Chart of Accounts

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The client's whole ledger list in one place, mapped to Tally groups and carrying opening balances. It gathers the ledger names the rest of Quillix already produces and adds the two things nothing else owned — opening balances, and manual control accounts like bank, cash and suspense.

Rebuild before every export

The chart is a snapshot of the ledger names that existed when it was built. New customers, vendors or expense categories are not in it until you rebuild — and a ledger missing from the chart is a ledger Tally invents for itself on import.

SCREENSHOT · the chart with its account-type filter row, group column, opening-balance column and the running difference figure

Build from the client's existing data

Choose Build from my data. It assembles a chart from the ledger names Quillix already generates — customers, vendors, sales and purchase ledgers, expense ledgers.
Review what came through and how each ledger was grouped.
Rebuild from data after a period of entry, or after an import, and review what has been added before exporting again.

Do not hand-rename ledgers

The names are produced by the same helper the Tally voucher export uses. That is what guarantees a name here and a name on a posted voucher are identical — renaming one to something Quillix would not generate breaks exactly that guarantee.

Import the client's real Tally chart

Reads the chart out of the client's existing Tally company, so you work from what they actually have rather than what Quillix would have created.

In Tally, export the All Masters XML from the client's company.
Choose Import from Tally here and upload that file.
Quillix classifies each ledger by group and grades the quality of what it found.

XML, not Excel

Use Tally's XML export. Tally writes those files in a text encoding that a spreadsheet-only importer misreads.

Add a control account by hand

For the accounts no transaction produces — bank, cash, suspense, capital, round-off, TDS.

Choose Add account, name it, and put it in the right group.
Give it an opening balance if it is a balance-sheet account.
To remove one added in error, delete it from its row — then rebuild or re-export so the exported chart matches.

Deleting here is local

Removing an account here does not remove it from the client's Tally company. If it already exists there, it has to be dealt with in Tally too.

Filter the chart

Use the filter row: All, Balance sheet, Assets, Liabilities, Equity, Income or Expense.
Balance sheet is the useful one when setting opening balances — it shows only the accounts that can take one, saving you scrolling past every income and expense ledger.
Search by name alongside the filter to find a specific ledger.

Act on the health check

Grades the chart and names what is wrong with it — ledgers in the wrong group, missing detail, accounts that will not import cleanly.

Read the chart-of-accounts health summary.
Download the repair plan — a workbook spelling out exactly what to change and where.
Fix what it flags, either here or in Tally.

Grouping matters more than it looks

Group drives which side an opening balance sits on and which reporting bucket the account lands in. A ledger in the wrong group is not a cosmetic problem.

Set opening balances

Enter the opening balance against each account that has one, with its debit or credit side.
Watch the difference figure — it should come to zero when the balances are complete and correct.

Note

Only balance-sheet accounts can take an opening balance. Income and expense accounts reset each year, so Quillix does not offer one for them.

Export the chart back to Tally

Choose Export to Tally once the chart is clean and the difference is zero.
Import the file into the client's Tally company.

Check the names first

A name that differs by even a word creates a second ledger rather than updating the first — and unpicking that in a live company file is unpleasant.

Last updated 5 Aug 2026