Practical guides for kiryana, grocery and general stores: going live, loose goods, barcodes, udhaar khata, retail and wholesale prices and the daily hisaab.
Many customers read Urdu more easily than English, and the names they ask for are Urdu names. What a receipt can show in Urdu, how a thermal printer prints Nastaliq, how to choose between Urdu, English or both, and what to test before relying on it.
A bag of sugar does not cost what the mandi bill says. The truck, the loaders and the toll are part of its cost, and if they are not counted, every kilo looks more profitable than it is. What landed cost is, two ways to share it, and how MartPOS adds it to a purchase.
Loose daal, rice and spices come without a maker's barcode, and so do the 1 kg packets you fill yourself. Two ways to make them scan at the till in MartPOS, which to use when, and why you should never make up an EAN-13 number.
Kiryana ya general store ka hisaab barson se register, khata copy aur Excel mein chal raha ho to software par aana mushkil lagta hai. Saat qadam mein poora tareeqa, Roman Urdu mein, aur har qadam par MartPOS ki screen ka naam.
Many kiryana and general stores sell thok and parchoon from the same shelves. How to give every unit a retail and a wholesale price, decide who pays which, keep the switch out of the wrong hands, and see what wholesale really sells, with the way MartPOS does it.
A kiryana store's hisaab comes down to six questions: what was sold, whether the drawer is right, who owes you, whom you owe, what the shop spent and what it earned. A daily routine that answers them, and how MartPOS keeps each figure as the counter works.
Half a kilo of daal, a pao of haldi, Rs 100 of sugar, a whole bag of atta. How a cashier bills loose goods by weight or by the rupee in MartPOS, why Rs 50 of sugar can come to Rs 50.08, and what the till checks on every line.
Packed milk, yoghurt, bread and biscuits go off; soap and matches do not. How a grocery or general store can keep track of dates only where they matter, find what to move before it expires, and deal with what has, with the way MartPOS does it and its limits.
Sugar by the kilo and by the 50 kg bag, oil by the bottle and by the carton, eggs by the dozen and by the tray. How to set up units and packs so that every sale, whatever the size, comes out of one stock figure that stays right.