Examine the potential of
effortless invoicing.
BRAccount keeps the ledger, applies Nepal VAT on its own, bills electronically to IRD's CBMS - and answers for every rupee on dashboards that move.
What is BRAccount?
BRAccount is accounting software for businesses in Nepal, built by Black Rock. It keeps the general ledger, applies Nepal VAT by rule, issues electronic invoices to the Inland Revenue Department's Central Billing Monitoring System (CBMS), stamps every document with Bikram Sambat dates, and reports on live dashboards.
Built against the primary sources: IRD - CBMS API Technical Document for Software Developers · Inland Revenue Department, Nepal. Last reviewed 2026-09-05.
- VAT rates since Finance Act 2083
- 0 / 5 / 13%
- turnover threshold for mandatory CBMS
- Rs 10 crore
- in the Annex 5 Standard View
- 20 columns
- to file the monthly VAT return (अनुसूची-१०)
- 25 days
- record retention under VAT Act s16
- 6 years
- Annex 6 bills: tax, abbreviated, non-VAT
- 3 formats
Accounting made for Nepali books
Plans for every stage of the books
No invented price tags - three ways this product actually runs today.
Your company, your PAN, filing for real
quoted yearly · about 10% less
- Live IRD taxpayer-portal credentials
- Your PAN, outlet series and HS codes
- NFRS-shaped chart of accounts
- Migration of your opening balances
- Same design system, end to end
- CBMS production channel cut-over
- Compliance checklist run on your setup
Scoped to your books
The checklist speaks for itself
Straight from the live compliance report - विद्युतीय बीजक कार्यविधि २०८२.
Transaction data cannot be deleted or altered
Cancellations recorded as reverse entries with reason
Sales returns kept in a separate register
Frequently asked questions
Nepal e-billing, VAT and what BRAccount actually does - in two sentences each.
What is BRAccount?
BRAccount is Nepal-ready accounting software by Black Rock. It runs the ledger, applies VAT automatically, issues electronic invoices to the IRD's CBMS and reports on live dashboards.
Does BRAccount comply with the Electronic Billing Procedure (विद्युतीय बीजक कार्यविधि)?
Yes. It implements the software standards of the procedure: no deletion of issued bills, print-once with 'Copy of Original' counting, the 20-column Annex 5 Standard View, a QR code on every invoice, an activity log, the prescribed sales, purchase and return registers, and the CBMS web API. Listing with the Department (Annex 1) and permission from your tax office (Annex 3) remain your filings; the forms come pre-filled.
What is CBMS, and does BRAccount sync invoices in real time?
CBMS is the Inland Revenue Department's Central Billing Monitoring System. BRAccount posts each submitted invoice to its bill endpoint and each credit note to its bill-return endpoint the moment they are submitted, retries failures hourly, and can be verified against the IRD's sandbox credentials first.
Which Nepal VAT rates does it handle?
The standard 13% plus the 0% and 5% rates introduced by Finance Act 2083, with the 10% VAT relief on electronic payments (an effective 11.7%) applied on the bill. The 2083 levies are configured too: education and health equity fees at 3%, luxury fee at 2% and skill promotion fee at 0.5%.
Who must connect to CBMS in Nepal?
Under the FY 2083/84 budget, businesses with turnover above Rs 10 crore (100 million) must connect; an earlier IRD circular cited Rs 20 crore, and banks and financial institutions that do not bill consumers directly are excluded. Confirm your position with your tax office.
Does it use Bikram Sambat dates?
Yes. Every invoice carries both the Bikram Sambat and Gregorian date and the Nepali fiscal year (for example 2083.084), using a converter verified for every day from 1975 to 2100 BS.
Which invoice formats does it print?
All three Annex 6 layouts: the Tax Invoice (कर बीजक), the Abbreviated Tax Invoice (संक्षिप्त कर बीजक) and the income-tax-only Invoice - each with the QR code, PAN, BS and AD dates and the 'Copy of Original (N)' marking on reprints.
How much does BRAccount cost?
The demo is free with no sign-up. Production, with your own PAN and live IRD filing, is quoted per company, monthly or about 10% less yearly. Self-hosted runs the same stack on your own servers.
Can I self-host BRAccount, and is it open source underneath?
Yes. It ships as a Docker Compose stack, so your books stay on hardware you control, with database and file backups you can script.