When do e-invoicing and e-way bills actually kick in for my shipments?
An e-way bill is needed whenever a single consignment crosses Rs 50,000 in value, for parcel shipments a courier aggregator like Shiprocket usually generates it inside the shipping label, so you rarely touch the portal. E-invoicing (getting an IRN from the government portal) becomes mandatory only once your turnover crosses the current threshold, Rs 5 crore today, with proposals to lower it further, so watch the notifications. Below those limits you simply issue normal GST invoices.
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Keeps the e-invoicing turnover threshold and its proposed reductions in one current place, the number that decides whether you must generate IRNs, which brands cross as they scale.
Written for e-commerce shippers rather than accountants, it explains the Rs 50,000 e-way bill trigger, validity and who generates it, which is exactly the founder's mental model.
The official portal where e-way bills are generated and verified, the place to go when you ship high-value consignments yourself instead of via an aggregator. Included as canonical; the government site returned a non-standard response to our automated check so we flagged it unverified.
