E-WAY BILL PORTAL

Vide Notification No. 09/2018-Central Tax, dated 23.01.2018 the Central Government notified the following websites for the particular purposes-

• www.gst.gov.in – The Common Goods and Services Tax Electronic Portal for facilitating registration, payment of tax, furnishing of returns and computation and settlement of integrated tax;
• www.ewaybillgst.gov.in – the Common Goods and Services Tax Electronic Portal for furnishing electronic way bill.

The website www.gst.gov.in is managed by the Goods and Services Tax Network, a company incorporated under the provisions of section 8 of the Companies Act, 2013.

The web site www.ewaybillgst.gov.in is managed by the National Informatics Centre, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India.

The above said notification came into effect from 16.01.2018.

Features of the portal

The following are the features of e-way bill portal-

• User can create masters of his customers, suppliers, products for easy generationof e-way bill;
• Multiple modes for e-way bill generation for ease of use;
• Alerts will be sent to users via mail and SMS on registeredmail id/mobile number;
• Consolidated e-way bill can be generatedfor vehicle carrying multiple consignments;
• User can monitor e-way bills generated on his account/behalf;
• Users can create sub-users and roles on portal for generation of e-way bill;
• Vehicle number can be entered either by the supplier/recipient of goods who generates e-way bill or the transporter;
• QR code will be printed on each e-way bill for ease of seeing details.

Menus

The e-way bill portal contains the following menu bars-

• Home;
• Laws;
• Help;
• Search;
• Contact us;
• Registration; and
• Login.

Home

When the website of the gst e-way bill is opened the Home page will appear.   In the right side of the home page the following can be seen-

• Latest updates as on a particular date;
• Updates as on a particular date;
• Previous updates.

In the Home page the following important links are provided-

• Website policy;
• GST common portal;
• National Portal;
• Security Policy;
• Central Board of Excise;
• National Informatics Centre;
• Disclaimer;
• State tax websites;
• Goods and Services Network.

Laws

    In the ‘Laws’ menu bar-

• Rules-
  • In this menu, any person select the Rules for any State by drop down selection;
• Forms-
  • The following forms are available in this menu-
    • EWB 01;
    • EWB 02;
    • EWB 03;
    • EWB 04;
    • ENR 01;
    • INV 01.
• Notification-
  • In this menu, the notifications issued by any State can be searched by drop down selection.For example, if ‘Tamil Nadu’ is selected, then the website of Tamil Nadu GST will appear and one can obtain any information relating to GST in respect of Tamil Nadu system.
• Circulars-
  • In this menu, the circulars issued by any State can be searched by drop down selection.For example, if ‘Tamil Nadu’ is selected, then the website of Tamil Nadu GST will appear and one can obtain any information relating to GST in respect of Tamil Nadu system.

Help menu

• In this menu the following are available-
  • User manual-
    • Web system;
    • SMS System;
    • Bulk Generation System;
    • API System.
  • CBT(Computer based training)
    • In this menu, the following computer based training are available-
      • Registration;
      • Enrolment;
      • Menu Operations;
      • Generating – E-way Bills;
      • Vehicle updation;
      • Cancelling e-way bill.
  • FAQs-
    • In this menu, FAQs are available for the following topics-
      • General Portal;
      • Registration;
      • Enrolment;
      • Login;
      • E-way Bill;
      • Updating transactions/Vehicle/Part – B Details;
      • Cancelling e-way bill;
      • Rejecting e-way bill;
      • Consolidated e-way bill;
      • Other modes;
      • Other options;
      • Miscellaneous
  • Advertisement
    • In this menu, the advertisements by any State can be searched by drop down selection.For example, if ‘Tamil Nadu’ is selected, then the website of Tamil Nadu GST will appear and one can obtain any information relating to GST in respect of Tamil Nadu system.
  • Tools-
    • In this menu, the bulk generation tools are available-
      • Attributes-
        • E-way Bill attributes;
        • Consolidated e-way bill attributes;
      • Sample JSON files-
        • E-way Bill JSON formats;
        • Consolidated e-way bill JSON format;
        • Vehicle No. updation JSON format;
      • JSON Preparation tools-
        • Eway bill JDON preparation;
        • Consolidated e-way bill JSON preparation;
        • Masters JSON preparation;
        • Vehicle No. updation JSON preparation.

Search

• In this menu the following are available-
  • Tax payers search;
  • Transporters;
  • Products and Services;
  • Notifications;
  • E-way bill.

Contact us

In this menu ‘help desk’ number is provided which is 0120-4888999.   Another menu is Log/Track the issue in GST.  One may get specific State helpdesk by dropdown method.

Registration

• In this menu the following facilities are available-
  • E-way bill registration;
  • Enrolment for transporters;
  • Eway bill for citizens.

Login

If anyone wants to have access for registration and for the purposes of e-way bill he has to login in the system.  He is to enter his ‘user name’ and his ‘password’.  Then he enters the digits and words contain in the ‘captcha’ and then click ‘login’.   If the user name and password are correct then he can enter into the system.   Otherwise he could not do so.  If he forgets either password or user name or ‘Trans ID’ he can retrieve the same by clicking the respective bar.