Billing for your dairy, from the first can to the last glass
The morning round, the monthly milk account and the paneer by the piece, all on one phone.
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Tools for a counter that runs on milk
Sell to other businesses
A hotel or a housing society that wants curd by the cup and paneer by the tray for a function applies once to buy on credit, and its next order opens on the same page instead of a fresh talk at the counter.
Orders to suppliers
The farmer is told how many cans you want and the cooperative how many pouches, and the morning's delivery is marked off against each.
Bills on your phone
A bill for a cup of curd, a quarter kilo of paneer and a jar of ghee, each priced the way it leaves the shop. Nobody at the counter has to remember the weight of a cup.
Low stock warnings
The farmer's can nearly poured out, seen against the litres paid for.
Why a dairy's day is two rounds and a month of small amounts
A can from the farmer, a pouch from the cooperative, one counter
A dairy sits at the end of a long chain of small farmers, and it can take milk two ways. In Assam, in August 2021, NDDB said WAMUL procured about 41,000 kg of milk a day from 13,916 dairy farmers, and its own brand marketed about 64,000 litres a day. Some shops sell the cooperative's pouch, some pour from a farmer's can, and many do both. What the shop paid for each, and what it poured and sold, ends up in two different heads.
The farmer's rate moves in one place and the shelf rate in another
From 1 May 2025 ANIIDCO in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands pays dairy farmers Rs 56 a litre for raw milk, up from Rs 52, and its one-litre cow milk pack sells at Rs 90. A shop on the other side of that gap sees its buying rate change on a Monday and its price board change, if the owner remembers, on Thursday. The litres sold in between are sold at a rate nobody chose.
The whole lane wants curd and paneer in the same week
Before a wedding or a big festival, one house wants twenty cups of curd and another a tray of paneer, all in the same two days. A dairy that makes what it usually sells is out by noon of the first day, and the one that makes too much is left with curd that will not wait. The shop learns this every year, and writes it down nowhere. A village dairy and a town dairy feel this differently: in the village it is a lane's weddings, in the town it is a housing society's function, but the week looks the same on the counter.
What changes between the first can and the month's end
The cooperative's pouch against the farmer's can, read over a week
In 2021 WAMUL took in about 41,000 kg of milk a day from 13,916 farmers, and its Purabi packs sold about 64,000 litres a day. A small seller sees the same split at the counter. After a week, set the litres and the takings of the pouch beside those of the can, and decide which one to push at the door and which one to order less of.
The sweet shop and the tea stall come off the doorstep page
A sweet shop that takes milk by the can for its khoa and a tea stall that takes it for its chai are both bulk buyers, and each can apply to buy from you on credit. Their bills sit on their own pages, a world away from the half-litre houses. A late payer there does not hold up the page of a house.
Last year's festival week is on file when the order for the curd is made
Daily bills keep the kilos of curd and paneer that went out in the festival and wedding weeks. Next year, the milk set aside for them is worked out from those days, and the shelf is neither empty at noon nor full on the third day.
Questions a milk and curd seller asks
The farmer's rate changes on Monday but my price board changes on Thursday. Which rate does a bill take?
Change the rate of the item on Monday, the day your buying rate moves. The next bill takes the new rate, and the bills already made keep the rate they were made at, so the litres sold in between are not sold at a rate nobody chose.
A tea stall takes the same can every morning. How do I count the can on its page?
Each morning's can is a line on its page, with litres and day. At the week's end read the lines down: a morning with no can is a gap you can see.
I make paneer from the milk that is left. Can that be counted?
Add paneer as an item and put in the kilos when you make a batch. After that every bill takes its weight off, and you see how much of the batch is still in the shop.
The hotel and the sweet shop pay a different rate for the same milk than the houses. Can one bill carry its own rate?
Yes. Milk stays one item, and you change the rate on that bill only. The houses on the round still pay the board rate, and the page of each business shows what it paid, litre by litre.
How do I know how much milk I poured from the can against the litres I paid the farmer for?
Put the farmer's can in as an item counted in litres and note each delivery. Every bill takes its litres off, so the stock shows what is still in the can, and a gap between the two is visible the same day.
Milk at the counter, in two other corners of India
In September 2026 the CPM protested at Vijaya Dairy in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, against higher retail prices on its packaged toned, standardized and full-cream milk.
Arunachal Pradesh had a milk shortfall of 73.13 percent against ICMR recommendations in 2022-23, according to a study using government Basic Animal Husbandry Statistics.