Billing for your beauty parlour and cosmetics shop in Chhattisgarh
A facial, a bridal package and a herbal soap on one bill, with the bride's advance on her own page.
From each maker's soap counted apart to the Teeja regular who is thanked
Each maker's soap its own item, so the one that sells is the one you reorder
Name each soap after its maker and keep its own count. When a customer asks for a neem soap from a particular group you bill that item, and at night the phone shows how many of each maker's soap went. The next order is for the makers whose soap sold. The group whose soap sold best is the one you ring first for the next lot, and a group whose soap sat is asked to wait.
The mehendi evening counted by the hand, in one tap between two hands
On Teeja the mehendi chair is taken from afternoon to night, and the artist cannot look up to write. Make a hand of mehendi an item with its rate, and a fuller pattern an item more. After each hand she taps the item and the bill is made while the next hand is held out. At night the phone shows how many hands the evening took.
The woman who sits in the Teeja queue every year, thanked with a discount you set
Open the page of a woman who has come for Teeja mehendi for years and read her earlier bills. Give her a discount from the offers you have set up, handed over at the counter when she sits down. The queue is long and she can leave, and a discount is a reason that she does not.
Why herbal soaps from five makers, the Teeja mehendi evening and a mixed counter each break the slip book
Herbal soaps and oils from five makers on one shelf, and one line called herbal
The parlour sells herbal soap, hair oil and face cream, each from a different maker, some of them women's groups from the forest-produce centres. A customer asks for a particular maker's neem soap. The notebook says herbal soap, ten pieces, so you cannot tell which maker's soap is selling, or which to reorder. A woman who has used one group's soap for years will notice at once if you hand her another maker's in the same pack.
The Teeja evenings, when the mehendi chair is taken from afternoon to night
In the days around Teeja women come for mehendi in the afternoon and stay in the queue until night. Each hand takes its time, the artist cannot look up to write, and the cash goes into a box with no note of whose hand it was. At night you know the number of women but not the number of hands or what each paid.
A tray of bangles by the dozen, bindi by the card, kumkum by the weight
The same counter sells bangles by the dozen, bindi by the card and kumkum by the weight, and a woman takes a bit of each. You add three kinds of unit in your head, give change, and write the one number you can remember. At the end of the day the bangles have gone down faster than the notebook says. Three kinds of unit mean three little sums, and each one is a chance to be a few coins out.
Wedding towns: Champa's silk and Raipur's showrooms
Wedding towns shape a parlour's year, and two of them show the range.
- Champa town in Janjgir-Champa is known for the finest Kosa silk sarees with zari borders, in demand across India for weddings. Its weavers number in the thousands.
- Small steel makers are the backbone of Raipur, with rolling mills, steel-melting shops and ironmaking units in the Urla and Siltara industrial clusters, as of October 2026.
Tools for a parlour and cosmetics counter that sells herbal goods, bangles and bindi
Bills on your phone
Kumkum by weight, a hand of mehendi and a bar of herbal soap on one bill, each at its own rate.
Offers for regular customers
The woman whose daughter now sits beside her for the Teeja mehendi, thanked at the counter with a discount on her own hand.
Daily reports
The Teeja evenings read back day by day, to see how many hands of mehendi the chair took and when the queue was longest.
Questions Chhattisgarh parlours and cosmetics shops ask
Four girls sit for mehendi together on Teeja and one of them pays for all. Can four hands go on one bill?
Yes. Put the hand of mehendi on the bill four times, under the name of the girl who pays, and send it to her WhatsApp. Each girl's sitting is counted as a hand in the day's report, so the evening's total still shows how many hands were done.
A Diwali gift pack ties a herbal soap and a herbal oil. How is the pack billed?
Make the pack an item with its own rate. A pack sold goes off the pack's count, and the singles stay on their own counts.
A maker sends the same soap in a new pack. Do I need a new item?
Only if you want the new pack's rate and count kept apart. If not, keep selling under the same item and carry on. If yes, add the new pack as its own item, and the two never mix in the report.
Chhattisgarh Herbals on the parlour shelf
In September 2022 officials said the Chhattisgarh Herbals brand had over 130 forest-produce centre products and over 90 self-help group products, sold through 32 Sanjeevani shops, Dhanwantari shops, CSC shops, Amazon and Flipkart. A parlour that keeps herbal products on its shelf sells them by the piece beside its services.
Chhattisgarh Herbals has sold Diwali gift packs for the past two years, as of 2022, and its products were to reach shops in Maharashtra and Goa through a Pune distributor. A gift pack is one item at one rate, whatever it holds.