Docs by Ira turns documents into vouchers. AI Accountant automates the accounting workflow around TallyPrime.
Docs by Ira is Tally Solutions' document-to-voucher tool for TallyPrime. It reads invoices and other business documents, creates draft vouchers, and your accountant reviews and approves each one. Everything after the draft stays with your team.
AI Accountant goes beyond documents. It automates the accounting workflow around TallyPrime: it decides how each bill is booked, catches what's wrong, handles banking, GST, receivables, and payables, and keeps the founder informed.
Based on hands-on testing of both products in August 2026. Product behaviour can vary based on document quality, company masters, configuration, and other factors.
TallyPrime or TallyIra app
Up to 10 files in supported bulk workflows
One transaction
Not supported
English only
Extracts invoice information
Uses master mapping and matching
Uses configured masters and mappings
Mapping rules can be configured
Tally documents duplicate identification; behaviour in our test differed
Can suggest or create masters in supported workflows
Not the focus
Not the focus
Not the focus
Not the focus
Not the primary workflow
Yes
AI Accountant or WhatsApp
100+ bills in one bulk upload
Supports bulk bill processing
Supported
English and Hindi; other languages may work at lower accuracy
Extracts invoice details and cleans extracted text against Tally masters before matching
Matches against your Tally masters and learns from your team's corrections
Learns from your Tally history and how your team books transactions
Learns from your team's corrections
Flags duplicate bills based on vendor and invoice details
Flags differences in GSTIN, address, or vendor name against your masters
Bank statements converted into bank entries
Purchase entries reconciled against GSTR-2B
Tracks outstanding invoices, ageing, and linked payments
Dashboards for receivables, payables, DSO, DPO, and other accounting metrics
Send bills and ask questions about your Tally books
Yes
Docs by Ira needs mapping rules. AI Accountant learns from your Tally history and your accountant's corrections, and matches vendors by GSTIN, PAN, or name.
See it learn from your booksDocs by Ira doesn't support handwritten bills. AI Accountant reads them with 95% accuracy, in English or Hindi, including details on stamps.
Try it on a handwritten billDocs by Ira takes 10 files per upload. With AI Accountant, upload 100+ bills at once and get up to 100 read and booked in under five minutes, handwritten bills included.
Upload last month's billsA bill emailed by the vendor and forwarded on WhatsApp is still one bill. AI Accountant matches the vendor and invoice number and flags the copy, so the liability isn't booked twice.
Try it on your own billsYour accountant checks the entry against the original without switching tabs. The bill stays attached, so it's there when your auditor asks.
Try the review screenForward a bill and it reaches your accountant with the details filled in. Ask for cash, receivables, or sales, and get the answer from your Tally books. Free, with no per-page charge.
Try the WhatsApp bot“We have found the purchase bill entry feature extremely useful. We are saving a lot of time with that. The tool has got a very good interface, and it actually helps us to connect to Tally somewhat remotely as well.”
AI Accountant continues into the accounting workflows around those entries.
Process purchase bills from upload through posting, including handwritten bills, discounts, freight, round-off, and TCS.
Payments are linked to the bills they settle.
View feature →Reconcile purchase entries against GSTR-2B and see mismatches and pending items before filing.
View feature →Record sales invoices, import sales from Excel, and track who owes you and for how long.
View feature →Differences in vendor name, GSTIN, or address are flagged as bills come in, helping your team keep its masters clean.
View feature →Track receivables and payables outstanding, ageing, days to collect (DSO), and days to pay (DPO).
Every number can be traced back to the bills and invoices behind it.
View feature →Docs by Ira is an AI document processing tool from Tally Solutions and the first tool in its TallyIra range. It reads documents uploaded through supported TallyPrime or TallyIra workflows and creates draft vouchers in TallyPrime for an accountant to review and approve.
It requires TallyPrime Release 7.1 or later with an active TSS subscription.
Docs by Ira turns business documents into draft TallyPrime vouchers. AI Accountant automates the wider accounting workflow around TallyPrime.
AI Accountant includes bill processing as well as banking, GST reconciliation, receivables, payables, dashboards, MIS, and WhatsApp access to accounting information.
AI Accountant is a Tally IRA alternative for businesses that want to automate more than document-to-voucher processing.
It reads handwritten and Hindi bills, books entries based on how your team has historically booked transactions, supports WhatsApp bill submission, and automates banking, GST reconciliation, receivables, payables, and MIS around TallyPrime.
No. Tally states that handwritten documents are not supported by Docs by Ira.
AI Accountant supports handwritten bills, including Hindi bills.
Tally lists duplicate identification as a Docs by Ira feature. In our August 2026 testing, however, Docs by Ira did not flag the duplicate invoice we submitted.
AI Accountant flags bills that match existing transactions based on vendor and invoice details.
Yes. AI Accountant uses your accounting history and your team's corrections to improve how subsequent bills are booked.
Yes. Photograph or forward a bill to the AI Accountant WhatsApp bot. It reads the details and sends the bill into your accounting workflow for review.
You can also ask questions about your Tally books through WhatsApp.
The AI Accountant WhatsApp bot currently has no separate per-message or per-page charge.
It supports one WhatsApp user per company today. Support for additional users is planned.
AI Accountant works on TallyPrime 6.0 and later.
Docs by Ira requires TallyPrime Release 7.1 or later with an active TSS subscription.
No. AI Accountant works with TallyPrime and automates accounting workflows around your existing TallyPrime books.
Yes. AI Accountant reconciles purchase entries against GSTR-2B and helps your team identify mismatches and pending items before filing.
Yes. AI Accountant can process PDF bank statements into bank entries in TallyPrime, ready for reconciliation.
Yes. AI Accountant tracks outstanding receivables and payables, ageing, linked payments, DSO, and DPO.
AI Accountant can process up to 100 bills in under five minutes, including handwritten bills. This includes reading the bills and matching them against your Tally masters.
Yes. The original bill remains attached to the accounting entry after posting, allowing your team to review the source document later.