Received a GST notice? Record what it says, and Finocket rebuilds that period's own GSTR-1, GSTR-3B and GSTR-2B position from your books and turns the difference into a reply you can paste into the portal yourself. Every figure in the draft points back at the record it came from. Nothing is ever submitted from here.
Where do I find it?
Open GST & returns and tap GST notices. The DRC screen also offers Draft a reply when it can see a mismatch for a period. You need the GST module on.
Before anything else, your GSTIN has to be on file. Without it the whole screen is replaced by a prompt to add it in business settings — a reply has to carry your GSTIN, and Finocket will not make one up.
Recording the notice
You type it in. The type of notice, the reference number printed on it, the date, the return period, and the amount demanded per head — IGST, CGST, SGST — exactly as the notice states them. Finocket fills none of this in for you; a field you cannot read, leave blank.
Which notices can it actually draft a reply to?
Two: DRC-01B (liability declared in GSTR-1 exceeding what was paid in GSTR-3B) and DRC-01C (input tax credit taken in GSTR-3B exceeding what was available in GSTR-2B). Both are arithmetic between two of your own returns, so the working can be rebuilt honestly.
For DRC-01A, a DRC-01 show-cause notice under section 73 or 74, and an ASMT-10 scrutiny notice, Finocket records the notice and shows the month's figures — and stops there. Those allegations are free-form and line-specific, and a considered reply belongs to you and your tax professional. It does not pretend to draft one.
Will it tell me my deadline?
No. Every notice in the register shows “Confirm the time limit on the portal”, and the reply form name carries the same caution. Finocket ships a small catalogue of notice types with the rule each one comes from, and no row in it has been signed off against the primary text yet — so no reply window is stated and none is calculated. A guessed statutory deadline on a reply to a tax authority is worse than no deadline, because you would act on it. The model that writes the explanation is not told a form name or a window either.
Can I put an amount in my own note?
No, and it says so rather than quietly deleting it:
Your note mentions an amount. Every figure in a reply has to come from a record you've attached, so please take the amount out of the note and attach the record it comes from instead.
Ordinary prose is fine — a period reference, a section number, an invoice number, an explanation in words. It is money-shaped figures that are refused, in any script or format. Whatever you do write is printed under a line saying it is the taxpayer's own note and is not derived from the attached records.
How do I know the draft is not making things up?
A figure cannot exist in the reply unless it points at a record in the evidence pack — the draft has nowhere to put a loose number. On top of that, the plain-language explanation is written by the assistant and then checked sentence by sentence against your own figures; anything that does not match is dropped, and the review sheet tells you how many sentences went. If nothing survives, you get the letter with no explanation paragraph and a line saying why — the working underneath is complete without it. The same happens when the assistant is switched off, the daily allowance is used up, or the provider is unreachable. There is never substitute prose.
What does the reply actually claim?
Figures and differences, and nothing else. It takes no position on the law, computes no interest or penalty, and claims no outcome. Where your books do not fully explain the department's figure, it says so — the reply is badged Partial — a difference remains with the unexplained amount stated, rather than rounded away. Three things are deliberately left as empty boxes for a human to fill: whether the amount is accepted or contested, whether anything is being paid and how, and who is signing.
If the portal's reply box is smaller than the text, Finocket tells you by how many characters and leaves the text whole — it will not cut your reply for you.
Does it file anything?
No. There is no connection to the GST portal in this feature at all. You copy the text into the portal yourself, or send the working to your CA. Approving a draft marks it approved in Finocket and unlocks the copy and the PDF; withdrawing an approval marks it withdrawn — and says plainly that it cannot take back a copy you have already sent.
Who can use it?
Anyone with the GST module on can record a notice and build the working. The written explanation additionally needs the assistant module; without it you still get the letter. Approving a draft is subject to your workspace's assistant-actions setting — if that is off or above your ceiling, the Approve button is replaced by the reason, and you can still copy the text and download the working, none of which is AI-generated.
Related: GSTR-2B purchase reconciliation, DRC & multiple GSTINs.