Billing for your supermarket or general store in Rajasthan
Full baskets at the weekend, regular families and two stores, all on one phone.
A Sunday-evening queue, a shelf price and a counter bill that disagree
The bus that stops for ten minutes
A store on the highway road sits where tour buses stop. Forty visitors get off for ten minutes and all of them want water, snacks and a few things to carry home. The cashier has one counter and one line, and a bill that takes a minute each means half the bus is back in its seat without paying.
A dairy corner with a shelf life of one day
The milk, curd and paneer corner holds goods that last a day or two. At eleven the shelf is full, at five it is bare, and nobody can say whether the customers took it or the shop forgot to refill. What was taken without a bill is not known until the cash is counted.
One owner, two stores, two notebooks
A family that owns a store in town and another on the highway keeps two notebooks and brings them home at night. The highway store's evenings belong to the buses, with water and snacks gone by dark. The town store's belong to families and their packed goods. The owner sees each a day late, and cannot tell from where he sits that the highway store is out of water while the town store holds a carton too many.
Tools for aisles, a billing counter and a second branch
Bills on your phone
One list for the whole trolley, weighed vegetables and packed goods together, on the family's phone before they reach the car.
Many shops, one owner
The water and snacks counted in both stores side by side, so a carton in surplus in town is carried to the highway store before the buses come.
Daily reports
Each store's sales for the day, ready when the shutters come down.
Staff shifts Coming soon
Planned for later: shift lists for the counter staff, so the Sunday evening has enough hands.
UPI payments
A QR at the counter for visitors from other states who are in a hurry and carry little cash.
Rajasthan's districts and the families who shop in a town store
A town store serves families who work in every kind of trade, and the aisle talk is about the district they come from.
- Jaipur's Johari Bazaar is the hub for gemstone jewellery, and Tripolia Bazaar is known for lac bangles and textiles.
- Alwar's famous sweet is the milk cake, Alwar ka mawa, sold at Tripolia Market and the markets near Hope Circus.
- Ajmer's mineral industries include feldspar grinding, asbestos cement pipes, cement, marble, granite and salt.
- Jodhpur is a major hub for carved wooden furniture, wrought iron and handicrafts, with a handicraft special economic zone at Boranada.
- Udaipur is renowned for miniature paintings and marble carvings, and has the Shilpgram craft village.
The basket billed once, the regular family noticed, two stores seen together
A bus load billed in the time it takes to board
Each item has its price. The cashier adds the snacks and water, the QR is on the counter, and the bill goes to the visitor's phone before he steps back into the bus. Ten minutes are enough for the whole group.
This October's weeks beside last October's
Buses come in their season. In the tourist months this October's weeks and last October's tell the same story or a different one. A falling week then is either a bad year or only a late one, and late and falling look alike in a single week. You see which it is early, without waiting for the annual account.
The town store and the highway store on one phone
Both stores sit under one account. Each store's sales and stock are its own, and the owner opens either one from wherever he is. He sees at night, in one place, what each store sold and which of them is short.
Women's groups that kept their sales in one place
What Rajasthan supermarket owners ask
A tour guide asks for one bill for twelve people on his bus. Can I make it?
Yes. Add every person's items to one bill, and he receives one total for the group. If each person wants his own bill, make twelve separate ones.
A new supermarket opened nearby. Which of my shelves is slipping, and not only the total?
Open the daily report by item and lay this fortnight beside the last. The staples may hold while the packed snacks fall, and you see which row dropped instead of one total that hides it.
The dairy corner is full at eleven and bare at five. How do I tell sales from a forgotten refill?
Add the packets to the stock when the corner is filled, and each sale takes one off. At five the count says how many should be left. If the shelf is bare but the count shows packets, it was not refilled; if both are bare, they were sold.
A bus has stopped at the highway store and the snacks are gone. Can I tell the driver where the next snacks are?
Read the town store's count from the highway counter. If the town store has the snacks, tell the driver of the next bus where to stop for them, so the bus does not leave empty-handed.
Alwar's Easy Day and Jaipur's Janah-Upahar
When Easy Day opened a 2,500 sq ft shop in Alwar, one local grocery store's sales dropped by half in the first two months. A local store that notices the same pull on its own aisles needs its own numbers early, week by week, not at the year's end.
In November 2025 Rajasthan's Cooperation Minister opened the Janah-Upahar Super Market at Vaishali Nagar, Jaipur, a joint venture of NCCF and the state federation CONFED. A cooperative supermarket and a family store now stand in the same city, and a customer compares what each charges and how fast each serves.