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Migrate to the Latest Release | From Tally 5.4, 6.3 and 7.2

Last updated on: November 16, 2025 | ⏱ 2 min read

The latest release of TallyPrime can detect if your data is from earlier releases (such as Tally 9 to Tally.ERP 9), and guide you in the migration process. All your transactions, along with your company features, masters, security settings, and so on, will be carried forward seamlessly. Migrating the Tally 5.4, 6.3, and 7.2 data to the latest TallyPrime release is a 2-step process.

Step 1: Migrate from Tally 5.4, 6.3 and 7.2 to Tally.ERP 9

If you are using older releases of Tally (such as 5.4, 6.3, and 7.2), you cannot migrate your data directly to TallyPrime. You will have to first migrate your data to Tally.ERP 9, and then migrate to TallyPrime.

To migrate data from releases below Tally.ERP 9, you need the migration tool tally72migration.exe that is available in Tally.ERP 9 installation folder. Before migrating data, it is recommended that you backup your data.

Copy the company data of Tally 5.4, 6.3, or 7.2 to the data folder in Tally.ERP 9.
Start the migration tool (tally72migration.exe) from the location where it is available.
Select Migrate Data in the ERP 9 Data Migration Tool screen as shown below.
Enter the company data path in the Directory field and select the company in the Name field.
Press Enter when the Rewrite? message appears, and press Enter when the message Backup before rewriting? appears. The data is backed up before being rewritten to Tally 7.2 format for migration.
Press Enter when the Migrate? message appears.
On successful migration, the message Migration Completed, Check Statistics appears. Compare the statistics and ensure that data migration is complete.

Note: The migrated company number is prefixed with an additional 0 and appears in five digits. When you open the data in the latest release, you will be will prompted to migrate to Release 6.x.
Press Enter to migrate.