What this screen is for
This screen answers one question for a whole financial year: what has actually been filed. It fetches the return filing status from the GST portal and shows counts of total, filed and pending returns, then a matrix with one row per return type and one column per month, ticked where a return is filed and flagged where it is not. Below it, a detail table lists each return with its type, period, status, date of filing, ARN and mode of filing.
When to use it
Use it when you need a single view of compliance across the year, at audit time, or when chasing a period nobody can account for. The portal's record is the authority here, so a return your books assume was filed but which shows as pending needs investigating.
What you see on this screen
The header reads Annual Summary, subtitled "Books vs Return - Filing Status Overview", with your GSTIN and the financial year in view.
Three cards: Total Returns, Filed and Pending.
Monthly Filing Status Matrix — a grid with a Return column down the left, one column per month of the financial year across the top, and a mark in each cell showing whether that return was filed for that month, with the filed date on hover where there is one.
Return Filing Details — the same information as a list, one row per return, with columns:
- Return Type — GSTR-1, GSTR-3B and so on
- Period — the month or quarter the return covers
- Status — as reported by the portal
- Date of Filing
- ARN — the acknowledgement reference number the portal issued
- Mode — how the return was filed
The raw portal response is available underneath. Where the year holds nothing, the page says No Filing Data Available for that period rather than showing an empty grid.
Filters and actions
A financial-year selector chooses the year, with Previous and Next stepping between years. Fetch Filing Status pulls the year from the portal; once pulled, Refresh Data re-reads it. An open GST portal session is required, and the screen will ask for your portal username and the OTP sent to your registered mobile if there is not one.
Status values
The cards and the matrix distinguish Filed from Pending. The detail table shows the status string the portal itself returns for each return, which is the authoritative record.
Related
- GSTR-9
- GSTR-1/IFF
- GSTR-3B