Electronics shop software in Faisalabad

Bhawana Bazaar and Faisalabad's electrical trade

Faisalabad's old city is laid out around the Clock Tower, with eight bazaars running out from it and a circular Gol Bazaar joining them. Each bazaar became known for its own goods, and for electrical and electronic goods the name is Bhawana Bazaar, according to the city's Wikipedia article.

An electrical shop in a bazaar like this sells two kinds of goods at once. Switches, sockets, wire, bulbs, fans' spare parts and fittings sell in quantity at low prices, often to electricians who come back every few days. Televisions, LEDs, laptops, inverters and other costly units sell one at a time, each with a serial number, a warranty and a customer who will come back if it fails.

Faisalabad is also a manufacturing city, and many buyers are small businesses, workshops and contractors who buy on account and settle later. An electrician wiring a new house takes material over several days and pays when the owner pays him.

What goes wrong without records is predictable: a unit comes back under warranty and nobody can find when or to whom it was sold; a bundle offered to win a sale turns out to have made a loss; a trade-in sits in the back room at a value nobody remembers. FESCO outages add to it, because the counter has to keep billing when the power drops.

A day at a Bhawana Bazaar counter

Stock in. Each costly unit gets its own row with its serial or IMEI, the purchase bill and its cost. Small items like switches and wire are ordinary products counted in stock. Specs that fit the product type, the warranty terms and what comes in the box are saved on the product.

Selling the exact unit. Scan the serial at the counter and that exact unit goes on the bill, linked to the customer. Condition grading marks a unit as brand new, open box, refurbished, used, damaged or for parts, so the price and the warranty match what the customer is getting.

Bundles. Put a television with a soundbar, or a laptop with a bag and a mouse, at one deal price. The bundle shows the saving against the full price, the profit, and how many you can make from stock.

A unit comes back. Search the serial: the sale, the buyer and the warranty left show at once. Open a claim, send the unit to repair or to the company, and close it when it is done.

Trade-ins. Buy a customer's old unit against a new purchase. It enters stock at the price you paid and can be sold on.

Electricians and contractors. Material taken on account goes on their khata, with the age of each balance and a WhatsApp reminder.

Questions from Faisalabad electronics shops

A customer lost his warranty card. Can I still check?

Yes. Search the serial number. The sale date, the customer and the warranty left show, so the card is not needed.

Two salesmen bill at the same time. Will the stock get confused?

No. Each one bills from his own phone or computer against the same stock, so a unit sold on one device is gone from the others, and the owner sees every bill as it is made.

Can I sell a used laptop and mark it as used?

Yes. Condition grading marks it as used, refurbished or open box, and it can be bought in as a trade-in at the price you paid.

What happens during load-shedding?

Bills are made on the device without internet and sync when the connection returns.

Can I see which units have been in stock too long?

Yes. Every serial has its own row with the purchase bill and the date it came in, so a television or laptop that has sat for months is easy to find before its model is replaced. The profit report then shows which brands and categories actually earn after cost, and which only take up shelf space and cash.

Where can I read more?

See the electronics page, the Faisalabad mobile shop page for the phone side of the bazaar, and Faisalabad.