One entry in the GST filing calendar: a calendar month (Monthly), a quarter identified by its quarter-end month (Quarterly) or a whole Indian financial year (Annual). GSTR-1, GSTR-2B, GSTR-3B and GSTR-6 records point at a Monthly period, GSTR-9 annual returns point at an Annual period, and a Form 26AS statement can point at one. Return provisioning (a GST registration's Provision GST Returns action or the scheduled Provision GST returns job) creates the month's period as Open when it is missing, and for a normal filer also the Annual period of that financial year; creating a period by hand creates no returns. Only one period may exist per Type, Month and Year. This calendar is separate from the accounting fiscal periods used for posting and period close.
Fields
| Field | Label | Type | Required | What it does |
|---|
CreatedById | Created By | Lookup → UserAccount | Yes | |
CreatedDateTime | Created On | DateAndTime | Yes | |
FinancialYear | Financial Year | Text | | Indian April-to-March financial year the period belongs to, written 2026-27. Derived from Month and Year when left blank and validated against them when entered; required for an Annual period, where editing it moves the period to that year. The GST console groups periods into financial years by this value. |
Id | Id | Guid | Yes | |
ModifiedById | Modified By | Lookup → UserAccount | Yes | |
Month | Month | Number | | Calendar month 1 to 12 for a Monthly period; the quarter-end month 3, 6, 9 or 12 for a Quarterly period; 0 for an Annual period. Cannot be changed once any GST return, GSTR-9 or Form 26AS statement uses the period. |
Name | Name | Text | Yes | Display name derived when left blank: Aug 2026 for a Monthly period, Apr-Jun 2025 for a Quarterly period, FY 2025-26 for an Annual period. Renamed automatically when Month, Year or Type changes, unless a new name is entered in the same save. |
OwnerId | Owner | Lookup → UserAccount | Yes | |
RecordTypeId | Record Type | Guid, hidden | | |
Status | Status | PickList | | Open (default), Closed or Locked. Scheduled GSTR-1, GSTR-2B, GSTR-3B and GSTR-6 processing jobs that run without a month rebuild only returns in Open periods, and the portal pull requested when a registration signs in to GSTN targets Open periods only. Only an Open period that nothing references can be deleted. Locked is final and can never be reopened. The status does not stop posting documents or processing a return by hand. |
SubscriptionKey | Subscription Key | Guid, hidden | Yes | |
Type | Type | Text | | Cadence of the period: Monthly (the default; a blank Type is treated as Monthly), Quarterly or Annual. Only Monthly periods are provisioned with GST returns. The form's list offers Monthly, Quarterly and Annual; any other value, including Month, is refused on save. Values: Annual, Month. |
UpdatedDateTime | Updated On | DateAndTime | Yes | |
Year | Year | Number | | Calendar year of the month; for an Annual period, the year the financial year starts. Must be from 2017, when GST began, up to one year after the current year, and the period cannot start before July 2017. |
Actions
| Action | Label | Type | What it does |
|---|
Clone | Clone | ServerAction (Clone) | Create a copy of this record |
Edit | Edit | EditInline | Edit |
New | New | New | New |
- GSTR3B — referenced by via
ReturnPeriodId - GSTR1 — referenced by via
GSTFiscalPeriodId - Form26ASStatement — referenced by via
FiscalPeriodId - GSTR2B — referenced by via
GSTFiscalPeriodId
