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Kirana Store Items List of 110 Products Every Shop Needs
What items should a kirana store stock? This kirana store items list covers 110 products in 12 categories, from atta and dal to soap, diapers and agarbatti. Start with the staples families buy every week, then add packaged foods and household goods. What you stock first depends on your street, your budget and how many
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Avani Joshi3 Nov 2026
22 Small Business Ideas in India: Costs and Licences
What small business can you start in India? This list gives you 22 shop and service businesses. By our estimate, nine open for under ₹5 lakh and five need ₹10 lakh to ₹20 lakh. Most are shops or simple services that small Indian business owners can run themselves. Which idea suits you comes down to
Top 5 E-Invoice Software for Small Indian Businesses
What is the best e-invoice software for a small business in India? For most shops, it is the one that makes your GST bill and gets its Invoice Reference Number (IRN) in the same step. The IRN comes from a government-authorised site called the Invoice Registration Portal (IRP), along with a QR code. Which one
Top 5 GST Billing Software for Small Indian Businesses
What is the best GST billing software for a small Indian business? It is the one that prints a valid bill every time and carries the right product codes for your turnover. It should also hand your sales data to your accountant without retyping. What decides the right pick for you is your turnover and
GST on Discount: The Rules for 6 Popular Festive Offer Types
How does GST on discount work for Indian retailers? If the discount is shown on the bill at the time of sale, you charge GST only on the price after the discount. A discount given later is harder. It only lowers your GST if it was agreed at or before the sale and is linked
GST on Diwali Gifts: What Indian Retailers Can’t Claim Back
What is the GST on Diwali gifts for small Indian business owners? Usually there is no GST on the gift itself when you hand it over. The catch is on the buying side: you usually cannot claim back the GST you paid on the gift. For an Indian retailer, three things decide your case: who
Pharmacy Billing Software: What Your Chemist Bill Must Carry
What should pharmacy billing software do? It has to print the cash memo the law asks for. That means your name, address and drug licence number, a serial number, and each medicine and its quantity. It should also track batch and expiry, which the rule asks for on some prescription sales, and charge the right
6 Steps to Close Your Books Before Chopda Pujan2026
When are Labh Pancham and Chopda Pujan in 2026? Chopda Pujan falls on Diwali, Sunday 8 November 2026. Labh Pancham falls on Saturday 14 November, the fifth day of the Gujarati New Year. That is the day many traders reopen and write the first entry in their new books. What the new books need is
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8 Ways to Increase Retail Sales This Festive Season 2026
How do you increase retail sales this festive season? You get ready before the rush, not during it. That means having your stock, counters and prices set before the first busy weekend between Navratri and Diwali. The reason is timing. Retailers tell us festive buying bunches up on a handful of heavy days. On those
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How to Build a Consumption Report: 6 Columns and 4 Steps
A consumption report is a list of what you actually used in a period, item by item. Six columns carry it: the item, its unit, opening stock, what you received, closing stock, and the consumption those four produce. Purchases and consumption are different numbers. You start a month with stock already on the floor, so
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Inventory Control Methods: Most Shops Need Only One
Inventory control is the job of deciding how much of each item to hold and when to buy more. It is the narrow half of inventory management, which also covers forecasts, suppliers and storage. Five methods do most of the work, and every guide you will read lists all five. Almost none of them tells
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Depreciation Journal Entries: 6 Examples Across Both Methods
A depreciation journal entry debits an expense and credits accumulated depreciation. The asset itself is never touched after the day you buy it. That one habit is what most entries get wrong. Credit the asset directly and your balance sheet stops showing what the machine cost you. The six examples below cover both methods. They
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8 Ways to Get Your Accounts Receivable Paid Faster
Accounts receivable is the money customers already owe you for goods you have handed over. The eight changes below shorten the gap between delivering and banking it. Most of them cost nothing. Two of them are legal rights that Indian suppliers hold and rarely use. One of those carries interest at three times the RBI
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Currency Depreciation: 5 Ways a Falling Rupee Hits Import-Heavy Retailers
When the rupee weakens against the dollar, a retailer who buys stock from abroad pays more in five separate places, not one. The goods cost more rupees. The customs duty on them rises. The GST charged at the border rises with it. The cash goes out earlier than it comes back. And the shelf price
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Cash Deposited in Bank: Journal Entry With 4 Variations
When you deposit cash from the till into the firm’s bank account, the entry is: Bank A/c ……… Dr. To Cash A/c Bank goes up, cash goes down, and the total assets of the business do not move at all. Nothing has been earned or spent, because the money has only changed its address. That
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