YarnTally vs Vyapar
Vyapar is an excellent, inexpensive billing and GST app for a single shop or small trader, with a genuinely free mobile tier. YarnTally is aimed further up: several locations, staff with different permissions, and compliance obligations a one-shop app does not carry.
- Vyapar pricing
- The mobile app is free. Paid plans start around ₹3,399/year for desktop and about ₹4,010/year for desktop plus mobile, excluding 18% GST, with a short trial.
- YarnTally pricing
- ₹999/month (Starter) to ₹7,999/month (Business), GST extra
Prices and features verified September 2026 against published sources, listed at the foot of this page. Editions and reseller pricing vary; please confirm with the vendor.
Where Vyapar is the better choice
Written by us, about a competitor. If one of these matters more to you than anything below, buy Vyapar — you will be happier and we will not have to refund you.
- A real free tier. For a single shop that needs GST invoices and basic stock, Vyapar costs nothing, and nothing we offer beats free.
- Cheaper by a wide margin even on paid plans — roughly ₹3,400 a year against ₹11,988.
- Very simple. A shopkeeper can be issuing invoices within minutes, with no setup and no concepts to learn.
- Large install base in India and plenty of tutorials in regional languages.
- Fully functional offline on mobile, with local storage as the default rather than the exception.
Choose Vyapar if you run one shop, bill from one place, and mainly need GST-compliant invoices and simple stock. It is the right tool for that job and it is free or nearly free. Buying something larger would be a waste.
Where YarnTally is the better choice
- Multiple locations with stock segregated per warehouse, and transfers tracked between them.
- Roles and permissions — admin, manager, operator — with operators restricted to their own location, enforced in the database rather than only in the interface.
- Industry modules: CA practice, clinics, coaching institutes, logistics, construction.
- Export compliance and multi-currency trade documentation.
- AI copilot, daily briefing and anomaly detection.
- Immutable audit log, REST API and webhooks for connecting other systems.
Choose YarnTally once there is more than one location, more than one person entering data, or a compliance obligation beyond filing GST — at which point a single-shop app starts costing you in reconciliation time rather than in licence fees.
Feature by feature
Rows shaded green favour YarnTally, amber favour Vyapar, unshaded are a genuine tie. Current score: 6 to us, 3 to Vyapar, 1 level.
| Feature | YarnTally | Vyapar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | From ₹999/mo | Free on mobile; ~₹3,399/yr desktop |
| Single-shop billing | Yes | Yes, and simpler |
| Multiple warehouses with transfers | Included | Limited |
| Role-based access enforced in the database | Row-level security per tenant and location | Basic |
| Works offline | Stock counts sync later | Offline-first on mobile |
| Industry-specific modules | 22 industries | Generic billing |
| Export compliance (EDPMS, FIRC, LUT) | Included on Business | No |
| REST API and webhooks | Included | No |
| Immutable audit log | Included | No |
| Ease of first setup | Guided, but more to configure | Minutes |
Common questions
Vyapar is free. Why would I pay ₹999 a month?
If Vyapar covers what you do, you should not. The point at which it stops covering it is usually the second location, the second person entering stock, or the first time you need to know who changed a figure and when. Those are the problems YarnTally is priced for; billing alone is not.
Can I move from Vyapar to YarnTally later?
Yes. Customers, suppliers, items and opening stock import by CSV, which Vyapar exports. Most people switch at a financial-year boundary so the old year stays intact where it was filed from.
Does YarnTally work offline like Vyapar?
For stock counts and damage reports, yes — they save on the phone and upload when signal returns. Vyapar's mobile app is offline-first across more of its features, so for pure offline billing it is still ahead.
Still deciding?
Start on Starter for ₹999 — a full working month with your real stock and real invoices, not a countdown. Tell us within 7 days and we refund in full.