Overview
With GST switched on, every fee payment you record, and every fee a student pays online, also gets a tax invoice: your GSTIN, a consecutive invoice number, the SAC code, and the fee split into taxable value, CGST and SGST. Students and parents see it wherever they saw the receipt before, and can print it or save it as a PDF.
Switching it on
- Open Fees & Dues. At the top is GST tax invoices, marked Off.
- Press Set up.
- Enter your GSTIN. It is checked as you type: a mistyped character is caught, and a correct GSTIN shows the state it is registered in.
- Enter your legal name and registered address exactly as on your GST registration.
- Check the rate, SAC code and prefix (the defaults suit most coaching), and press Save.
What each setting means
| Setting | Default | Means |
|---|---|---|
| GSTIN | – | Your 15-character registration number. Its first two digits are your state. |
| GST rate | 18% | The rate for commercial coaching. 0, 5, 12 and 28% are available if your accountant says otherwise. |
| SAC code | 999293 | Commercial training and coaching services. |
| Invoice number prefix | INV | Up to 4 letters or digits at the start of each invoice number. |
| My fees already include GST | On | On: a ₹11,800 fee is ₹10,000 plus ₹1,800 GST. Off: GST is shown on top of the fee instead. |
Which payments get an invoice
- Every fee payment recorded, or paid online, after you switch GST on.
- Payments from before stay plain receipts. Invoices are never issued backwards.
- If you switch GST off and on again, payments taken while it was off also stay plain receipts.
- Online course purchases through tuition.in checkout are not fee payments and don't get these invoices.
What the invoice shows
- "Tax invoice", your legal name, registered address, GSTIN and state;
- the invoice number and date, and the receipt number beside it;
- the student's name, the fee, batch and course;
- place of supply, the service description and SAC code;
- taxable value, CGST and SGST at half the rate each, and the invoice total;
- "Tax payable on reverse charge: No", and a line for your authorised signatory.
The place of supply is your own state, so the tax is always CGST plus SGST. tuition.in doesn't record which state each student lives in, so it doesn't issue IGST invoices. If you teach students in other states online and your accountant treats those as inter-state supplies, adjust them in your returns.
How the tax is worked out
With fees that include 18% GST:
- Taxable value = fee × 100 ÷ 118, to the nearest paisa.
- GST = fee − taxable value.
- CGST and SGST are half each. If the GST is an odd number of paise, the extra paisa goes to SGST.
The parts always add back to exactly what the student paid. Example: a ₹1,001 fee is ₹848.31 taxable + ₹76.34 CGST + ₹76.35 SGST.
Invoice numbering
INV/2627/00001, INV/2627/00002: your prefix, the financial year (April 2026 to March 2027 is 2627), and a serial that restarts each April. Numbers are consecutive and unique to you, and never longer than the 16 characters allowed for a tax invoice number. That limit is why invoices have their own series: the receipt number (TUI/2026-27/00001) is one character too long.
Changing settings later
An invoice is fixed when it is issued. Changing your rate, name or address later only affects invoices issued afterwards; nothing already issued is rewritten.
The monthly GST register
With GST on, the card on the Fees page has a GST register: choose a month and press Download CSV. One row per invoice: number, date, recipient, place of supply, SAC, rate, taxable value, CGST, SGST, IGST, invoice value and your GSTIN. It is the list your accountant prepares GSTR-1 from.
GST in your profit and loss
The GST inside your fees belongs to the government, not to you. On Accounts, a GST collected line takes it back out of income, so your profit is what you actually earned. It appears on the all-branches view.
What this doesn't do
- It doesn't file returns (GSTR-1, GSTR-3B) or pay tax. The register is for your accountant.
- It doesn't generate e-invoices with an IRN. Businesses above the e-invoicing turnover limit need that from the government portal.
- It doesn't issue credit notes. When a fee is refunded, the receipt shows the refund; the credit note is your accountant's.
- It doesn't decide whether you must register, or which rate applies. Check both with your accountant.
Questions
A student needs an invoice for a payment made before I switched this on.
That payment keeps its receipt. Issue that one invoice from your own accounting software.
Can I use my own invoice numbering?
You choose the prefix. The year and serial follow the format above so numbers stay unique and within the legal length.
Does a parent see the invoice?
Yes. A linked parent sees the same receipt, and so the same tax invoice.