Billing for your hardware and paint shop in Haryana
The plywood offcut, the belt for the thresher and the factory's weekly list, on your phone.
What a Haryana hardware shop uses: plywood, belts and rods
Bills on your phone
A half sheet of plywood and its cutting on one bill, each by its own unit, with the offcut put back in stock.
Low stock warnings
A warning that the belt sizes and the bearings are nearly gone before the harvest week begins.
Credit book (khata)
Rods and gloves in large lots, each lot a dated line, read against the factory man's own count.
GST bills
A GST bill in a carpenter's workshop's name for the plywood sheet and its cutting, with the tax worked out beside the sheet and beside the cut.
Jind's farm implements and Hisar's steel: the hardware a Haryana farm shop sells
A hardware shop sells what the district makes and mends. Two districts show where that comes from.
- Jind has cotton ginning (started at Narwana and Jind), rice mills and farm implements, and its milk plant, set up in 1970, was its first large unit.
- Hisar is called the City of Steel and has the largest galvanised iron manufacturing unit, along with spinning mills and grain, fruit and herb processing.
A plywood sheet cut three ways, a belt that breaks in harvest and the factory's weekly list
A plywood sheet is sold whole, in half and cut to a carpenter's size
A carpenter wants a sheet, another wants half, a third wants a piece cut to the size of a cupboard door. The saw makes the cut, and the leftover offcut is somebody's, or lies against the wall for months. The notebook says one sheet went, and nobody can say how much of it is still in the shop.
The thresher belt breaks in the middle of the harvest, and the field waits
In the harvest weeks a broken belt, a worn bearing or a sheared bolt stops a whole field. The farmer arrives in a hurry with the old part in his hand, and the right size must be found in a minute. If it is not on the shelf, the field waits, and he goes to the next shop with the old part.
The factory's man with a weekly list of rods, discs and gloves
A factory in the industrial estate sends a man every week for welding rods, grinding discs, bolts and gloves. The list is long, the quantities are large, and the factory pays when its own accounts clear. The shop writes it on one sheet, and a month later the sheet has gone to the wrong pile.
The offcut kept as stock, the harvest belts counted and the factory's page
The sheet and its cut pieces, with the offcut kept in the stock
Keep plywood as an item by the sheet and by the foot, and when a piece is cut, put the offcut back in the stock as a piece of its own. A half sheet is then a half sheet on the phone, and the next carpenter who needs it can be told at once.
The harvest belts and bearings counted before the first field is cut
Keep each belt size, bearing and bolt as its own item with a low-stock mark. Look at the harvest weeks of last year in the report and see which sizes went first. The shelf then holds the sizes that the harvest really needs.
The factory's rods, discs and gloves, week by week
A Kundli factory sends a long list every week, with rods, discs and gloves in large quantities. Put the list on its page as one line for each item with the day. At the week's end you read the rods and the discs summed line by line, and the total sits against what the factory's man counts at his own gate.
Plywood, belts and rods: what Haryana hardware shops ask
Plywood comes in full sheets but customers want half. How do I keep the stock right?
Keep the sheet as one item and bill the half as a half sheet, so the stock shows how many sheets are open. A workshop that wants halves every week is billed by the half.
A thresher belt of one size fits only some machines. Can I name the machine in the item?
Yes. Put the size and the machine in the item's name. A farmer who says the machine's name will find the right belt on the screen in a moment.
A carpenter's workshop wants a GST bill for the plywood it buys. Can I make it on the phone?
Yes. Make the bill with the GST worked out on each line, plywood by the sheet and fittings by the piece, and send it on WhatsApp to the workshop's number so its accountant has it the same day.
A farmer in a hurry at harvest asks for a belt and goes. Can I serve him faster than the house buyer?
In the harvest weeks the farmers queue at the counter, each wanting a belt or a bolt and gone. Keep farm parts in a list apart from the house goods, so a farmer in the queue is not served from among the taps.
A farmer comes back with the belt in his hand and says it is the wrong size. What do I look at?
Open the bill of that day. The item carries the belt's size and the machine it was sold for, so you read both out while the belt is still in his hand. If the bill says the right size you show him, and if it says the wrong one you change it for the belt he needs.
Yamunanagar's plywood and Kundli's factories
Yamunanagar has plywood and steel factories, and its Jagadhri area has a cluster of brass and stainless steel utensil industries, says the municipal corporation. A hardware shop near such makers sells to carpenters and to workshops, and a sheet of plywood is a thing it is asked for by size.
The Tribune called the Kundli industrial estate in Sonipat a preferred industrial destination (January 2019). A shop near an industrial estate sells to the factories as well as to houses, and the factory's man comes back every week with the same list.