A ladder discount for tiles and sanitaryware dealers puts the discounts you quote a builder or contractor, such as 10% dealer discount and then 5% project discount, as separate steps on the same bill line. In Takkada, you type the steps on a sales invoice or sales order from the phone. The app compounds them into one total rounded to two decimals, 14.5% in this case, and works out the line amount from it. Forty boxes of tiles at ₹1,250 before GST come to ₹50,000; after 10% and then 5%, the taxable value is ₹42,750.00. The line shows "10% + 5% · total 14.50%", and the PDF prints a column for your named step beside Disc. and a Total Disc. column. Tally receives 14.5 in the item line's discount field, next to the list rate. The contractor reads the same steps he was quoted, and your Tally books carry the same ₹42,750.00.
A tiles dealer's week
Your counter sells to 80 to 150 contractors, plumbers and builders, with 30 to 60 days of credit on project accounts. A quote for a site goes out from the catalogue list: so much off for being a dealer customer, a further percentage because it is a project order, and sometimes a small extra on the sanitaryware to close the deal. The site supervisor approves the quote. Six weeks later, the accountant at the builder's office holds the bill until it matches that quote line for line.
When the bill carries one discount, say 14.5%, the accountant has to redo the sum to see whether it is 10 and 5 or something else. Payment waits while he does.
Naming the steps the way your quotes read
The owner sets the names once, in Settings, Invoices, Discount step names: Second discount and Third discount, up to 16 characters each. A tiles counter might use "Project" and "Special". The first step stays the line's usual Discount %, printed as Disc.
On the bill, add the item, tap its discount, and type 10 in Discount % and 5 in Project. The Item Discount sheet shows the box price after each step: 1250.00 → 1125.00 → 1068.75, total 14.50%. Leave the third box blank when the quote has only two steps.
The ₹50,000 line
Forty boxes of vitrified tiles at ₹1,250 a box, rate before GST, 18% GST.
- Gross: ₹50,000.00
- Total discount: 14.5%, so ₹7,250.00 off
- Taxable value: ₹42,750.00
- CGST ₹3,847.50 and SGST ₹3,847.50
- Line total: ₹50,445.00
The discount comes off before GST, and GST is worked on what remains, just as it is in Tally.
Mixed bills
A project bill often mixes tiles with a ladder and sanitaryware at a single flat discount. Each line takes its own steps. On the PDF, the Project column prints because at least one line uses it; the lines without a second step leave that cell blank and show their discount under Disc. alone.
If the site order was booked first as a sales order, the steps stay on the order and come across when you make the invoice from it, including when the goods went out on a delivery challan. Editing a saved invoice reopens its lines with their steps.
Returns are billed as credit notes with a plain discount per line.
What reaches Tally
The invoice syncs as a sales voucher with your rate and 14.5 in the discount field of the item line. The step names stay in Takkada, on the bill your customer holds. The method behind the rounding is in how the ladder discount works on a Tally invoice, and the module is at ladder discount in Tally.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Can each line on a tiles bill carry different steps?
A: Yes. Steps are typed per line, so tiles can carry 10% + 5% while a basin on the same bill carries one flat discount.
Q: Will the builder's accountant see the 10% and 5% separately?
A: Yes. The invoice PDF prints Disc. for the first step, a column for each named step, and Total Disc. for the compounded figure.
Q: Does a two-step ladder need the third box?
A: No. Leave it blank. A blank step is skipped, and the third column prints only if some line on that bill uses it.
Q: Is the project discount taken before GST?
A: Yes. All steps come off the rate before GST, and CGST and SGST are worked on the amount after the total discount.
Talk to us
WhatsApp us at https://wa.me/919435977777 with one of your project quotes and we will bill it the same way.