Billing for your kirana and grocery shop in Haryana
The grinding at the chakki, the winter bajra and the traveller at the door, on one phone.
The chakki at the back, the bajra sack and the road past the door
Wheat goes in the chakki in the morning and the flour comes out at evening
Many village shops have a flour mill at the back. A family brings its own wheat at ten, pays for the grinding, and comes back at five for the flour. The shop sells flour as goods and grinding as a service, both in kilos, and the notebook has one line for the two. By evening nobody remembers who left a bag, how much, or whether the grinding was paid.
Bajra is on the shelf for a few cold months and gone from the book the rest of the year
Bajra flour and grain sell when the cold sets in, for the bajra roti that goes with the winter meals. For those months the sacks sit beside the wheat and the rice. After that nothing is written about them until next winter, when you buy by memory and are never sure whether you over-bought or sold out in a week.
A shop on the road sells to two kinds of customer in the same minute
One minute it is a family from the village, who take their month's goods and say to put it on the page. The next it is a traveller who stops, asks for a packet and a bottle, pays and has to be on the road. The first wants the notebook, the second wants a bill that takes as long as a handshake, and the shop has one hand for both.
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Sirsa's mandis and Jagadhri's steel: who a Haryana grocer sells to
A grocery sells to the people whom a district's trade keeps busy. These two show where that trade can come from.
- Paddy piled up at the Sirsa mandis in early October 2026 as procurement lagged.
- Jagadhri, in Yamunanagar district, has many utensil and metalware makers (aluminium, steel, cookware) and plywood factories.
The grinding on the bill, last winter's bajra and the traveller's quick packet
The grinding as a line on the bill, beside the flour
Make grinding an item with its own rate per kilo, and flour another. When wheat is left, make a bill for the grinding and note that it is unpaid. When the family collects the flour in the evening, the bill is paid. The page tells you which bags are still in the mill and what is owed.
Bajra sacks ordered with the grinding kilos beside them
Bajra roti is a cold-month food, and the same bajra comes to the shop as sacks and to the chakki as grinding. Before you order, open last winter's weeks and set the sacks sold beside the kilos ground. Order for the weeks both moved, and not for the whole season.
The traveller's packet billed in seconds, the village family's on its page
A cash sale to a traveller is a bill made and finished at the counter. A sale to a village family goes on its page for the month. Both are in the same day's sales, so at night the road customers and the village customers add up on one screen.
What a Haryana grocery with a flour mill uses
Bills on your phone
Wheat left for grinding billed at its rate per kilo, and the flour sold beside it, each with its own line.
Daily reports
Kilos ground each day at the chakki, kept day by day, so the weeks when the mill runs from dawn are known before the next harvest.
Credit book (khata)
One page per family carries the bag of wheat left at ten and the sugar taken at five, each line dated.
Low stock warnings
A warning that the flour on the shelf is low even though the wheat bags that went into the chakki are not yet flour, so the order is placed before the shelf is bare.
Women's groups that moved their shop records onto one phone
Chakki, bajra and the highway: what Haryana grocers ask
A family says the flour weighs less than the wheat it left. How do I show them what the mill took?
Some weight always goes, as bran and dust, and the family sees the reason when two numbers stand on one bill: the kilos of wheat it left and the kilos of flour it took. Show the bill, and the bran is explained by the paper and not by your word, so nobody has to take anyone's word.
Bajra comes to the chakki only in the cold months. Can I read the grinding kilos and the bajra sacks together before I order?
Yes. The grinding is a line on the bill and the bajra sack is an item on the shelf. Read last winter's weeks and you see the kilos ground beside the sacks of bajra sold, and the winter's order is set against both.
Two bags of flour look alike on the floor in the evening. How do I hand each to the right family?
Call out the bills, not the faces. Read the names from the day's open grinding bills, and close each bill as its bag goes out.
Do village families take chakki flour or packed atta in the cold months?
The report keeps each as its own item. Open last year's cold months and set the kilos of chakki flour beside the packets of atta. The one that moved is the one to stock for this winter.
Har Hith stores and the village counter
Haryana's Har Hith Store Yojana plans 2,000 stores in its first phase, 1,500 in villages and 500 in towns, selling daily-need goods at reasonable prices. A village kirana near one of them meets a neighbour with fixed rates, and a written rate for every item on its own shelf is how it answers.
Under the scheme, Haryana Agro Industries Corporation allots a 200 sq ft shop in villages of 3,000 people or more. That is a small counter, and a small counter holds only what sells, which is why knowing what sold last week matters there.