Move your data in from Zoho or a spreadsheet

Coming from Zoho Books

Take a backup out of Zoho, then go to Settings → Import & migration and upload the archive. Customers, items and opening balances come across in one step — you do not have to unzip it or map columns.

Coming from anywhere else

Tally, Vyapar, Busy, a spreadsheet a family member maintains — all of these can produce a CSV or Excel file, and that is all Dukaaan needs. Use the same Settings → Import & migration screen and choose the file.

Your columns will not be named what ours are, and they do not have to be. You are shown your own column headings and asked which is the customer name, which is the GSTIN, which is the opening balance. Get it right once and the mapping is saved for next time.

Check before you commit

An import shows you what it found and what it could not read before anything is saved. Rows with a problem are listed with the reason — a malformed GSTIN, a missing name — so you can fix them in the file and try again.

Import customers and items first, then opening balances. Balances need the customers to exist before they have somewhere to attach.

What does not come across

Your old invoices stay in your old system. Dukaaan starts your invoice numbering fresh, and your outstanding money arrives as opening balances rather than as reconstructed historical invoices.

That is deliberate. Re-creating past invoices would mean re-creating past GST returns, and a wrong one of those is worse than not having it.