Personal computers had gaining popularity in India those days. Peutronics (The Company that developed Tally, co-founded by Shyam Sunder Goenka and his son Bharat Goenka in 1986) used this opportunity.  The initial name of Tally is Peutronics Financial Accountant.  The version released in the market is Tally4.5. In 1999, the company changed its name as Tally Solutions Pvt Ltd.  Auditors and Accountants who used to maintain large volumes of hard-bound notebooks were amazed at the ability of Tally to calculate Balance sheets and Profit Loss accounts within seconds. All you need to do is just create Ledgers and enter vouchers. Tally will do the rest. It will create all the statements, Trial Balance and Balance Sheet for you.

The subsequent Tally releases are Tally 5.4, Tally 6.3, Tally 7.2, Tally 8.1 and Tally 9.0, Tally ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning). These releases had been developed to support for Inventory used to stock maintenance of the company, Payroll which used to employee salary calculation and wages payments and Multi Lingual support in Many Indian languages Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Marathi and more.

Versions of Tally:

Tally 4.5 (1988): This version MS-DOS support financial accounting system. It takes care of accounting activities only such as Ledgers Classification Vouchers Entry. It provides simple financial reports and bill wise analysis of debtors and creditors in the business.

Tally 5.0(: This version is an upgraded version to tally 4.5 and it works in windows operating system. Inventory modules were introduced in this version, which involves detailed inventory, structure invoicing and integrating accounting and Inventory records.

Tally 5.4: This version is an improved module over the version 5.0 where it is capable of converting earlier data formats into the current data format. This is possible though Import of Data Facility.

Tally 6.3: This version is extended enterprise systems whereby it interacts with other system through ODBC (Open Data Base Connectivity) you and e-mail upload your financial records form tally.

Tally 7.2(2005): This version is an integrated enterprise system provides different kind of taxes like VAT, TDS & TCS and Service Tax modules is introduced in this version.

Tally 8.1: This version is s multi language support software. It supports 10 Languages includes is introduced in this version.

Tally 9.0: This version is an improved model over the version 8.1. it supports 13 Languages (Includes Foreign Languages). Payroll, POS (Point of Sales) modules is introduced in this version.

Tally.ERP9(2009): This product is available with single user(Silver Edition) and multi-user (Gold Edition) licences.  For large organisations with many branches, Tally Server9 is offering. Tally.ERP9 provides different features like remote access, much powerful data security, tally.net and many more.

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Multi-user for unlimited users on a LAN.  All capabilities and features will be available in every edition. The only reason to choose between editions is the number of systems from which Tally.ERP 9 can be accessed.  Tally.ERP 9 Silver can be activated (as in licensed) on one computer and used from that same computer. Tally.ERP 9 Gold can be activated on one computer and accessed from any or all computers on that network.

Tally.Developer 9 is a comprehensive development environment designed specifically for the TDL (Tally Definition Language). TDL is the development language of Tally.ERP 9 and is used to build additional functionality into the product. TDL enables the programmers to develop and deploy solutions rapidly with ease.

 Tally.Developer 9 makes programmer’s life easier with powerful features like syntax highlighting, column selection and auto completion. Apart from this, the definition browser, schema browser and function browser are also available as a part of the product providing instant reference to the TDL programmer.

 Tally.Developer 9 is an editor, search engine and an compiler as well. It also provides the tools to decompile a TCP, migrate an encrypted TDL file and Tally Connector to send XML request to Tally get the response in XML format.

 The TDL code can be configured to run on one, more or all Tally serial number(s) while creating the TCP (Tally Complaint Product) file and also stamp the TCPs for a specific site. This enables you to control license usage and minimize revenue leakage.

Features of Tally.Developer 9:

• New Look and Feel
• Project Management
• Definition and Schema Browser
• Debugging and Diagnostics
• Auto Complete gives the list of attributes or the values of the attribute
• Enhanced search engine
• Tools to Decompile a TCP, Migrate an encrypted file and Tally connector
• Syntax checking and Highlighting
• Browser style Navigation
• In the editor collapse and expand option for definitions
• Enhanced Compiler
• Easy customer serial management

Tally.Server9: Tally.Server 9 is an Enterprise Class product that helps fast growth medium and large size businesses to improve their business efficiencies. It enhances the power and control of Tally.ERP 9 Gold users by converting the existing ‘peer-to-peer’ kind of data access to ‘server based’ data management.

Shoper 9: As technology evolves, businesses like yours have to keep in step to benefit. Satisfying your customers at the same time is often a challenge. We have designed Shoper 9 to handle lakhs of SKUs (items), thousands of transactions per day and even support hundreds of stores in a chain. This way, the modern retail business gets to use its core strengths to full advantage. By way of its unequalled retail expertise and rich development, Shoper 9 represents the best of breed.

 From better control of promotions to detailed stock queries, Shoper 9 is up to the task. With its strong interface, this retail management software product addresses common issues such as data exchange between head office, warehouses and stores. Chosen by leading Indian specialty stores, Shoper 9 caters to the apparel, footwear and textile segments with tremendous success.

 The Shoper 9 philosophy is ease of use. A tested support system delivered via the Tally Integrators and Tally Service Partners ensures its smooth functioning

Earlier Versions of Tally:

Tally 7.2 release 3.14

Tally9 release 2.13

Tally9 release 2.14

Tally ERP9 Series A release 1.0

Tally ERP9 Series A release 1.1

Tally ERP9 Series A release 1.2

Tally ERP9 Series A release 1.3

Tally ERP9 Series A release 1.5

Tally ERP9 Series A release 1.51

Tally ERP9 Series A release 1.52

Tally ERP9 Series A release 1.6

Tally ERP9 Series A release 1.61

Tally ERP9 Series A release 1.8

Tally ERP9 Series A release 1.81

Tally ERP9 Series A release 1.82

Tally ERP9 Series A release 2.0

Tally ERP9 Series A release 2.1

Tally ERP9 Series A release 3.0

Tally ERP9 Series A release 3.1

Tally ERP9 Series A release 3.3

Tally ERP9 Series A release 3.31

Tally ERP9 Series A release 3.4

Tally ERP9 Series A release 3.41

Tally ERP9 Series A release 3.6

Tally ERP9 Series A release 3.61

Tally ERP9 Series A release 3.62

Tally ERP9 Series A release 3.7

Tally ERP9 Series A release 4.5

Tally ERP9 Series A release 4.51

Tally ERP9 Series A release 4.6

Tally ERP9 Series A release 4.61

Tally ERP9 Series A release 4.7

Tally ERP9 Series A release 4.8

Tally ERP9 Series A release 4.9

Tally ERP9 Series A release 4.91

Tally ERP9 Series A release 4.92

Tally ERP9 Series A release 4.93

Tally ERP9 Series A release 5.0

Tally ERP9 Series A release 5.1

Tally ERP9 Series A release 5.1.1

Tally ERP9 Series A release 5.1.2

Tally ERP9 Series A release 5.1.3

Tally ERP9 Series A release 5.1.3

Tally ERP9 Series A release 5.2

Tally ERP9 Series A release 5.2.1

Tally ERP9 Series A release 5.3

Tally ERP9 Series A release 5.3.1

Tally ERP9 Series A release 5.3.2

Tally ERP9 Series A release 5.3.3

Tally ERP9 Series A release 5.3.4

Tally ERP9 Series A release 5.3.5

Tally ERP9 Series A release 5.3.6

Tally ERP9 Series A release 5.3.7

Tally ERP9 Series A release 5.3.8

Tally ERP9 Series A release 5.4

Tally ERP9 Series A release 5.4.1

Tally ERP9 Series A release 5.4.2

Tally ERP9 Series A release 5.4.3

Tally ERP9 Series A release 5.4.4

Tally ERP9 Series A release 5.4.5

Tally ERP9 Series A release 5.4.6

Tally ERP9 Series A release 5.4.7

Tally ERP9 Series A release 5.4.8

Tally ERP9 Series A release 5.4.9

Tally ERP9 Series A release 5.5

 Tally ERP9 Series A release 6.0 (GST enabled)

This material is prepared based on Tally ERP9 Series A Release 6.0.1