Guides for Shopkeepers — GST Bills, Credit Ledgers, Shop Accounts

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Who these guides are for

They are written for the people who run the counter: hardware shops, cement and steel dealers, sanitaryware and tile showrooms, paint stores, timber and plywood traders, electrical and pipe wholesalers, and the building material suppliers who send loads out to site every morning. If you sell steel by the kilo and cement by the bag, keep half your sales on credit, and file GST every month, these are written for your day.

Each guide sticks to what a shop actually has to do — what goes on a GST invoice, how to chase an old outstanding without losing the customer, what a delivery challan must carry, how to fix a salary and mark attendance for staff. Where a rule comes from GST law we say so plainly, and where it is simply what works in the trade, we say that too.

Where to start

If you are still on a paper bill book, read the GST invoice guide first — it covers the fields a bill must carry and the mistakes that get returns rejected. If your problem is money on the street, start with the credit ledger (khata) guide. If material leaves your godown for a site, the delivery challan guide is the one that saves arguments later. And if you have staff on the counter or on a truck, the attendance and salary guide covers the register you should be keeping.

Every guide ends with the part of MaterialBill that does the same job automatically, so you can read the background first and decide afterwards whether software is worth it for your shop. Nothing here requires you to sign up.

Prefer to watch instead of read?

The same ground is covered in short Hindi videos on the tutorials page — two to five minutes each, recorded from the actual software. You can also see the full feature list or book a demo call and have someone walk you through it on your own data.