From paper, to Tally, to a team that does the work for you.
Tally brought Indian business out of the paper ledger and onto the computer — a shift so complete that "Tally" became the word for keeping accounts. Bringing your books to maaya.works is the next move in that same line: not a new place to type entries, but a team that enters them for you — on books that stay entirely yours, where every entry is traceable and nothing posts without your approval.
What Tally got right — and why it lasted
Tally didn't win by accident. It earned three decades of trust by getting the hard things right, in an era when getting them right was genuinely difficult.
- It computerised Indian accounting when the only computer was a desktop.Before Tally, the ledger was a book. Tally put it on a screen and made double-entry something an ordinary business could run.
- It spoke Indian business, not imported business.Vouchers, GST, the way an Indian trader actually thinks about a transaction — Tally fit the country instead of asking the country to fit it.
- It made the books yours.Your data, on your machine, under your control. That instinct was right then, and it is still right now — we keep it.
We're not here to argue Tally was wrong. We're here because the ground it was built on has shifted — and the thing it couldn't do, because nobody could do it yet, is now possible.
Three shifts. The third is the one happening now.
| The shift | What moved | Who still did the work |
|---|---|---|
| Paper → Desktop | The ledger moved from a book to a screen | A person, typing every entry |
| Desktop → Cloud | The books moved off the one machine in the back office | A person, typing every entry |
| Cloud → a team that does the work | The work itself moves to a team that does it for you | The team does it. You approve. |
Every earlier shift changed where your books live. None of them changed who does the typing. maaya.works is the first that does — and it can only do it because the books underneath are a true system of record. See why the books run the AI →
You keep everything that mattered
- Your books, fully yours — every entry attributable, every change traceable.
- GST done the Indian way, the way you already think about it.
- The voucher logic and habits your team already knows.
You leave only the part that was always tedious
- Being the data-entry clerk for your own business.
- Waiting for month-end to find out how the month went.
- One desktop in the back office being the single point of truth — and failure.
Bringing your books over
- Bring in your data (about 15 minutes)Your masters, your balances, your history — imported, not retyped. We bring across a copy; your original Tally file is never touched and stays your safe archive.
- Check it against what you knowYour opening balances and trial balance match what you closed on in Tally. You confirm the books tie out before anything goes live — no surprises, no leap of faith.
- Meet your teamFrom day one, the repetitive work starts getting done for you — and every action waits in your approval queue, with its reasoning shown, before it touches your books.
Want your CA in the loop first?
Send your accountant a link. Every entry stays approval-gated with a full audit trail, so they can review the books before you bring anything across.
Straight answers
Will I lose my data?
No. Your Tally file is never modified — it stays your archive. We bring a copy of your masters, balances and history into maaya.works (hosted in India, ap-south-1), and you confirm the trial balance ties out before anything is live.
Does my CA still read my books?
Yes — and most find them easier to read. You get proper Dr/Cr vouchers, GST-ready entries and a complete, append-only audit trail where every action is timestamped, attributed and approved by a person. Nearly every CA in India reads Tally fluently; the trail here is cleaner, not stranger.
What does it cost?
Bringing your books over is free, and the platform is free forever for a single user. You only pay when you hire an AI team member to do the work for you — a fixed monthly price per hire, with no per-seat licence to simply keep your books.
How long does it take?
The import itself takes about fifteen minutes. There is no fixed switch-over deadline — you can run both side by side for as long as you like and move fully across only when the numbers and the workflow feel right.
Tally got you off paper. Ready for the work itself to get done?
Bring your books over — free. They stay yours the whole way, and the team waits for your approval.