Kirana Shop Starter Kit

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.