When do e-invoicing and e-way bills actually kick in for my shipments?
The short answer
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.
A quick summary to orient you. The real value is below: the resources worth your time, from people who've actually done it, not us.
Here are the resources
Hand-picked from around the web, each with a note on why it earns your time. India-specific ones carry a badge.
Why we picked it
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.
Why we picked it
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.
Why we picked it
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.
