Billing for your medical store in Rajasthan, village or town
Strips and single tablets, the fever-season rush and the monthly medicine page, set right.
The free strip counted, fever stock ordered early, the night's bills kept
What came in is entered as it came, free bottle and all
When the distributor's parcel arrives, note what came: twelve bottles and the free one make thirteen. The shelf shows thirteen from that day, and every sale takes one off. A free bottle is never sold without a bill.
The free bottles counted in before the first rain's order
The syrup lots that come with a free bottle fill the fever shelf faster than the bills show. Before the first rain, read the shelf's fever lines with the free bottles that came in, and write the order for the strips and packets that are really short, not for the ones the free bottles already cover.
The last strip of fever tablets has a bill with its night on it
When the mother of a feverish child takes the last strip at two in the night, make her bill as you hand it over. In the morning that strip is on a bill with its time, and the shelf count says none are left. You order them first, and nobody has to remember whom they went to.
Tools for a medicine counter with a queue
Bills on your phone
A bill that lists each strip or tablet taken from the shelf, with its price, so a family can see what its fever cost.
Low stock warnings
A warning when fever, cold or stomach medicine drops to a few strips, before the queue forms.
Orders to suppliers
The order to the supplier written with the list of what is low in front of you, so his next van brings what the shelf needs.
Daily reports
How many strips of each medicine went, week by week, to read before the next rains.
A free strip, the night counter and a shelf that empties in the fever weeks
Twelve bottles of syrup ordered, thirteen arrive
Distributors often send a free bottle or a free strip with every dozen bought. The shop orders twelve, thirteen arrive, and the shelf holds thirteen. The distributor's bill shows twelve, and the extra one is sold and never written down. Over a month the shop loses sight of which items it paid for and which it was given.
A hospital slip of several medicines, and one of them not on the shelf
In October, when dengue fills the hospital queues, a family walks out with a slip of several medicines and comes to the nearest medical store. The counter has most of them, and the supplier's man is a day away. A shop that says come tomorrow has sent that family down the road, and some of them do not come back. The shop that kept the fever medicines through the first rain is remembered for it by the lane.
The late-night counter with a child's fever
A medical store opens late, and at night one person stands behind the counter alone, pharmacist, helper and cashier in one. A mother arrives with a feverish child, and the medicines are handed over quickly, with no one to ask and no one to write. At two in the morning nobody can say whether the last strip of the fever tablets went to this customer or the one before.
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Rajasthan's districts and the families who come to the counter
A medical store sees families from every part of its district, and each one talks about the work that keeps it busy.
- At Pachpadra in Barmer, the HPCL refinery complex will process 9 million tonnes of crude a year, and had engaged about 35,000 workers by February 2023.
- Ajmer has mineral-based industry: feldspar grinding, asbestos cement pipes, cement, marble, granite and salt production.
- Sikar has dal, edible oil, cattle feed, granite tile and PVC pipe industries, which the Rajasthan Foundation lists as opportunities.
- In Jaipur, Johari Bazaar is the hub for gemstone jewellery and Tripolia Bazaar is known for lac bangles and textiles.
- Udaipur is renowned for its miniature paintings and marble carvings, and Shilpgram is its craft village.
- Nagaur trades in dried red chillies on a huge scale, and its cattle fair is held every November.
What Rajasthan medical store owners ask
A mother has no cash for the child's fever strip at the night shutter and pays by UPI. Does the strip still leave the count?
Yes. Make the bill, show the QR code on the phone and let her pay at the shutter. The strip is off the count the moment the bill is made, whether the money is cash or UPI, and the night's money agrees with the morning shelf.
A shopkeeper in a nearby village buys glucose powder and ORS from me to resell. Where do I note what he owes?
On a page in his shop's name. Put each lot on it with the day, and when he pays on his next visit, note it against the page. What he still owes stays there.
At the hospital hour the slip has five medicines and one is out. Do I make the family wait for the whole bill?
No. Bill the four at once so the queue behind them moves, and tell the family which one is out. Its bill is made later, in the same family's name, when it comes in.
Fever seasons and the generic medicine counters
In a seasonal outbreak in October 2021, more than 6,500 dengue cases were confirmed in 30 Rajasthan districts and hospitals had long queues. That was thirty districts at once, so the families of each of them were queuing in their own lanes in the same weeks, and the nearest medical store saw them first.
Rajasthan had 599 Jan Aushadhi Kendras on 30 November 2025, a minister said in a written Lok Sabha reply. A private store near one sells the same salts under other names, and a stock list by salt and by brand lets the owner answer "do you have this cheaper?" in one look.