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Freelancers, consultants and micro-businesses in India who are below the GST threshold are poorly served by billing tools: mainstream invoicing software assumes a GSTIN and pushes tax rows onto documents that legally must not carry them. Worse, the advice available online is full of myths — that you cannot bill without a GSTIN at all, or that a single out-of-state client forces registration from the first rupee — which pushes people into registering years earlier than required.

We built a focused billing app on Next.js and React with a Drizzle/MySQL backend, covering the full quotation → proforma → invoice → payment flow with one-page PDF output and export at any time. Because clients commonly withhold 10% TDS under Section 194J, the payment model records money received and TDS deducted as separate figures, so a bill settled after TDS reads as paid rather than short. The landing page leads with an interactive GST threshold checker: visitors set their turnover for the financial year and what they supply — services in most states, services in the four lower-limit states, or goods as an eligible exclusive supplier — and it tells them whether they can keep invoicing without GST, are getting close to the ₹20, ₹10 or ₹40 lakh limit, or have likely crossed it, with compulsory-registration exceptions called out underneath. The marketing site was structured around the search and answer-engine intent behind non-GST billing, with a field-guide library, an invoice checklist, a myth-correction section and SoftwareApplication and FAQPage structured data — every threshold claim qualified and cited to primary CBIC sources rather than stated as tax advice.

NoGST is live at nogst.in with a free-forever plan and published paid plans. Users who later cross the threshold can export clients, catalogue, documents, payments, TDS records and numbering history in one go, so registering for GST becomes a handover to their CA instead of a reconstruction job.