GST and invoicing
Every price on this site includes GST, and every order produces a proper tax invoice. If you are registered, that invoice carries your GSTIN and supports your input tax credit.
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Listed prices are inclusive of GST. The figure next to a product is the figure you pay; nothing is added at the last step except shipping, which is quoted separately and also shown inclusive.
On the product page and in the cart you can see the split: the taxable value, the rate, and the tax itself. Rates are set per HSN code, so a motor and a battery on the same order can attract different rates and the invoice will show each line separately.
Money is held in paise, never in decimals
Every amount in this system is an integer number of paise. Tax is computed on those integers and the rounding is applied once, at the invoice, in the direction the GST rules require. Two identical orders always produce byte-identical totals.
We are registered in Uttar Pradesh, so the split depends on where your order ships.
- Delivery within Uttar Pradesh
- CGST + SGST
- Delivery to any other state
- IGST
- Delivery to a union territory without legislature
- CGST + UTGST
The total is the same either way. Place of supply is your delivery state, determined at checkout, and it is printed on the invoice along with its state code.
The tax invoice is generated at dispatch, not when you place the order. Section 31(1)(a) of the CGST Act requires an invoice at or before the removal of goods, and dispatch is that moment.
Practically, that means an order that is confirmed but not yet packed has no invoice number yet. You get one email when the order is confirmed and a second, with the invoice attached, when the parcel is handed over.
Invoice numbers run in a single gapless series per financial year. That is a statutory requirement, not a preference, and it is why a cancelled order never leaves a hole: cancellation before dispatch means no invoice was ever issued.
To claim ITC, your GSTIN has to be on the invoice, and it has to be there before the invoice is generated. Add it to your business profile before you order.
- Add your GSTIN and registered legal name to your business profile. The name must match your GST registration exactly.
- Place the order from that account. The GSTIN is captured onto the order at that point.
- The invoice issued at dispatch carries your GSTIN, our GSTIN, the HSN code per line and the tax split.
A GSTIN cannot be added to an invoice afterwards
Once an invoice is issued the details on it are fixed. We cannot reissue it with a GSTIN added, because the original has already gone into the return series. If you missed it, the order has to be returned and re-placed.
A refund on a dispatched order produces a credit note, not a deleted invoice. The credit note carries its own number, references the original invoice, and reverses only the tax on the lines actually returned.
If you claimed ITC on the original invoice, you will need to reverse the proportion covered by the credit note in the period you receive it. The credit note shows exactly which lines and how much tax, so the figure is not something you have to work out.
Tax records are retained for eight years. Section 36 of the CGST Act requires six years from the due date of the annual return; eight is the practical figure once assessment timelines are accounted for.
This is also why a request to erase your personal data does not remove your invoices. The invoice is retained, but the personal details attached to it are redacted so the tax record survives without the person doing so. How that works.
This page describes how our system works. It is not tax advice, and your own position on input credit is between you and your accountant. Invoice queries: contact support.