From Incorporation to Investor-Ready— on One Platform.
The first 18 months decide whether your books, payroll and filings stay clean or turn into a clean-up project before your first raise. Entries.AI sets up the finance and compliance backbone investors and auditors expect — run by your team, or by ours.
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Your first 18 months, mapped stage by stage
Every startup hits the same checkpoints — incorporation, first hires, first invoice, first raise. Here's what lands on a founder's plate at each one, and how Entries.AI takes it off.
Get the company set up properly from the start
The first month is mostly company-law housekeeping — easy to do on time, painful to fix later.
On your plate
- Open the current account and set up your books
- Hold the first board meeting within 30 days
- Appoint the first auditor (ADT-1) within 30 days
- Issue share certificates to subscribers within 60 days
- File commencement of business (INC-20A) within 180 days
How Entries.AI handles it
- Chart of accounts and bank feed ready on day one
- ROC tasks on your compliance calendar, with reminders and owners
- Cap table created from your subscriber shareholding
- Minutes, forms and certificates filed by law and financial year
Hire your first team without an HR department
Offer letters, payroll and statutory deductions start the day your first employee joins.
On your plate
- Offer letters, onboarding and employee KYC
- Monthly payroll with TDS on salaries
- Professional Tax in states that levy it
- ESIC from 10 employees and PF from 20, where applicable
- Leave, attendance and reimbursements
How Entries.AI handles it
- Hire-to-exit HRMS with offer letters and digital onboarding
- Payroll that calculates TDS, PT, PF and ESIC for you
- ESS mobile app for leave, payslips, expenses and tax declarations
- Payroll posts straight to your books — no journal re-entry
Invoice customers and stay GST-clean from invoice one
Revenue brings GST returns, vendor TDS and collections — monthly, every month.
On your plate
- GST registration once you cross the threshold or supply inter-state
- GST invoices, and e-invoices once applicable
- Monthly GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B
- TDS on vendor payments and quarterly returns
- Chasing customer payments
How Entries.AI handles it
- GST-ready invoicing with e-Invoice and e-Way Bill
- GSTR-2B auto-reconciliation so you don't lose input tax credit
- Returns prepared from data you already entered
- Receivables ageing with payment reminders
Walk into due diligence with nothing to clean up
Investors check books, shareholding and filings. The fastest raises are the ones with nothing to fix.
On your plate
- Up-to-date books and monthly MIS
- Cap table, ESOP pool and dilution scenarios
- Share allotment filings such as PAS-3
- FC-GPR within 30 days when you raise foreign investment
- A complete due-diligence data room
How Entries.AI handles it
- Investor MIS generated from live books, exportable to PDF or Excel
- Cap table with ESOP vesting and round modelling
- ROC and FEMA filings tracked as tasks with evidence
- Documents already organised for a data room
Grow the team and the business without switching systems
Annual filings, multi-state teams and new business lines — on the same platform you started with.
On your plate
- Statutory audit and annual filings (AOC-4, MGT-7)
- Annual director KYC
- Employees across states with different PT and LWF rules
- Inventory, sales teams or new entities
How Entries.AI handles it
- Audit trail and linked evidence behind every entry
- State-wise PT and LWF pre-configured
- Switch on Inventory, Manufacturing or CRM — no migration
- Scales from 5 to 5,000 employees
Timelines are indicative and depend on your company type, state and business. Confirm specific obligations with your CA.
Due diligence shouldn't mean three weeks of clean-up
When books, shareholding and filings live in one system from day zero, your data room already exists. You just decide who gets to see it.
Books that are always current
Bank, payroll and GST post automatically, so the numbers are never a month behind.
A cap table you can trust
Shareholding, ESOP grants and vesting kept in sync with your allotments.
Board and investor MIS
Monthly reports from live data — not a spreadsheet rebuilt every month.
A data room that builds itself
Filings, agreements and evidence organised by law and financial year.
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Everything a young company needs — nothing it doesn't
Start with the core most startups need in year one, and switch on more as you grow.
No finance team yet? Borrow ours.
Most early-stage founders don't need a full-time accountant — they need the work done right. Pick the model that fits where you are today, and change it any time.
Entries.AI platform
For startups with an accountant, CA or ops lead who'll own the numbers. They work inside Entries.AI; AI handles the matching and reminders.
- Your team and your CA on one shared platform
- Starter modules ready from day zero
- Dedicated implementation support
- Add Managed Services later if your needs change
Managed Services add-on
Our finance team works inside your Entries.AI account on a shared-resource model — you approve, we execute.
- Bookkeeping and bank & vendor reconciliation
- Monthly payroll processing
- P&L, balance sheet and MIS reports
- GST, PF, ESIC and TDS filing support
- Statutory registers and audit documentation
Why founders start on Entries.AI early
"Entries.AI delivers a top-notch all-in-one platform for Accounting, Payroll, HRM and Compliance. The real-time insights I get are invaluable for our growth."
"We moved from Real Books and HR tools to a single application. I no longer manage payroll manually, and now have real-time compliance visibility."
Starting early pays off
- No migration project later — you never outgrow it
- Clean history from incorporation, which auditors and investors notice
- Compliance habits set before the team is busy
- Built by ex-Freshworks leaders who've scaled startups themselves
Questions founders ask us first
Straight answers on setup, compliance thresholds and fundraising readiness.
Just incorporated?
We'll map your first-year obligations and show how they'd run on Entries.AI — in a 30-minute call.
Book a Startup DemoWe've just incorporated. What should we set up first?
Start with your books and bank, your first-month company-law tasks (first board meeting, auditor appointment, share certificates) and your cap table. Add payroll when you make your first hire and GST when you start invoicing. Entries.AI puts each of these on one compliance calendar so nothing slips.
When does a startup need GST registration?
Generally once aggregate turnover crosses the GST threshold — ₹40 lakh for most suppliers of goods and ₹20 lakh for services, with lower limits in some special-category states — or earlier in cases such as inter-state supply of goods or selling through e-commerce platforms. Many B2B startups register voluntarily so clients can claim input tax credit. Confirm your position with your CA.
When do PF and ESIC become mandatory for a startup?
PF generally applies once you employ 20 or more people. ESIC generally applies from 10 employees in notified areas and covers employees earning up to ₹21,000 a month. Once you're covered, Entries.AI calculates contributions in payroll and prepares the monthly remittance data.
Can Entries.AI help us get ready for fundraising and due diligence?
Yes. Books stay current, investor MIS comes from live data, your cap table and ESOP pool are maintained in the Cap Table module, share-allotment and FEMA filings are tracked as compliance tasks, and supporting documents are filed by financial year and law — so a data room is a matter of sharing, not scrambling.
We don't have a finance or payroll team. Can Entries.AI run it for us?
Yes. The Managed Services add-on gives you bookkeeping, monthly payroll, reconciliations, MIS and compliance filing support through a shared-resource team working inside your Entries.AI account, from ₹4,999 per startup per month.
Can our CA work with us on Entries.AI?
Yes. You can give your CA direct access to your books, documents and compliance tasks, so reviews, audits and filings happen on the same data your team uses.
What happens when we outgrow the startup setup?
Nothing changes platform-wise. Entries.AI scales from 5 to 5,000 employees, and you can switch on modules such as Inventory, Manufacturing and CRM or add entities without migrating your data.
This FAQ is general information, not legal or tax advice.
Start Your Company the Way You'll Want to Scale It
Clean books, on-time filings and an investor-ready data room from day zero — so you can spend the first 18 months on product and customers.