BahiCA
BahiCAby Worksmith
Practice software for Indian CA firms

Every filing kept on record, GST returns prepared for you, and fees billed through to payment.

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By Worksmith, Hyderabad

The firm's book of record. बही

Your team files hundreds of returns a month across GST, income tax, TDS, payroll and company law. BahiCA keeps each one under its client, prepares the GST returns itself, and leaves the signature to the partner.

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1Papers in

Papers arrive however the client sends them.

A photo with a thumb over the invoice total. A Tally export at 11 pm. A bank statement forwarded from a personal inbox. Each is read, matched to its client and period, and filed. A figure the system isn't sure of goes to a person, never into a return.

Reminders at day −7, −3 and −1Telugu · Hindi · Tamil · English
2Record it

Every filing gets its own page.

ITRs, 26Q, PF, professional tax, AOC-4, certificates: 372 kinds of filing, scheduled for each client from the rulebook. Your team prepares and files them as it does now. The book reads the return and its acknowledgement, and a page closes only when the reference number is on it.

ITR-VToken no.SRNTRRNUDIN
3File it

GST, prepared before anyone asks.

For GST the book does the work. It reconciles 2B and 2A in five passes, triages IMS before the 14th, assembles GSTR-1, and builds GSTR-3B: Table 4 from matched purchases, blocked credit reversed, Section 50 interest worked out. Then 38 checks run.

Kesarla, Sep 2026: ₹1,84,300 of credit at risk, found before filing
Watch the engine run
4Sign

Nothing leaves without your signature.

A second person reviews what the preparer built. Then the partner signs with the DSC. The PIN lives in memory for seconds, and no automated step can sign, generate a UDIN or reply to an officer.

G7
GSTR-3B · Kesarla · Sep 2026
Reviewed by Farhan · 38/38 checks
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5Bill it

Then it bills for the work.

Filings your team closed become invoice lines at your rate card. A partner reads the bill, someone clicks send, and the invoice is followed until it's paid, including the 10% your client deducts under 194J.

Opened the same dayTDS noted for your 26AS
6Clients

Clients get their own page too.

Fewer "is it filed?" calls. Clients sign in with a one-time code and see what's due, what's filed with its acknowledgement, and what needs their approval or payment, in their own language.

Reviews

In partners' own words.

Each space below is kept for a founding firm. A review goes up under the partner's name only after a full filing month and with written consent, and they can edit or withdraw it at any time.

The month

Your month, deadline by deadline.

Red marks are the peak days, when every taxpayer in India is on the same portals.

Founding firms

Twenty-five firms will shape BahiCA first.

Bring one month of your real work. We run it beside you, measure it from the record, and change what your partners would change.

First year30% off
Shadow month, side by sideFree
Plans from₹9,999 / yr
UsersUnlimited
Product

Inside the app.

The screens your firm works in every day, then the GST engine up close, then everything it connects to.

The GST engine

Run it yourself.

Numbers from the app's synthetic client, Kesarla Moulded Products, for September 2026.

38 pre-filing checks

Not run yet

Section 50, if you file late

Net cash delayed
₹2,59,672
Interest at 18% a year
₹0
Late fee, ₹50 a day
₹0
Cap for turnover above ₹5 crore
₹10,000
Cost of the delay
₹0

GSTR-2B / 2A, five passes

57 suppliers. Every difference sized in rupees and logged for GSTR-9C.

IMS before the 14th

The engine proposes; a reviewer commits at G3. Once GSTR-3B is filed, the choices are locked.

Connects to

What it talks to, and how.

Where a portal has an interface, the book uses it. Where it doesn't, your team files and the book records the result.

Also inside

The rest of the firm.

DSC custody

Every token's expiry and who holds it right now. Client portal passwords masked, revealed with a reason, every reveal logged.

Team & capacity

Load for the next fourteen days, attendance and leave, articleship and CPE hours, and each partner's 60-tax-audit ceiling.

Notices

Type, section, demand and reply date read from every notice, with five working days of buffer before the real deadline.

Client desk

Seven routine questions answered from the record in the client's language. Anything interpretive goes to a named person.

Statutory clock

All due dates for all clients on one calendar, with internal cut-offs, and extensions re-dated the day they're notified.

Quality review

A sample of finished work re-performed each month, with known errors planted to check that reviewers still read.

Pricing

Priced per firm, never per person.

Articles and juniors cost you nothing extra. You pay for the firm and for the GST registrations the engine works on. Prices exclude 18% GST.

Income tax, TDS, payroll and company filings never change the price.
Is it worth it

Hours back from every GST client.

Our assumptions, which you can change. In your first month the activity log measures the real figure.

Uses the GST registrations set above.
Each month
135 hours
Value of time saved₹33,750
Plan that fitsAutopilot
Plan cost₹6,289
Return on the plan5.4×
Compared

The same firm, priced per user.

Against the published price of a premium per-user practice tool, checked on its website on 28 October 2026.

FirmPlanBahiCA a yearPer-user tool a year
5 people · 60 GST clientsAutopilot~₹75,500~₹76,000
15 people · 200 GST clientsFirm OS~₹1.56 lakh~₹2.29 lakh
40 people · 600 GST clientsEnterprise~₹4.3–5.8 lakh~₹6.1 lakh
Before you buy

What partners ask us.

Founding firms

Results we'll measure, then publish.

We're starting with twenty-five firms. What they tell us, and what their records show, goes on this site with their written consent.

The offer

For firms willing to measure

30% offyour first year
Free monthevery automated step runs in shadow, beside your own work, until you trust it
Direct lineto the people building it, in Hyderabad
What we ask

In return

One monthof real work run through the book
A case studywith numbers taken from your activity log
Consentto use de-identified work to measure accuracy
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Case studies

Three firm shapes, one yardstick.

Every study reports the same four measures, taken from the record rather than from memory.

Hours per GST clientPreparer time, before and after
Papers to ARNDays from the last document to filing
Late fees avoidedSection 50 interest and late fee
Days to collectInvoice sent to fee received
Trust

Personal acts stay personal.

A signature, a UDIN and a reply to a tax officer carry a member's personal liability. The software is built so that no automated step can do any of them.

The DSC PIN

Entered by the partner for each return, held in memory for seconds, never stored. Signing, UDIN and submission are tools no automated routine holds, and a test fails the build if one ever does.

Four eyes, kept honest

A preparer can never be the only reviewer. There is no bulk approve. Each month known errors are planted in review queues to check that reviewers still catch them.

Ethical walls

Access is set client by client. Someone outside a client's team cannot open its file, and the attempt itself is written to the record.

A record you can't edit

Every act is a line: who, when, from which document, under which rule. Lines are hash-chained, so a changed line breaks the chain, and anyone with access can verify it.

Training and hosting

Your clients' data is never used to train outside models. The hosting region is being settled with founding firms before launch.

Consent on file

Client consents for KYC pulls, bank statements and sharing with banks are recorded with the DPDP Act in mind, and every release to a third party needs a partner.

Who can do what

Eight roles, set out plainly.

The same table the managing partner edits in the app.

About

Made by Worksmith, in Hyderabad.

Worksmith Solutions finds and fixes money lost in the gaps between business systems. In a CA firm those gaps sit between the books, the government portals and the client's WhatsApp.

Worksmith · find itRecord it

A filing that isn't on a page is a filing someone will miss.

Worksmith · carry itFile it

The repeatable GST work, carried by the engine.

Worksmith · ground itBill it

Fees grounded in work the record shows was done.

Evidence before build

We measure where a firm's hours and money go before promising anything, and prove the result from the same record afterwards.

Why a bahi

The bahi-khata is the cloth-bound ledger Indian firms kept for generations: one permanent book, signed, opened fresh each year. We built its modern form.

Contact

Worksmith Solutions Private Limited, Hyderabad. Book a demo on this site, or read about our other work.

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Book a demo

Thirty minutes, with your month.

We'll set up your real client mix, build a GSTR-3B in front of you, and show which jobs your team would stop doing by hand.

What we'll cover

Your calendarEvery due date for your client mix
A GSTR-3BBuilt, checked and signed in front of you
A client fileA year of filings and acknowledgements
An invoiceFrom closed work to payment

Can't wait? Open the app with a synthetic firm.

Open BahiCA

Which door are you using?

The app opens in a new tab. It's a working prototype with a synthetic firm, Nallamala & Co., so you can try everything without your own data.

Demo code for both246810