Leather bags with named collections
Mai Soli is an Indian leather accessories brand, so it belongs with apparel and accessories. The store sells handbags, totes and small leather goods for women and men, grouped into collections called Artemis, Woven Theory, Suede Affair and the Monograph Series, with a Gifting page in the main menu. A banner across the top announced a Monograph Series of men's bags on the day we looked.
Gifts are where invoices get interesting. A bag bought for one person is a consumer sale. A box of card holders bought by a company is a business sale. Different paperwork.
One invoice, two kinds of buyer
Under GST a seller issues a tax invoice with its own GSTIN, a serial number of up to 16 characters, the date, an HSN code and the tax split. Leather handbags, wallets and cases belong under heading 4202, which is the code the sample uses. For a consumer the invoice stops there. When the buyer is a registered business, the buyer's GSTIN goes on the invoice too, because the company needs it to claim input tax credit.
A typo in that GSTIN becomes the buyer's problem later, since the credit follows whatever number is printed on the invoice. The delivery state still decides the tax lines. Same state means CGST plus SGST, and a different state means IGST.
How Mai Soli runs it
Mai Soli has used PDF Invoice since 2022. Invoices use the One template in English with amounts in rupees, and the app emails them to customers automatically. Tax fields are switched on, which lets a customer's GSTIN travel with the order and print on the document. The account holds two document types, invoice and order.
The One layout opens with the bill-to block in the top left and shows a GSTIN there when the order has one. For that reason the sample on this page is a corporate gifting order from an invented company, with a placeholder GSTIN. The seller details, the customer, the SKUs and all the prices are made up, and only the brand name is real.
The order has a hobo bag, a suede tote, two card holders and a key pouch, all under 4202, at a flat 18% GST shown as 9% CGST and 9% SGST. That makes ₹3,429.00 of tax on a ₹19,050.00 subtotal and ₹22,479.00 in total. A real catalogue would set the rate per product.
Business buyers also care about the number series. Invoices need to run in a unique sequence within each financial year, which in India is 1 April to 31 March, and a sequence that restarts or repeats mid-year invites questions at audit time.
Results
The app sent more than 430 documents after the 2022 install. That is the one number we can share. The page shows what a leather goods invoice carries once the tax fields are on, and the gifting scenario is the one where the buyer GSTIN earns its place.
Try it for your store
Selling to consumers and companies in India? PDF Invoice on the Shopify App Store lets you switch on the tax fields and keep your HSN codes next to each product.