Pay customs duty with scrips, not cash.
Cover assessed customs duty with RoDTEP and RoSCTL scrips instead of rupees. Scriphouse reads the duty due across your Bills of Entry, works out the cheapest cover for it, and tracks what each scrip has been used against and what is left. A cover costs less than the cash duty it settles, and the difference is on the screen before you approve. Your first cover on each IEC carries no spread.
Cash duty is the most expensive way to clear a Bill of Entry.
Basic customs duty comes out of working capital, in full, every time you clear cargo. A duty credit scrip settles that duty for less than its face value. The difference is money that never had to leave your account.
Every rupee of assessed duty is a rupee of your cash, locked in the Electronic Cash Ledger and gone the moment the Bill of Entry clears. No discount, no float, no upside.
A RoDTEP or RoSCTL scrip carries duty credit at full face value. Buy it below face, apply it when you file, and the same duty is settled for fewer rupees. A bundle costs less than the cash duty it settles, and the difference is shown before you approve.
Scrips are freely transferable and the sale is GST-exempt. Every one is screened before it can be covered, and a September 2022 notification shields you, the bona-fide buyer, from the seller's prior defaults.
From assessed to
covered, in four steps.
One Bill of Entry at a time, with the cheapest bundle assembled for you and nothing paid until you approve.
Your Bill of Entry, assessed
Your assessed Bills of Entry arrive from your ICEGATE, with Basic customs duty already totalled. Pick the one you want to cover.
Synced with your ICEGATEThe cheapest bundle, assembled
Scriphouse assembles the cheapest bundle for the assessed duty, from whole scrips to cover the duty. The ask is capped at face value, never above 100 percent.
Cheapest whole-scrip bundleSee the net, then approve
You see the duty due, what you pay, and what you keep, side by side, before you commit. Nothing moves until you approve. No Bill of Entry pays itself.
You pay · You save · shown firstIn your ledger, in minutes
Your funds are secured, the scrips transfer on ICEGATE, and the credit lands in your Electronic Duty Credit Ledger, ready to apply when you file the Bill of Entry. Any over-cover stays in your ledger. Settlement is atomic and completes in minutes, same day (T+0).
Atomic settlement · T+0₹9,18,000 of duty, settled without the cash.
One real-shaped Bill of Entry. The duty is settled in full, the bundle costs less than paying that duty in cash, and the exact difference is on the screen before you approve. We do not print a percentage here, because the only saving that means anything is the one quoted against your own Bill of Entry.
The Duty-Pay receipt: what you pay, what you keep
The cheapest whole-scrip bundle for this Bill of Entry, with the net laid out before you approve.
- Basic customs duty assessed ₹9,18,000. A scrip pays duties under the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act 1975, so it covers the basic duty line, not IGST or compensation cess.
- Bundle face ₹9,30,000, the cheapest set of whole scrips whose face covers the duty. A scrip transfers whole under Regulation 7(2) of the Electronic Duty Credit Ledger Regulations, 2021, so a bundle lands on or above the duty, never below it.
- Over-cover ₹12,000 stays yours, sitting in your ledger against the next Bill of Entry rather than being spent on this one.
- Ask capped at face, so you are never asked for more than the credit is worth.
- What you pay is quoted in full before you approve, against this Bill of Entry, at the price the desk holds at that moment.
Every assessed Bill of Entry, pre-covered at the cheapest set.
Set a floor, say 96.50 percent, and Auto-Cover assembles the cheapest bundle for every Bill of Entry as it is assessed. It waits at approve. Nothing pays itself. You tap to clear, or leave it, and the guard-rails hold either way.
Covering duty on Scriphouse, or paying it the old way.
Duty gets paid in cash, or a scrip gets bought off a broker on a phone quote. Both clear the cargo. The difference is what you pay, what you can see, and who carries the risk on the title.
Cover the duty on a Bill of Entry for less, and see every rupee of it. Scrip sale is GST-exempt under HSN 4907. See how Scriphouse handles compliance and trust.
A scrip you cover has clean title, before you ever see it.
Every scrip is screened before it can be listed, and the law is on the buyer's side. What you cover a Bill of Entry with is a scrip whose history has already been checked.
Before a scrip can be covered, its shipping-bill chain is traced end to end, so the credit it carries is credit that was actually earned.
The seller's IEC history is reviewed and KYC is verified. A scrip with a questionable origin never reaches the bundle assembled for you.
Status is read live from the Electronic Duty Credit Ledger on ICEGATE rather than from a stale copy, and shown against the scrip in your ledger.
Government notifications from September 2022 shield a bona-fide transferee from a seller's prior defaults. A clean title you buy stays clean.
Your funds are secured before any scrip moves, or neither moves. If a settlement fails, it unwinds and refunds in full the same business day.
Every trade ships a GST invoice, a net-realisation statement, and a hash-chained audit trail. Export the whole record, CSV or Tally-ready vouchers, whenever you want it.
What clearing on scrips actually means.
The ask on a scrip is capped at its face value, never above 100 percent. Over-cover from a whole scrip stays in your ledger for next time, so nothing is lost to it.
Settlement is atomic, delivery versus payment. Your funds are secured before the scrip transfers on ICEGATE, or neither moves. A failed settlement unwinds and refunds in full the same day.
The cover lands in your Electronic Duty Credit Ledger in minutes, and the seller payout is released against ICEGATE confirmation with a UTR. Same day, every time.
Scriphouse operates ICEGATE under a signed, revocable Power of Attorney, and nothing is submitted without your approval. No Bill of Entry pays itself.
Every trade ships a GST invoice and a net-realisation statement, price, fee, and take-home laid out. Scrip sale is GST-exempt under HSN 4907; the Scriphouse fee carries 18 percent GST.
A September 2022 notification shields a bona-fide transferee from a seller's prior defaults. Combined with provenance screening before listing, a clean title you buy stays clean.
If the duty debited at port does not match what was assessed, you raise it against that exact bill and it stays attached to it until it is resolved. Every message we send is tracked to delivery, so one that did not reach you is never shown to you as delivered.
You link your IEC one time, with one OTP. You do not repeat that step to cover a bill, so one landing at port on a Friday evening does not start with hunting for a code.
Every cover produces a GST-correct invoice, and your invoices come out as a Tally-ready file or a GST-register row per invoice. Your accountant imports them instead of keying them in.
Asked, answered.
Yes. RoDTEP and RoSCTL credits are recorded in the Electronic Duty Credit Ledger on ICEGATE and are transferable by design, and covering a Bill of Entry with them is what they are for. The sale of a scrip is exempt from GST under HSN 4907, at S. No. 137 of Notification 10/2025-Central Tax (Rate) with effect from 22-09-2025, so no GST rides on the credit itself.
On the two commercial grounds that used to reach a buyer, no: Notifications 75/2022 and 76/2022-Customs (N.T.) of September 2022 removed recovery from a transferee where the exporter had been allowed excess credit or had not realised export proceeds. Fraud is a narrower question and the answer turns on the facts, which is why every scrip is checked against its shipping-bill chain, the seller's IEC history, KYC and the live ledger before it can be covered. We would rather screen it out than argue about it afterwards.
In minutes, on the same business day. The credit sits in your Electronic Duty Credit Ledger, ready to apply when you file the Bill of Entry. If a settlement ever fails, it unwinds and refunds in full the same day.
Nothing is wasted. A scrip moves whole, so a bundle can slightly exceed your duty. The ask is capped at face value, never above 100 percent, and any over-cover stays in your Electronic Duty Credit Ledger for the next Bill of Entry, so it is credit you still hold rather than money spent on this filing.
Your first cover on each IEC carries no spread: you pay the seller's price, with nothing added. After that there is still no commission and no processing fee on the buy leg. What the leg carries is a spread over the seller's bid, in the worked example plus 0.25 percent, priced into the bundle before you approve it, alongside a GST invoice and a net-realisation statement.
You sign in once to authorise the connection, and you can end it at any time by telling us to. From then on your duty and your cover stay in step without you re-keying anything, and every action taken on your behalf is written down where you can read it back.
Selling scrips, or running a desk?
Your scrips sell themselves, at your floor or better
Scrolls mature at port, scrips land in your ledger, and Sell Now or Autopilot turns each one into cash above the floor you set.
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Assessed duty in, the cheapest whole-scrip bundle transferred into your ledger in minutes, same day, ready to apply when you file.