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Billing for your medical store in Silvassa, Daman and Diu

Strips, loose tablets and the monthly medicines of regular patients, kept on your phone.

A customer at the counter of a small medicine shop with shelves of bottles behind
A customer at the counter of a small medicine shop with shelves of bottles behind Photo: Sujithshivam511, CC BY-SA 4.0

Tools for a medical counter that sells by the strip and by the tablet

  • Bills on your phone

    A strip of tablets for the night-shift man and a loose tablet for a visitor's headache as two items with two rates, on a bill the buyer keeps on WhatsApp.

  • Credit book (khata)

    A page for the man on the night shift who takes a strip every week, the weeks added up on the wage day.

  • Orders to suppliers

    The order to the distributor placed the same evening the shelf of fever tablets runs low, with what arrived noted against it.

  • Low stock warnings

    A warning that foot cream, antiseptic and fever tablets are running low, set higher in June than in the winter months, and sea-sickness tablets before a weekend of visitors.

A pharmacist in a white coat reaching for a medicine box on a shelf
A pharmacist in a white coat reaching for a medicine box on a shelf

The night shift at ten, the fever bench in the rains and the visitor without his sea-sickness tablets

  1. The shop is open at the hour the shift changes

    Workers on the night shift from the factories come at ten for a headache tablet, rehydration salts or a bandage, after a long day on their feet. The shop stays open for them, the counter is tired, and the bills are written next morning from memory. By then the small sales of the night are a rough number. A man who took a strip at eleven and says he paid is hard to answer at seven in the morning.

  2. Feet first, then the fever

    In the wet weeks the men who wade to work through flooded lanes come first for foot cream, antiseptic and a bandage, and for the fever tablets and salts in the second week. A customer who finds the first thing bare tries the next shop for the rest, and does not come back for the fever.

  3. The visitor who left his sea-sickness tablets at home

    On a weekend, visitors from other towns ask for sea-sickness tablets, sunburn cream or a plaster for a blister, one after another. You either have it or he goes on to the next shop. A strip of tablets for one blister is a small sale, and the cream for the sun is a bigger one, and neither is written in the notebook by Monday morning.

Green shelves of medicine bottles and boxes behind a wooden counter
Green shelves of medicine bottles and boxes behind a wooden counter Photo: Billjones94, CC BY-SA 4.0
A smiling pharmacist in a topi in front of shelves of medicine boxes
A smiling pharmacist in a topi in front of shelves of medicine boxes

From the bill made through the shutter to the prescription priced strip by strip

  • The man who took a strip at eleven is answered at seven by his bill

    A man who took a strip at eleven at night comes back at seven and says he paid. The bill for that strip is already on the phone, made as the strip was handed through, so the morning hand opens it and shows him. The question is closed in a minute and the queue behind him waits no longer.

  • The ward's prescription is priced strip by strip at the shutter

    A relative comes out of the hospital with a prescription from the ward and wants to know the price of every strip before he pays. Put each strip on its own line with its rate while he waits. When the doctor's brand is dear, he asks for the cheaper strip and sees its price on the next line, and he decides at the shutter.

  • Foot cream, antiseptic and fever tablets on one low list

    Set a low count for the foot cream, the antiseptic and the fever tablets. When any of them falls below it, the alert shows it, and the three go in one order to the distributor the same evening. The first wet Monday finds all three on the shelf, and the sea-sickness tablets for the visitors are ready on the same list for the first weekend.

Questions medical stores in Silvassa, Daman and Diu ask

A visitor asks for sea-sickness tablets and sunburn cream on a Saturday. Can I see I am out before he asks?

Yes. Each of them is an item with its own count. Set a low level, and the alert lists those nearly gone, so the Saturday things are in the shop on Friday.

A night-shift worker asks at the shutter for the cheaper strip of the same medicine. Can I bill it through the shutter?

Yes. Both strips are items with their own rate, so pick the cheaper one, take the money at the shutter, and the bill is made while he waits. Its count falls, not the brand's.

A family comes down from the hospital with a prescription of eight lines. Can I give the total before I hand over a strip?

Yes. Pick the lines on the phone as you read the prescription. The total is ready when the last line is on, so the family can decide before any strip leaves the shelf.

The night shift buys after I have closed and I serve through the shutter. Can I bill that later?

The shift buys foot cream, a plaster, a few fever tablets. Pick them on the phone as you hand them out, and the bill is done before the shutter is down.

Workers buy rehydration salts one or two sachets at a time, and a factory canteen takes a box. Can both sell from one count?

Yes. Keep the sachet as the item. A worker's two sachets and the canteen's box are two bills against the same count, and every sachet comes off it.

More questions every shop asks

Jan Aushadhi counters and the 650-bed hospital at Silvassa

Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu had 40 Jan Aushadhi Kendras, the government's low-price generic medicine shops, by 30 November 2025, says a Lok Sabha reply. A man off the night shift who asks for the cheaper strip is answered at the shutter with the price, and no argument starts.

Shri Vinoba Bhave Civil Hospital in Silvassa is a 650-bed multi-specialty teaching hospital and a key healthcare hub for the region. Prescriptions that leave its wards reach the shops of the town, and a bill made on the phone is ready when the patient's family is.