The Invoice Management System (IMS) was introduced on the GST portal from the October 2024 tax period enabling the taxpayers to take actions on invoices uploaded by their suppliers through GSTR-1, GSTR-1A, or IFF, including accepting, rejecting, or keeping such records pending in the system.

To continuously enhance the taxpayer convenience and facilitate ease of compliance, an IMS Offline Tool has now been introduced in the GST system. The said offline tool is based on MS excel making it easy to use by the taxpayers and it enables them to undertake actions on both individual as well as bulk invoices in an efficient manner.

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Invoice Management System offline tool streamlines GST invoice actions, validation, and JSON upload for taxpayer compliance. The GST Invoice Management System has been supplemented with an Excel-based offline tool to improve taxpayer convenience and ease of compliance. The utility enables recipient taxpayers to act on invoice records uploaded through GSTR-1, GSTR-1A, or IFF by accepting, rejecting, or keeping them pending, and to handle individual as well as bulk invoices efficiently. The offline process requires downloading IMS data in JSON format, opening it in the tool, taking the required action, validating the sheet, and generating a JSON file for upload back to the GST portal.