Export Compliance

When you invoice clients outside India, the rules change: those sales are exports under India's foreign-exchange law, and their invoices need to look and be numbered differently from your domestic ones. GST Manager handles all of that for you, so an export invoice comes out FEMA-compliant without any manual work.

The terms you'll see

FEMA is India's Foreign Exchange Management Act — the law governing money received from abroad. A Purpose Code (from the RBI) classifies why a foreign payment is coming in. A SAC code classifies the service sold. Remittance details are the bank instructions your overseas client uses to pay you.

What makes an export invoice different

For any non-Indian client, GST Manager produces an export invoice that carries:

• FEMA declarations — the wording required on invoices for exported services.
• Export-specific sequential numbering — a separate, continuous invoice-number series for exports, kept distinct from your domestic numbering so both stay clean and auditable.
• Purpose and SAC codes — the RBI Purpose Code and SAC for each line item, pulled from your defaults and any item rules you've set.
• Per-currency bank / remittance details — the correct bank and remittance instructions for the invoice's currency, so a client paying in USD sees your USD account and a client paying in EUR sees your EUR account.

Where you configure it

These settings live under Addons → GST Manager → System Setup:

• Export Settings — FEMA declarations, export-specific numbering, and export formatting.
• Bank Details — remittance details, configurable per invoice currency so each currency can show its own account.

The Setup Wizard collects both of these in Step 6 — Bank & Export Details, so if you ran the wizard they're likely already in place.

Set your own bank and export details

Bank and export details ship with sample placeholders. Replace them with your real information before you send export invoices, or the placeholders will print on live customer documents.

How it ties into your reports

Every export invoice you raise feeds the Export Invoices CSV under Addons → GST Manager → Tax Reports. That report lists your paid non-Indian invoices for a chosen date range, including the Purpose Code and SAC Code per line item — exactly the export data you need for reporting. Because export invoices use their own numbering series, they stay separate from the domestic GSTR-1 export as well. See tax reports for the full set of downloads.

Where to go next

• Item Rules — the SAC & Purpose codes on each line
• Tax reports — the Export Invoices CSV
• Configuration — Export Settings and Bank Details
• Back to the overview