Anek Bhasha, One Tally

The objective here is simple – bridging the language gap is essentially solving one of the oldest and most common business challenges in India. The world’s first concurrent multilingual business accounting and inventory management software Support for Uni-directional scripts which are either Discrete or Combinatorial type.

The World’s First Concurrent Multi-lingual Business Accounting & Inventory Software
Imagine this. Your accountant maintains your accounts in Hindi, you view the reports in Marathi, then you send invoices to your customers in Baroda in Gujarati, issue purchase orders to your suppliers in Kolkata in Bengali and Chennai in Tamil, generate delivery challans to your transporters in Kannada, Telugu, Punjabi… all this, at the press of a few buttons!

Thanks to Tally 8.1, the latest offering from Tally (India), all this is now a possibility.
Tally 8.1 offers concurrent multilingual capabilities. You will be able to transact business across the length and breadth of India, and language will no longer be a barrier. You can maintain accounts in any Indian language, view it in another, and print it in yet another language of your choice... all at the same time.

 

First of its kind

Tally 8.1, the breakthrough business accounting and inventory management software from Tally Solutions, is the successor to the VAT compliant and highly successful
Tally 7.2.

This leading-edge software solution supports the concurrent use of all Indian languages, on the data stored in the software. In fact, it is the world’s first business application to support concurrent or simultaneous use of all Indian languages.
Localization through Multi-Linguality

Multi-linguality is the need of the hour in today’s dynamic global marketplace.
Localized software is no longer a luxury, but an absolute necessity.

The availability of multi-lingual information - whether marketing, technical or legal - is an indicator of a company's commitment to an international and culturally diversified audience. The transmission of clear, up-to-date messages in the user’s native language is a key contributor to business success, and therefore, a decisive factor in the purchase of software.

A closer look at the impact of localization on IT firms reveals just that. Thorough localization by itself is a winning differentiator, especially in highly competitive marketplaces characterized by high levels of intangibility, in terms of finished products or services.

For instance, in India, though the recognized number of languages and dialects runs into thousands, there is one common bridge (a purely commercial one) between a language and its social acceptability: employment & business operations.
English or Hinglish: What is the buzzword?

While people are steadily gravitating towards English as the official business language even in remote parts of the country, most Indians do not easily relent on using their vernacular mother-tongue, given an opportunity to do so.

Traditionally, several software application sectors have leveraged this linkage to their advantage. Such as the publishing industry, multimedia and learning & education applications, to name a few. Fundamental business automation, it is widely believed, is another area that is waiting to grow in leaps and bounds - backed by the power of multilingual applications.

Tally Solutions is looking to catalyse this belief into reality, attempting to assimilate more of this capability into products than any other player in the world.

The aim is to develop the ability to accept, store and display information (data as well as software menu or prompts) in multiple languages, and secondly, to allow effortless transliteration within a family of languages. And the net result? The user can interact with the software in any language of choice; enter and access data in another language, as well as instantly generate outputs of the same data using different scripts in other languages.

At present, India uses 11 uni-directional scripts (left to right and top to bottom) and Tally 8.1 supports all of them. Upon installation of Tally 8.1, a user can maintain accounts in Hindi and send invoices to customers in Baroda, in Gujarati. He can also issue purchase orders to suppliers in Kolkata in Bengali and to Chennai in Tamil; and generate delivery challans to transporters in Kannada, Telugu or Punjabi.

The usage flexibility resulting from this intrinsic concurrency is endless. And it is this seamless concurrency of multiple language support that is the biggest technological achievement and Tally 8.1’s unique claim to fame.

Coming Up Next


In the course of the next few months, Tally Solutions will strive to extend this unparalleled advantage to users across the world. By having successfully implemented the technological backend to be able to support different kinds of scripts – the language support extent is expected to grow in multiples. And the primary beneficiaries will be users in the corporation’s immediate market expansion radar --- Middle East, North Africa and the Asia Pacific.

The other aspect of multilingual capabilities that is often glossed over in the haste to arrive at the end result is the input device requirement. Tally 8.1 is able to support the normal English keyboard and its parallel use as a phonetic entry keyboard for Indian languages. This ensures a far higher level of intuitiveness and subsequently an easier learning process for entering information in regional languages.

For instance, a compound-letter like ‘Kri’ in Hindi which normally uses a combination-alphabet (Samyuktakshar) may have to be typed in as {K}{*}{R}{I}. Here the {*} stands for the half-consonant sign or the ‘hal’. However, in a transliterated phonetic keyboard input, it can actually be input as {K}{R}{I} and understood as the combination letter ‘Kri’.

While many have attempted to address the challenge of bridging a country as diverse like India through a single solution, Tally Solutions is aiming to ensure that its new mantra of “Anek bhasha, ek Tally” is resoundingly true for times to come.

Business Benefits: Tally 8.1

Tally 8.1 empowers business owners to manage business smoothly. Designed keeping in mind the needs of the Indian businessman, it has several key additions in terms of functionalities.

The multilingual capacity of Tally 8.1 gives the businessman tremendous freedom of communication – you can maintain accounts in any Indian language, view it in another and print it in yet another language of your choice... all at the same time!
You can send separate documents to suppliers, business associates, customers etc., in their language, while maintaining accounts in your language. In effect, you can conveniently transact business across the length and breadth of India, and language will no longer be a barrier.

Freedom from dependence on accounting professionals is yet another clear benefit that Tally 8.1 enables… right from day one! You can let your accountant enter information in any Indian language that he is comfortable with and you can review it in your preferred language –at just the click of a button.

Backed by the heritage of incredible simplicity, Tally 8.1 takes one more significant step towards ensuring that concrete business advantages are realised from accounting on computers.

The advanced technology empowering Tally 8.1 allows you to:


Enter input data in the language of your choice
Capture language-specific aliases for all masters
Print reports, vouchers, invoices in any language, based on the    information
   input in a language-specific alias through transliteration
Enter data through normal as well as phonetic keyboards
Interact with the menu options in a vernacular language, by choosing
   from the list of built-in interface languages

Value Added Features: Tally 8.1


Besides the unique multilingual capacity, Tally 8.1 comes with a host of beneficial features, such as:

VAT Composition Returns

VAT Composition Returns For All States Monthly / Quarterly Returns Annual Returns

Excise For Traders

Generates Excise Invoices Links Purchase Invoices To Sales Invoices Generates VAT Composition Returns Passes On Cenvat Credit Generates And Files Quarterly Returns Maintains Excise Stock Registers

Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT)

Accounts for FBT Computes FBT Payable Generates Challans (Quarterly) Files FBT Returns (Yearly)

Payroll with Tally 8.1


Tally facilitates easy payroll management too, with a range of
user-friendly features.

Captures employee information - employee name, father’s name,
   gender, date of joining, department, designation, etc.
Calculation of salaries (Multiple methods)
Auto-generation of pay slips including multiple pay slip printing
Leave management (Availed report)
Loan/Advance management
Calculation of PF
Supports expat employee processing
Captures additional information such as passport and visa details,
   contract period, etc.
Generates expiry reports
Generates gratuity reports
Facilitates arrears management (Retrospective calculation of salary)

Tally 8.1: Use It To Your Advantage

Reduce Costs and Increase Productivity with Tally 8.1

Controlling Costs

Salient Features Benefits Receivables and payables management Ensures on-time collections resulting in better cash flow and savings on interest. Also generates reminder letters.     Payment performance of debtors Identifies bad debtors and persistent defaulters thereby helping you to manage future dealings with them.     Inventory management reports Ensures that you never hold excess stock or run out of a fast moving item and lose an order     Profitability analysis Provides product-wise and invoice-wise profitability. This helps you identify products with high/low margins.     Stock ageing Identifies stocks based on age, helping you to dispose off old stock quickly.   Enhancing Productivity Salient Features Benefits Unlimited levels of classification Facilitates ledger classification and re-classifications as required. Enables easy viewing of detailed MIS reports.     Customised quotations, Orders, Invoice, Voucher and Cheque printing The integrated system ensures real-time linking of accounts and inventory, resulting in accurate tracking of information. Blazing speed ensures quick data entry and retrieval of information.     Flexible units of measure This helps in tracking stock, even when you buy in tons and sell in kilograms, or buy in crates and sell as pieces.     Multi-location warehouse management This helps you track stock movement, allowing you to decide which warehouse to ship from depending on stock position.     Multiple price levels Allows you to pre-define item rates for specific categories of customers, enabling faster and error-free invoicing and data entry.     Drill down facility This helps you to drill down or instantly update from any report, starting from the balance sheet down to vouchers, or vice versa.