Frequently Asked Questions

To create a new company with e-commerce in BUSY Accounting software, follow these steps: 
Step 1: Select create compnany from company menu after opening BUSY 
Step 2: Mention company name and other necessary details 
Step 3: Then save company now create user name and password
Step 4: Now Go to Administration 
Step 5: Then Select Masters
Step 6: Click on Add to create a new e-commerce sale type
Step 7: Mention sale type master name then select region and taxation type
Step 8: Enable Sales through E-commerce Portal.
Step 9: Now mention portal name and save
Step 10: When posting sale choose the e commerce sale type 

Yes, you can transfer all the masters and configuration from one company to another in BUSY Accounting software. You can do this by copying the master, configuration from the existing company to the new company.
To create a new company with a master and configuration of an existing company in BUSY, follow these steps:
Step 1: Open the BUSY then click on company menu.
Step 2: Select create company then specify the company name, financial year, company address, Gst details.
Step 3: Now, select copy master and configuration then click on select company and choose existing company name.
Step 4: Now, click on save option.

When you create your company in BUSY can disable the GST/VAT feature, If you did not disable the GST/VAT feature at the time of creating your company, you can still disable it later by following these steps.( If no transactions recorded yet)
Please make sure to take latest backup of your data before make any changes.
Step 1: Go to Administration and click on configuration.
Step 2: Select Features / Options and click on GST / VAT, here you will see a option called "Enable GST/VAT Reportinguncheck the box and save the changes .
Please Note: Once passed transactions in BUSY can't disable GST/VAT.

If the software show error message of RTE 5 while adding a new company then follow below steps:
Step1: Make sure to disable firewall from control panel and exclude BUSY from antivirus if any
Step2: Make sure to pen BUSY as run as administration mode
Step3: If you are using SQL database then you have the option to restart services and verify by creating a company.
Step4: If you are using access database then remove all instance of BUSY from control panel and again reinstall fresh setup of BUSY with latest release and then you are going to check by creating a company

To copy master and configuration from the existing company follow below steps:
Step1: Open BUSY software then go to company menu
Step2: Then click on Create company option and after specify all details, go to Copy masters, configuration and users from existing company option shown in the last of the screen
Step3: Then Click on Copy master and configuration option and then click on select company shown in the right side of the screen
Step 4: Then select particular company and specify login user name and password 
Step5: Then click on save button and it start the process of copying master and configuration 

In BUSY, we can maintain Inventory as per our Specific Trade and can default set his configuration from below option.
Step 1: Click on Administration
Step 2: Then Configuration
Step 3: Then Features and Options
Step 4: Press CLT+ALT+SHIFT+T
Step 5: Select Trade Type for Default configuration
Step 6: Create Item Master & Enable that specific feature also.
Step 7: Then go to the Transactions
Step 8: Pass the voucher entry and mention the item details if required with batch wise, parameter,serial number etc.
Step 9: Display
Step 10: Can check Inventory Reports as per requirement.
Note : If you skip Default Configuration then enable Feature manually from Inventory Tab.

You can delete financialy year from the original company after splitting it in BUSY
 Please follow the given steps
 Step 1 Open BUSY software, do not open company
 Step 2 Click on split financial year
 Step 3 Select company in which you want to split financia year
 Step 4 Select here which financial year you want to delete
 Step 5 Tick the option AFTER SPLITTING DELETE THE ABOVE FY FROM THE SOURCE COMPANY
 Step 6 Click on ok and do split, after split it will crate new company of that financial year and will delete from source company

You can change the company name and the GST number in BUSY by following these steps:
 Step 1: Open your company and click on Edit Company under the Company menu.
 Step 2: Update the company name and save changes.
 Step 3: To update the GST number go to Administration menu.
 Step 4: Select Configuration and click on Features / Options.
 Step 5: Click on GST/VAT and can update the GST Number in GSTIN field.
 Furthermore we recommend to create a new company if the GST number is changed.
 Note: Take backup of your data before making any changes.

If you want to move from a regular GST plan to a composition plan then 
 please follow the given steps 
 Step 1: Go to administration then configuration 
 Step 2: Then feature option then GST VAT 
 Step 3: Then select the field type of dealer then select Composition here and then save. 
 Step 4: Now your GST plan has changed into composition. 
 If you encounter the any issue, you can contact us through our centralized helpline at 8282828282 
 or 11 4096 4096, or you can email us at support@busy.in.

Find out the steps to enter your Business address in BUSY
Step 1 : First open the company in BUSY
Step 2 : Then go to edit company option 
Step 3 : Then mention your Business address and save 
And find out the steps to mention gstin details in BUSY 
Step1 : First open the company in BUSY 
Step 2 : Then go to administration 
Step 3 : Then go to configuration 
Step 4 : Then go to features and option
Step 5 : Then select Gst/ VAT option 
Step 6 : Then mention gst no and gst portal username