Get Started with

Manage your e-commerce business on Tally

One Time Setup

Enter:
Browntape login credentials
API key

Make sure Tally is running and open

atleast one Tally company.

Check F.A.Q.s for

Where I can find API key?

How to open companies in Tally?

Enter Browntape login

credentials and API key.

Select your tally company

from the list and enter
password if applicable.
(Note: Make sure tally is running & at least one
company is opened.)

Add more tally companies

by clicking on (+) icon.

Click on checkbox to start

Browntape-Tally when you
start computer.

One Time Setup

- final step
Once you select your Tally company,
click on Save & Continue button to
fetch channel name and set up sync
setting.

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Save your settings to

continue.

List of channels added in

your Browntape account
with status of each
channel.
Note: You can activate or de-activate
any channel in Browntape channel
setting.

Map Channels with

Tally company
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This section will show the

list of companies added in
account setup.
Once channel data is
fetched, map each
channel to Tally company.

Ledger Name
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Enter the ledger name for

each channel.
Browntape-Tally will
create ledger name in
respective companies for
each channel and all the
sales orders data will be
saved under that ledger
name.
Note: If ledger already exists,
then Browntape will enter sales
voucher under same ledger.

Save channel
settings

Once you map the

channels and enter ledger
name for each channel
then save the data by
clicking on Save button.
Note: You do not have to map or
enter ledger name each time
you run the software.

Edit channel setting

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If there are any new

channels that have been
added in your Browntape
account, you can edit the
channel setting to map
the channel and enter
new ledger name by
clicking on this icon.

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You can always go back to

Account setting by
clicking on setting icon
and download
Browntapes TnC and
F.A.Qs document.

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You can filter to check

only one companys
channels and ledgers.

Sync Setting
Once channel setting is completed,
you can set-up Sync Settings.
With Sync Setting, you can do the
following:
Decide whether to import order which will
update inventory or to record only sales data by
each channel which will not affect inventory.
Automatically sync orders and inventory.
Manually import orders from Browntape to tally.
Manually update Browntape inventory from tally.

Order Sync Setting

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You can select either option to

sync orders.

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Option 1: Sync orders and

update inventory (Creates Item
Invoice) will sync sales order
data in said period which will
affect inventory.
Option 2: Sync orders without
updating inventory (Create
vouchers) will enter sales data
without any item information or
inventory update in Tally. If you
just want to record sales
information by each channel
then you can select this option.

Order Auto Sync

Setting

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Toggle switch to ON or
OFF order auto sync.
If you want to sync orders
automatically then you can
switch on the toggle by
dragging the circle to the
right side.
You can stop auto sync by
dragging circle to the left
side.
(Browntape will check &

Inventory Auto Sync

Setting

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Browntape-Tally software will

update Browntape inventory
if toggle is switched on.

Sync Orders Manually

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Select the from and to

dates to import orders
manually from Browntape to
Tally.
By clicking on Import button,
all the orders in said period will
be fetched from Browntape and
recorded into Tally.

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By clicking on Import
button pop-up will come with
progress bar. You can cancel
the import operation by
clicking on Cancel button.
Upon cancelling, the orders
which are yet to be imported
in to Tally will not get added
but the orders before
cancelling the operation will
be recorded.

Sync Inventory
Manually

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By clicking on Sync Now

button, stock levels of all
SKUs from Tally will be
pushed to Browntape.
(Note: If the SKU code is not
present in Browntape
inventory, then all such SKUs
will be ignored. So make
sure that Tally and
Browntape inventory

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By clicking on Sync Now

button pop-up will come with
progress bar. You can cancel
the inventory sync
operation by clicking on
Cancel button at any time.

History
Browntape-Tally software will record
all the order and inventory sync
activities with status such as the
activity is failed, completed or
partially completed along with date
and time stamp.
You can download the report of each
sync operation.

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know when the sync activity was
started.

Sync History
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1 In Sync Type column, you will
be able to check whether the
activity was to update inventory
from Tally to Browntape or to
import orders from Browntape to
Tally.
You can also use a filter option to
check only one type of sync.

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shown here.
Status

Description

In
Progres
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When a sync operation is

running.

Comple
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When the sync

successfully completes
without any errors.

Partially
Compet
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When some part of the

sync successfully
completes and some part
fails. The report will show
which ones failed. You can
retry by clicking Retry.

Failed

When sync operation

completely fails due to
Internet connection not
being there or server
being unresponsive, Tally
not running, etc. You can
retry by clicking Retry.

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clicking on the column header to
check history by a particular
status.

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4 Click on Download button to
download report in excel/csv
format which will contain all the
order/inventory data which has
been synced with comments for
each order/SKU with
error/success message.