Guides
Practical guides for Pakistani businesses
Straight answers to the questions shop owners, distributors, pharmacists and installment businesses ask every day — with worked examples you can use with or without software.
Installments6 min
How to Keep Installment (Qist) Accounts: A Practical Guide
What to record on every installment sale, how to build the schedule, apply payments to the oldest installment, and follow up late customers.
Read the guidePharmacy6 min
How to Control Expiry in a Pharmacy or Medical Store
Record batch and expiry on every purchase, sell the nearest expiry first, and act on near-expiry stock before it is lost. A guide for medical stores.
Read the guideDistribution7 min
Trade Schemes and Bonus (10+1): How to Account for Them
How distributors should handle schemes like 10+1 and 25+3: kinds of scheme, free goods on the invoice, and bonus counted in cost so profit stays true.
Read the guideRetail5 min
How to Manage Customer Credit (Udhar) in a Shop
Who to give credit to, how to record it, credit limits, statements and follow-up: a simple guide that keeps a shop's udhar from becoming lost money.
Read the guidePrinting4 min
How to Print a Thermal Receipt from a Mobile Phone
Connect a 58 mm or 80 mm Bluetooth thermal printer, or a WiFi printer, to your Android phone in a few steps and print shop receipts and invoices from it.
Read the guideInstallments6 min
How to Manage Recovery Officers in an Installment Business
Give each recovery officer a route, set expected collections, record every rupee the same day and review performance weekly.
Read the guideDistribution6 min
Salesman Order Booking and Load Sheets: A Guide for Distributors
How distributors can run order booking, dispatch and recovery smoothly: booking on the phone, one load sheet per vehicle, and closing routes the same day.
Read the guideRetail5 min
Khata Register vs Software: When Is It Time to Switch?
An honest comparison for shopkeepers: what a khata register does well, where it starts costing money, and the signs it is time to move to software.
Read the guideAll businesses5 min
Excel vs Business Software: What Works for a Growing Business
Excel works until several people, stock movements and credit customers depend on it. Where Excel fits, where it breaks, and how to move your data across.
Read the guideAll businesses7 min
How to Choose Business Software in Pakistan: A Buyer’s Checklist
An honest checklist for choosing POS, inventory and accounts software in Pakistan, for retail, distribution, pharmacy and installments.
Read the guideInstallments7 min
How to Start an Installment Business in Pakistan
A practical starting plan for an installment (qist) business: capital, choosing products, pricing with markup, customer checks, guarantors and recovery.
Read the guideInstallments6 min
How to Keep a Motorcycle Showroom’s Accounts
How a bike showroom should record stock by chassis and engine number, cash and installment sales, registrations, and stock across several showrooms.
Read the guidePharmacy6 min
Setting Up a Pharmacy on Software: A Step-by-Step Checklist
How a medical store moves to software: medicine list, batch-wise opening stock, distributor balances, expiry alert days and counter staff permissions.
Read the guideDistribution6 min
How Distributors Can Control Market Credit
Credit limits, route-wise receivables, ageing and collection discipline: a practical guide for distributors and wholesalers in Pakistan.
Read the guideDistribution5 min
Selling in Cartons, Dozens and Pieces: Managing Multiple Units
Pieces per carton differ by item. Set carton, box, dozen and piece units once, with the conversion, a price for each unit and barcodes, and stock stays right.
Read the guideRetail5 min
Barcodes and Labels for Shops: A Practical Guide
When to scan the manufacturer’s barcode, when to print your own labels, and how to avoid duplicate barcodes that cause wrong bills at the counter.
Read the guideRetail5 min
IMEI Tracking for Mobile Phone Shops
Why every phone sale should carry its IMEI, how it helps with claims and installments, and how to run handsets and accessories at the same counter.
Read the guideAll businesses6 min
How to Calculate True Profit: Weighted Average Cost Explained
Why profit from the latest purchase price is misleading, how weighted average cost works, and how bonus goods and discounts change your real margin.
Read the guideAll businesses5 min
Daily Cash Closing: How to Match Cash, Bank and Wallets
A simple end-of-day routine: count the till, match it with the day’s receipts and payments, and keep cash, bank and mobile-wallet money in separate accounts.
Read the guideAll businesses5 min
Staff Permissions: Who Should See What in Your Business
How to set roles for owners, managers, counter staff, salesmen and recovery officers, and why permissions and an audit trail protect the business.
Read the guideSecurity6 min
PHP Security Alert (php2shell): Is Your Business Software Safe?
The October 2026 php2shell PHP flaws (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619): what happened, why shop and installment data is at risk, and four checks to make.
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