Billing for your toy shop in Silvassa, Daman and Diu
Many small sales before the holiday, and the stock you bought for it, counted on your phone.
Tools for a shop whose busiest week is a school holiday
Low stock warnings
Cap rolls and batteries, the small sales that bring a child back, counted so the counter never has to say it is finished to a child with coins.
Orders to suppliers
The Diwali order to the wholesaler, written beside the count of what is left from last year's rush.
UPI payments
A QR code for the father with a train to catch and five gifts to pay for.
From the balloon at the beach to the father's five gifts and the Silvassa shop and the Daman counter
Silvassa keeps the Diwali cars, Daman keeps the beach kites
Silvassa's shelf is for the workers' children, with cars and dolls before Diwali, and the Daman counter is for the visitors, with kites and balloons. Each place keeps its own count, so the dolls left in Silvassa are not ordered again for a beach counter that never sold one.
The father's five gifts are billed as he picks them
A father with a train to catch picks five gifts for his children, and the bill is made as he picks, each with its price. He knows his total before he reaches the counter, pays by QR code, and the queue of other fathers behind him moves. Most of the fathers are going home for the festival, each with a bag already packed and a train time on his ticket. The few minutes saved at your counter are the ones that decide whether the gifts go home with him.
The beach stall's basket, counted on Sunday night
A stall near the beach opens on weekend afternoons with sand toys, balloons and kites in one basket. Keep each as an item. On Sunday night the count shows what the crowd bought, and Monday's order to the wholesaler is made for the next weekend, not for the last one. A Monday that follows a rainy weekend shows a thin basket, and the order shrinks with it, instead of repeating the sunny weekend before.
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Parents with a child on each hand, and a Diwali order that was too big
The gun sells once and the caps sell all week
A child who bought a toy gun in the holiday week comes back on school days for a roll of caps, a battery or a pair of wheels. These are sales of a few rupees beside the big one, and nobody counts them, so you cannot say how much the one gun brought back through the month. The cheapest things in the shop are the ones that fill the counter.
The same cars sell at one counter and sit at the other
The shop has two counters: Silvassa for the workers' children and Daman for the visitors. Cars that sold well at one counter sit unsold at the other, and in the new year the beach toys need the space the cars still hold. From the doorway nobody can say which counter the cars belong to.
A toy for the cloth bag that must last the long train ride
Many workers from the factories take gifts home for their children. They come in the week before leaving, and they want something that will not break on a long journey by train: a toy that fits in the cloth bag beside the new clothes. The toy that suits the bag is not always the toy the child asked for, and the father stands with the two in his hands until you tell him which will last.
Questions toy shops in Silvassa, Daman and Diu ask
A child bought a gun in the holiday week and comes back on school days for caps and a battery. Can I see what the gun brought back?
Yes. Give the gun, the caps and the battery each their own item. At the month's end their lines show the caps and batteries sold in the school weeks beside the guns sold in the holiday.
In the kite weeks of Makar Sankranti the buyer at my counter is as often a grown man as a child. How do I set the kite lines so a man who knows what he wants finds it fast?
Name each kind of kite and each reel of string as the buyers ask for them, with the word a grown man uses. He says the name, you find the line at once, and the kites that go in the Makar Sankranti weeks are easy to see.
Dolls and cars come in one order from the wholesaler. After Diwali can I see which of the two sold better?
Yes. Each toy has its own line in the daily report, so add the dolls and the cars apart. The one that sold better goes first in the next order.
A kite festival in Silvassa and the bamboo and Warli crafts of its tribes
Silvassa marks Makar Sankranti in January with a Kite Festival, where people of all ages join friendly kite-flying competitions. A toy shop that stocks kites and string in those weeks finds the counter belongs to the grown-ups as much as to the children, and the count of each kind is worth keeping by itself.
Local tribes in Silvassa weave bamboo and cane mats and baskets, and paint Warli art, which are its signature traditional crafts. A shop that sells toys and small gifts can set a hand-made piece beside the shop-bought ones, and the rate of each is its own.