Billing for your footwear shop in Uttar Pradesh
Every pair counted by size and colour, and every bill kept for the exchange.
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The pair on display, the right size in a box at the back, and a customer waiting
The pair on display and the right size in a box at the back
The customer picks up the pair on display and says, size eight. You go to the back, and the boxes are stacked by guess. One box has the wrong size inside, another has a different colour. Meanwhile the customer tries the next shop. A shop with many styles in many sizes and colours cannot be counted by eye, and the pair a customer wants is the one pair that is not there.
School shoes, wedding juttis and winter chappals, each in its own few weeks
A footwear shop has seasons. Black school shoes sell when the session opens. Embroidered juttis and heels sell in the wedding months, and closed shoes and socks sell when it turns cold. You buy for each season in a lot, and what is left when it ends stands in boxes until the next one. With the notebook alone, you cannot say which style carried the last season.
The strap that gave way and the sole that came off in a week
A customer comes back after a week with the strap given way, or the sole coming away at the toe. He is not asking for an argument, he is asking what the shop will do. If the cobbler's corner can stitch the strap or glue the sole while he waits, the pair goes home on his foot. If it cannot, the pair is the maker's to explain.
Sizes, juttis and a cobbler's corner: what a UP footwear counter asks of a phone
Bills on your phone
A jutti billed with its size on the line and sent to the family on WhatsApp, so the wedding pair has a bill the family keeps.
Low stock warnings
A warning when the size that sells most, size eight in black or the school shoe in size five, is down to its last pairs.
GST bills
Each pair's GST worked out on its own line, so a bill of three cheap pairs and one dear pair carries the right rate on each.
Daily reports
Pairs sold by style and by day, so the wedding months can be set beside an ordinary month.
Orders to suppliers
Your orders for next season's juttis and school shoes, each kept with its day.
Offers for regular customers
An offer for the families who buy their school shoes from you every year, so they do not look elsewhere.
Footwear for the miller, the saddler and the brass worker
People in every district need shoes for the day's work. A few of them, and what they are known for:
- Kanpur has a long saddlery trade from colonial times. Today it is the only independent centre making leather saddlery for global markets.
- Moradabad is called Brass City, Peetal Nagri. It is famous for a huge export of brass handicrafts to North America and Europe.
- Jaunpur's economy depends mainly on agriculture because it has no heavy industry. About 85 industrial units, such as a flour mill, run at Satahariya.
- Sitapur is known for its traditional wool carpets, called dari, woven on traditional looms. It is the district's One District One Product.
From the school shoe rush to the wedding jutti week
The village customer on the road home before the bus
The customer who came a long way from the village does not wait in the lane while the boxes are looked through. The phone says the pair is in, so the counter brings it out, he tries it, and he is on the road home before the bus. A village customer counts his day by the bus, and so do you.
The school shoe rush and the wedding week, read after each one
After the wedding months the shelf holds boxes of unsold juttis, and each box is money tied up until the next wedding season. The school sizes nobody wanted do the same after the session opens. Count each style and size, and the boxes that sit are known before you buy again.
The gift pair a size wrong, brought back by the son with the bill
A customer who bought a pair as a gift for his son in the town forwards the bill from his phone to the son. The son comes with it, and the bill names the pair and its size, so you find the next size on the shelf in one look. The father does not have to come back with him, and the son does not have to explain.
What UP footwear shop owners ask about sizes, exchanges and GST bills
At the start of the session I enter school shoes in every size. Is there a quick way?
Enter each size once, with the style's name and its rate. After that, every sale in the rush is a tap on the size.
In the session month a parent brings back a school shoe for a size more. How do I take it back into stock?
In the session month the queue is long, so make the swap at the counter at once, from the parent's bill, and the shoe is back on its size.
The maker sends juttis in dozens of pairs but I sell by the pair. How do I enter a lot?
Enter the lot in pairs, not in dozens. Each sale then takes a pair off, and the count always shows pairs.
Agra's shoe makers and the GST cut
Per PIB (October 2025), GST on footwear priced up to Rs 2,500 was cut from 12 to 5 per cent, so retail prices are expected to fall.
Agra Leather Footwear is GI-registered and promoted under One District One Product, and the cluster sustains about 10,000 to 15,000 workers across production, finishing and retail.