EDPMS
Export Data Processing and Monitoring System
EDPMS is the Reserve Bank of India's system that tracks every export shipping bill until the foreign exchange proceeds are received, and flags exporters whose bills remain unrealised beyond the permitted period.
Customs reports your shipping bill into EDPMS automatically. Your bank reports the inward remittance when it arrives. The system matches the two, and anything unmatched sits there visibly ageing. Nobody has to complain for it to become a problem; the entry itself is the problem.
The permitted period is nine months from the date of export for most exporters. Beyond that the entry is outstanding, and consequences escalate from the bank chasing you, to being listed as a caution-listed exporter, which restricts your ability to ship at all.
The most common cause of a stuck entry is not a customer who failed to pay — it is a payment that arrived and was never linked to the right shipping bill, often because one remittance covered several invoices. Splitting an inward remittance correctly across the bills it settles is the whole job.
Key facts
- Export proceeds must generally be realised within 9 months from the date of export.
- Shipping bills flow into EDPMS from customs automatically.
- Unrealised entries can lead to caution-listing, which restricts further exports.
- Closure is evidenced by the bank against an inward remittance.
- One remittance can be allocated across multiple shipping bills.
Who this affects
Every exporter of goods from India, and their authorised dealer bank.
How YarnTally handles it
There is an EDPMS ageing view built against the nine-month rule, and FIRC allocation that splits one inward remittance across several bills with the outstanding balance recomputed automatically.
See what else it doesReviewed September 2026. This is general information about how these rules work, not tax or legal advice, and thresholds and due dates do change. Check your own position with your chartered accountant before acting on it.