Administration
Plans and licensing
BastraLekha is offered two ways: hosted by APIE on one yearly plan, or licensed to run on your own servers.
Hosted or self-hosted
| Hosted (subscription) | Self-hosted (licence) | |
|---|---|---|
| Start | Sign up online — 30-day free trial with 1,000 credits | A pilot at one outlet, arranged with APIE |
| Pay | ₹60,000 a year + GST, with 60,000 credits; top-ups as needed | A licence for your installation — quoted per organisation |
| Runs on | APIE's hosting, data stored in India | Your servers or a state data centre |
| Updates and GST rates | Included, applied for you | Included while the licence runs |
| Credits | One per sales bill | None |
The hosted plan is described in full under subscription and credits. For a self-hosted quotation, call 88-01-800008 or write to hello@apie.tech.
Statutory rule packs
GST rates and statutory formats change on the government's schedule, not ours. They arrive as signed, dated rule packs that the installation checks and applies locally — none of your data leaves your servers. A rate change needs no new software.
If a pack expires, the system carries on with the last rates it had and shows a permanent banner naming the date they are from, so nobody unknowingly files from stale rates.
The self-hosted licence
- Issued for your deployment and installed under Settings → Licence, which also shows its status and the rule pack in use.
- Reminders start 90 days before it expires.
- If it lapses, new bills and vouchers pause after 15 days, and the system becomes read-only after 30 — but your records are never deleted, locked away or withheld, and export always works. The full terms are in the data charter.