TallyPrime's Amazon Plug-In: Honest Review and Limits
With Release 7.1, Tally Solutions shipped something sellers had requested for years: a native Amazon Data Import Plug-In inside TallyPrime. No third-party TDL, no external connector — download an Amazon report, feed it to Tally, get vouchers. It is a genuinely useful addition, and it is also narrower than the headline suggests. Here is a fair assessment of what it does, where it stops, and how to decide if it is enough for your operation.
What the plug-in actually does
The plug-in is file-based: you export the relevant report from Amazon Seller Central, and TallyPrime reads the file and creates vouchers from it. It ships with TallyPrime Release 7.1 and later, and using it requires an active TSS (Tally Software Services) subscription. For a seller who trades only on Amazon and keeps books current, that covers the core loop — sales data lands in Tally without manual entry, using masters you have already created.
Where it genuinely helps
- Zero extra software. It lives inside TallyPrime — nothing else to install or trust.
- First-party support. Tally Solutions maintains it and ships fixes through regular releases.
- No custom TDL. The historical route of paid Amazon TDLs, breaking on every release, is over for basic Amazon import.
There is also a workflow benefit that is easy to miss: because the plug-in lives inside TallyPrime, the person importing is already looking at the company the data will land in, with the Day Book one keystroke away. For a small operation where the owner does the books, that immediacy is worth something — there is no second application to learn, and the mental model stays simple: download the file from Seller Central, import, verify. Verification habits still apply, though — counts and totals after every run, exactly as with any import route.
The limitations that matter
| Limitation | Practical impact |
|---|---|
| Amazon only | Flipkart, Meesho and every other channel remain manual |
| File-based workflow | You still download, feed and verify files each cycle by hand |
| Requires active TSS | Lapsed subscription means no plug-in |
| Requires Release 7.1+ | The many firms still on older releases cannot use it |
| No approval layer | Whatever the file maps to is what posts — review happens after, in the Day Book |
| Masters must pre-exist | Unmapped ledgers and SKUs still reject vouchers, as with any import |
The multi-channel gap is the decisive one. Most Indian sellers of any size run Amazon plus Flipkart plus Meesho, and a tool that automates one-third of the workload still leaves you doing two-thirds in spreadsheets — with two different processes to keep consistent.
Plug-in or a dedicated converter?
Use the native plug-in if you sell only on Amazon, are on Release 7.1 or later with active TSS, and are comfortable verifying imports yourself in the Day Book. Look at a dedicated tool when any of these apply: you sell on more than one marketplace; you want reconciliation against settlement data before anything posts; a CA reviews and approves entries; or you need duplicate-safe re-imports because multiple people touch the books. TallySutra covers Amazon, Flipkart and Meesho with one workflow — upload the report, review the reconciled batch, get CA approval, and either export standard TallyPrime XML or let the desktop Gateway post it to Tally's local HTTP interface after validating the open company. It works on any TallyPrime release that supports XML import, with no TDL and no dependency on the plug-in. The detailed side-by-side lives at TallySutra vs the Tally Amazon plug-in.
Cost logic differs too. The plug-in's effective price is staying current on TSS and on a recent release — reasonable if you were doing that anyway, a forced upgrade if you were not. A converter's price is a subscription justified only by multi-channel volume or by the value of the controls: reconciliation before posting, an approval gate, duplicate-safe retries. Sellers doing a handful of Amazon orders a day need neither and can key entries manually; the calculation changes somewhere around the point where a person spends more time transcribing reports than selling.
The bottom line
Release 7.1's plug-in is real progress and the right starting point for Amazon-only sellers — try it before paying anyone for the same job. But it is an importer, not an accounting workflow: no multi-marketplace coverage, no pre-posting reconciliation, no approval gate. If month-end still means Flipkart spreadsheets and unexplained settlement differences, the plug-in has not solved your actual problem. See who TallySutra fits, or read our release-by-release e-commerce features guide for how Tally got here.
Frequently asked questions
Is the Amazon plug-in free with TallyPrime?
It ships with TallyPrime Release 7.1 and later, but using it requires an active TSS subscription. If your TSS has lapsed or you are on an older release, the plug-in is not available to you.
Does the plug-in handle Flipkart or Meesho reports?
No. It is Amazon-only by design. Sellers on multiple marketplaces need a separate process — manual entry or a multi-marketplace converter like TallySutra — for the other channels.
Does the plug-in remove the need to create ledgers and stock items?
No. Like every TallyPrime import method, referenced masters must already exist or vouchers are rejected. Plan your ledger and SKU setup first regardless of which import route you choose.
TallySutra turns Amazon, Flipkart and Meesho reports into reconciled, reviewed TallyPrime vouchers — duplicate-safe, with every rupee traceable to its source row.
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