Yojika ships with the five GST rates most shops need — Exempt, 5%, 12%, 18% and 28%. If your shop bills at a rate that is not on that list, or you want a different rate to come up first on a new item, you can change the list yourself.
Open Settings → Business & Tax and find the Tax rates card.
What the card shows
Each row is one rate you can pick when you add an item or make a bill:
- The name — what you will see in the GST dropdown. It starts as the rate itself (
18%), and you can rename it to anything that suits your shop. - The rate underneath, always shown as a percentage, so a renamed row still tells you what it charges.
- Default — the one rate a brand-new item starts on.
- added by your shop — marks a rate you added, or one Yojika picked up from your own items when you upgraded, as opposed to one of the five it ships with.
Add a rate
Click Add tax rate, give it a name, and type the percentage — 3, 18, or 2.5 for a half rate. Leave Cess blank unless you need it (see below), then click Save.
Two rates cannot share a name, and two rates cannot charge exactly the same thing. If you already have 18%, Yojika will not let you add a second rate at 18% under another name — the two would look identical in the dropdown and you would have no way to tell them apart.
A rate can have at most two decimal places. 2.5 and 12.75 are fine; 12.345 is not, and Yojika tells you rather than quietly rounding it.
Choose the default
Click the ☆ on any rate to make it the default. New items open on it. Changing the default never touches an item you have already saved.
You cannot delete the default rate — make another rate the default first, then delete it.
Tax groups — GST plus cess
Some goods, mostly tobacco, aerated drinks and large cars, carry compensation cess on top of GST. If you sell them, make a rate that carries both: name it something like 28% + 12% cess, put 28 in GST and 12 in Cess.
That row is a tax group. On the item form a Tax group box appears next to Cess — pick your group and both the GST rate and the cess fill in together, instead of you remembering to type the cess every time.
Yojika does not need a group for CGST and SGST. It works those out for you from a single rate: a bill inside your own state splits automatically into CGST and SGST at half each, and a bill to another state becomes one IGST at the full rate.
Edit or delete a rate
Use ✎ to change a rate’s name or its percentage, and 🗑 to remove it.
Changing a rate never changes a bill you have already made. A bill you issued at 18% stays at 18% for good — that is the number on the customer’s copy and in your GST return. The same is true of your items: an item stays on the rate you gave it. If you edit 18% to become 20%, your existing 18% items stay at 18%, and you will see 18% in the dropdown as an extra entry until you change them.
A rate that is in use cannot be deleted. If any item or any live bill still uses it, Yojika refuses and tells you so, rather than removing it and leaving those rows pointing at a rate that no longer exists.
Importing items
When you import items from a CSV, the GST Rate column has to be one of your tax rates. If you add 3% here first, a file with 3 in that column imports cleanly. If you deleted a rate, files that still use it will be rejected row by row, with the list of rates you do have.
Using more than one device
Your tax rates stay on the device you set them up on — they are not shared by Cloud Sync. This does not affect your bills: each item and each bill line stores its own rate, so a bill made on one device shows exactly the same tax everywhere. You may just find a rate you added on the shop computer is not offered on the phone until you add it there too.