tBiz vs myBillBook: real accounting behind the billing screen
myBillBook is built to make billing and collection painless on a phone, and it does that well. The gap it leaves is the one your accountant fills in a spreadsheet every quarter — and this page is about whether that gap has started costing you more than the software.
Choose tBiz if…
- You need a trial balance and a balance sheet from the system itself.
- Stock is held in more than one place, or carries batches and expiry.
- You have employees, attendance and a payroll to run.
- You want purchase orders and GRNs rather than purchase entries.
- You have more than one branch or company.
Stay on myBillBook if…
- Billing and collection reminders are the whole job and they are working.
- Your team is one or two people and your stock is simple.
- You want the lowest possible monthly cost.
- Your accounting genuinely is a quarterly CA exercise and you are content with that.
Feature by feature
| Capability | tBiz | myBillBook |
|---|---|---|
| Accounting | ||
| Double-entry vouchers & ledgers | Yes | Simplified |
| Keyboard-first voucher entry | Yes | No |
| Trial balance, P&L, balance sheet | Yes | Limited |
| Cost centres & branch reporting | Yes | No |
| Audit trail on every posting | Yes | Limited |
| GST & compliance | ||
| GST tax invoice & bill of supply | Yes | Yes |
| E-invoice IRN — payload built & validated | Prepared, not filed | Yes |
| E-way bill from the sales voucher | Prepared, not filed | Yes |
| GSTR-1, 3B & 2B reconciliation | Yes | Reports only |
| UAE VAT return & TRN handling | Yes | No |
| Bilingual Arabic–English invoices | No | No |
| Inventory & manufacturing | ||
| Multi-warehouse stock | Yes | Limited |
| Batch, expiry & serial numbers | Yes | Plan dependent |
| Bill of materials & production | Yes | No |
| Job work in and out | Yes | No |
| Barcode entry on mobile | Scanner, not camera | Yes |
| Beyond the books | ||
| Payroll, attendance & payslips | Included | Basic |
| HR shifts, leave & document expiry | Included | No |
| CRM, leads board & follow-ups | Included | Basic |
| Field staff GPS & geofenced attendance | Included | No |
| WhatsApp invoices & reminders | Included | Yes |
| Access & licensing | ||
| Runs in a browser, no install | Yes | Yes |
| Windows desktop build | Yes | Yes |
| Android app for billing & approvals | Yes | Yes |
| Unlimited users | Yes | Per seat |
| Multi-company & multi-branch | Yes | Plan dependent |
| Data import from Tally / Busy | Yes | Generic CSV |
Where the difference actually shows up
The quarterly rebuild
If your CA exports your data and rebuilds the accounts in their own software every quarter, you are paying for that twice — once in fees and once in the three weeks where nobody can answer what the business actually made.
Purchase orders
A purchase entry records what a bill said. A purchase order that stays open, a GRN that records what actually arrived, and a three-way match are what stop you paying for 500 when 480 came.
Branch numbers
The moment there are two locations, "how did the shop do" becomes a question the system either answers or does not. Branch-wise profit is a filter in tBiz and an export-and-add-up exercise elsewhere.
Where myBillBook still wins
Simplicity and price. Getting a small trader billing and chasing payments is a genuinely different product goal, and for that job a lighter tool is the better tool.
Questions about moving from myBillBook
Does myBillBook do double-entry accounting?
It produces the reports most small businesses need day to day, but the general ledger behind it is simplified — which is why a CA usually rebuilds the accounts elsewhere at period end. tBiz posts a balanced voucher for every document, so the trial balance is the system’s own.
What do I gain by moving?
The accounting your CA currently does outside the software, plus stock in multiple locations, purchase orders and GRNs, payroll, and branch-wise reporting. What you give up is simplicity, which is a real cost and worth being honest about.
Can I still bill from a phone?
Yes. The Android app covers billing, collections, approvals and stock, and the field app adds geofenced check-ins for staff who are out all day.
Will my invoice numbering carry over?
You set the series and the starting number when you open the company, so the numbering continues rather than restarting — which matters, because a broken series is a GST problem and not just an aesthetic one.
Growing out of myBillBook
Parties, items and opening balances come across as CSV, and a year-end boundary makes the move clean.
Other comparisons
Get the accounting out of the spreadsheet
Import your parties and items and produce a trial balance from your own books for the first time.