Billing for your mobile shop in Nagaland
A cable, a cover and a repair left on Monday, each billed once and found again on Friday.
Tools for a Naga mobile counter that sells phones, glass and cables
Bills on your phone
One bill for a choir's Christmas sound kit, a speaker, two microphones and a long cable, each at its own rate.
UPI payments
A QR at the counter for the Hornbill photographer buying a memory card in a hurry.
Low stock warnings
A warning when power banks fall low before the monsoon, when the power cuts begin.
Orders to suppliers
The distributor's order for the dual-SIM phones the valleys ask for, each arrival noted against it, so you know what has come.
Daily reports
Each day of the month on its own line, to see which days the phones moved before you place the next order.
Offers for regular customers
An offer set for the college photography club when its members buy memory cards before the festival.
Fifty small sales, a distributor's order made by guess and a phone left for repair
The village where only one network works
Customers from the hills ask which network works in their village before they buy, and the answer changes from one valley to the next. You sell a phone and a SIM, they come back a week later saying it does not work there, and nobody wrote down what was sold to whom or on which day.
Speakers and microphones for the carol season
In November every church choir and youth group wants a speaker and two microphones for the carol season. The distributor sends what he has, the speaker everyone wants runs out in a week, and the shop learns too late which one the choirs were asking for.
The Christmas phone and the younger child a week later
In December parents buy a phone for the eldest child and come back a week later for the younger one. The first bill is lost, the price has changed, and the parent remembers the earlier rate and asks for it again.
From a cable sold in seconds to a repair quote that stays on the customer's page
Gaming phones and earphones read apart from the rest
Young customers ask for phones with big memory and earphones for games. Keep those models as their own items, and the report shows how much of your month they make, so the next order follows the young crowd. The same report shows which earphones go with which phone, so the two are ordered together.
The distributor's call starts with what the hill customer asked for
Each time a hill customer asks for a model or a cable you do not hold, that item goes first on your next order to the distributor. Phone him from the shop with that list. The missing item goes on first, and the fast models come after. The slow ones are left out until someone asks for them.
The vouchers counted by network and by face value
A village family buys vouchers for the network its valley carries. Make each voucher an item by the network and its face value, with its own count. The month's bills show which network's vouchers go fastest and in which sizes. More families in the villages are online each year, so these are the vouchers that must not run out.
Questions Nagaland mobile shops ask
A customer's screen costs more than I quoted on Monday. How do I show both figures?
Put Monday's quote on his page as a first bill, and Friday's screen and work as a second bill under the same name. He sees both on one page.
Can I see how many phones went to the villages and how many to town customers?
Yes, if each village buyer has a page. The phones on those pages went to the villages, and the rest went to walk-ins from town.
Villagers ask for two SIMs because the network changes from valley to valley. Can I keep dual-SIM phones apart?
Yes. Make each model its own item, with dual SIM in the name. The report shows how many of each sold, so the next order follows what the villages ask for.
A student wants the biggest card for Hornbill and I hold only a few. How do I tell the next one?
Each card size is its own item with its own count. Open the biggest size and tell the next student what is left before you say yes, and offer the next size down.
A buyer says the network in his village is down for days and he will pay by UPI when he is in town. How long can I let the bill stand?
The bill stays on his page unpaid, with its day, so you read how many days it has stood and decide how long to wait. When the payment comes through from town, write it on the same page.
Subscribers, SIMs and the village phone: what TRAI says about Nagaland
TRAI data show Nagaland's internet subscribers rose from about 0.86 million in December 2021 to 1.65 million in December 2023, with rural users up over 100%.
Nagaland had 1.70 million mobile connections in March 2025, and rural tele-density, at 78.57%, was higher than urban, at 74.33%, per TRAI figures. Phones are as common in the villages as in the towns.