+I to insert that entry on that particular place.

Faster data entry in tally also depends on your knowledge of hot keys in tally and it also depends on time you spend on tally

Plz also gives some tips & Short commands

THIS FOR U ANITA

Special Key Combination      

I know the most of these shortcut keys..............which is mostly in use.

Thanks