Billing for your footwear shop in Gujarat
The garba-night slippers, the mojdi that matches the chaniya and the artisan's pairs, on one phone.
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The midnight slippers in five taps, the mojdi found by colour, the artisan's pairs on a page
Garba-night slippers sold in a few taps, and the heap of notes read at two in the morning
A sale at midnight is a tap on the size and a tap to finish, so one girl is served while the next is already holding out her note. At two in the morning the heap of notes in the box and the day's bills on the phone are read together, and there is nothing to add up with tired eyes.
The mojdi that matches the chaniya's thread, found in her size before she leaves
The girl describes the thread and the mirror work on her chaniya and asks for the mojdi that goes with it. Name each pair by its thread colour, its tassels or mirror work, and its size, and the phone tells you whether the match is on the shelf in her size, while she is still at the counter.
The artisan's pairs read against the bills at month's end, tassel colour by tassel colour
Give the artisan a page as a supplier, and note each pair and bag with its day and its tassel colour. When one sells, the bill names it. At the month's end you read the page beside the bills and find which colours moved, and the artisan sees the same figures.
Slippers sold at midnight after the garba, a mojdi to match the chaniya and a Kutch artisan's pairs on trust
After the garba, when the girls' feet hurt and the shop is still open
People dance the garba barefoot, and after midnight the girls who have danced for hours come out looking for cheap slippers to walk home in. The shop near the ground sells them by the pair, one after another, in a few sizes and a few colours. Nobody has time to write, and at two the owner has a heap of notes and no idea how many pairs of which size went.
The mojdi that has to match the chaniya, in the right size
A girl comes with a photo of her chaniya choli and wants a mojdi that goes with it: the same colour of thread, the mirror work if there is any. The pair is in a box at the back, in the wrong size, and the right size is in the other colour. The shop says it will see, and the girl walks to the next shop.
A Kutch artisan brings tasselled pairs and bags and asks to be paid as they sell
An artisan from Kutch brings a bundle of leather mojdi and bags with colourful tassels, and goes away with a promise. The shop puts them on the shelf. When a customer buys one, the shop writes a figure on a slip, and a month later the artisan returns and the two of them try to work out which ones sold.
What a Gujarat footwear counter keeps on its phone, from the garba-night slippers to the Kutch artisan's pairs
Bills on your phone
A sale at midnight in two taps, a pair of slippers in size 6, sent on WhatsApp to the girl before she reaches the road.
Low stock warnings
A warning when the common girls' sizes of the garba slipper near your mark, since they finish after the first nights.
Orders to suppliers
A page for the Kutch artisan, with each pair he brought and the day, so the month-end reading is of what the shop actually received.
Rajkot, Bhavnagar and Surat: the Gujarat cities whose families a footwear shop serves
Three Gujarat cities and what each is known for.
- Rajkot's Soni goldsmiths and silver craftsmen make jewellery, and the city is also known for textile printing and for metal and wood carving.
- Bhavnagar is an important trade city, 50 km from Alang, the world's largest ship-breaking yard, and is famous for its ganthiya snack.
- Surat accounts for 70% of India's rough diamond cutting and polishing and 40% of its man-made fabric production, says the city corporation.
Questions Gujarat footwear shops ask about garba-night slippers, mojdi colours and artisan pairs
At two in the morning one size is finished and the garba is not. What do I do?
The size shows zero on the phone, so you stop offering it and point the girl to the next size up. That same count is what you take to the wholesaler for the next night's order.
I sell mojdi by the pair and the tassels apart for girls who want to change them. Can the tassels be items?
Yes. The tassel is an item with its own rate. A girl who wants a different tassel gets the pair and the tassel as two lines, and the tassel stock falls by what she took.
The tasselled pair from Kutch came in one size only. Can I keep it as an item with a count of one?
Yes. Name the pair by its tassel colour and its size, and set the count at one, under the artisan's page. When the bill is made the count goes to nothing, and his page shows this pair has sold, so what he is owed is read from it.
Kutch leather and a training for rural artisans: the craft behind a Gujarat footwear shelf
On 26 February 2026 FDDI Ankleshwar and the Gujarat Rural Industries Marketing Corporation began a three-month training for rural artisans in footwear design and leather craftsmanship. A shop that stocks handmade pairs may find more of them arriving from the artisans who finish it.
In Kutch the Meghwal community makes leather work, today including bags and shoes with colourful tassels and embellishments, says Gujarat Tourism. That is the kind of pair a customer picks up for its colours and asks the shopkeeper about.