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Practical guides for shopkeepers in India and Nepal. No fluff, no tax advice we are not qualified to give — just how to keep books that hold up.

36 guides in English across 4 areas, and 152 more in 11 other languages.

Getting started

How to choose accounting software for a small shop

Every option looks the same in a screenshot. Four tests you can run in an afternoon that separate software that will fit your counter from software that will not.

9 min

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A feature list against four tests that matterA generic list of features beside four specific questions, two of which the candidate fails.The feature listevery app has oneYour four testsBills with no signalBills in your currencyStaff cannot see marginsYour data exports outrun them on a real day
A price of zero, and the four costs that are not the priceA large zero price tag beside a list of four costs that a price of zero does not cover.0the pricegenuinely, on mobileThe part a price does not coverAn evening moving balancesWhether the export is yoursWhat a second user costsWho answers when it breaksask these before you move

Getting started

What 'free accounting software' actually costs you

Free is a real price and also an incomplete one. The four costs that a price of zero does not cover, and how to check each one before you commit your books.

8 min

The phone at the counter and the dashboard at the deskA phone for selling beside a browser grid for reviewing, with the dashboard marked as access on request.At the counterfree, and offlineAt the deskweb dashboard — access on requesta hundred rows at once, not one bill

Running a shop

Phone or web dashboard: which screen for which job

The app sells; the dashboard corrects. Which of the four Khata surfaces suits which job, what the dashboard genuinely adds, and when it is not worth asking for.

8 min

What the software settles, and what needs a personA dividing line with day-to-day records on one side and filing decisions on the other.The software settles thisDaily takingsWho owes whatStock on handMargin per itemA person still decides this?What you must file?Which rate applies?Anything you signgood records make this cheaperevery day, by itself

Stock & money

Doing your own books, and knowing when to stop

Most of a small shop's bookkeeping is recording, and software is good at that. Where it stops being recording and becomes a decision you sign.

8 min

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Read in your language

Written for shopkeepers in their own language — not translated from the English guides. Many have no English counterpart at all, because they answer questions that get asked in those languages and largely do not get asked in English.

  1. स्टॉक और पैसा6 मिनट का पाठ

    महीने के आख़िर में कौन से पाँच नंबर देखने चाहिए

    महीने का हिसाब देखने के लिए घंटों नहीं चाहिए। पाँच नंबर काफ़ी हैं, और वे मिलकर वह बता देते हैं जो अकेला कोई नहीं बताता।

    पाँच नंबर: महीने की बिक्री, कुल बकाया उधार, नब्बे दिन से पुराना बकाया, सप्लायर को देना, और गल्ले का कुल फ़र्क़।

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  2. स्टॉक और पैसा6 मिनट का पाठ

    यूपीआई और नक़द — दोनों का हिसाब एक साथ कैसे रखें

    आधा पैसा फ़ोन में आता है और आधा गल्ले में। दोनों को एक ही नंबर मान लेना आज दुकानों की सबसे आम हिसाब की ग़लती है।

    हर बिल के साथ यह दर्ज होना चाहिए कि पैसा कैसे आया — नक़द, यूपीआई, या उधार।

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  3. दुकान चलाना7 मिनट का पाठ

    पुराना बकाया जो नहीं आ रहा — उसका क्या करें

    छह महीने पुराना बकाया अपने आप नहीं आएगा। उसके लिए वही तरीक़ा नहीं चलेगा जो नए बकाया पर चलता है।

    रकम पुरानी होने से घटती नहीं, पर उसके वापस आने की उम्मीद हर महीने घटती है।

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