Expenses & P&L · built for India

Every receipt,
every rupee out —
into one P&L.

Forward a bill, snap a receipt, or import your bank CSV. HourSlip files it, reclaims the GST you paid, bills it back where it belongs, and rolls it into a live P&L.

4 ways to captureGST input reclaimedLive P&L → ITR
4
Capture methods
GST input reclaimed
1
Live P&L
Expenses
May 2026 · 5 captured
Adobe Creative Cloud
Software
₹4,719
GST ₹720
DigitalOcean
Hosting
₹1,652
GST ₹252
Unsplash+ · stock
Billable
₹3,540
GST ₹540
Ola · client meeting
Travel
₹480
no GST
BigBasket · office
Supplies
₹1,260
GST ₹60
just arrived via email · auto-filed
P&L
live
Income₹24,00,000
− Expenses₹6,20,000
Net profit
₹17,80,000
GST input credit₹74,000
Taxable profit · ITR₹17,80,000
Feeds the Tax planner's ITR-4
Receipt OCR
Pro
Vendor Adobe
Amt ₹4,719
GST ₹720
fields auto-filled
Input credit ₹1,260 · matched
Rebill to Mahindra Tech→ on next invoice
Expenses
May 2026
Adobe Creative Cloud
₹4,719
DigitalOcean
₹1,652
Unsplash+ · stock
₹3,540
Ola · client meeting
₹480
Net profit · live₹17,80,000
See it work · 15 seconds

A P&L, from a
forwarded email.

Forward a bill and watch it become a filed, GST-reconciled expense — read by OCR, matched against GSTR-2B, and rolled into a net-profit figure that updates while you watch.

  1. 0:0001Forward the bill to your HourSlip inbox
  2. 0:0402Vendor, amount, GST — read automatically
  3. 0:0803Input credit matched against GSTR-2B
  4. 0:1104Net profit updates live
15-second loop · no sound · plays as you scroll
Four inboxes, one ledger

Capture without
typing.

The fastest expense is the one you never enter. Four capture paths all land in the same categorized ledger — forward, snap, import, or share — so receipts stop piling up in a drawer.

Email-to-expensePro
Forward a bill to your HourSlip inbox
Receipt OCRPro
Snap a photo — fields read automatically
Bank-CSV / SMSPro
Import a statement or parse debit alerts
Manual / Android shareFree
Type it, or share-to-HourSlip
One categorized expense
Adobe Creative Cloud
CategorySoftware
Amount₹4,719
GST input₹720
Source email
Input tax credit

Claim the GST
you already paid.

The GST on your business expenses isn't a cost — it's a credit, if you claim it. HourSlip reconciles every expense against your GSTR-2B and totals exactly how much input credit you can reclaim.

Expense
Your GST
GSTR-2B
State
Adobe Creative Cloud
₹720
₹720
Matched
DigitalOcean
₹252
₹252
Matched
BigBasket · office
₹60
₹60
Matched
Cab vendor · unreg.
₹180
Unmatched
Legal counsel
₹900
₹900
RCM · 3.1(d)
Reclaimable input credit
₹1,032
The RCM (reverse-charge) flag marks supplies where you owe the GST — it flows to GSTR-3B row 3.1(d) on the GST returns page.
Billable expenses

Bill it back
to the client.

Some costs aren't yours to absorb — stock photos, a font licence, a courier. Flag an expense as billable and it appears as a line on that client's next invoice, with optional markup.

  • One toggle Mark billable — pick the client and optional markup %.
  • Auto-attached It queues onto the next invoice for that client automatically.
  • Receipt linked The original bill stays attached for transparency.
Billable expense
Unsplash+ · stock photos
₹3,000
Rebill · +10%
On next invoice
Mahindra Tech
Reimbursable · stock photos
3,000 + 10%₹3,300
Set once, never re-enter

Recurring expenses,
on autopilot.

Subscriptions hit your card on the same day every month. Set them up once and HourSlip generates the expense automatically — so the P&L stays honest without a manual entry each cycle.

Recurring
auto-generated
DigitalOcean
Hosting · Monthly · 1st
₹1,652
Adobe CC
Software · Monthly · 4th
₹4,719
Figma
Software · Monthly · 12th
₹1,200
Google Workspace
Email · Monthly · 18th
₹736
Monthly recurring spend₹8,307
Profit & loss, always current

It all rolls into
a live P&L.

Every captured expense lands in a profit-and-loss statement that's current to the minute. Filter by date range, see your taxable profit, and export to CSV — the same number that feeds your ITR-4.

Statement · FY 2026–27 to date
Apr — May ▾
Income · invoiced₹24,00,000
Software & tools₹1,48,000
Hosting & infra₹82,000
Travel & meetings₹64,000
Billable (rebilled out)₹90,000
Other operating₹2,36,000
Total expenses− ₹6,20,000
Net profit
₹17,80,000
GST input credit₹74,000
Taxable profit · ITR-4₹17,80,000
What you get

Free to jot down.
Pro to never type.

Free covers basic manual expenses. Pro adds the four no-typing capture paths, GSTR-2B reconciliation, bill-back, and the live P&L that feeds your ITR.

Feature
Free
forever
Most popular
Pro
₹2,699 / yr
Manual expense entry
Basic
Categories + receipts
Email-to-expense
Receipt OCR
Bank-CSV / SMS import
GSTR-2B input reconcile
Bill-back to client
Live P&L + export
If you're still on something else

An honest
side-by-side.

Zoho is genuinely powerful — but it's a full accounting suite you configure. The honest edge here is shape: expenses captured four ways and reconciled for GST, rolled into one freelancer P&L, not a bolt-on module.

Feature
This page
HourSlip
/ Books · suite
Zoho Expense
Bengaluru · SaaS
Refrens
+ bank statements
Spreadsheet
Email-to-expense
Partial
Receipt OCR
Bank-CSV import
Partial
Partial
GST input (GSTR-2B) reconcile
Partial
Bill expense back to client
Live P&L tied to freelance income
Partial
Partial
Free starting point
Partial
Partial
In a sentence
Captured four ways, reconciled for GST, one freelancer P&L — not a bolt-on expense module.
Powerful expense + accounting with receipt OCR and card feeds. But it is a full accounting platform you configure, priced and shaped for teams — the freelance P&L is something you assemble inside it.
Good invoicing and basic expense tracking, now part of a broader accounting/CRM suite. GSTR-2B input reconciliation and four-way capture are not its focus.
Free and flexible. But every receipt is a manual row, GST input is never reconciled, nothing is billed back automatically, and the P&L is only as current as your last data-entry session.
fullPartial limited or via add-on not offered
Verified from each tool's public pricing & feature pages, May 2026 · plans change often, confirm before switching.
Questions, answered

Receipts to profit, plainly.

What freelancers ask before they let HourSlip run their expenses and P&L.

  • You get a private HourSlip inbox address. Forward any bill — or set vendors to send invoices there directly — and HourSlip reads the attachment, files it as a categorized expense with the GST split, and attaches the original. No app, no typing.
  • It reads vendor, amount, GST and date off a photographed or PDF receipt and pre-fills the fields for a one-tap confirm. You always see what it extracted before it's saved, so you can correct the rare mis-read.
  • Yes. HourSlip reconciles the GST on your expenses against your GSTR-2B and totals exactly how much input credit you can reclaim — marking each line matched, unmatched or reverse-charge (RCM). The total flows into your GST returns.
  • Flag the expense as billable, pick the client and an optional markup, and it queues onto that client's next invoice as a reimbursable line with the original receipt linked.
  • Yes — it's live. Every captured expense and invoiced rupee updates the profit-and-loss the moment it lands. Filter by any date range to see income, expenses, GST input credit and taxable profit current to the minute.
  • Yes. Export the P&L as CSV for your CA, or push the taxable-profit figure straight into the Tax planner, where it becomes the basis for your ITR-4.
Stop hoarding receipts

A live P&L, from
a forwarded email.

Capture it any way you like, reclaim the GST you paid, bill what's billable, and watch your profit stay current. The number your ITR-4 starts from — without a shoebox of receipts.

4 ways to captureGST input reclaimedMade in Bengaluru
Email
OCR
Bank CSV
Manual
Net profit · live
₹17.8L
one freelancer P&L