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User Guide

Step-by-step help for shop staff and the company Admin

1. Getting started

This app runs your shop's billing, stock and accounts in one place: sales and purchases, stock by batch, customer and supplier balances, cash and bank books, GST reports and a full set of accounts. It works in any modern browser on a computer, tablet or phone.

Logging in

  1. Open the app's web address in Chrome or Edge.
  2. Type your App Code (your company's code, given by your software provider). The company name appears above the form once the code is recognised.
  3. Type your Username and Password, then click Login. Capital and small letters don't matter in any of the three boxes.
  4. If your Admin has set a Login PIN, a PIN box also appears. The PIN must be typed exactly.
The Login page. The company name shows once the App Code is typed.

You stay logged in for 8 hours. Click Logout (top right) when you leave a shared computer.

Who can do what (roles)

RoleWhat it can do
AdminEverything: all menus, Masters, Settings, Users, and deleting bills.
SubadminMakes all entries. Can edit saved entries only for the forms and number of days the Admin allows in Utilities → User Control. No Masters or Settings.
UserMakes entries. Editing a saved bill is allowed only for the forms ticked in User Control.
Report OnlyCan only view and print reports. Clicking a bill opens its print view.
SalesmanLogs in to the Salesman Portal to see their customers and collect payments (see section 8).

Click Help in the top menu bar, or the Help link under the Login form. Use the English / മലയാളം buttons at the top of this page to switch language, and Download PDF to keep a printable copy.

Using a phone or tablet

Every page adapts to small screens. The menu folds into the button. On a phone the Sale screen gets a quick bar at the top with Save Sale, Cash/UPI buttons, customer name and phone. In Chrome you can choose Add to Home screen to open the app like an installed app.

Sale entry on a phone, with the quick bar at the top.

2. The Home page

After login you land on the Home page. It gives a quick picture of the business today:

The Home page of the demo shop "Sree Medicals".
MenuWhat you find there
Masters (Admin)Customers, Suppliers, Branches, Items, Item Groups, Manufacturers, Tax Rates, Salesmen, Staff, Account Groups, Ledgers, Loan Accounts, Payment Types, Opening Balances.
InventoryNew Purchase, Sale, Quotation, Customer Order, Sales Return, Purchase Return, Stock Transfer Out/In, Packing, Purchase Ordering, E-Invoice, Barcode Reprint, Weigh Scale Items.
MiscellaneousPayments & Receipts (supplier payments, customer receipts, notes, staff, other payment/receipt, assets, loans, transfers, journal), Salesman Collection, Quick Item Search, Search Entries, Edit Rates, Edit Items, Numbering Settings, Financial Years.
ReportsAll Reports, master lists, Inventory Register and item/party reports, stock reports, statements, payment lists, GST / Tax, Cash Book, Bank Book, Loyalty Points.
AccountsDay Book, Day Summary, Trial Balance, Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet, Ledger Statement.
Utilities (Admin)Settings, Inventory Settings, Bill Print Settings, Custom Fields, Barcode and Weigh Scale settings, E-Invoice settings, Theme, Users, User Control.
The Inventory menu open.

Some menu items appear only when the matching feature is switched on in Utilities → Inventory Settings (for example Customer Orders, Salesman, Loyalty Points).

4. Making a Sale (billing)

Open Inventory → + Sale Entry. The screen has four parts: the header (bill details and customer), Item Entry (where you type one item at a time), Added Items (the bill's lines) and the footer (discount, payment and totals).

A Sale with three items, paid in cash.

Step by step

  1. Customer. For a walk-in customer you can leave it blank or just type a name. For a regular customer, type part of the name, code or phone and press Enter (or pick from the list with ↓/↑). + New or F2 adds a new customer without leaving the bill.
  2. Phone. Typing 3 or more digits of a phone number suggests saved customers and earlier walk-in customers with that number, so you don't need to type the name again.
  3. Add items. In Description, type part of the item name, code or generic name, or scan the barcode into Barcode. Pick the item with Enter. If the item has several batches, a batch list opens; with one batch it is picked for you.
  4. Quantity. Type the quantity and press Enter. When the rate is already filled, the line is added straight away and the cursor goes back for the next item.
  5. Payment. Choose Pay Mode: Paid (enter Payment Type and Amount, or + Add Split to split between Cash and UPI) or Credit (optionally with an advance).
  6. Save with the Save button or F10. F12 saves and prints. The form stays open, ready for the next bill (+ New Bill).
Typing in Description lists matching items with stock, MRP and rate.

Quantities, free items and line types

Payment, old balance and points

Customer Item List and Previous Items

When switched on, two buttons appear next to Phone:

The Item List of a regular customer, ready to add to the bill.
Typing a phone number suggests earlier customers.

Several bills at once, copy and paste

Printing the bill

After saving, use Print (or F11, or F12 to save and print in one go). The print page shows the bill in the company's chosen style (Classic, Modern, Compact, GST Invoice, Thermal 3 inch or Tally style). If more than one style is allowed, a View as switch lets you pick another, and Set as this device's default remembers it for this computer. PDF downloads the bill as a PDF to send on WhatsApp or email.

A sale printed in the GST Invoice style.

Opening, editing and deleting a saved bill

A saved bill opens locked. Click Edit to change it.

When stock is short

Depending on the Negative Stock setting, a sale of more than the stock is blocked, asks for confirmation, or is allowed. Expired batches are not offered.

5. Purchases

Open Inventory → + Purchase Entry. It works like a Sale, with the Supplier instead of the Customer.

  1. Pick the Supplier and type the supplier's Invoice No and date.
  2. For each item: pick the item, then the Batch (pick an existing one or type a new batch number, with expiry date if needed), quantity, purchase rate, discount and tax. The sale rates (Retail/Wholesale/Card) and MRP for the batch can be filled in on the same line.
  3. Use the footer for discount, other expenses and payment (Paid or Credit), then Save.
A purchase from a supplier, with batches.

6. Other bills and stock entries

Sales Quotation

Inventory → + Sales Quotation Entry works like a Sale but does not touch stock or accounts. When the customer agrees, open the quotation and click Convert to Sale; a new Sale opens filled in from it.

A quotation with the Convert to Sale button.

Customer Orders (bookings)

For goods booked in advance (a cake, a special medicine, a monthly pack). Inventory → + Customer Order Entry: enter the customer, items, Delivery Date/Time, a Message and any advance received. The order does not touch stock until it is billed.

The Customer Orders board.

Sales Return and Purchase Return

A Sales Return against an earlier bill.

Stock Transfer Out / In (branches)

Move stock between your own branches. Stock Transfer Out reduces stock here; the branch records a Stock Transfer In. Branches are added in Masters → Branches.

Packing Entry (making products)

When Product Stock is set to Product Entry, Inventory → + Packing Entry adds stock of a product you make or pack and takes away its raw items, using Masters → Item Product Relation. With Product Direct, selling a product reduces its raw items automatically.

Purchase ordering

E-Invoice and E-Way Bill

For GST-registered companies with this switched on: each bill's print page has an E-Invoice / E-Way button, and Inventory → E-Invoice / E-Way Bill lists all bills with bulk JSON download for the government portal. A bill with an active IRN cannot be edited or deleted.

Weigh scale items

When a weigh scale is used, barcodes printed by the scale are read on Sale with the weight as quantity. Inventory → Weigh Scale Items lets you update rates and write the scale's PLU file.

7. Payments and receipts

All are under Miscellaneous → Payments & Receipts. Each form shows the last few entries below it, with Edit and Print.

EntryUse it when
Customer ReceiptsA customer pays an old balance. Optionally apply it against particular bills; anything not applied stays as an advance.
Supplier PaymentsYou pay a supplier. Discount and cheque details can be entered; it can be applied against purchase bills.
Branch ReceiptsA branch pays for stock transferred to it.
Supplier Credit Notes / Customer Debit NotesAdjust a party's balance without cash (for example rate difference).
Staff Payments / Staff Salary JournalPay staff, and post the month's salaries in one go.
Other PaymentExpenses such as rent, electricity, transport (choose the Ledger).
Other ReceiptOther income such as commission or rent received.
Asset PurchaseBuying furniture, computers or other fixed assets.
Loan Borrowed / Loan RepaymentMoney borrowed, and repayments split into principal and interest.
Cash/Bank TransferCash deposited in the bank, cash withdrawn, UPI to bank, and so on.
Journal EntryAny adjustment between ledgers (debits must equal credits). For accountants.
Customer Receipt form.
Other Payment (an expense such as electricity).

8. Salesmen and the Salesman Portal

When Salesman is switched on in Inventory Settings, a Salesman can be chosen on each bill, and salesmen can collect money from customers.

Salesman Portal: a salesman logs in with the same App Code and their own username (set in Masters → Salesmen). They see only My Customers (balances due, bills, statement, collect payment) and My Cash Statement.

9. Masters (Admin)

Masters are the lists everything else uses. Each Add page shows the last 5 records with Edit and Delete, and a quick search box.

Customers, Suppliers and Branches

One list of parties. Type can be Customer only, Supplier only, Both, or Branch. Fill name, phone, address, GSTIN, state, opening balance, default rate tier and discount. For customers you can also keep a Customer Item List (on the customer's edit page) and see their Loyalty Points.

Masters → Customers, with the last 5 customers below.

Items

Each item has a type (Stock, Service or Product), name, code, HSN, group, manufacturer, GST rate, pack quantity and units (pack/loose), barcode, minimum quantity, opening stock, cost price, MRP and sale rates (Retail, Wholesale, Card), and a minimum Below Rate if needed. Which fields appear is decided by your software provider.

Masters → Items (Add Item).

Other masters

Masters → Payment Types.

While entering a bill, F2 creates a new item, customer, supplier or salesman, and F7 edits the one already picked, without leaving the bill.

Changing many items at once

Miscellaneous → Edit Rates and Edit Items show items in a grid. Filter, click Show, click a cell, change the value and press Enter; the cell turns green when saved. Edit Rates can also switch a batch off, correct stock and delete an unused batch.

Edit Rates grid.

10. Reports

Reports → All Reports lists every report on one page.

All Reports.

How every report works

Main reports

ReportShows
Inventory RegisterAll bills of a type (sales, purchases, returns…) with totals; open, print or edit from here.
Partywise / Itemwise InventoryTotals per customer/supplier, or per item.
Itemwise BillwiseEvery line of every bill: find which bill a batch or serial number went to.
Profit RegisterProfit per bill or per item, at average purchase cost.
Item Stock / Stock Movement / Agewise StockCurrent stock with value; an item's in-and-out history; how old the stock is.
Customer / Supplier / Branch / Salesman / Staff StatementRunning balance of one party, ready to print or send.
GST / Tax ReportSales and purchase tax summary, GSTR-1 (with JSON export), GSTR-3B, and composition returns.
Cash Book / Bank BookMoney in and out of cash and of each bank/UPI account, with running balance.
Loyalty PointsPoints earned, used and balance for each customer, with history.
Inventory Register (sales).
Item Stock report.
Customer Statement with running balance.
GST / Tax Report.
Cash Book.

Miscellaneous → Search Entries searches every kind of entry at once by number, party, amount or date, so you can find any bill quickly. Quick Item Search (F3 in an item box) shows an item's stock and rates.

Search Entries.

11. Accounts

Every bill and voucher is posted to the accounts automatically. You don't need to make journal entries for normal work.

Day Summary.
Trial Balance.
Profit & Loss.

12. Settings (Admin)

Settings

Utilities → Settings: tax type and GST scheme, company state, bank details for the bill, currency, where the Delete button shows, whether old balance prints on bills, a Login PIN and a message shown after login. Company name, about line and address are set by your software provider.

Utilities → Settings.

Inventory Settings

The main switches for how billing works:

Utilities → Inventory Settings (top part).

Bill Print Settings

Choose the invoice style and which styles staff may switch to, logo, header fields, item columns and their order, MRP total, footer text (bank details, terms, declaration), signatory, caption and font size, page size (A4/A5, portrait/landscape, half page), and section colours. The UPI QR code is set by your software provider.

Utilities → Bill Print Settings.

For printing without the print dialog every time, start Chrome with the --kiosk-printing option (your software provider can set this shortcut up).

Other utilities

Utilities → Theme.

13. Users and permissions (Admin)

Utilities → Users.
Utilities → User Control.

14. Keyboard shortcuts

KeyWhat it does
EnterMove to the next box. On Sale, Enter in Qty adds the line when the rate is filled.
↓ ↑ then EnterMove through a drop-down list and pick. Esc closes it.
F2Create a new item, customer, supplier or salesman from its box.
F7Edit the item, customer or supplier already picked.
F1In the item box: edit the item's rates for all batches.
F3Quick Item Search.
F9(Sale) Add the current item to the purchase Order List.
F10 / F11 / F12Save / Print / Save and Print.

15. Tips and common questions

I can't edit a bill.

Click Edit first; saved bills open locked. If it says View Only, your role isn't allowed to edit that bill or it is too old. Ask your Admin.

An item doesn't appear when I type it on a Sale.

It may be out of stock or every batch may be expired (when Negative Stock is Block), or the item may be inactive. Check Reports → Item Stock.

The rate on the bill is wrong.

Check the Rate Tier at the top of the bill and the customer's default tier. Change rates in Miscellaneous → Edit Rates or press F1 in the item box.

The cash in the drawer doesn't match.

Open Accounts → Day Summary for today: it shows the day's money by payment type. Salesman collections count only after they are remitted.

I deleted a bill by mistake.

Deleted bills cannot be restored. Enter it again; an Admin can tick Bill No to reuse the same number.

A customer's balance looks wrong.

Open the Customer Statement for a wide date range; every bill and receipt is listed with a running balance. Click any line to open it.