Claude Desktop

Claude Desktop for Windows and Mac starts MCP for Tally itself and talks to it privately on your computer.

The easy way: open MCP for Tally, go to Connect AI apps and click Add beside Claude Desktop. The app writes the settings below for you, keeps a backup of the file, and never touches your other entries.

By hand

1. In Claude Desktop open Settings, then Developer, then Edit Config. That opens claude_desktop_config.json.
2. Add the mcpfortally entry inside mcpServers, beside anything already there.
3. Save the file.

Edit Config always opens the file Claude really reads. If you open it yourself on Windows: the installer version keeps it in %APPDATA%\Claude, the Microsoft Store version in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Claude-Data\claude_….

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcpfortally": {
      "command": "C:\\Users\\<you>\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\MCP for Tally\\runtime\\node.exe",
      "args": ["C:\\Users\\<you>\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\MCP for Tally\\app\\mcpfortally.js", "mcp"]
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcpfortally": {
      "command": "/Applications/MCP for Tally.app/Contents/MacOS/mcpfortally",
      "args": ["mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Quit Claude Desktop completely and open it again. Then ask: Which companies are open in Tally?

Claude asks before it uses a tool for the first time. Choose Allow always for the read tools if you trust it to read your books.

Something not working? Write to [email protected] with the app’s Copy diagnostics text. It never includes figures from your books.