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TroubleshootingReviewed 2026-09-29

"No books yet" or "has no books": set up books for the promoter company first

Every posting follows the project's promoter company into its set of books; until that Promoter Entity company has books, the accounting screens show an empty state and demands, receipts, commissions and cancellations cannot post.

Messages this explains

  • “No books yet”
  • “Set up books for a promoter company first: that copies the chart of accounts, opens the fiscal year and seeds the voucher types.”
  • “The project's promoter company has no books yet. Set them up under Books first.”
  • “Books can be set up only for a Promoter Entity company.”
  • “This company already has a set of books.”
  • “Pick the promoter company”
  • “No project of these books yet.”
  • “Skipped: <books> (no fiscal year covers <date>).”
  • “<promoter> keeps no books yet; set them up under Accounting > Books”
  • “The promoter keeps no books yet; set them up under Accounting > Books.”
  • “These books are inactive. Reactivate them under Books to post entries.”
  • “Books <name> are inactive”

"No books yet" or "has no books": set up books for the promoter company first

An accounting screen shows an empty state instead of the chart, vouchers or reports, or a demand, receipt, commission or cancellation refuses to post because the project's promoter company keeps no set of books yet.

What you see

  • Under Accounting > Chart of Accounts (including Organization templates), Vouchers, Reports (for example the Trial balance) and Revenue Recognition (Revenue runs): the empty state "No books yet" with "Set up books for a promoter company first: that copies the chart of accounts, opens the fiscal year and seeds the voucher types." and a Set up books button. The Books list itself reads "No books yet".
  • Raising or issuing a Demand, saving a receipt or payout on a booking, drafting a demand run, accruing or approving a commission, or opening the Cancel booking wizard on a booking that has demands or receipts: "The project's promoter company has no books yet. Set them up under Books first."
  • The project's Project overview, on the Ready to sell and collect? card: "<promoter> keeps no books yet; set them up under Accounting > Books". The booking wizard shows the same block as "The promoter keeps no books yet; set them up under Accounting > Books." with a fix link.
  • In the Set up books slide-over on Books: "Pick the promoter company" when the field is empty; "Books can be set up only for a Promoter Entity company." on a company of another type; "This company already has a set of books." when it has one.
  • On Project performance: "No project of these books yet." when no project names the books' company as its promoter.
  • On the Consolidated report: "Skipped: <books> (no fiscal year covers <date>)." when a set of books exists but has no fiscal year holding the From date.
  • When the books exist but are switched off: "These books are inactive. Reactivate them under Books to post entries." in dialogs, or "Books <name> are inactive" in a run's failures card.

Why it happens

NirmaanOne keeps one set of books per legal entity, and only a company of the Promoter Entity type can have one. Postings never ask which books to use: a demand, receipt, commission, benefit accrual or cancellation posts in the books of the promoter company of the project the booking or offer sits on. So three things must line up: the project names a promoter company, that company is a Promoter Entity, and the company has books. Setting up the books copies the organization's chart of accounts, opens the fiscal year holding the begin date with twelve monthly periods, and seeds the eight voucher types with their numbering. Until then there is nothing to post into, and the books-scoped screens have nothing to show, which is why even the organization-level templates tab waits behind the empty state.

Inactive books keep their data but refuse every new voucher and posting; the project's readiness card still counts them as present, so a project can look ready while its postings fail. "No project of these books yet." and the consolidated "Skipped" line are the neighbouring cases: books without a project, and books without a fiscal year for the date.

How to fix it

  1. Make sure the company is a Promoter Entity. Under Masters > Companies, open the developer company and check its type; create it with New company if it doesn't exist (the Create or Edit permission on Companies).
  2. Set up the books. Accounting > Books > Set up books: pick the Promoter company (the list needs the View permission on Companies), keep or change Books begin on (1 April of the current financial year by default), Fiscal year starts in (April) and Currency (INR), then Set up books. The toast reads "Books "<name>" set up with <n> ledgers." You need the Create permission on Books; by default the Administrator and the Finance Lead. "This company already has a set of books." means someone did this already: open that entry from the list.
  3. Point the project at the promoter. On Edit project set the promoter company (the Edit permission on Projects). The Project overview card then clears the "keeps no books yet" line; use Sync bank ledgers there for the project's bank accounts saved before the books existed.
  4. Reactivate inactive books: on the Books overview press Edit, tick Active, Save changes (the Edit permission on Books). See These books are inactive.
  5. For the Consolidated "Skipped" line, open the missing fiscal year on that books' Fiscal years tab or move From into a year the books have: see No fiscal year covers that date.
  6. Retry what you were doing: raise or Issue the demand, save the receipt, accrue or approve the commission, draft the run, or reopen the cancellation wizard. The accounting screens show the new books in the Books switcher at once.

Related

  • BooksScreen

    The list of every set of books in your organization, one per promoter company, with the actions to set up books for a company, open a set or delete one.

  • Books overviewScreen

    The home page of one set of books: its company and settings, counts, fiscal years, and shortcuts to the chart of accounts, vouchers, reports and opening balances, with the actions to rename, deactivate or delete the books.

  • Organization templates (Chart templates)Screen

    Your organization's master chart of accounts, from which every new set of books is copied: group templates, ledger templates and the default ledger per charge component.

  • VouchersScreen

    Every voucher in the chosen set of books (drafts, posted, reversed and cancelled), with filters and the menu to start a new voucher.

  • Trial balanceScreen

    Opening, period debit and credit and closing per ledger or per group for a fiscal-year range, on a grid you can sort, resize and filter by column, with the report's totals in the footer and CSV export.

  • Revenue runsScreen

    The revenue runs (period closes) of the chosen books, the dialog that prepares a new draft run, and the scheduled rules that draft runs automatically.

  • Project performanceScreen

    Revenue, cost of sales and margin per project for a period and to date, the booked price and how much of it is recognised, the cost budget against cost incurred and cost to complete, progress by stages and by cost, revenue by month, and the flags the CA needs to act on.

  • ConsolidatedScreen

    One trial-balance-style view across every active set of books in your organization, matched by the organization's template ledgers or groups, with an optional project cut.

  • DemandScreen

    One demand: the installments it bills, its amounts with GST, the expected TDS and what is payable in money, the receipts and TDS credits against it and how the money is placed on the charges, with the actions to edit, issue, cancel or delete it.

  • Record receipt / Record payoutScreen

    Record money received from a buyer or society member, or paid to a channel partner or society member: who, how and how much. A receipt settles the payer's open demands by itself, oldest due first; a payout is allocated to commissions or benefit rows by hand. A buyer's consideration and GST are two separate receipts; the TDS they deducted is a TDS credit.

  • Cancel bookingScreen

    The four-step wizard that cancels a booking: it shows the demands and receipts that will be reversed, suggests the forfeiture and charges from the rule in force, sets the refund and posts everything in one go, releasing the unit and parking and marking the opportunity lost.

  • Book <unit> for <name> (booking wizard)Screen

    The three-step wizard that turns an approved estimate into a booking: review exactly what was approved, add co-applicants and their shares, set the booking date and book the unit.

  • CompaniesScreen

    The master list of legal entities you deal with: promoter entities, channel partners, vendors and contractors, with search, filters and shortcuts to open, edit or delete a company.

  • New companyScreen

    Register a company: its name and type, legal identity, statutory registrations, contact details and the type-specific fields for promoters, channel partners, vendors and contractors.

  • Project overviewScreen

    A project's home page: its details, site, land, RERA registration, inventory summary, whether it is ready to sell and collect, where its money stands across its RERA accounts, and the setup checklist.

  • Edit projectScreen

    Change a project's facts on one page: basics, site address, land survey details and expected possession, and, on a redevelopment, the development agreement date and the fair value of the development rights. The settings the project inherits from the organization live on its Settings tab.

  • Posting refused: no open fiscal year or period for the dateTroubleshooting

    Every posting, manual or automatic, needs a fiscal year of the books that covers its date, with the year open and the month's period unlocked; open the next year, unlock the period or reopen the year under Books, or move the document's date.

  • "These books are inactive": nothing posts until the books are reactivatedTroubleshooting

    Posting a voucher, issuing a demand, recording a payment, starting a run or cancelling a booking is refused because the promoter's books are inactive; what is blocked and how to reactivate them.