In bulk operations, you will get bulk data upload facility and bulk data download facility.
Bulk Upload
In case you have multiple GSTINs under the same business, you can upload invoices from all the GSTINs in a single input format. This facility is available for GSTR 1, GSTR 2, GSTR 3B, GSTR 9, GSTR 6 and ITC 04
To make use of bulk upload facility, follow the below-mentioned steps:
1. Under Bulk operations, click on ‘Bulk Upload’. Select return to be filed and filing period from the drop-down
2. Click on ‘Browse’, select the relevant input file and click on Upload. The input file should be as per IRIS input format.
3. Finally, click on ‘Refresh’ to see the status of upload history as ‘SUCCESS’ or ‘FAILURE’ (in case of structural errors). In case of failure, in the result column, you can see a list of structural errors.
Note on Structural Error check on Invoices
If the file you are trying to upload doesn’t conform to the specifications of IRIS provided input format then, in such cases, the invoices will be rejected and status shown would be ‘FAILURE’. You can click on the structural errors in the result column to review the errors. The maximum limit of structural errors is 100, after that the file is not taken up for further processing. In case of errors, clear all errors from file and then again try to upload file.
Bulk Download
In case of success status, your data will get updated for each of GSTIN for which data is uploaded. Also in this case, if you want to check and download data for all your GSTIN in one go then use this bulk download facility. As of now, this facility is available for GSTR 1, GSTR 2 and GSTR 2A. So by using this facility, section-wise, period wise, and filter wise, you can download data.
Once the request of bulk download is completed, you will get download file folder here itself in File column.
