Accounting built for Indian trusts & Section 8 companies
Every September, the same scramble: one ledger holding corpus, FCRA and project money together, and a fortnight spent pulling it apart for the auditor. Sevastack is NGO accounting software that tracks money by fund from the start, builds the statutory statements as you go, and imports your existing Tally data.
- True fund accounting
- R&P · I&E · Balance Sheet
- Tally in and out
- Read-only CA portal
Financial year 2026-27
Balance Sheet · fund-wise
Funds & liabilities
- Corpus fund
- ₹42,00,000
- Restricted grants
- ₹18,60,000
- FCRA fund
- ₹7,25,000
- Unrestricted
- ₹9,84,000
Assets
- Fixed assets (net)
- ₹31,10,000
- Investments
- ₹28,00,000
- Bank & cash
- ₹17,90,000
- Receivables
- ₹69,000
Illustrative figures. Every line is built from vouchers your team already entered.
What makes NGO accounting different from business accounting?
Restricted money, statements in the format the Income Tax Department expects, and an auditor who needs to see all of it.
True fund accounting
Fund accounting tags every receipt as corpus, restricted or unrestricted and keeps project and FCRA money in its own view — the separation Indian NGO accounting standards require and generic tools pool away.
Auto Balance Sheet, R&P & I&E
Receipts & Payments, Income & Expenditure, the Balance Sheet, the trial balance and a cash flow statement build themselves from the vouchers your team entered through the year.
Form 10BD & 10BE from your ledger
One recorded donation becomes the 80G receipt, the ledger entry, the Form 10BD statement due 31 May, and the Form 10BE certificate due 15 June — with no PAN re-typed into a second file.
TDS register & bank reconciliation
A quarter-wise TDS register for staff and vendors, and bank reconciliation against your statement — the working papers your auditor asks for, kept current instead of reconstructed in September.
Year-end close that actually closes
Year-end close checks that assets and funds agree, then locks the financial year — and shows any difference and asks before carrying it to suspense, rather than plugging the gap silently.
Read-only CA portal
A read-only CA portal lets your auditor see every statement, voucher and compliance report and export sign-ready PDFs — without full platform access or a folder of spreadsheets.
What is fund accounting, and why does an auditor insist on it?
Because a corpus donation and an untied ₹2,000 gift are not the same money, and only one of them can pay next month's electricity bill.
Record a donation once. It becomes six things.
Every re-typed PAN is a mismatch waiting to be found in an audit.
Which financial statements does an Indian NGO have to produce?
Each is built from entries your team already made — nothing assembled by hand at midnight.
- Receipts & Payments Account (R&P)Cash-basis statement of all receipts and payments
- Income & Expenditure Account (I&E)Accrual-basis surplus / deficit for the year
- Balance SheetFund-wise assets and liabilities as at year-end
- Trial balance & general ledgerAccount-wise balances, drillable to each voucher
- Cash flow statementOperating, investing and financing movement
- Comparative statementsThis year against last, the way an auditor reads them
- Fixed Asset RegisterSLM / WDV depreciation, auto-linked to Balance Sheet
- TDS RegisterQuarter-wise TDS on salaries and vendor payments
- Bank Reconciliation StatementAuto-matched against bank transactions
- Form 10BD statementDonation statement export for the IT portal
- FCRA fund utilizationForeign contribution tracked in a separate designated fund
Moving off Tally without leaving your CA behind
Upload your Tally export, let AI map your old ledger names onto a standard NGO chart of accounts, and approve each one before it is committed.
Why do NGOs outgrow Tally and Excel?
Both were built for businesses selling things. A trust answerable to donors, an auditor, and the Income Tax Department needs something else.
Accounting for every non-profit entity
A trust deed, a society registration, and a Section 8 incorporation each carry different obligations. The fund structure and statements adapt to yours.
NGO accounting software — FAQs
What is the best accounting software for NGOs in India?
Sevastack is NGO accounting software built specifically for Indian non-profits. Unlike generic tools, it does true fund accounting (corpus, restricted, unrestricted, project and FCRA money kept apart), auto-generates the Receipts & Payments Account, Income & Expenditure Account, Balance Sheet, trial balance and cash flow statement, and produces Form 10BD and 10BE — all from a single ledger, with a read-only CA portal for your auditor. Creating an account is free; the accounting module, financial statements, and CA portal are included from the Starter plan at ₹749 per month, and bank reconciliation from the Growth plan.
Is Sevastack a good Tally alternative for NGOs?
Yes, and you do not have to choose sides. Tally is business accounting software with no fund accounting, no 80G receipts, and no Form 10BD/10BE — you have to re-enter data elsewhere. Sevastack is purpose-built for Indian NGOs: it tracks money by fund, auto-generates the statutory statements auditors expect, and files compliance directly from your accounts. It also imports your existing Tally ledgers and exports Tally-importable XML, so a CA who works in Tally keeps working in Tally.
How do I move my NGO accounts from Tally or Excel to Sevastack?
Upload your Tally export and Sevastack parses it, then uses AI to map your existing ledger names onto a standard NGO chart of accounts — the part that otherwise takes an afternoon of guessing what "Sundry Exp A/c 2" was meant to be. You review every mapping before anything is committed. Donors and transactions can also be imported by CSV, with PAN validation and duplicate detection. Historical entries come across so your audit trail survives the move.
Can I export my accounts back to Tally for my CA?
Yes. Sevastack generates a Tally-importable XML file for any date range, and an Excel export alongside it. Your CA carries on in the software they already know, while your team works in something built for fund accounting and 80G — nobody has to be retrained to close the year.
What is fund accounting and why do NGOs need it?
Fund accounting tracks money separately by its purpose — corpus, restricted grants, FCRA (foreign) contributions, and project funds — instead of pooling everything into one ledger. Indian NGO accounting standards and auditors require it so that restricted and foreign funds are never mixed with general funds. Sevastack does this automatically, and a corpus donation is flagged as corpus at the moment it is recorded.
What financial statements does Sevastack generate for an NGO?
Sevastack auto-generates the full statutory set: Receipts & Payments Account (R&P), Income & Expenditure Account (I&E), Balance Sheet, trial balance and general ledger, cash flow statement, comparative statements against last year, Fixed Asset Register with depreciation, TDS Register, and Bank Reconciliation Statement. Each can be exported as a sign-ready PDF or Excel file, or emailed to your CA as a single bundle.
What happens at year-end close?
You enter opening balances, Sevastack checks that total assets agree with total funds, and you lock the financial year so nothing shifts under a signed audit. If there is a difference, it is shown to you with the amount and you confirm before it is carried to suspense — the opposite of a spreadsheet, which plugs the gap silently and tells nobody.
Can my chartered accountant access the accounts directly?
Yes. Every NGO gets a read-only CA portal. Your auditor logs in to view all financial statements, vouchers, TDS register, bank reconciliation, Form 10BD data, and FCRA reports, and can export sign-ready PDFs — without needing full platform access or exported spreadsheets.
Does Sevastack handle Section 8 company and trust accounting?
Yes. Sevastack supports all Indian non-profit entity types — charitable and religious trusts, registered societies, and Section 8 companies — with the fund accounting, statutory statements, and compliance filings each type requires.
No credit card required to start. Financial statements and the CA portal are included from theGrowth plan.
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