When you add a customer or supplier, you can type their GSTIN and let Finocket fetch the rest. The name and address come from the GST portal itself, so you are not copying them off a bill and hoping it was right.
How it works
- Type the 15-character GSTIN into the client form.
- As soon as it is a valid number, their PAN and state fill in on their own. Those come from the GSTIN itself, so they are instant and cost nothing.
- Tap Fetch details to pull the legal name, trade name and registered address from the GST portal.
What it will not fill
The GST portal does not hold a phone number, an email address or a UPI ID. Those still need typing, and Finocket says so rather than leaving you waiting for contact details that are never coming.
It never overwrites what you typed
Autofill fills empty fields only. If you have already written a name or corrected an address, it is left exactly as you wrote it — your version of a customer’s name is often the one you actually recognise.
The warnings are the valuable part
Two of them are worth more than the autofill:
- Cancelled registration. If a supplier’s GST registration has been cancelled, claiming input tax credit against their invoices can be reversed later with interest. Nothing you can check offline will tell you this.
- Composition scheme. A composition taxpayer cannot pass on input tax credit at all, so an invoice from them does not give you any.
If it cannot check
Finocket keeps two answers apart on purpose. “This GSTIN is not on the GST portal” means the number is well-formed but nobody is registered under it — usually a typo. “We could not reach the GST portal” means we do not know, and you should try again later. Either way you can save the client and carry on.
A GSTIN is always optional. Plenty of customers are not registered, and that is normal.
Related: GST reports and returns.