Ankeshan: 7 Modules That Turn Excel Into a Mini-ERP
Ankeshan is a Windows add-in that turns the Excel you already run into a complete, offline mini-ERP for your business. Instead of buying seven different cloud tools — accounting, GST, invoicing, stock, payroll, collections, compliance — you get all seven as modules inside Excel, working off the same data, on your own PC. Nothing is retyped between systems, nothing is synced to someone else's server, and there is no new software to learn.
Ankeshan adds this inside the Excel you already use — nothing new to learn, nothing leaves your PC.
Why one add-in instead of seven apps
Most Indian small businesses already run on Excel. The problem is not Excel — it's that a single spreadsheet can't file GST, print a branded invoice, calculate PF, or chase overdue payments on its own. So owners bolt on separate paid apps, each with its own login, its own monthly fee, and its own copy of your customer and stock data that never quite agrees with the next.
Ankeshan closes that gap. It reads your sales, purchase, and party sheets and layers seven connected modules on top. An invoice you raise updates your stock, posts to your books, and feeds your GSTR-1 — automatically, because it's all one workbook, not seven disconnected services. Everything runs locally, so a slow internet connection or a portal outage never stops you from billing a customer at the counter.
There are three quiet advantages to this. First, your data never leaves your PC — your customers, prices, salaries, and books stay in your workbook, not on a vendor's cloud. Second, there's nothing new to learn — you're still in Excel, with the ribbon, the sheets, and the keyboard you already know. Third, the numbers reconcile by design — because one dataset drives every module, your stock, your books, and your GST return can't drift apart the way they do across separate apps.
The 7 modules
1. Books — your complete accounts, generated for you
Ankeshan auto-generates your Day Book, ledgers, Trial Balance, P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow from the transactions you already enter — plus bank reconciliation that matches a PDF or CSV statement to your books. No manual ledger posting, no year-end scramble. Accounting Books in Excel »
2. GST — GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B without the panic
Prepare GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B-ready data straight from your sales and purchase records, reconcile GSTR-2B for Input Tax Credit, and export portal-ready JSON. Built for the 2026 rules — the current Nil / 5% / 18% / 40% slabs and the strict ₹1-variance ITC block. GST Filing from Excel »
3. Invoicing — branded, GST-correct, one-tap WhatsApp
Raise professional, GST-compliant invoices, quotations, and challans with your logo, in Hindi or English, and share them to WhatsApp in one tap. A fast keyboard-driven counter mode handles retail billing, and every invoice flows into your books and stock. GST Invoicing in Excel »
4. Inventory — real-time stock, batches, and reorder alerts
Track stock across multiple godowns, manage batches and expiry with FIFO/FEFO, and get reorder alerts before you run out. Sales reduce stock automatically; purchases add it back — no separate stock software. Inventory & Stock Management in Excel »
5. Payroll — salaries, payslips, and every statutory deduction
Run payroll end to end: salary calculation, EPF, ESI, Professional Tax, and TDS, branded payslips, and statutory challans — handling the 2026 Labour Code's 50%-of-CTC wage rule and 2-day full-and-final settlement clock. Payroll in Excel »
6. Receivables & Payables — get paid, and pay on time
See who owes you and who you owe, with ageing analysis and one-tap WhatsApp reminder drafts in Hindi or English. Flags MSME vendors for the 45-day payment rule and tracks TDS on payments. Receivables & Payables in Excel »
7. Compliance Reminders — never miss a due date
A compliance calendar built from your business profile that tells you exactly which GST, TDS, EPF, ESI, PT, and ROC deadlines apply to you, and reminds you before they're due — with late-fee estimates if something slips. Compliance Reminders in Excel »
How the modules connect
The seven modules aren't seven separate tools that happen to sit in one add-in — they share one source of truth. A sale raised in Invoicing applies the right GST rate from the GST module's HSN library, reduces stock in Inventory, posts a journal entry in Books, and opens a line in the customer ledger in Receivables. When that customer runs late, Receivables drafts a reminder; when a filing falls due, Compliance flags it before the deadline. Payroll feeds salary costs into Books. You enter each fact once, and it flows everywhere it's needed — which is exactly what an ERP does, minus the enterprise price tag and the migration off Excel.
Who it's for
Ankeshan is built for Indian small and medium businesses — retailers, wholesalers, distributors, small manufacturers, service firms, and the accountants who serve them. It suits you especially well if you already keep your data in Excel, want your business data to stay on your own machine, and are tired of paying for and switching between multiple cloud apps.
It's a strong fit if you file your own GST, run a counter shop, manage stock across more than one location, or handle payroll for a small team without a dedicated HR system.
Who it's not for
Ankeshan is a Windows Excel add-in, so it won't suit you if you don't use Windows or Excel (2010 or later), or if you want a purely mobile-first, phone-only tool. It's not an audited, always-on cloud accounting suite for large enterprises with hundreds of concurrent users. And because the first release keeps e-invoice IRN generation offline (you upload the JSON yourself), businesses needing fully automated, one-click IRN at high volume should note that as a phased feature.
If you're weighing Ankeshan against dedicated accounting or billing software, see our honest comparison.
Good to know
- Windows + Excel only. Ankeshan runs inside desktop Excel on Windows. It is not a web app or a Mac/mobile app.
- Offline by design. Your data stays in your workbook on your PC. The internet is used only to fetch rule updates (like new GST rates), not to upload your books.
- Modules share one dataset. The strength — and the discipline — is that everything connects. Keeping your transaction sheets tidy is what makes the reports accurate.
- Some features arrive in phases. Live one-click e-invoice IRN is a later add-on; v1 generates valid IRP JSON for you to upload.
Launching soon
Pricing is announced at launch. Join the waitlist to be first in line, and see the full picture on our comparison page.