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Changes in Sovos E-way bill solution excel Utility as per New API Release

Changes in Sovos E-waybill Solution excel Utility as per New API Release

Recently NIC releases new API version 0.3 for generating E-will bill and made some fields related changes and some new validation checks related changes at NIC Portal.

On the same line, we also included all these changes in Sovos E-waybill Solution, excel utility as well as on the Web portal. Let’s see below are mentioned changes done at Sovos E-waybill Solution excel utility for generating new E-way bill:

New Field/Existing field

Previous Label

New label

Validation/Comments

New Field

Type of transaction

New field to identify nature of transaction.

Only fixed values are allowed. Click here to know master codes

This is a mandatory field.

New Field

GSTIN of Dispatch From Party

New field added to pass GSTIN of Dispatch from partywhere a type of transaction is Bill From-Dispatch From

This is an optional field.

New Field

Trade Name of Dispatch From Party

New field added to pass Trade Name of Dispatch From Party where a type of transaction is Bill From-Dispatch From

This is an optional field.

New Field

GSTIN of Ship To Party

New field added to pass GSTIN of Ship to Party where a type of transaction is Bill To-Ship To.

This is an optional field.

New Field

Trade Name of Ship To Party

New field added to pass Trade Name of Ship To Party where a type of transaction is Bill To-Ship To.

This is an optional field.

Existing Field

Total CESS Amount – Invoice Level

Total CESS AdvolAmount – Invoice Level

This is the field at invoice level

Ideally should be sum of cess advol value all line items. i.e.sum of (taxable value* Cess advol rate) for all line items)

New Field

Total CESS Non Advol Amount – Invoice Level

This is the field at invoice level

Ideally should be sum of cess non advol value line items.

Non Advol is volume based rate and hence has to be derived accordingly for every line item and then summed up to compute the total

New Field

Total Others Charges – Invoice Level

This is the field at invoice level

Any other values in the invoice which is not included at line item level but impacts the invoice value.

Existing Field

CESS Rate

Cess Advol Rate

This is a line item field.

Only fixed rates for Cess are allowed. Click here to know master codes

Existing Field

CESS Amount

CESS AdvolAmount

This is a line item field.

CESS Advalorem Amount of each line item in an invoice

Existing Field

Cess advaloremAmount

CESS Non AdvolAmount

This is a line item field.

Only fixed rates are allowed. Click here to know master codes

Optional New Field Defined by Sovos

Other Charges Amount

This is added at line item field.

Any other value of each line item in an invoice

New Validation Rules Added

Some new validation Rules are added. They are as follows:

1. Based on the combination of Supply type, sub-supply type and Document type validation rules are added

2. Transport id is mandatory now for generating Part A of E-way Bill.Also if you provided, Mode of transportation, Vehicle no. and transport document number then irrespective of transporter ID being passed or not, E Way Bill with Part B will be generated.3. Error message if “Total invoice value cannot be less than the sum of total assessible value and tax values.” 4. Alert message if “Total invoice value is more than the sum of total assessible value and tax values”.5. In the consistency with GSTR 1 here also all the fields related to invoice value, taxable value, tax rates, and tax amounts are now mandatory as per the intrastate or interstate transaction.

For queries or a detailed demo, contact us or write to us at support-india@sovos.com.