The GST Notice Operating System for Indian businesses

A GST notice shouldn't ruin your week.

EffortlessInsight finds every notice on the GST portal, explains it in plain English, reminds you before every deadline, and drafts your reply — so a scary envelope becomes a fifteen-minute task.

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DRC

DRC-01 · Tax Demand Notice

Received today, 9:14 AM

High priority

What this means

The department believes ₹2,45,000 of input tax credit was claimed incorrectly in FY 2024-25. You can contest this with purchase invoices.

What to do

Reply with supporting invoices before the deadline. A draft response is ready for your CA to review.

Respond by 24 August15 days left

Minutes

From notice to full analysis

150+

Notice types covered

11

GST categories

EN + HI

English & Hindi

The moment it arrives

You didn't study tax law.
The notice assumes you did.

Every notice is pages of sections, sub-sections and legal Hindi-English. Meanwhile the deadline clock is already running. Here's the same notice, before and after EffortlessInsight.

What the portal sends you

“Whereas on scrutiny of returns furnished by the registered person under sub-section (1) of section 39 for the tax period April 2024 – March 2025, discrepancies were noticed with regard to excess availment of input tax credit under section 16 read with rule 36(4)…

…you are hereby directed to show cause as to why the said amount of ₹2,45,000/- along with interest under section 50 and penalty under section 122 should not be recovered under the provisions of section 73(1)…”

3 pages. 14 legal references. One anxious evening.

What EffortlessInsight tells you

In one sentence

The department says you claimed ₹2,45,000 more input credit than your suppliers reported — and wants you to explain why.

How serious is it?

High priority, but defendable. Most cases like this are resolved by submitting matching purchase invoices.

Your next step

Collect invoices from these 3 suppliers. A draft reply is ready — share it with your CA in one click.

Understood in minutes, not evenings. Deadline tracked automatically.

The entire lifecycle, handled on one platform

Notice arrives on the portalFetched & analyzed automaticallyExplained in plain EnglishDeadline tracked & remindedReply drafted for reviewCA collaborates & filesBusiness stays compliant

What you get

Four promises. Kept automatically.

Every notice, found for you

We watch the GST portal so you don’t have to. New notices appear in your dashboard automatically — no more discovering them weeks late.

Works across all your GSTINs

How, exactly?
  • One-time OTP authorization per GSTIN — your portal password is never asked for or stored
  • Automatic sync every 6 hours, configurable from 1 to 24 hours, plus manual sync anytime
  • Connect any number of GSTINs — branches, states and clients under one account

Explained in plain English

Within minutes you know what the notice says, how serious it is, and exactly what to do next. Ask follow-up questions in normal language.

No tax dictionary required

How, exactly?
  • Covers 150+ notice types across 11 GST categories — DRC, ASMT, REG, audit, refund, appeals and more
  • Risk score from 0–100 built on six weighted factors: amount, deadline urgency, notice type, penalty exposure, history and complexity
  • Summaries in English and Hindi, with the relevant GST sections, rules and circulars cited

Deadlines, tracked and chased

WhatsApp and email reminders before every due date — for you and your team. Due dates stop depending on someone remembering.

Reminders at 7, 3 and 1 day before

How, exactly?
  • Response deadlines extracted automatically from every notice and placed on your compliance calendar
  • Alerts via email, push notification, in-app and WhatsApp — each user picks their channels
  • Escalation rules notify managers when an assigned notice is at risk of slipping

Replies drafted for you

A professional draft response, built from your notice, ready in minutes. Review it, share it with your CA, and file with confidence.

Your CA polishes, not starts from zero

How, exactly?
  • Drafts follow proper reply structure — reference, grounds, annexure list and prayer
  • Choose the tone and language, including Hindi, before generating
  • Relevant CGST Act sections and precedents cited inline, ready for your CA’s review

Product tour

See the operating system at work

One platform for the entire life of a notice — from the moment it appears on the portal to the day the reply is filed.

Your whole GST world on one screen

Every GSTIN, every notice, every deadline — ranked by urgency, with amounts at stake. The morning question "what needs attention?" takes one glance.

  • Active, overdue and due-this-week notices with a live compliance score
  • Entity-wise and GSTIN-wise views for multi-registration businesses
  • Team activity feed — see who did what, when, on every notice
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12

Active notices

4

Due this week

2

Overdue

₹8.4L

Amount at stake

DRC-01Sharma Textilesdue in 3 days
ASMT-10GreenLeaf Foodsdue in 12 days
GSTR-3AApex Tradersdue in 21 days

The reply

The blank page is where deadlines die.
So we removed it.

Every notice comes with a professional draft reply built from its own facts — your CA polishes and files, instead of starting from zero at 11 PM.

  1. The notice

    DRC-01 · ₹2,45,000 ITC demand

  2. Case understood

    Section 73(1) demand — contestable with invoice proof

  3. Evidence listed

    Invoices, bank entries, supplier GSTR-1 filings

  4. Reply drafted

    Grounds, annexures and prayer — proper structure

  5. CA reviews & files

    One click to share. Nothing filed without you.

Draft reply · DRC-01

Respond by 24 Aug · 15 days left

To: The Proper Officer, Ward 47

Subject: Reply to DRC-01 dated 09.08.2026 — ITC discrepancy of ₹2,45,000

Respected Sir/Madam, with reference to the above notice, the taxpayer respectfully submits that the input tax credit in question was availed against valid tax invoices, duly paid through banking channels, and reflected in the corresponding GSTR-2B statements…

— grounds citing section 16 & rule 36(4), annexure list, prayer —

  • Tone & language your choice — English or Hindi
  • CGST sections and precedents cited inline
  • Annexure checklist matched to the notice
  • Share with your CA in one click

AI drafts. You and your CA decide. Nothing is ever filed without you.

See your first draft free

The supporting system

And everything a notice touches, kept in order

Around the analysis and the reply sits the quiet machinery — calendars, documents, history — so nothing lives in email threads or someone's memory.

Deadline tracking

Statutory dates auto-extracted onto one compliance calendar, chased at 7, 3 and 1 day before.

Multi-GSTIN management

Branches, states and clients under one account — per-GSTIN separation, bulk onboarding for CAs.

Document vault

Notices, annexures and proofs filed against the right notice — uploads up to 25MB, searchable.

Compliance history

Every notice, action and reply logged with timestamps. Similar-notice detection reuses past work.

How it works

Set it up before your chai gets cold

01

Connect once

Verify your GSTIN with an OTP — the same one the portal sends you. We never see or store your portal password.

2 minutes

02

We watch the portal

New notices are fetched, read, and explained automatically. Deadlines go on your calendar and your WhatsApp.

Runs by itself

03

You respond with confidence

Open the plain-English summary, review the drafted reply, loop in your CA if you want a second pair of eyes. Done.

~15 minutes per notice

Every analyzed notice comes back with

Executive summary

English & Hindi

Risk assessment

Score 0–100, Low → Critical

Action items

Prioritized, with due dates

Required documents

What to collect, per notice

Legal references

Sections, rules & circulars

What actually happens during the analysis?
  1. 1

    Document read

    The notice PDF or scan is read, including tables and stamps

  2. 2

    Key details extracted

    GSTIN, amounts, dates, notice number and cited sections identified

  3. 3

    Notice classified

    Matched against 150+ notice types across 11 GST categories

  4. 4

    Legal context matched

    Relevant GST rules, circulars and precedents pulled in

  5. 5

    Analysis written

    Summary, risk assessment and action plan drafted in English and Hindi

  6. 6

    Facts double-checked

    A verification pass checks every claim against the notice itself

  7. 7

    Report ready

    Your plain-English report lands in the dashboard

All of it automatic, from portal to plain English — with a verification pass so the analysis sticks to what the notice actually says.

Connect your first GSTIN free

Who it's for

One product. Three ways to breathe easier.

Business owners

Run your business. We’ll handle the notices, the deadlines and the panic.

  • Plain-English (and Hindi) explanations
  • WhatsApp reminders before every deadline
  • All your GSTINs on one dashboard
How it works for you

Chartered Accountants

Every client’s notices in one dashboard — with the deadlines that matter this week on top.

  • Bulk-add client GSTINs in one go
  • Drafts ready for your review, not blank pages
  • Client workspaces with document requests
Built for your practice

Finance teams

Assign notices, track responses, keep an audit trail. Compliance that survives audits and handovers.

  • Workflows with approvals and SLA escalation
  • Role-based access, every action logged
  • 30+ metrics, exportable for leadership
See the team workflow

Security

Your tax data. Treated like tax data.

How access works, and six facts worth knowing before you connect anything to your GSTIN.

You authorize

OTP sent to your registered GST mobile — takes 2 minutes

EffortlessInsight

Holds only an encrypted session token — never your password

Secure gateway

Encrypted, authorized access — no credentials shared

GST Portal

gst.gov.in — the official source of every notice

Access you control

The connection to the GST portal is authorized by you and only reads your notices. Nothing is filed, changed or submitted without you.

You authorize with OTP

Access is granted by you, with the same OTP the portal sends you. Revoke it anytime — tokens are invalidated immediately.

We never store your password

Your GST portal password is never asked for, never seen, never saved. Only encrypted session tokens are retained.

Your data is stored in India

All storage and backups live in Indian data centres (Mumbai region), in line with Indian data-protection requirements.

Encrypted in transit and at rest

TLS on every connection; sensitive fields like session tokens and GSTINs protected with AES-256 encryption.

Every action logged

A full audit trail of every sync, retrieval and access event, with timestamps — exportable for your auditors.

DPDP Act 2023 aligned8-year record retentionRole-based access with 2FAAccount lockout & session controls

More questions about access, encryption or disconnecting? The security FAQ covers the details.

The math

Cheaper than the problem it prevents

A single mishandled notice can cost more than years of any plan. Here's what actually changes.

The old way

With EffortlessInsight

Hours decoding legal jargon — or waiting days for a callback

Plain English and Hindi summaries, minutes after the notice lands

Deadlines tracked in heads, diaries and spreadsheets

Dates auto-extracted, on a calendar, with reminders at 7, 3 and 1 day

No idea how serious a notice is until someone senior reads it

Risk score 0–100 with the reasoning, the moment it arrives

Notices, replies and proofs scattered across email and WhatsApp

One workspace per notice — documents, comments, drafts, history

What a mishandled notice costs

18% p.a.

Interest on delayed tax payments under section 50

10–100%

Penalty exposure on the disputed tax amount

₹5,000–50,000

Typical CA fee for a single notice response

Illustrative: a CA practice or multi-GSTIN business seeing 50 notices a year

Saving ~4 hours of work per notice plus avoiding one late-reply penalty typically outweighs a full year of any plan — many times over.

The time: per notice, start to filed

Handling one notice manually — read, research, draft

~4.5 hrs

With EffortlessInsight — review & approve the draft

~15 min

Illustrative figures — based on a ₹2,45,000 ITC demand (10% penalty + 18% p.a. interest for a year, mid-range CA drafting fee) and typical manual handling time. Your numbers will vary.

Why trust us

We're new. Here's proof that doesn't need our word for it.

The most convincing demo is your own GSTIN. Everything else you can check before signing up.

Test it on your own notice

Connect a GSTIN free and watch a real notice from your own portal get explained. No demo data, no scripted video — your case.

Pricing with nothing hidden

Every plan, every limit and every feature is public. No "book a call to see pricing", no surprise charges after the trial.

Security you can interrogate

OTP-only access, no password storage, data in India, full audit trail — each claim is spelled out above and in the FAQ, in plain words.

No invented numbers

You won’t find "trusted by 10,000 businesses" here, because we’re onboarding our first customers now. When real reviews exist, they’ll appear — unedited.

Being an early customer has one real perk: your feedback shapes the roadmap. Judge us on your own notice

Pricing

Costs less than one missed deadline

A single late reply can mean interest, penalties and weeks of follow-up. Start free, upgrade when the volume does.

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FAQ

Questions worth asking before you connect a GSTIN

Getting started

Do you need my GST portal password?

No — and we will never ask for it. You authorize access with an OTP sent to your registered GST mobile number, and only an encrypted session token is retained. You can revoke access anytime.

Can EffortlessInsight file a reply on the portal without me?

No — and that is by design. The platform reads and analyzes notices and prepares draft replies, but nothing is filed, changed or submitted to any authority without you. You and your CA review, decide and file.

Is the AI explanation reliable enough to act on?

The explanation tells you what the notice says, how serious it is, and what a sensible next step looks like — alongside the original notice, never instead of it. Every analysis runs a verification pass against the notice text, and for filings it takes one click to bring in your CA: the drafted reply is theirs to review and polish.

I have multiple GSTINs / multiple businesses. Does this work?

Yes. Connect any number of GSTINs under one account — each authorized with its own OTP — and see everything in one dashboard, separated per GSTIN. CAs manage all their clients the same way, with bulk onboarding.

My CA already handles notices. Why do I need this?

Your CA still handles them — faster. You both see the same notice, the same deadline, and a drafted reply on day one, instead of forwarding PDFs over WhatsApp and hoping nothing slips. There is a dedicated CA role with the right access levels.

How often are notices synchronized?

Every 6 hours by default, configurable from 1 to 24 hours, with manual sync anytime. If the GST portal is temporarily down, we retry automatically and resume as soon as it recovers.

What happens after the 14-day trial?

You choose a paid plan, or simply drop to the Free tier (10 notices a month) — no card is taken up front, so nothing is charged automatically. Your data remains exportable either way.

Security & operations

Is my data encrypted, and where is it stored?

All traffic is encrypted in transit with TLS, and sensitive fields — session tokens, GSTINs, personal data — are protected with AES-256 encryption. All storage and backups are in Indian data centres (Mumbai region).

Who on my team can see what?

Access is role-based: owner, admin, manager, member, CA and view-only roles each see exactly what they should. Two-factor authentication is available for every account, and external collaborators can be limited to specific notices.

How do you support audits and record-keeping?

Every sync, view and action is logged with timestamps in a complete audit trail you can export. Records are retained for 8 years, in line with GST record-keeping requirements.

What if I want to disconnect my GSTIN?

Disconnect anytime from settings. Session tokens are revoked immediately, syncing stops, and your historical data stays available to you — or is deleted entirely on request.

Something we haven't covered? Write to info@arsteg.com.

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