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TallyPrime lessons, in order

20 lessons that take a beginner from an empty screen to a month of GST accounts. Each has steps, balanced example entries and the mistakes to avoid.

1. What TallyPrime is: a first lesson TallyPrime is accounting software. You tell it what happened, one voucher at a time, and it keeps the ledgers and prepares the reports. Learn the order of work and the rest follows.
2. How to create a company in TallyPrime Everything in Tally lives inside a company. Creating one takes two minutes; choosing its dates correctly saves hours later.
3. Groups and ledgers: which ledger goes under which group A ledger is an account. A group is the shelf it sits on. Put a ledger on the wrong shelf and it turns up in the wrong place in the balance sheet.
4. How to create a ledger in TallyPrime Before a transaction can be recorded, the accounts it touches must exist. Creating a ledger is a matter of a name, a group and, sometimes, an opening balance.
5. Voucher types in TallyPrime Every transaction is entered through one of a small set of voucher types. Choosing the right type is half of entering it correctly.
6. Contra voucher (F4) Contra is the voucher for money that never leaves the business: it only moves from one of your own pockets to another.
7. Payment voucher (F5) Whenever money goes out of the business, by cash, cheque or transfer, it is a Payment voucher.
8. Receipt voucher (F6) Whenever money comes into the business, by cash, cheque or transfer, it is a Receipt voucher.
9. Journal voucher (F7) The Journal is for everything that has no cash and no bank in it: adjustments, transfers between ledgers and corrections.
10. Purchase voucher (F9) A purchase voucher is your copy of the supplier's bill. Enter what the bill says, line for line, and Tally updates the supplier, the stock and the tax together.
11. Sales voucher (F8) The sales voucher is the invoice. What you enter here is what the customer receives, so it must be right the first time.
12. Debit notes and credit notes: returns in TallyPrime Goods come back and bills get corrected. A credit note reduces what a customer owes you; a debit note reduces what you owe a supplier.
13. Stock items, units and stock groups To keep stock in Tally you describe each thing you buy and sell once: what it is called, what it is counted in, and what kind of thing it is.
14. GST set-up in TallyPrime Set GST up properly once, in the company, the ledgers and the items, and every invoice after that calculates its own tax.
15. GST entries: purchase, sale, set-off and payment Follow one month of a small business from its first GST purchase to the cheque for the tax, and the whole cycle becomes clear.
16. Bank reconciliation in TallyPrime Your bank ledger and the bank's statement tell the same story with a few days' difference. Reconciliation finds exactly which entries make up the gap.
17. Reports in TallyPrime and how to read them Vouchers go in; reports come out. Knowing which report answers which question is what turns a data entry operator into an accountant.
18. Backup and restore in TallyPrime A year of accounts lives in one folder on one computer. A backup takes two minutes. Losing the data takes weeks to repair, if it can be repaired at all.
19. Common mistakes in Tally and how to fix them Tally will happily accept a wrong entry as long as it balances. The skill is in noticing, and nearly every mistake leaves a sign in the reports.
20. Learn Tally in 30 days: a daily plan An hour a day for a month, with your hands on the keyboard for most of it, is enough to do day to day accounting entries with confidence.

How the course is arranged

Tally is learned in the same order in which it is used. First the masters: the company, then the groups and ledgers that every entry will need (lessons 1 to 4). Then the accounting vouchers, beginning with the simplest, where only cash and bank are involved, and moving to payments, receipts and journals (lessons 5 to 9). Then trading: purchases, sales and returns, with stock items and GST (lessons 10 to 15). Finally the work that keeps books trustworthy: bank reconciliation, reading reports, backup and finding your own mistakes (lessons 16 to 19). Lesson 20 lays the whole course out as a thirty day plan.

How each lesson works

Every lesson has the same parts: when the thing is used, the steps, examples shown as debit and credit lines so that the accounting is clear whichever screen layout your office uses, the checks to make afterwards, and the common mistakes. The examples all belong to one invented business, Shanti Traders, a stationery wholesaler, so the ledgers you create early are used again later. Do the examples in Tally as you read; reading alone teaches very little.

What you need first

Basic accounting: what debit and credit mean, how to write a journal entry, what a ledger and a trial balance are. Tally does the arithmetic, not the thinking, and it will accept a wrong entry as readily as a right one. If these ideas are new, spend a week on learn.shareyourgroup.com/accountancy, especially the rules of debit and credit and journal entries.

After the lessons

Test yourself with the group quiz, keep the shortcut table beside you until the keys are in your fingers, and then do the practice exercise: twenty-two transactions of one month, with the trial balance you should arrive at. If your figures match ours, you can do day to day entries.

Shortcut keys Group quiz Practice exercise Glossary

An independent learning site. Tally and TallyPrime are trademarks of Tally Solutions Private Limited. This site is not connected with, approved by or paid by Tally Solutions, and uses none of its logos, screens or course material. Keys and menu paths were checked against Tally's own help site on 12 November 2026; the software changes with each release, so if your screen differs, follow Tally's help (press Ctrl+F1). Tax treatment in the examples is for learning only: ask your accountant.