e-Way Bill

Overview of e-Way Bill

Creation of e-Way Bills

Other Actions

What is an e-Way Bill?

In the GST regime, an e-way bill is an electronically generated document necessary for the movement of goods within the state or outside the state. An e-Way bill replaces the waybill, which was a physical document, used in the previous VAT system. 

An e-way bill has two parts: Part A and Part B. Part A contains the details of a consignor, consignee, supply type, item details and transport mode and Part B contains details of the transporter. 

If you’re initiating the movement of goods and transporting the goods by yourself, you have to furnish both Part A and B details. If you have outsourced the transportation of the goods, then the transporter must furnish Part B details. A consignor or the sender can also authorise a consignee such as buyer, transporter, courier agency and e-commerce operator to fill PART-A of the e-way bill on his behalf.

When is an e-Way Bill Necessary (or Unnecessary)?

e-Way Bill is mandatory at the time of movement of the goods as per the guidelines mentioned below. But there are some cases discussed below, where e-way bills are not necessary though goods are being transported from one place to another.

e-Way Bill is necessary in the following cases:

During the movement of goods, the person who transports the goods must carry the either of the transport document like Invoice, Bill of Supply, Delivery Challan with the e-Way Bill Number mentioned on it.

It is not necessary to generate an e-way bill in the following cases:

e-Way Bill Module

e-Way Bill module will be automatically enabled for your Zoho Books organisation as soon as you click Add e-Way Bill Details for your invoices and click Create or Add e-way bill number for that invoice.

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Note: If e-Way Bill number has to be entered for invoices whose value is less than Rs 50,000, click More and select Add e-Way Bill Details.

Statuses of e-Way Bills

The following table explains the types of transactions under each e-way bill status.

Status Description
Not Generated Transactions for which e-way bills have not been created yet.
Generated Transactions for which e-way bills have been generated.
Cancelled Transactions for which e-way bills are created and later on cancelled for some valid reasons.
Expired Transactions for which e-way bills have been created and have expired.
Excluded Transactions that are excluded from creation of e-way bills.

Creation of e-Way Bills

There are two ways by which e-way bills can be generated using Zoho Books. 

Apart from the above methods, e-way bills can also be created via other modes such as SMS, API and android applications. Now, let’s look into how you can create e-way bills using Zoho Books and the e-Way Bill portal.

When you create an e-way bill through Zoho Books, your e-way bill credentials will be shared with EWB. 

Generate e-Way Bills Directly from Zoho Books

When you have several e-way bills to be created every day, it is difficult to create them by typing the necessary details one by one manually in the EWB portal. However, you can create e-way bills effortlessly from Zoho Books. It pre-fills the transaction details and you only have to enter the transporter’s details to generate e-way bills.

Step 1 - Registering Zoho Corporation as Your GST Suvidha Provider

Before you start generating e-way bills from Zoho Books, you will have to register Zoho Corporation as your GST Suvidha Provider. To do this:

In the screen that follows, 

ewb-gsp-registration

Once done, Zoho Corporation will be listed under the View tab and you will be able to generate e-way bills from Zoho Books.

Note: This is a one-time registration. Once you have registered, you can continue to generate e-way bills from Zoho Books.

Step 2 - Generating e-Way Bills from Zoho Books.

Once you have registered Zoho Books as your GSP, you can start generating e-way bills. Let’s discuss the procedure in detail:

configure

filter

enter details

The e-way bill is now generated and the validity details will be updated automatically in Zoho Books.

Note: Due to government norms, in the case of a sales return, e-Way Bills which are created against a credit note will be saved with the document type as Delivery Challan.

If you do not want to generate e-way bills from Zoho Books, you can manually generate e-way bills through EWB portal.

Generate e-Way Bills Manually Through EWB Portal

If you want to generate e-way bills manually from the e-way bill portal, you can do so by:

Export the JSON File

  If you have multiple e-way bills to be generated on a daily basis, then generating e-way bills individually can be cumbersome. You can simply export the details as a JSON file and upload the file into the EWB portal to generate multiple e-way bills in bulk. To export JSON file from Zoho Books:

The JSON file will be downloaded to your system and you can upload it into the EWB portal to generate multiple e-way bills at once.

Note: Mandatory Fields of e-Way Bill are Customer Shipping PIN code, Place of Supply, Distance, Vehicle Number/(Transporter Document Number/Document Date), Transportation Mode, Supply Type, HSN for Goods and Organisation Address.

Export The Excel File

If you would like to verify the data entered, you can export the e-way bill details from Zoho Books as an Excel file and make the necessary changes, if any. If the e-way bills are generated by your travel agent on behalf of your business, then you might not have the Part-B details (vehicle number and transporter’s document number, etc.) to generate the e-way bills directly from Zoho Books.

In similar cases, you can:

Export the e-way bill excel file from Zoho Books

You can export e-way bill details of Invoices, Credit Notes and Delivery Challans from Zoho Books as an excel file to generate e-way bills through the EWB portal. But before exporting the data from Zoho Books, ensure that the mandatory information of an e-way bill like Customer Shipping PIN code, Place of Supply, Distance, Vehicle Number/(Transporter Document Number/Document Date), Transportation Mode, Supply Type, HSN for Goods are entered in Zoho Books. This helps you to capture all the details in the exported file and reduces manual work. 

If you have not entered the mandatory details for your transactions, you can enter them by clicking Add e-Way Bill details in the invoice preview page. To export the excel file:

Export e-Way Bill

If you want to refine further or drill down your search results based on some specified criteria, you can use the Common search or Advanced search

The common search bar will be available on the top of the page. This can be used when you want to refine transactions based on customer’s name, invoice amount, invoice number or invoice date, etc. 

Refine using search

If you wish to get more specific search results, then you can use the Advanced Search filter.

Advance search filter

If you do not have any common criteria to filter your transactions for exporting the e-way bill details, then you can mark the checkbox of the transactions and click Export as e-Way Bill button to download the excel file.

Export

Note: If you have only changes to be made to your excel file, you can directly make the necessary changes in Zoho Books and export the JSON file from Zoho Books and upload the file directly into the portal. 

Convert the Excel File into a JSON file using the EWB Offline Tool

Once the e-way bill excel file has been exported, it has to be converted into a JSON file for uploading the file into the e-way bill portal. To do that:

Validate JSON

Note: You can refer the welcome page of the offline tool to learn how to use it. Please make sure that you have details filled in all the columns of the offline tool correctly before converting it into a JSON file. Entering the values incorrectly will result in creation of JSON file with wrong values.

Upload the JSON File into the EWB Portal

Once your JSON file is ready for the import, log into the EWB portal

Update e-Way Bill Number Manually in Zoho Books

Since it is mandatory to show e-way bill number in the respective sales documents like invoices, credit notes and delivery challan; you need to update the EWB number in Zoho Books. To do that,

Add EWB

Enter EWB

Note: If e-Way Bill number has to be entered for invoices whose value is less than Rs 50,000, click More and select Add e-Way Bill Details.

Other Actions

Sync e-Way Bill Details into Zoho Books from EWB Portal

Once you’ve generated e-way bills for your transactions and updated the e-way bill number in Zoho Books for the respective transactions, you have to sync your e-Way Bill module with the EWB portal to fetch your e-way bill validity details or any updates made in the portal regarding to the e-way bill. This ensures all your data in the organisation is up to date. To fetch data from EWB portal into your organisation:

Fetch from portal

Cancellation of e-Way Bills

Sometimes, your shipment might get cancelled, destination might get modified or there can be some typing mistakes while creating an e-way bill. In such a situation, you can cancel your existing e-way bill within 24 hours from time of creation and generate a new one. But if the e-way bill has been verified by the officers, then it cannot be cancelled.

cancel e-Way Bill

Reason for Cancellation

Exclude The Transactions

For some transactions, when there is no necessity to transport goods from one place to another then e-way bill is not required though the invoice total value might be greater than Rs 50,000. In such cases, you can exclude that transaction from having to generate an e-way bill in Zoho Books. To do so:

Restore The Excluded Transactions

Sometimes, we create the invoice for the customer but delivery is made in a later period. In that case, listing out all the transactions together might be cumbersome. So, the transactions for which you wish to deliver the goods later can be excluded. Once you’re ready to transport the goods of the excluded transactions, you can restore those transactions.

Restore transactions

Now all the excluded transactions will be restored as Not Generated and you can generate e-way bill for these transactions.

 Read this article to learn more about e-way bills.

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