Guides
Guides for running your business
Each guide covers one big job from start to finish, in plain words, with rupee examples and links to the tools and templates you need.
Guide 01 · Updated
The Complete Guide to Running a Retail Shop in Pakistan
A practical guide to running a retail shop in Pakistan day to day: buying stock, setting prices, running the counter and the galla, handling udhaar, keeping stock right, managing staff, keeping customers and reading the few numbers that tell you whether the shop is making money.
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Guide 02 · Updated
Managing Udhaar and Khata: A Complete Guide for Shops
How to give udhaar without losing money: who should get credit, how much, how to record it so nobody can argue, how to tell which balances are going bad, how to remind customers without losing them, how to recover old balances, and how to handle the credit you take from your own suppliers.
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Guide 03 · Updated
Inventory Management for Small Businesses: A Practical Guide
A practical guide to inventory for small shops and businesses in Pakistan: setting up the product list, units and opening stock, buying to a reorder level, costing stock correctly, counting without closing the shop, cutting losses from damage, expiry and theft, and reading the few stock reports that matter.
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Guide 04 · Updated
Starting to Sell Online in Pakistan: A Guide for Shops
A step-by-step guide for Pakistani shops that want to start selling online: choosing between WhatsApp, your own website and marketplaces, preparing products and photos, pricing with delivery and cash on delivery in mind, taking payments, working with couriers, cutting returned parcels and keeping shop and online stock in step.
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Short answer
Complete guides for running a business in Pakistan: a retail shop day to day, udhaar and khata, inventory for a small business and selling online. Each guide goes step by step and links to the blog posts, free tools and templates for every part.
Roman Urdu mein
Karobar chalane ke mukammal guides: dukaan, udhaar aur khata, Stock aur online sale. Har guide qadam ba qadam, rupay ki misaalon ke saath.
Key facts
- Guides
- Retail shop, udhaar and khata, inventory, selling online
- Each guide
- Steps in order, examples in rupees, common mistakes
- Goes deeper
- Linked blog posts, free tools and printable templates
Start with the job you are doing
- How to run a retail shop in Pakistan: buying, pricing, the counter and galla, staff, customers and the numbers that show whether the shop makes money.
- Managing udhaar and khata: who to give credit to, limits, reminders and getting old balances back without losing customers.
- Inventory management for a small business: product setup, reorder levels, costing, counting and cutting losses.
- Start selling online: choosing channels, cash on delivery, couriers, returned parcels and one stock for shop and online.
Tools and templates that go with them
The guides link to free calculators for profit margin, reorder level and udhaar ageing, and to printable sheets such as the khata register and the stock-take sheet. If you are choosing software, the guide to choosing POS software lists what to check before you buy.
Common questions
How are the guides different from the blog?
A guide covers one big job from start to finish, such as running a retail shop or managing udhaar, and links to the blog posts, tools and templates that go deeper on each step. Blog posts answer one narrower question each. Both are written for businesses in Pakistan and checked against the app before they go live.
Put the guides to work
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