Your books live in Tally. You usually don't. Most of the questions someone actually needs answered — what's this party's outstanding, did that payment come in, what did we bill last week — show up when you're away from the desktop: on a delivery run, in a supplier's office, replying to a client on WhatsApp. AutoTally puts those answers where you already are.
The mobile app
The AutoTally mobile app gives you your books on your phone: party balances, ledger statements, the day-to-day numbers you'd otherwise have to be at your Tally desktop to dig up. It's built mirror-first — a copy of your company's data syncs from Tally into AutoTally, so the app has something real to show you even when the Tally machine is switched off, asleep, or just not reachable from wherever you're standing. Open the app on a train with no signal back to your office and your last-known statements are still there, not a blank screen.
Ask your books a question on WhatsApp
The same data is reachable from WhatsApp. Message the AutoTally assistant the way you'd message a colleague — "what's outstanding from this party," "show me this month's purchases," "what did we post yesterday" — and it answers from your actual books, not a canned script. It's the same underlying data the mobile app reads, so the answer on WhatsApp and the answer in the app agree with each other.
The assistant isn't read-only either. It can propose an entry from the conversation itself — a payment, a receipt, a journal. Nothing posts to Tally on the assistant's say-so, though: every proposed entry comes back to you as something to review and approve. By default that happens in the AutoTally app — the assistant sends you a link straight from the WhatsApp thread. If you'd rather not switch apps, in-WhatsApp approval is a setting you can turn on, and from then on you can approve or reject the same entry without leaving the conversation. Either way, you stay the one who confirms what actually changes.
Live reads from your own Tally
The mirror is deliberately not the only way in. For a number that has to reflect what's on the Tally machine right now — not what synced last — AutoTally can read straight from your own Tally through a signed browser extension that runs on the machine Tally is installed on. It talks to Tally locally, on the same box, and relays what it reads back to the app or the WhatsApp assistant. Your books don't route through a copy sitting on a third-party server to get that answer; the extension is the bridge, not a second home for your data.
Works with cloud-hosted Tally too
Some businesses run Tally on a locked-down cloud desktop instead of a machine in the office — an official TallyPrime Cloud Access VM. You reach that VM through its own proprietary connection client, not a browser tab on your side, and the VM itself won't let you install ordinary third-party software. AutoTally still reaches a Tally running this way, through the same signed browser extension — but there, it's installed inside a browser running on the cloud VM itself, not on your own machine. It talks to that VM's Tally exactly the way it would talk to a Tally next to it in your office: desktop-app parity, without a separate installed binary — the extension is the one thing already sitting in that box's own browser. If your Tally lives in the cloud rather than in your office, this is still how AutoTally gets to it.
What this changes day to day
None of this replaces Tally — it's still where your books actually live and where the ledger of record is kept. What changes is where you can ask a question or approve an entry. A partner asking for a running balance doesn't have to wait for you to be back at a desk. A payment that needs recording doesn't have to wait for someone to open Tally. The phone becomes a legitimate place to work from, carrying the same numbers — and the same write-safety — Tally already gives you at the desktop.
Plans are listed at /pricing. If you're a Tally partner, CA, or creator and would rather bring this to your own clients or audience, read about the partner program.