Khata is free. Forever.
One business plan, and everything is in it — billing, khata, inventory, staff and reports — at no charge, for as long as you use it. No trial, no card, nothing locked.
Two ways to use Khata
Mobile app
Free
Android and iOS. Everything included, permanently.
- GST and VAT billing
- Khata and customer dues
- Inventory and barcode scanning
- Staff logins with permissions
- Every business report
- Works offline, syncs later
Web dashboard
On request
For larger businesses that need to work on a computer.
- Everything in the mobile app
- Full browser and desktop access
- Spreadsheet grids for bulk edits
- Branches, for more than one location
- Requested directly from our team
- Approved case by case
Dashboard access is never a condition of using the app, and the app is complete without it.
There is no checkout to charge you through
This is not a promise we are asking you to trust. The app and this website have no payment screen at all — nowhere to enter a card, nothing to subscribe to, no upgrade button hidden in a menu.
If anything ever asks you for payment details in Khata's name, it did not come from us.
Everything in both, side by side
52 capabilities across 10 modules. A tick means a screen exists that you can open — not a setting, not something planned. 11 of them are on the dashboard only, and 4 are on the phone only, because the dashboard is not a superset of the app.
Billing & orders
7 capabilities · 4 screensGetting a bill into a customer's hand, and making sure the record behind it is right.
Raise and print a bill
Pick items, take the payment, print or share. The same order record on either surface.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: includedComplete a sale with no connection
The phone finishes the sale and tells the server afterwards. A browser cannot do this, which is why the counter belongs on the app.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: not on this surfaceBarcode scanning with the camera
The phone's camera is the scanner, so there is no second device to buy or charge.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: not on this surfacePrint to a Bluetooth thermal printer
Pairs directly with the counter printer. The dashboard prints the way any web page does.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: not on this surfaceKitchen tickets (KOT) and table orders
Send a ticket to the kitchen and attach an order to a table or a delivery channel. Restaurant work happens at the counter, so it lives in the app.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: not on this surfacePoint-of-sale screen on a computer
A keyboard-first till for a shop that runs a laptop at the counter rather than a phone.
Free appFree app: not on this surfaceDashboardDashboard: includedEdit many orders at once
The orders grid opens as a spreadsheet — correct a run of bills and save once instead of tapping through them.
Free appFree app: not on this surfaceDashboardDashboard: included
Khata, customers & parties
6 capabilities · 4 screensWho owes what, how long it has been owed, and the terms you have agreed with them.
A running balance per customer
One number per person, carried forward — not a folder of their bills you have to add up.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: includedParty ledger for wholesale accounts
Separate debit and credit entries for trade accounts, netted per party.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: includedCredit limit and credit period
Set what a party may owe and for how long, so the decision is made before you are standing in front of them.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: includedPayment reminders over WhatsApp
Compose a reminder against a real balance and send it to the number on file. You send it — nothing goes out automatically.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: includedAgeing, oldest first
Sort what you are owed by how long it has been outstanding rather than by size. Age is the half of the information a paper bahi never showed.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: includedBulk edit customers and parties
Clean up a list of two hundred contacts in one sitting, in a grid, rather than one record at a time.
Free appFree app: not on this surfaceDashboardDashboard: included
Inventory & purchasing
7 capabilities · 5 screensWhat is on the shelf, what it cost you, and what is on its way.
Stock levels and movements
Every sale, purchase and adjustment moves the count, and the movement is recorded rather than just the new total.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: includedCost price and margin per item
Purchase price and average cost are held per product, so profit is per line rather than a guess at the end of the month.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: includedLow-stock threshold per product
Set the level at which an item should be reordered and see what has fallen below it. You check the list — it does not message you.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: includedPurchase orders, including part deliveries
Raise an order, approve it, and receive it in pieces. Each item tracks how much has actually arrived.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: includedMenu and portions
Plate, half and full units for a kitchen, priced separately from the base product.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: includedBulk price and stock updates
A supplier raises prices and forty products change in one sitting. This is the single most common reason a shop asks for the dashboard.
Free appFree app: not on this surfaceDashboardDashboard: includedImport products from a spreadsheet
Paste a product list into the grid, fix what it flags, and save once — instead of typing for three evenings.
Free appFree app: not on this surfaceDashboardDashboard: included
Accounting, cash book & expenses
7 capabilities · 6 screensWhere the money actually went, which is a different question from what you sold.
Accounting journal
A credit and debit ledger with a status on each entry. Orders and expenses are mirrored into it, and manual entries sit alongside them for money that moved with no bill behind it.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: includedCash accounts and wallets
More than one place money sits — the drawer, a bank account, a UPI wallet — each with its own running balance.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: includedExpenses recorded as money leaves
Entered at the moment of payment against a category and an account, rather than reconstructed at month end.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: includedBusiness and personal kept apart
A flag on each cash movement, because in most shops it is genuinely one pocket and the separation has to be made deliberately.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: includedDaily closing reconciliation
Compare what the drawer holds against what the system says, at the end of the day, while you can still remember the customer.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: includedProfit and loss
Revenue, cost of what you sold, expenses and what is left — over any range of dates you pick.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: includedCash book and journal as editable grids
Work down a month of entries with a keyboard, correcting as you go, instead of opening each one.
Free appFree app: not on this surfaceDashboardDashboard: included
Staff, roles, attendance & payroll
7 capabilities · 7 screensPeople who can bill without seeing your margins, and a record of who did what.
A login per person
Staff sign in as themselves, so an entry carries a name. No shared password on a sticky note.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: includedPermissions per module and action
Not one 'staff' switch — separate view and manage rights across each part of the product.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: includedCost and profit hidden from cashiers
A cashier can sell an item without being able to see what you paid for it, on every screen including the reports.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: includedAttendance
Marked per person per day, and readable as a month rather than a stack of notes.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: includedSalary and payroll records
What each person is owed and what has been paid, kept with the attendance it is calculated against.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: includedDisable an account the day someone leaves
Access ends immediately and their past entries stay attributed to them, which is the combination you need.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: includedRole templates, edited side by side
Build and compare roles on one screen instead of toggling permissions one at a time on a phone.
Free appFree app: not on this surfaceDashboardDashboard: included
Branches
3 capabilities · 1 screensMore than one location under one business, with records that know which one they belong to.
Create and manage branches
Add a location, name a main branch, activate or retire one. There is no branches screen in the mobile app.
Free appFree app: not on this surfaceDashboardDashboard: includedBranch-tagged products, parties and purchase orders
Records carry the branch they belong to, and a staff member's own branch is resolved from their login rather than trusted from the request.
Free appFree app: not on this surfaceDashboardDashboard: includedStaff assigned to a branch
A person belongs to a location, which is what makes branch-scoped access mean anything.
Free appFree app: not on this surfaceDashboardDashboard: included
Reports
6 capabilities · 17 screensSeventeen report screens on the dashboard, fifteen in the app. Named, because a number is easy to say and hard to check.
Sales summary and day book
A day, a week or a month as one figure, and the same period line by line when you need to find something.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: includedProduct and category sales
What sold and what it earned, ranked — which is a different list from what sold most.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: includedCredit, payments and customer reports
Who owes, who paid, and how the two moved over the period.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: includedDiscounts and cancelled bills
Two reports worth reading together, because both are places money leaves without a sale being recorded.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: includedInventory, expenses and salary reports
Stock on hand, money out, and what the team cost you.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: includedA saved report you can return to
Reports open at their own address, so a view you built is a link rather than a set of filters you rebuild each time.
Free appFree app: not on this surfaceDashboardDashboard: included
Leads & integrations
4 capabilities · 5 screensEnquiries arriving from outside the shop, and the two external systems that feed them in.
IndiaMART lead sync
Enquiries pulled in automatically every half hour, with a daily summary and a weekly deep recovery pass for anything missed.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: includedMeta (Facebook and Instagram) lead forms
Lead-form submissions arrive against your page without anyone exporting a CSV.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: includedFollow-up reminders on a lead
Set a date on a lead and be told when it is due. This is the one thing in Khata that genuinely reminds you without being asked.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: includedCustom lead fields
Add the fields your trade actually captures rather than working around a fixed form.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: included
Chat & tasks
3 capabilities · 2 screensA messenger inside the business, where a task is a message somebody is accountable for.
One-to-one and group chat with staff
Delivered in real time over a websocket, between the owner and the people on the counter.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: includedTasks created inside a conversation
Assign it to a person, give it a status, and keep the history when it is done — so the instruction and the accountability are the same object.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: includedFile, image, PDF and spreadsheet attachments
Send the thing you are talking about, not a description of it.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: included
Business assistant
2 capabilities · 2 screensQuestions about your own numbers, answered against your own data.
Ask questions about your business
Put a question in your own words and get an answer computed from your records rather than a general one.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: includedBring your own API key
The assistant runs on a key you add and can switch off, which is also why it costs nothing to include.
Free appFree app: includedDashboardDashboard: included
What the dashboard is actually for
Every job below has the same shape: many rows, one decision. That is what a phone is worst at, and it is the honest reason to ask for a browser — not that the dashboard is the “real” version.
Correcting many rows at once
A supplier raises prices and forty products need updating in one sitting. Eleven screens open as editable grids: orders, customers, parties, inventory, menu, expenses, staff, salary, leads, cash book and wallet.
More than one location
Branches exist only here. Create a location, name a main branch, assign staff to it, and let products, parties and purchase orders carry the branch they belong to.
Importing what you already have
Paste a product list into the grid, fix what it flags, save once. A dirty import is worse than no import, and this is where you can see it before it lands.
Reading a year at a time
Seventeen report screens on a display wide enough to see the shape of a year rather than a month at a time through a phone.
And when not to ask for it
If you have never wanted to change fifty things at once, the dashboard will not improve your day. The app is complete on its own, nothing is held back from it to sell the dashboard, and a shop that sells, collects and counts on a phone is not missing anything by staying there.
What Khata does not do, on either
These are the reasons some shops should choose something else, and they are worth knowing before you move your books rather than after. Requesting the dashboard does not change any of them.
- E-invoicing and IRN generation
- Nothing in Khata produces one. If your turnover puts you in that bracket, this is a hard stop rather than an inconvenience.
- Batch numbers and expiry dates
- The product record has neither field, which is why there is no pharmacy page on this site and why food distribution is a poor fit.
- Size and colour variants
- There is no variant matrix. The same shirt in three sizes is three products.
- A tax calendar outside India and Nepal
- Filing reminders exist for those two countries only. Everywhere else the screen opens empty, and Khata does not know your local rates.
- Automatic payment reminders
- Reminders are composed against a real balance and sent by you over WhatsApp. Nothing chases a customer on a schedule without you.
- Marketing campaigns
- The dashboard has a marketing section and it is a placeholder for work that has not been built. It is listed here rather than above so that nobody requests the dashboard for it.
“What's the catch?”
Is the app really free, or is it a trial?
Free, and not a trial. There is no checkout anywhere in the mobile app, no tier that unlocks for a fee, and no expiry date on anything. Nothing you set up today stops working in thirty days.
What is the catch?
There is no upsell inside the app. Khata is built by Lacspace, which runs other products commercially, and a shop choosing between a paper register and software should not be choosing on price. What we get is shops using it and telling us what to fix.
How much does the web dashboard cost?
No price is published because nothing is sold through this site. The dashboard is for larger businesses that need a computer as well as a phone, and it is arranged directly with the team — tell us your shop size and what you want a computer for, and we will tell you where you stand.
Do I need a card to start?
No. Install the app and enter your shop details — that is the whole sign-up. We never ask for a card, because there is nothing in the app to charge one for.
What happens to my data if I stop using Khata?
It stays yours. Every report exports to CSV before you go, and you can delete your account and everything in it from inside the app without asking us. There is no exit fee and no hold on your own records.
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