Billing for your footwear shop in Assam
The child's pair first, the rest after Puja and Bihu, and every size counted on one phone.
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From the box opened and put back to the pair kept for the family
The parent says yes, and the last pair is not promised twice
On the Puja evening the child on the stool has tried six pairs when the parent finally says yes. The pair goes on the bill at that moment and the count of that size falls to nothing. When the next family asks for the same size a minute later, the helper reads the count and says no before another box is opened.
The pair kept for the family, on the family's page until it is paid for
When the father says his wife's sandals will wait, put them on a page in his name with the day and whatever he paid. The pair is no longer on the shelf count, and your helper cannot sell it. When he comes back after the festival money, you read the page and the sandals are in his hand.
Rubber and leather as two lines, so the dry-month order is not a guess
Keep rubber and leather chappals as separate items, and read each day's sales to see how fast the rubber slowed and the leather rose. Then order for Bihu from what sold in the last weeks, not from the shelf that looks full.
Fifty boxes opened in a Puja evening, the child's pair first and a Bihu pair promised
Fifty boxes opened in an evening, and the right size is in none of them
On a Puja evening the shop is full, a child sits on the stool trying pair after pair, and the helper climbs the shelf again and again. Boxes are opened and not put back, the sandal in the box is not the sandal on the label, and when the parent finally says yes, the pair is the last of its size. Nobody wrote it down, so tomorrow you will promise it to someone else.
One pair now, because the child comes first
A father with a tight budget buys one pair, the child's, and says the rest of the family will wait. He asks if you can keep his wife's sandals and his own until after the festival money comes. You agree, you push the pairs to the back of the shelf, and on the day he returns the sandals are not where you left them, or are, and you sold them once already.
Bihu is coming and the shelf is still full of last season's rubber
The wet months have just passed and the shelf holds rubber chappals that sold in rain and sell slowly now, and for the dry months families want leather and light sandals. You ordered both a month ago from memory and they arrive in sizes nobody asked for. Bihu brings the new pair for every child in the house, and the shelf is the wrong shape for it.
Tools for a wall of rubber and leather chappals in a rainy state
Your own online shop
A shop page that lists the school shoe and the festival sandal size by size, so on a Puja day a family reads which sizes are nearly gone before the crowded evening and decides whether to come.
Daily reports
Each Puja evening's sales by size kept as a list, so tomorrow's front row is put out from what sold tonight.
Low stock warnings
A mark you set for each size of the child's shoe, so a warning comes in Puja week when stock falls under it.
Tea estates, a river port and a jute belt: who walks into an Assam footwear shop
A footwear shop in Assam sells to tea estates, river towns and jute fields. A few districts, and what they are known for.
- Cachar is known for its tea plantations; paddy, vegetables, pulses and tea are grown on the plains along the Barak river.
- Under the British, Tezpur became an important centre of trade and commerce, used as a river port for the surrounding tea gardens.
- The Assam government names Barpeta, with Nagaon, Goalpara and Darrang, as the main jute-producing districts of Assam.
What Assam footwear shops ask about the child's pair, sizes and the Puja budget
A mother pays half for the child's pair now and half on the eve of Puja. Where do I write the second half?
Keep the pair aside for the eve: bill it the day she pays the first half, so no one else takes that size from the shelf, and hand it over on the eve when the second half is paid.
I keep a few pairs of rubber boots with the chappals. Can I read the boots apart from the town chappals?
Yes, and the weeks tell you why. The boots are wanted in the wet weeks and the chappals in the Puja weeks, so give the boots their own item and you see the wet weeks they went.
A mother can buy her son's school shoe today and her daughter's sandal only after the Puja money comes. Can the sandal wait on her page?
Yes, it can wait until the Puja money comes. Bill the school shoe today, and keep the sandal's size on the shelf count until she is back. If another buyer wants that last size, tell him it is waiting.
The three Guwahati bazaars and the Puja budget
Fancy Bazar, Ganeshguri and Paltan Bazar in Guwahati traditionally see a surge in footfall before Durga Puja, with shoppers looking for attire and footwear. The busiest evening of the year at those counters is the evening a size count matters most.
In October 2026, rising prices of clothes and footwear made Guwahati families tighten Puja budgets; many bought a single outfit and put children's needs first. A footwear shop sees that as one pair at a time, with the rest of the family waiting for the money.