Billing software for retail shops that keeps the counter moving

Whether you run a kirana, a garment showroom, a mobile store or a pharmacy, the problems at the counter look the same. They cost you sales on busy evenings and hours of rework at month-end.

• The queue at peak hours. Typing item names and rates by hand while customers wait.
• Stock that never matches the shelf. The register says 12, the rack has 7, and nobody knows when it drifted.
• Returns and exchanges. Refunds written on paper that never reach the stock count or the GST figures.
• Payments in three places. Cash in the drawer, card on the machine, UPI on the owner's phone.
• GST at the last minute. Collecting bills for your CA just before the due date.

1. 1

   Scan or search

   On the POS screen, scan an item with a standard barcode scanner or pick it from the list. JustBill matches the item's barcode or item code. Scan the same item again and the quantity goes up instead of adding a new line.

2. 2

   Pick the payment mode

   Choose cash, card, UPI, cheque, netbanking or bank transfer, and enter the amount received. The bill is saved as a paid sale against a walk-in customer, with the name and phone if you want them.

3. 3

   Print the receipt

   Print a thermal receipt on 2-inch or 3-inch paper. JustBill can send ESC/POS output straight to a thermal printer from the browser, or you can print a full A4 invoice.

Items that arrive without a barcode, such as loose goods or your own packing, can get labels. JustBill prints QR label sheets with the item name, code and price. For a B2B customer who needs their GSTIN on the bill, create a regular sales invoice instead of a walk-in sale. See POS billing software for the full counter workflow.

If you keep stock in a back room or a second godown, you can hold stock per godown and move it with transfer notes. More on this in inventory management.

Record a customer return as a sales return or credit note against the customer. The returned quantity goes back into stock automatically and the tax is reversed in your GST reports. For an exchange, record the return and then bill the new item.

Many shops also have regulars who buy on credit and settle once a month. JustBill keeps a ledger for each customer. You can send them a statement as a PDF, and you can print their earlier balance under the total on a new bill, so they see the full amount due without it being added to this bill's GST.

JustBill picks CGST plus SGST for sales within your state and IGST for sales to another state, line by line, with the HSN code on each item. If your shelf prices include tax, enter the tax-inclusive price and JustBill works out the taxable value and the tax.