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Khataby Lacspace

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.

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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
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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
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Dashboard access is never a condition of using the app, and the app is complete without it.

Khata never asks for a payment card

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 screens

Getting 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: included
    DashboardDashboard: included
  • Complete 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: included
    DashboardDashboard: not on this surface
  • Barcode scanning with the camera

    The phone's camera is the scanner, so there is no second device to buy or charge.

    Free appFree app: included
    DashboardDashboard: not on this surface
  • Print to a Bluetooth thermal printer

    Pairs directly with the counter printer. The dashboard prints the way any web page does.

    Free appFree app: included
    DashboardDashboard: not on this surface
  • Kitchen 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: included
    DashboardDashboard: not on this surface
  • Point-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 surface
    DashboardDashboard: included
  • Edit 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 surface
    DashboardDashboard: included

Khata, customers & parties

6 capabilities · 4 screens

Who 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: included
    DashboardDashboard: included
  • Party ledger for wholesale accounts

    Separate debit and credit entries for trade accounts, netted per party.

    Free appFree app: included
    DashboardDashboard: included
  • Credit 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: included
    DashboardDashboard: included
  • Payment 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: included
    DashboardDashboard: included
  • Ageing, 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: included
    DashboardDashboard: included
  • Bulk 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 surface
    DashboardDashboard: included

Inventory & purchasing

7 capabilities · 5 screens

What 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: included
    DashboardDashboard: included
  • Cost 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: included
    DashboardDashboard: included
  • Low-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: included
    DashboardDashboard: included
  • Purchase 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: included
    DashboardDashboard: included
  • Menu and portions

    Plate, half and full units for a kitchen, priced separately from the base product.

    Free appFree app: included
    DashboardDashboard: included
  • Bulk 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 surface
    DashboardDashboard: included
  • Import 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 surface
    DashboardDashboard: included

Accounting, cash book & expenses

7 capabilities · 6 screens

Where 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: included
    DashboardDashboard: included
  • Cash 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: included
    DashboardDashboard: included
  • Expenses 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: included
    DashboardDashboard: included
  • Business 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: included
    DashboardDashboard: included
  • Daily 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: included
    DashboardDashboard: included
  • Profit and loss

    Revenue, cost of what you sold, expenses and what is left — over any range of dates you pick.

    Free appFree app: included
    DashboardDashboard: included
  • Cash 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 surface
    DashboardDashboard: included

Staff, roles, attendance & payroll

7 capabilities · 7 screens

People 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: included
    DashboardDashboard: included
  • Permissions per module and action

    Not one 'staff' switch — separate view and manage rights across each part of the product.

    Free appFree app: included
    DashboardDashboard: included
  • Cost 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: included
    DashboardDashboard: included
  • Attendance

    Marked per person per day, and readable as a month rather than a stack of notes.

    Free appFree app: included
    DashboardDashboard: included
  • Salary and payroll records

    What each person is owed and what has been paid, kept with the attendance it is calculated against.

    Free appFree app: included
    DashboardDashboard: included
  • Disable 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: included
    DashboardDashboard: included
  • Role 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 surface
    DashboardDashboard: included

Branches

3 capabilities · 1 screens

More 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 surface
    DashboardDashboard: included
  • Branch-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 surface
    DashboardDashboard: included
  • Staff 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 surface
    DashboardDashboard: included

Reports

6 capabilities · 17 screens

Seventeen 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: included
    DashboardDashboard: included
  • Product and category sales

    What sold and what it earned, ranked — which is a different list from what sold most.

    Free appFree app: included
    DashboardDashboard: included
  • Credit, payments and customer reports

    Who owes, who paid, and how the two moved over the period.

    Free appFree app: included
    DashboardDashboard: included
  • Discounts and cancelled bills

    Two reports worth reading together, because both are places money leaves without a sale being recorded.

    Free appFree app: included
    DashboardDashboard: included
  • Inventory, expenses and salary reports

    Stock on hand, money out, and what the team cost you.

    Free appFree app: included
    DashboardDashboard: included
  • A 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 surface
    DashboardDashboard: included

Leads & integrations

4 capabilities · 5 screens

Enquiries 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: included
    DashboardDashboard: included
  • Meta (Facebook and Instagram) lead forms

    Lead-form submissions arrive against your page without anyone exporting a CSV.

    Free appFree app: included
    DashboardDashboard: included
  • Follow-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: included
    DashboardDashboard: included
  • Custom lead fields

    Add the fields your trade actually captures rather than working around a fixed form.

    Free appFree app: included
    DashboardDashboard: included

Chat & tasks

3 capabilities · 2 screens

A 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: included
    DashboardDashboard: included
  • Tasks 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: included
    DashboardDashboard: included
  • File, image, PDF and spreadsheet attachments

    Send the thing you are talking about, not a description of it.

    Free appFree app: included
    DashboardDashboard: included

Business assistant

2 capabilities · 2 screens

Questions 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: included
    DashboardDashboard: included
  • Bring 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: included
    DashboardDashboard: 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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