Guide
Kirana shop starter kit
Go from paper registers to fully digital accounting in one week. Step by step, day by day.
- Day 1
Set Up Your Digital Accounting
- Download Hisab Expert from the Play Store. Sign up with your phone number - takes 2 minutes.
- Set your shop name, business type (Kirana / General Store), and preferred language.
- Enter today's cash in hand as your opening balance. This is your starting point.
- For the rest of the day, enter every transaction: sales, purchases, and payments received. Don't worry about inventory yet - just track money in and money out.
- Days 2–3
Add Your Credit Customers
- Open the Ledger section and add each customer who currently owes you money (udhar).
- For each customer, enter their name, phone number, and current outstanding balance as the opening balance. You do NOT need to enter historical transactions - just where things stand today.
- From today, record every delivery and payment in the app. The running balance updates automatically.
- A shop with 30 credit customers can complete this in about 15 minutes. Do it in batches during quiet hours.
- Days 4–5
Set Up Inventory
- Start with your top 50 fastest-moving products. Enter: product name, selling price, cost price, and current stock count.
- Use voice entry to speed things up: say "Amul doodh bees rupaye 5 piece" and the app auto-fills the fields.
- Set low-stock alerts for products you cannot afford to run out of (milk, bread, rice, cooking oil).
- Don't try to add everything at once. Add 10-15 products per day during slow hours. Most shops finish their full inventory within 2 weeks.
- Day 6
Enable UPI Auto-Detection
- Go to Settings → Notification Access and enable Hisab Expert.
- Go to Android Settings → Battery → App Battery Usage → Hisab Expert → set to "Unrestricted".
- The app will now detect UPI payments from popular UPI apps automatically when the notification comes in.
- Important: this works via notification reading, NOT SMS. Your SMS messages stay private. The app never requests SMS permission.
- Day 7
Review Your First Week
- Go to Reports and check your first week's summary: total income, total expenses, and net profit.
- Check the Ledger for a summary of total credit outstanding across all customers.
- Review inventory: how many products are tracked, are low-stock alerts working?
- If everything looks good, stop maintaining the paper register in parallel. Keep it as a backup for one more month, but don't update it daily.
- Ongoing
Monthly Habits
- First of the month: review last month's P&L report. Know your actual profit.
- Weekly: scan the low-stock alerts and reorder products before they run out.
- Quarterly: export your data (CSV) and save a copy. Share with your CA if you file GST.
- Send WhatsApp reminders to credit customers who are overdue. Long-press the customer name → Share Statement.
Start your digital journey today
Download Hisab Expert and follow this guide. You'll be fully digital in one week. No credit card required.