We apologize for the inconvenience.

We had sent a query on this subject matter to Tally Solutions, Bangalore on 22nd March, 2011, which is given underneath for your reference :-

• I have created a Price Level named “Cash Price”. Next, I entered the rate for Price Level “Cash Price”  for Item “ABC” for 1-3-2011. This works fine. Next, I entered rate for “Cash Price” for Item “XYZ” which has alternate units. The “XYZ” details are as follows:-
  Base Units : Nos
  Alternate Units : Box (where 1 Box = 10 Nos)

  In the Price Level, I entered the rate for “Cash Price” level for Item “XYZ” as 800/Box. The entry is accepted. However, when we again view it from “Gateway of Tally >> Inventory Info >> Price Level”, the Price level rate is not shown for Item “XYZ”. Next, I exported the data using “Display >> List of Accounts >> StockItems” and found that the Rate is exported correctly in XML format i.e. 800/Box.

  In Brief
  Price Level rates when entered for Alternate Units (say 800/Box – where Box is alternate unit), the same is not displayed in “Gateway of Tally >> Inventory Info >> Price List”

Update

The aforesaid issue has now been resolved in Tally ERP 9 Release 3.3 (as intimated to us by Tally Solutions, Bangalore)

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If more than one person has to work on the same Company in Tally, then you need to use the security features available in Tally. You can enable the security feature while creating a new Company or using the Company Alteration screen. Next, you can create any number of Users and assign them the user-rights as required. For example, you may disallow “Voucher alteration” or “Back-dated Voucher entry” for a specific user.

Security Issues

How secure is Tally ERP ? Can a user with only data-entry rights make changes or view reports which he/she is not allowed to do so ? Well, here are few lines of TDL code with which it  can be done :-

[#Menu : Gateway of Tally]
Add    : Item : Before : @@locQuit : Reset Security : Call : ResetSecurity

[Function : ResetSecurity]
10 : Modify Object : (Company,##SVCurrentCompany).IsSecurityOn : No
20 : MsgBox:"Tally Security":"The Security feature has been disabled now"

What happens with the above code ?

1) You get a new option in Gateway of Tally

When you start Tally ERP and open your Company, you get a new option in the Gateway of Tally. The new option “Reset Security” appears just above the QUIT option.

2) Using the new option, you can disable the Security features

Assuming, you are logged-in as a User with data-entry rights, you can use this option to disable the security feature itself. As you can see in the TDL code, this is done by setting the field  ISSECURITYON as NO. Thats all.

Next time when you start Tally ERP, open your Company and log-in as data-entry user, you can do anything, as security has been disabled.

In brief, a few lines of TDL code can be used to change the value in Tally database. i.e. to disable the security feature itself.

Update : 2011-09-29

Please see the comments for the response of Tally Solutions, Bangalore relating to the aforesaid subject matter.

PS:

If you are new to TDL, please refer this link for How to customize Tally using plain TEXT files ?

Tally Solutions, Bangalore had earlier provided some guidelines for Tally Solution providers relating to Custom Built Solutions for Tally.

Tally Solutions, Bangalore has now once again clearly stated its viewpoint on AMC which is made available in Cost Estimator for Tally Customization. The same is reproduced underneath :

“Solution AMC cost – 30% of the scoping + development cost per year after 90 days“.

Remarks:-

1) It has been suggested by Tally Solutions, Bangalore that the AMC cost should be 30% of the Solution/Software cost.

2) The AMC charges are for one year and are to be paid after the initial 90 days (PS: AMC is optional – if the Customer wants any support services for the Solution after 90 days, then he must go for AMC).

However, Customers often contend that since they have paid for the Solution/software, it is the Vendors responsibility to provide services thereafter and there must be no time limit restriction of 90 days. To avoid such conflicting issues, Vendors must clearly specify the Free Service Period made available with the solution/software and also the AMC terms & conditions.

It is rightly asserted by Tally Solutions, Bangalore that often the cause of dissatisfaction or failure of Tally Customization project is due to the low contract price. One more important point mentioned by Tally Solutions is  :-

“It is important to note that the Cost of Sale in a personal engagement is very high and it is inappropriate to compare the price of a mass-produced self-service product to a custom built solution, no matter how small“.

In other words, it is inappropriate to compare the price of a Custom Built Solution with other products which are designed for mass-distribution self-service products.

On the other hand, a common argument put forth by many Customers is “your software/solution is more costly than the Tally Software itself – why would anybody purchase it ?“. Here’s it – answer from Tally Solutions, Bangalore.

Here’s the link to get the details of the Member of Parliament of your Area :-
http://india.gov.in/howdo/otherservice_details.php?service=23

Those you wish, can lodge their views / protest against the Government version of Lokpal bill by sending a simple letter / sms to your M.P.

Sample SMS to be sent to your M.P

“Please reject Govt’s Lokpal Bill and support the Jan Lokpal Bill.”

Merging two Ledgers in Tally.ERP 9

It is assumed that you have two Ledgers viz “Ledger 1″ and “Ledger 2″ and you need to merge the “Ledger 2″ into “Ledger 1″ such that all the Vouchers having “Ledger 2″ would show “Ledger 1″ after the merge-process.

PS:
a) Take backup of your Tally data for safety purpose before trying out the underneath steps.
b) We have tested Merging of two Ledgers with Tally.ERP 9 Release 3.0 only

Step-by-step instructions:-

1. Change Tally.ERP 9 configuration settings
   a) Select option “Gateway of Tally >> F12 >> General”
   b) Set the option “Overwrite Vouchers during Import” to Yes
2. Set the period in Tally.ERP 9
   Select option “Gateway of Tally >> Alt+F2″ and set the period. Example if you have vouchers for three years, set the period accordingly so that the whole data is accessible.
3. Export Tally.ERP 9 data in XML
   a) Select option “Gateway of Tally >> Display >> Daybook >> Alt+F2″ and set the full-period
   b) Next, export Tally.ERP 9 data using “Alt+E” in XML format.
4. Make changes in XML data
   a) Open the file “Daybook.xml” in Notepad and find/replace all occurrences of the “Ledger 2″ with “Ledger 1″.
   Remarks: The file daybook.xml is created in step-3 on exporting data using Alt+E
   b) Save the Daybook.xml file
5. Import data in Tally.ERP 9
   a) Select option “Gateway of Tally >> Import of Data >> Vouchers”.
   b) Specify the file-name (ex: daybook.xml) and press enter to import it.
6. Verify the Vouchers in Tally.ERP 9
   Select option “Gateway of Tally >> Display >> Daybook” and check vouchers to verify the merging-process.