What Lekha is not
Lekha is not accounting software. It does not close your books, file your returns, produce your P&L, or compute the statutory interest on an overdue bill — that figure lives in a separate calculator, precisely so the ledger does not pretend to a certainty it should not claim.
This is a deliberate omission, not a missing feature. The temptation with any business tool is to keep swallowing adjacent jobs until it claims to do everything and does none of it especially well. Naming what a tool is not is how it stays good at what it is.
The honest boundary
What Lekha does is narrow and clear: it holds what you owe suppliers and what buyers owe you, captured from the document and followed down the purchase-order-to-payment chain, with a 45-day MSME clock on the overdue. It records and tracks. It is the memory of your bills, not the judge of your accounts.
That boundary respects your accountant rather than competing with them. An accountant reads the finished books and takes responsibility for them; a bill ledger keeps the day-to-day record those books are built from. The two are different jobs, and pretending one is the other helps nobody who has to sign off on the numbers.
Why a narrow tool is a better tool
A tool that knows its edges is one you can trust at those edges. When Lekha says a bill is overdue, that is a record it can stand behind. It does not also assert what you owe in interest or what the entry means for your tax, because those are someone else's call, made with fuller information.
The reward for the restraint is trust. You always know which questions Lekha answers — where is the money, what is late, what did the document say — and which ones go to your accountant. A ledger that stays in its lane is a ledger you can rely on without second-guessing.