GST E-invoice portal and GST Portal mismatch query related to HSN/SAC summary

[milan bamal]

Friend, in my firm we issue service bills. For accounting and e-invoicing, I use the software HostBooks.

Now suppose I generate e-invoices for 10 bills through HostBooks. The software automatically considers a quantity of 1 for each bill, even though all the settings are correct.

However, when I upload the SAC summary on the GST portal, the quantity does not appear. This is because as soon as I enter a service SAC code, the quantity column gets disabled (frozen).

So on one hand, the e-invoice portal shows quantity for the bills, and on the other hand, the GST portal shows no quantity.

Will this create any problem in the future?

AI Summary

GST e-invoice quantity mismatch for services is a technical issue where taxable value and tax reporting control reconciliation.
A mismatch between service e-invoice quantity and the absence of a quantity field in the GST return for SAC-based services does not create a compliance issue where taxable value, tax rate, tax amount, service description, and other return data are correctly reported. For services, quantity is not a relevant reporting parameter under the GST return format, and e-invoicing software may populate a default quantity such as "1" only for system validation. The critical reconciliation points are the IRN, taxable value, and tax particulars, together with consistency across books, e-invoices, and GSTR-1.