⚡️ Latest Releases

Release R4, 22-Feb, 2023

GST

A. Credit notes in GSTR-3B will now be accounted in table 4(A) instead of table 4(B)

The Government vide Notification No. 14/2022 – Central Tax dated 05th July, 2022 has notified few changes in Table 4 of Form GSTR-3B for enabling taxpayers to report correct information regarding ITC availed, ITC reversal and ineligible ITC in Table 4 of GSTR-3B.

According to the changes, the net ITC is to be reported in Table 4(A) and ITC reversal, if any, is to be reported in Table 4(B) of GSTR-3B.

Accordingly, the logic for auto-population of Table 4 of GSTR-3B basis 2B v/s PR reconciliation is updated.

B. Negative value credit notes are now allowed in table 4 of GSTR-3B

The impact of credit note & their amendments will now be auto-populated in Table 4(A) instead of Table 4(B) of GSTR-3B . In case the value of credit notes becomes higher than sum of invoices and debit notes put together, then the net ITC would become negative and the taxpayers will be allowed to report negative values in Table-4A.

Also, taxpayers can now enter negative values in Table 4D(2) of GSTR-3B.

User Management & Licensing

[FEATURE] Add guest user in user invite flow - Provide time bound temporary access to users

• Workspace admins at clients can add guest users to their subscribed CFC products

• Access will remain live for a user defined time period and then revoked automatically -

• This will reduce the need to monitor access provided for short term use cases e.g, Clear’s support/integration agents

[FEATURE] Search for users on user access tab of Global settings

• Any authorized user ( for example: Workspace Admins ) will be able to search for all users from user access page

• Search will return all matching users at organisation level once the workspace admin enters text and clicks on search button

• Reduces need to search each page on user access tab by clicking on Next button ( useful especially when there are more than 20+ users at organisation level )

[ENHANCEMENT] Maintain up to date Licensing information across systems ( Onboarding to product usage )

As part of this release, we are implementing the standard framework for licensing on the following products:

• Notice management

• Clear Identity

Notice Management

[FEATURE] UAM for v1 of Notice management

• Addition of users with multiple roles will be possible

• Roles across Admins (Workspace, PAN, GSTIN), user and view only user will be available and access across the product will be restricted based on user roles

• This will enhance the product usage security to ensure relevant users only have access to relevant sections of the product

[FEATURE] Plan licenses for v1 of Notice management

• Different plan for Notice management have been launched - Advantage, Premium and Ultimate

• Feature access availability across the product basis plan selected has been activated.

Release R5, 06-Mar, 2023

Document Ingestion

[ENHANCEMENT]

As part of this release, we are fixing the following issues faced by our enterprise clients while using our ingestion engine:

• Custom fields will be available after downloading documents ( For filtering a field in Excel as an example )

• Custom fields will be available on Data overview page without repetition

• Errors will be shown at document level and line item level separately This will help enterprise users to identify the source of issues easily

• Ingested sales data will flow seamlessly to other Clear Financial Cloud products. For example, data ingested for e-invoicing can now be used for filing/reconciliation whilst using Clear GST

Few technical changes have been introduced to improve performance of overall ingestion process.

Commonly used services

[ENHANCEMENT]

As part of this release, below mentioned changes are being released to improve the performance of core services which help us run Clear Financial Cloud ( CFC ):

• Store configurations for Print template service per enterprise security guidelines ( Encrypted at rest )

• Build scalable deployment pipeline following enterprise standard practices for User service

• Optimise performance of Digital signature certificate & add logs to track usage