Getting Started Guide
Everything you need to run your books, your counter and your stock — explained module by module, screen by screen.
Point of Sale
Ring up a sale, take payment in cash, bank or online, and print the invoice — all from one screen.
Sales & Receivables
Quotations, sales orders, invoices, credit notes and customer payments, with allocation against specific bills.
Purchase & Payables
Purchase orders, supplier bills, expenses, debit notes and supplier payments in one connected flow.
Accounting
Bank and cash accounts, cheque register, journal vouchers, chart of accounts and contra entries.
Inventory & Manufacturing
Products and variants, stock adjustments, warehouse transfers, bills of material and production orders.
Reports
Over forty reports covering POS, sales, purchase, VAT and TDS, inventory, ledgers and fixed assets.
Start here
New to Lekhapal? Work through these four pages in order and you will have an account, a login and a working understanding of the dashboard.
| Step | Page | What you will do |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Accounting Basics | Learn the handful of accounting terms the software uses |
| 2 | Create an Account | Register your business and verify your email |
| 3 | Signing In | Sign in and recover a forgotten password |
| 4 | Dashboard | Read your business at a glance |
Find your way around
The manual follows the same structure as the left-hand menu inside Lekhapal, so whatever you are looking at on screen has a matching page here.
- Point of Sale — the counter workflow, from item selection to printed invoice.
- Sales — quotation → sales order → invoice → payment.
- Purchase — purchase order → bill → payment, plus expenses and returns.
- Accounting — where every transaction above lands in your books.
- Inventory — products, stock movement, manufacturing and master data.
- CRM — parties, leads and deals.
- Loyalty — points, rewards and repeat customers.
- Human Resources — employees, attendance, leave and payroll.
- Online Store — e-commerce orders, payments and settings.
- Reports — the full report catalogue, grouped by category.
- Administration — roles, users, settings, files and your subscription.
Search is the fastest route
Press the search box in the top bar and type what you are looking for — "credit note", "trial balance", "bounced cheque". The manual is fully indexed.
About this manual
This manual documents Lekhapal Retail. Screens are captured from a live retail account, so small differences are expected: the modules you can see depend on your subscription plan and on the role assigned to your user.
Amounts throughout the examples are in Nepalese Rupees (Rs.).