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GST and commercial credit notes

Choose between a GST credit note, which reduces value and GST until 30 November after the financial year, and a commercial one.

India 2 min readUpdated 26 October 2026About This Feature

With GST invoicing on, Create Credit Note asks which kind:

KindGSTWhen
GST credit noteReduces the value and the GSTUntil 30 November after the end of the invoice’s financial year
Commercial credit noteGST unchanged — the credit without its taxesAny time; prints “Commercial credit note: GST is unchanged.”

Hectile shows how many days are left for a GST credit note on each invoice. After the deadline, only a commercial credit note is offered.

Imported invoices

For an invoice imported from your old system, the page works out the GST rate from its amounts when it can; otherwise enter the rate for a GST credit note.

GST credit notes go to GSTR-1’s notes tables; commercial credit notes are left out because GST doesn’t change.

Who can do this:OwnerAdminMemberViewer — no
Related topics
Invoices and documentsCredit notesReduce an issued invoice by quantity, price or amount; the balance goes down first and the rest becomes the customer’s credit.View Guide GST (India)The GSTR-1 filePrepare GSTR-1 for a month or quarter — every table checked against your documents — as the portal’s JSON and the offline tool’s Excel.View Guide GST (India)Filed monthsMark a month filed per registration so nothing dated in it can change — corrections go through notes dated today.View Guide

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