Every item on your menu has a tax class. Starters and mains carry GST. Beer, spirits and cocktails carry your state's liquor VAT instead, which is 0% in Karnataka.
Rasova keeps them apart on the bill, in your daily report and in the GSTR-1 export your CA files. Liquor goes in as a non-GST supply, food goes in the GST tables. Nobody has to split a column by hand at month end.
Before I wrote a line of the pub mode, I checked the tax maths against a thousand sample pub bills. The same checks run on every update.
Simplified to show the idea. Your printed bill also carries your GSTIN, FSSAI and the full tax summary.
Everything below is switched on when your outlet is set up as a pub or bar.
The price a guest gets depends on when the drink was ordered, not when the bill is paid. That's what guests expect, and it's what Rasova does.
- 4:55 PMPitcher ordered at the full price.
- 5:00 PMHappy hour starts on its own. New pitchers come in 20% off.
- 7:55 PMAnother pitcher, still at the happy hour price.
- 8:00 PMHappy hour ends. New rounds go back to the full price.
- 9:10 PMThe table pays. The 7:55 pitcher keeps its discount. A bill that's already printed never changes.
- Liquor rules differ by state. Rasova ships with Karnataka's: no VAT on liquor at the bar. If you're in another state, we set your rate together during setup, and I'd ask your CA to check the first week of bills.
- Rasova needs internet to bill. If your connection drops, keep a phone hotspot ready. Offline billing is on my list, and it isn't built yet.
- Excise is outside Rasova. It doesn't keep your excise registers or file anything with the excise department.
- Liquor can't go on delivery-app orders, and Rasova won't let it.
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"When a pub owner asked me two things, can it keep beer out of GST and can it run our pitcher offers, I didn't have a good answer. So I built both properly, tested them against a thousand sample bills, and only then wrote this page."