Why hotel GST is fiddlier than it looks
Most small hotel owners already know GST applies to room revenue. What trips people up is that the rate isn't one fixed number for every hotel — it's tied to the room's declared tariff, in slabs the GST Council sets and occasionally revises. A hotel with rooms in two different tariff bands can end up billing two different rates on the same night, for two guests in different room types. Get the slab wrong and either the guest is overcharged or the hotel is short at filing time.
None of this is exotic accounting — it's just detail that's easy to get inconsistent when invoices are typed by hand at a front desk during a busy check-out.
What a compliant hotel invoice actually needs
At minimum, a hotel tax invoice needs the hotel's GSTIN, an invoice number in sequence, the guest's details, the room tariff and stay dates, the GST rate applied and the tax amount broken out separately from the room charge. Missing any one of these is the kind of thing a CA flags months later, at the worst possible time — during a filing or an audit.
How Orajic HMS handles it
GST tax invoices are generated automatically at the rate matching the room's tariff, with the sequence, GSTIN and breakup filled in from the hotel's own settings — nobody at the front desk is deciding the rate by memory. Because slabs change over time, the rate is date-versioned: an invoice billed today keeps today's rate on file even if the GST Council changes the slab next year, so old invoices stay accurate instead of silently drifting to whatever the current rate happens to be.
A CA still matters
Software can get the invoice right and keep the numbers organised. It can't tell you whether your hotel should be registered under a particular scheme, or confirm an exemption that applies to your specific situation. Orajic HMS is built to make that conversation with your CA faster — not to replace it.
See how billing fits into the rest of the front desk on the Orajic HMS page, or check plan-by-plan pricing.