A restaurant needs table and order management, kitchen order tickets (KOT), a menu with modifiers, recipe-based stock and often online-order integration. GST on most standalone restaurant service is 5% without input tax credit. FundRaksha Book has none of the table, KOT or recipe features: it is shop billing. Use a restaurant POS for the dining room; Book suits a bakery, sweet or snack counter that sells goods over the counter.
What restaurant billing software must do
- Tables and running orders. Open a table, add items as guests order, split or merge bills.
- KOT. Each order prints or shows in the kitchen, so food goes out in the right sequence.
- Menu with variants. Half and full plates, add-ons, spice levels.
- Recipe-based stock. Selling a paneer tikka should reduce paneer, onions and oil by the recipe quantity.
- Online orders. Many restaurants take orders through food delivery platforms and need them in one system.
- GST as a service. A restaurant bill is a supply of service; most standalone restaurants charge 5% and cannot claim input tax credit.
Why FundRaksha Book is not the right tool for a dining room
Book is built for shops: you buy goods on a supplier bill, Book creates stock and a barcode for each batch, and you sell those goods at a counter. It has no tables, no KOT, no menu modifiers, no recipes and no online-order integration, and every line on a Book bill must come from stock that was entered as a purchase. Forcing a restaurant into that model would mean entering cooked dishes as if they were bought goods, which is slow and gives you wrong stock.
We would rather say this plainly than have you find out after a week. For a dining room, choose a restaurant POS that has the features above.
Where Book can still help a food business
- Bakery, sweet or snack counter. Selling bread, biscuits, sweets and namkeen by weight or piece over the counter. See billing software for a bakery or sweet shop.
- A retail shelf inside the restaurant. Packaged items such as chocolates or packaged drinking water sold as goods.
- Supplier credit. Tracking what you owe vegetable, dairy and gas suppliers, alongside expenses and a profit report.
Supplies you buy carry their own GST: commercial LPG is generally 18%, paneer nil, ghee 5%. A restaurant charging 5% without input tax credit cannot set these off, so they are a cost.
FundRaksha Book is free for the first 300 invoices, with every feature switched on and no card needed. Sales and purchase invoices both count. After that, Pro is ₹999 a year for unlimited invoices, paid by UPI, card or net banking; the site says prices include applicable taxes as charged at checkout. See book.fundraksha.com.
Worked example: GST on a restaurant bill
A standalone restaurant in Pune (regular registration) serves a table food worth ₹2,000.
- GST at 5% on restaurant service: ₹100 (CGST ₹50 + SGST ₹50).
- Bill: ₹2,100.
- The ₹540 of 18% GST it paid on a commercial LPG refill that month cannot be claimed as credit.
If the same restaurant opts for composition, it pays 5% of turnover as composition tax and issues a bill of supply without charging GST to the customer. Confirm which applies to you with your CA, particularly if you operate inside a hotel.
Sources
- book.fundraksha.com (features, pricing and FAQ, checked 21 October 2026)
- taxinformation.cbic.gov.in/view-pdf/1010436/ENG/Notifications (Notification 9/2025-Central
- cbic-gst.gov.in (CGST Act, 2017, Sections 10 and 31; CGST Rules, 2017, Rules 46 and 49; No
- cbic-gst.gov.in (Notification 11/2017-Central Tax (Rate) as amended: restaurant service; S
Last reviewed: 2026-10-21. Information for Indian businesses; not legal advice.