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Billing Software in Punjab for Hardware & Material Shops

Punjab makes the hardware the rest of the country sells. Ludhiana fasteners, Jalandhar tools and the Mandi Gobindgarh steel market all trade on weight and on credit, and MaterialBill is built for both.

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The material trade in Punjab

Mandi Gobindgarh is one of India's largest steel markets, and everything there is weight and rate — the per-kilo price moves daily and a shop quoting yesterday's rate loses money on every ton. What a dealer needs is not a fixed price list but an item rate he can change once each morning and have applied to every bill from then on. Ludhiana's fastener and hardware trade adds the opposite problem: thousands of small SKUs sold by the piece, the box and the kilo, where finding the item is slower than billing it.

Jalandhar covers hand tools, sanitaryware and sports goods for a national customer base, much of it despatched rather than sold over a counter. That means packing lists, transport references and freight billed separately. Amritsar, Patiala and Bathinda are regional retail markets serving an agricultural catchment where the season drives demand and credit runs long through the sowing months.

Main trade centres

Cities in Punjab

9 cities have a page of its own with local market detail. MaterialBill is cloud software, so it works anywhere in Punjab whether or not your town is listed.

Mandi Gobindgarh Patiala Bathinda Mohali Pathankot Moga Ludhiana Amritsar Jalandhar

Shops also use MaterialBill in Patiala, Bathinda, Mohali, Pathankot, Moga, Hoshiarpur, Batala, Firozpur, Khanna and Mandi Gobindgarh and the surrounding towns.

GST for a Punjab dealer

GST state code03 — the first two digits of every GSTIN registered in Punjab
DepartmentPunjab Excise and Taxation Department
Within PunjabCGST + SGST, applied line by line from each item's own rate
Outside PunjabIGST, switched automatically once the buyer's state is set
Common slabsCement 28% · TMT steel and most hardware 18% · sand and aggregate 5%

MaterialBill keeps the GST rate on the item rather than on the bill, so a single invoice can carry cement at 28% and steel at 18% with Punjab CGST and SGST worked out line by line, and IGST substituted the moment the buyer's GSTIN starts with something other than 03. Confirm the current slab with your CA. More on GST billing

What Punjab shops use most

Multi-Unit GST Bills

Every unit on one invoice.

Udhaar Khata (Credit Ledger)

Ageing and reminders.

Site Delivery Challan

Vehicle, driver, site, freight.

Frequently asked questions

Can I change the steel rate once each morning?
Yes. Update the rate on the item and every bill from then on uses it. You can also override the rate on an individual line when a party has agreed a different price.
I stock thousands of small items. How do I find them quickly?
You search by name, code or barcode, and a barcode scanner works directly with the billing screen. Most Ludhiana shops bill faster with a scanner than they ever did on paper.
Can I bill an out-of-state despatch properly?
Yes — an inter-state bill applies IGST instead of CGST and SGST automatically once you set the buyer's state, and the transport and freight lines give you what you need for the e-way bill.
What does it cost in Punjab?
The same as everywhere else — a shop in Punjab pays what a shop in any other state pays, because there is no state pricing. Billing, the credit ledger and stock are on the free plan with no card; the paid plans lift the limits. See pricing

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