Clothing shop POS in Rawalpindi

Rawalpindi's clothing streets

Clothes in Rawalpindi are sold in two very different settings. In the old city, Moti Bazaar was founded in 1911 with about twenty shops; it now has more than 1,200, and for most of its history it was a bazaar for women only. It sits beside Raja Bazaar, which has its own Kapra Bazaar for cloth among the smaller markets inside it. Here the trade is unstitched suits, lace, dupattas and everything a family needs before a wedding, sold over the counter in a crowd.

In the cantonment, Saddar is the principal commercial hub. Bank Road has markets for branded garments, boutiques and shops for ceremonial dresses, and Kashmir Road is known for branded clothing shops and for tailors who stitch ladies' clothes. A customer may buy fabric in Moti Bazaar in the morning and hand it to a Kashmir Road tailor the same afternoon.

So a Rawalpindi shop often does three jobs at once. It sells ready pieces in many sizes, it sells unstitched fabric, and it takes stitching orders that come back days later for a trial. Wedding season adds holds: an outfit set aside with a deposit, paid off over weeks.

Each of those jobs has a paper slip, and slips are what go missing when the shop is busy before Eid or in the wedding months.

How the work runs in a Rawalpindi shop

New lot. Build an article once with its size and colour grid. Every variant gets a barcode, and an empty size shows in red so you see the gap before a customer does. Group stock into collections such as Eid or Winter, and put a percent Sale on a whole collection when the season turns.

Stitching. A customer brings fabric for a suit. Her measurements are saved under her name, several sets if she orders for her daughters too, and reused on the next order. The silai order carries the design pictures, the karigar, the trial date and the advance. Size charts for each garment type are ready to show at the counter.

Alterations. A dress bought elsewhere comes in for fitting. It gets a token and a due date, and the customer hears on WhatsApp when it is ready.

Weddings. A bridal outfit can be held with a deposit or sold on a qist plan paid over weeks or months, and it stays off the shelf until it is paid or the hold ends.

After Eid. Exchanges come back on the original bill; the returned piece pays toward the new one and only the difference changes hands.

Questions from Rawalpindi clothing shops

I sell unstitched suits and also stitch them. Is that one product or two?

The suit is one product. The stitching is a silai order linked to the customer, with its own charge and advance, so the fabric sale and the stitching both show correctly.

A customer wants to keep a bridal dress for three weeks. How do I record it?

Hold it with her deposit. It stays out of the stock you can sell, and the balance sits on her account until she collects it.

Can my salesmen give discounts during the wedding rush?

Only if their role allows it. Discounts, exchanges and refunds can be limited to the owner or a manager.

A regular customer lost her measurement slip. Do I need to measure again?

No. Her measurements are saved under her name, with separate sets for anyone she orders for, so the next suit starts from the last naap. Change only what she asks to change, and the new set is kept for next time.

What about the Eid rush, when three people are billing at once?

Each salesman can bill from his own phone at the same time. Stock is shared, so a size sold on one phone disappears from the others, and the owner sees every bill as it is made.

Where can I compare this with other cities?

The Faisalabad clothing page covers a cloth-market city, and Rawalpindi lists the other trades here.