Billing Software by Industry — Set Up for Your Kind of Shop
A cement dealer and a mobile shop need different things from the same software: one bills in bags to contractors on credit, the other bills by piece with IMEI numbers and warranty dates. Each page below covers what a particular trade actually needs.
Why the trade matters more than the size
Shops of the same size in different trades have almost nothing in common operationally. What decides your setup is the unit you sell in, whether you extend credit, whether goods are delivered, and how many items you carry. A hardware shop with ten thousand small SKUs needs barcode billing; a steel dealer with twelve items needs a daily rate update. Getting that right at setup is the difference between software that fits in a week and software that never quite does.
What every trade gets
GST invoicing with the rate on the item, an udhaar khata that updates from your bills, stock that moves as you sell, party statements, WhatsApp sharing and the Android app. Those are common to every shop type. What changes by trade is the defaults — units, common items, which reports are put in front of you, and whether the delivery challan is central or unused.
Not listed?
The trades below are the ones we have written up, not the limits of what the software handles. Any shop that bills, gives credit and holds stock works the same way. If your trade is not here, call or WhatsApp us and we will tell you honestly whether it fits — including when it does not.
Shop types
Switchgear Shop
Switchgear is specified by rating and standard, not by name, and supplying a 32A where a 40A was asked for is a callback at best. The item list h...
LED & Lighting Shop
Lighting is chosen by wattage, colour temperature and finish, carries warranties measured in years, and turns over its product range faster than...
Solar Shop
A solar sale is a system rather than a product: panels, an inverter, batteries, mounting and installation, often with a subsidy claim attached an...
Iron & Scrap Dealer
A scrap dealer buys by weight from many small sellers and sells by weight to a few large buyers, at a rate that moves daily. Both sides of that a...
Cement Block & Paver
A block and paver unit both makes and sells, which means the stock figure has to account for production as well as despatch. Pavers are quoted by...
Shuttering & Scaffolding
Shuttering plates, props and scaffolding are lent rather than sold, which changes everything: the stock is out rather than gone, the bill is time...
Cosmetics Shop
Cosmetics carry an expiry date, sell by shade and pack size, and turn their range over quickly. All three mean the stock figure has to be accurat...
Salon & Spa
A salon sells time and products from the same counter, pays its staff partly on what they bring in, and often carries prepaid packages and member...
Gym & Fitness Centre
A gym is a subscription business wearing a retail front. The money comes from members renewing on time, and the single biggest leak is a membersh...
Laundry & Dry Cleaning
A laundry takes goods in, holds them for days, and returns them — which means the critical record is not the bill but what is currently in the sh...
Printing Press
A print job is quoted before it is made, changes while it is being made, and is argued about after it is delivered. The quotation and the specifi...
Packaging Materials
Packaging is sold by piece, by kilo and by roll depending on the product, to manufacturers who order the same specification repeatedly and settle...
Industrial Chemicals
Industrial chemicals are sold by grade and specification to buyers who test what they receive, often in returnable containers, and always with pa...
Surgical & Medical Supply
A surgical supply shop sells consumables that expire alongside equipment worth lakhs, mostly to hospitals, clinics and nursing homes buying on in...
Seed Shop
A seed shop does most of its year in a few weeks around sowing, gives credit that is repaid after the harvest, and sells a product where the lot...
Pesticide Shop
Agro chemicals expire, are sold under licence, and are bought by farmers on credit repaid after harvest. The batch and expiry on the bill are not...
Agri Equipment
Agricultural equipment is a high-value sale to a buyer who may be applying for a subsidy, needs the machine serviced, and will return for spares...
Tractor Parts
A tractor parts shop lives on identifying the right part quickly for the right make and model, holding it in three quality grades, and supplying...
Cattle Feed Shop
Cattle feed is a repeat purchase — the same dairy farmer buys the same quantity every week — which makes it a running-account business rather tha...
Tyre Shop
A tyre shop sells a product identified by a size code, carries a manufacturer warranty the customer returns with, and earns a meaningful share of...
Battery Shop
Almost every battery sale involves an old battery taken in exchange, a warranty that runs for years, and a serial number that decides whether a l...
Lubricant Shop
Lubricants sell in several pack sizes at different rates per litre, in grades that must not be mixed up, mostly to garages and mechanics who buy...
Car Accessories
A car accessories shop sells products that must fit a specific vehicle, earns much of its margin on installation, and carries stock in a category...
Garage & Workshop
A garage bill is two different things added together: parts taken from stock and labour charged by the job. Keeping them apart is what makes the...
Two Wheeler Parts
A two wheeler parts shop carries thousands of small items across dozens of models in three quality grades, and answers counter enquiries by part...
Tools & Machinery
A tool shop sells everything from a five-rupee item to a power tool worth thousands, carries manufacturer warranties on the expensive end, and su...
Fastener Shop
A fastener shop sells the same bolt in twenty sizes, three grades and two finishes, by weight to one customer and by the piece to another. Precis...
Welding & Industrial Supply
A welding supply shop sells consumables by weight, machines under warranty, and gas in cylinders that are lent rather than sold. That last one is...
Wire & Cable Shop
Wire is bought in coils and sold cut, which means the stock figure drifts every day unless the conversion is handled properly. Add a dozen sizes...
General Store
A general store is judged on how long the third person in the queue waits. Half the counter is packed goods with barcodes and half is loose, and...
Supermarket
A supermarket lives on thin margins across thousands of items and several counters, which means two things decide the month: throughput at the ti...
Dairy Shop
A dairy sells the same customer something every single day and bills them once a month, which is a pattern almost no billing software is built fo...
Sweet Shop
A sweet shop sells by weight at a busy counter, takes bulk orders for weddings and festivals that dwarf the daily trade, and carries products tha...
Bakery
A bakery runs two businesses from one counter: walk-in sales of bread, biscuits and pastry, and custom cake orders taken days ahead with an advan...
Restaurant
A restaurant bills by table rather than by customer, splits and merges bills as groups change, and closes a cash book every night. The menu is th...
Stationery Shop
A stationery shop carries thousands of small items that look alike, sells most of its year in a few weeks around the school season, and often sup...
Book Shop
A book shop sells at a printed price on a fixed trade margin, which means the money is made on stocking correctly rather than on pricing. Most of...
Toy Shop
A toy shop carries hundreds of brands and variants, sells hardest around festivals and gifting occasions, and takes returns more often than most...
Gift Shop
A gift shop makes its money on presentation and on the occasions that drive it — festivals, weddings, corporate gifting. Much of what is charged...
Footwear Shop
A footwear shop lives on size availability. An article in five colours and eight sizes is forty items, and the customer who wants a nine in black...
Bag & Luggage Shop
Bags and luggage sell by brand and size, carry manufacturer warranties customers return with, and peak sharply around the school season and the t...
Jewellery Shop
A jewellery bill is a calculation, not a price: today's metal rate, the weight, the purity, the making charge and the wastage. Every one of those...
Optical Shop
An optical sale is rarely finished at the counter: a frame is chosen, lenses are ordered to a prescription, an advance is taken, and the customer...
Marble & Granite
Stone is sold three different ways to the same buyer — a slab by the square foot, a block by the ton, a tile by the piece — and the wastage allow...
Glass Shop
Glass is billed by area, priced by thickness, and lost to breakage at a rate no other trade tolerates. All three have to be on the bill or in the...
Aluminium Shop
Aluminium sells by weight, by length and by piece depending on who is asking, and the rate moves with the metal market. A fabricator ordering for...
Bricks & Blocks
Bricks are quoted per thousand, delivered by the trolley, and paid for after the site is. The freight is often a bigger variable than the brick r...
Sand & Aggregate
Sand and gitti are sold in units nobody outside the trade recognises — CFT, brass, tractor loads, tippers — and moved in volumes where a single w...
Ready Mix Concrete
Concrete is sold by grade and cubic metre, delivered on a clock, and billed to builders who pay in stages. The pump charge and the waiting charge...
PVC & Pipe Shop
A pipe shop carries the same fitting in eight sizes and three classes, sells pipe by the length and by the metre, and supplies plumbers who take...
Water Tank Shop
Tanks are sold by capacity, brand and number of layers, delivered by vehicle because nobody carries one home, and carry a manufacturer warranty t...
Wall Putty & Finishing
Putty, primer and finishing compounds sell by bag and by kilo, move in volume when a site is finishing, and go out on credit to painters whose ow...
Waterproofing Materials
Waterproofing material sells by litre, kilo and roll, sells hardest just before the monsoon, and includes chemicals with a shelf life that makes...
Building Material
Steel, cement, sand, aggregate, shuttering — billing in a building material shop is unlike any other retail counter. Every item has a different u...
Hardware Shop
A hardware shop carries thousands of lines — hinges, screws, pipe, locks, rope, hand tools. There is a queue at the counter, and if the bill take...
Cement Dealer
Cement is a volume business — hundreds of bags a day, several brands on the floor and GST at 28%. Counting bags, holding brand-wise stock and cha...
Saria / TMT Steel
Steel rebar prices behave like the share market: they move every day, and sometimes twice in a day. Every size from 8mm to 32mm carries its own r...
Sanitary Shop
In a sanitary shop the pipe sells by the foot, the fittings by the piece and the seat and basin as a set. The plumber walks off with the goods pr...
Paint Shop
A paint shop juggles 1L, 4L, 10L and 20L packs, hundreds of shades and several brands at once. The painter collects material against a contract a...
Plywood Shop
Plywood sells by the sheet but is priced per square foot, laminate is asked for by design number and timber is measured in CFT. Carpenters and co...
Kirana Store
MaterialBill was built for construction material, but the same billing engine is just as quick behind a kirana counter — units in kilograms, gram...
Electronics Shop
In an electronics showroom every item carries a model number, a warranty period and its own GST slab. The customer wants a proper printed bill fo...
Mobile Shop
Margins in a mobile shop are thin and the competition is sharp, so a mistake in the accounts comes straight out of profit. The IMEI has to appear...
Cloth / Garment Shop
In a cloth shop the bolt is cut by the metre, readymade garments sell by the piece, and during the wedding season there is barely time to breathe...
Furniture Shop
The furniture trade runs on orders and advances: a sofa takes a fortnight to build and half the money comes up front. Once it is delivered the ba...
Electrical Shop
An electrical shop is hardware's close cousin: wire goes out by the coil and by the metre, fittings by the piece, and the electrician collects ma...
Tiles / Marble
Tiles arrive in boxes but sell by the square foot, and how many square feet a box holds depends on the size. Marble follows rules of its own agai...
Fertiliser / Agri
The agri-input trade is a seasonal one — heavy footfall and heavy credit at sowing time, and recovery once the crop is sold. A farmer's account h...
Auto Parts
A spare parts shop lives with thousands of part numbers — filters, plugs, brake shoes, clutch plates. The mechanic is at the counter calling out...
Medical Store
A small chemist does not need a heavyweight pharmacy suite. What is needed is quick GST billing, a stock alert and a clear account with the distr...
Frequently asked questions
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