Billing for a shop where one item costs more than a day's kirana.

01 · Value

The bill matters more when the item is expensive

A kirana bill is a receipt nobody keeps. A phone bill comes back — for a warranty claim, for an exchange, for an insurance form — and it has to still say what it said on the day. A finalized bill here keeps the settings it was calculated with and cannot be edited afterwards, so the copy a customer brings back in a year matches the copy in your records exactly.

• Finalized bills are never edited
• Reprint the original from its stored snapshot
• Cancelled bills print with a watermark
• Returns issued as credit notes with their own number

02 · Serials

Where an IMEI or serial number goes

There is no separate serial-number field, and rather than pretend otherwise: shops put the IMEI or serial into the item name or the bill note when they sell, which prints on the invoice and is searchable afterwards. If you need serialised stock tracked as its own record, with each unit followed through the shop, that is not built and you should look elsewhere.

• IMEI or serial typed onto the line or the note
• Prints on the invoice the customer keeps
• Searchable in the bill history afterwards
• No per-unit serialised stock tracking

03 · Tax

Eighteen percent, without setting it up

Choosing electronics sets GST on with eighteen percent as the default rate, which is where most of this trade sits, and the HSN picker offers phone, computer, appliance, cable, battery and lighting codes rather than the general list. Anything on a different rate is changed per item, and the bill splits tax into CGST and SGST inside your state or IGST outside it.

• GST on, 18 percent, from the first bill
• Per-item rate where a product differs
• Phone, appliance, cable and LED HSN codes offered
• CGST and SGST, or IGST across a state line

04 · Stock

Knowing which model is left, not how many boxes

Barcode scanning is on by default, so packaged stock comes up from the camera instead of a search. Each model carries purchase cost, selling price and MRP separately, so the bill shows the customer's price while the report shows what the item made — and a price typed below cost raises a warning before the bill is saved rather than at the end of the month.

• Scan with the camera while billing
• Purchase cost, selling price and MRP held apart
• A warning when a price goes below cost
• Low-stock level set per model