Tally ERP 9

Tally Prime

New Interactive User Interface

Tally.erp9 comes with indeed a more keyboard-driven interface with shortcuts and a bright color combination

New Interactive User Interface

tally prime comes with an altogether new interactive user interface with a menu-driven home screen making navigation easy and smooth and a new color combination consisting of blue and white background

Hassle-Free Installation and Licensing

Tally.erp9 can be installed using the CD or can also be downloaded from the tally website. The installation is basically simple and it would take around 60 to 90 seconds to get installed. In addition, the installer size is around 115 MB.

Hassle-Free Installation and Licensing

In fact, Tally-prime is only available as a download option and the installation manager is a compressed file with around 40 MB and it hardly takes 30-40 seconds for the installation to be completed

Access Tally Data

In a word, tally.erp9 allows you to select data file from a single selection option

Access Tally Data

tally prime

contrarily allows the user to select data from multiple options like specified path and browse drive making it easier and simpler

Master Menus

Certainly, tally.erp9 featured separate menus for accounting, inventory, and payroll masters

Master Menus

By all means, Tally-prime has segregated all the masters into one main menu and provides sub-menus for each module enabling smooth navigation

Chart of Accounts

As a matter of fact, in tally.erp9, users had to go through 3 clicks of the button to view the chart of accounts

Chart of Accounts

Tally-prime also allows the user to access the chart of accounts from one screen

Supplementary Information During Voucher Entry

Formerly, in tally.erp9, the user had to fill in the required details and pass the complete supplementary information screen

Supplementary Information During Voucher Entry

Compared to Tally ERP, tally prime has reduced the need to enter required details which are captured in the configuration screen and get auto-populated in the supplementary information screen

Voucher Entry

Additionally, the user can click on the different voucher menus like accounting, inventory, and payroll to enter the vouchers

Voucher Entry

Likewise, tally prime has one menu for voucher entry and the different vouchers can be accessed through the other vouchers button on the screen enabling toggling between vouchers easy

Multi-Tasking

Tally.erp9

allowed multi-tasking by opening different instances of the tally application

Multi-Tasking

Meanwhile, multi-tasking has been made very easy with the goto menu option on the top screen on the gateway of the tally. Now while entering vouchers, you can switch between different vouchers at the same time and also view reports in real time. complete one task and then switch back to the original task.

Copy Paste Option

Evidently, tally.erp9 allowed copy-paste with the shortcut keys ctrl + alt +c to copy and ctrl + alt + v to paste inside.

Copy Paste Option

In contrast, with tally prime, you can use the universal option of ctrl + c to copy and ctrl + v to paste

Printing of Invoices

As can be seen, in Tally.erp9, printing invoices with more items was a major issue as it would run into multiple pages leaving blank spaces on the template

Printing of Invoices

By comparison, tally prime has optimized invoice printing with multiple line items by allowing the user to define the necessary information that needs to be printed on the supplementary pages. Therefore, it helps in avoiding unnecessary stationery running costs.