Export Compliance

Invoices issued to clients outside India qualify as export supplies under Indian foreign-exchange regulations:

• Automated formatting: Applies export declarations and foreign currency layouts.
• FEMA compliance: Embeds required statutory declarations on international invoices.
• Dedicated numbering: Keeps international transactions isolated from domestic invoice series.

Terminology

• FEMA: Foreign Exchange Management Act governing international remittances.
• Purpose Code: Reserve Bank of India (RBI) code classifying incoming foreign currency.
• SAC Code: Service Accounting Code classifying the billed service.
• Remittance Details: Multi-currency banking instructions for international transfers.

What makes an export invoice different

For non-Indian clients, GST Manager automatically generates compliant export invoices:

• FEMA declarations: Statutory legal text for exported service transactions.
• Sequential export numbering: Independent continuous numbering series isolated from domestic invoices.
• Purpose & SAC codes: Line-item classification codes pulled from defaults or item rules.
• Per-currency remittance: Currency-matched bank details (e.g. USD accounts for USD invoices; EUR for EUR).

Where you configure it

Configure export parameters under Addons → GST Manager → System Setup:

• Export Settings: Manage FEMA legal text, export numbering prefixes, and invoice layout formats.
• Bank Details: Add bank accounts and SWIFT/IBAN instructions mapped per billing currency.
• Setup Wizard: Configurable during Step 6 (Bank & Export Details) of the Setup Wizard.

Set your own bank and export details

Bank and export details ship with sample placeholders. Replace them with your real information before you send export invoices, or the placeholders will print on live customer documents.

How it ties into your reports

Export transactions feed directly into reporting tools under Addons → GST Manager → Tax Reports:

• Dedicated export CSV: Generates filtered reports of paid non-Indian invoices over selected date ranges.
• Line-item codes: Includes exact Purpose Codes and SAC codes per line item for foreign inward remittance reporting.
• Separation of records: Keeps export data isolated from domestic GSTR-1 CSV exports. See tax reports.

Where to go next

• Item Rules — the SAC & Purpose codes on each line
• Tax reports — the Export Invoices CSV
• Configuration — Export Settings and Bank Details
• Back to the overview