Every trip, its own P&L.
Package revenue on one side, the hotel, airline and DMC bills on the other — per trip, not per month. Advances carry the TCS you collect on an overseas package, enquiries become quotes become invoices without re-keying, and your GSTR-1 builds itself from the invoices you already raised.
You already know the pain.
A trip's margin is known months later.
The package was invoiced in March, the DMC billed in April and the airline refund landed in June. By the time the numbers meet, nobody remembers which departure they belong to.
TCS on an overseas package is due on the receipt, not the invoice.
Section 206C(1G) applies when the customer pays you. A spreadsheet that starts from invoices misses the advance, and the quarterly statement gets reconstructed from bank entries under deadline.
Enquiries live in WhatsApp, quotes in Word, invoices somewhere else.
The itinerary that won the booking is re-typed three times before it reaches the books, and the version the customer accepted is not always the version that was billed.
What Finocket does for you.
Projects as trips
Group each departure's invoices, advances and vendor bills under one trip project — the Europe escorted tour, the Coorg corporate offsite, the Char Dham group — and read what each one actually earned once the last DMC and airline bill is in.
5% packages next to 18% service fees
Tour packages at 5% and air-ticketing, visa and insurance fees at 18% sit on the same invoice with the right SAC on each line, and GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B build themselves from what you raised. Finocket prepares the return; the upload to the portal stays yours.
TCS 206C(1G) recorded on the receipt
Record the TCS you collect on an overseas package with the payment that carries it — the advance, not only the final invoice — and carry the quarter into a Form 27EQ working under the 6CO nature code your CA expects.
Enquiry → quote → invoice
Track every enquiry on a pipeline shaped for travel — itinerary sent, quote negotiation, advance received, booked — send an estimate the customer accepts online, and convert it to the invoice in one tap.
Vendor bills matched to the trip
Log the hotel, the airline, the DMC and the visa desk as expenses tagged to the trip, so trip profitability includes the bills and not only the package.
Corporate travel desks on retainer
A corporate travel-desk retainer raises its own invoice every month from a recurring rule, so the desk is billed on time whether or not anybody travelled.
Hand-to-CA ZIP + read-only invite
Roll any period into one ZIP — every invoice, statement, Day Book, Outstanding and GSTR-1/3B — or invite your CA as a read-only member who reads and exports what filing needs and cannot change a figure.
The bar we hold ourselves to
The Coorg offsite made money and the Europe departure did not — and we knew it the week the last DMC bill came in, not at year-end.
What we set out to fix for tour operators reconciling trips from three spreadsheets