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What shop owners ask us
Short pieces on running a counter, keeping stock honest and staying on the right side of GST. Written by the people who build and support Stock2Track.
Oct 2026 · 4 min readDhanteras and Diwali stock: buy from last year’s bills, not memoryHow much to stock for Dhanteras and Diwali 2026: use last year’s festival sales, revise reorder levels, set festival discounts and add counters for the rush.
Oct 2026 · 5 min readWhat billing software really costs a shop over five yearsThe licence is the smallest line. A worked five-year cost for a one-counter kirana, Offline and Cloud, with hardware and the third-party charges.
Oct 2026 · 4 min readDeleted bills, quiet discounts and a short cash drawerWhat staff misuse at a retail counter looks like, why owners find out late, and how Stock2Track user roles and the audit log let you see every action.
Oct 2026 · 4 min readSize-wise stock for shoe shops: why "40 pairs" is not stockMost shoe shops record a total quantity per article and lose sales in the sizes that ran out. How Stock2Track variants track every size and colour.
1 Oct 2026 · 7 min readIt’s in the godown somewhere: giving every item a rack and shelf addressStock you cannot find is stock you do not have. How areas, racks and shelves in Stock2Track stop lost sales, speed up online and quick-commerce picking, and make monthly stock audits possible.
30 Sep 2026 · 9 min readWhen ERP enters the physical store: the rise of robotics ERPRetail ERP has always recorded what people did. The next generation will watch the physical store through cameras and sensors, understand it, and coordinate people and machines to act. What that means for a shop, and where Stock2Track fits.
30 Sep 2026 · 7 min readDon't blame the AI. Guide it.Some ERP vendors warn that AI can be wrong, so keep it out. The better answer is guided AI: rules the owner sets, approvals at the right level and an audit log. How Stock2Track does it.
27 Sep 2026 · 13 min readNothing is broken, which is exactly the problemShop owners who take UPI all day still will not put their books on a computer. The reason is not fear of technology, and understanding it changes how the switch should be done.
Jun 2026 · rev Sep 2026 · 7 min readSomebody is paying for every AI questionAI in business software is genuinely useful and every request has a processing cost. Where it earns its keep, where it is decoration, and how to tell.
Nov 2025 · rev Sep 2026 · 11 min readYour cheapest vendor, and what he actually costs youThe rate is the only thing about a supplier that has a number attached, so it is the only thing anyone argues about. Four numbers you already have, and what they are worth.
Sep 2025 · rev Sep 2026 · 12 min readThe stockouts you remember are the cheap onesYour instinct about stock was trained on the cheapest half of your losses. What your head can do, what it structurally cannot, and what Stock2Track puts on the screen instead.
Feb 2025 · rev Sep 2026 · 10 min readEvery control you set will be testedAs a shop grows, the owner is in it less. The controls most owners set, how each one gets worked around, and what to do about it instead of worrying.
Jun 2024 · rev Sep 2026 · 3 min readWhy the stock on your screen stops matching the shelfSix everyday habits that pull a shop's stock figure away from what is actually on the shelf, and what each one costs you at the end of the year.
Sep 2022 · rev Sep 2026 · 12 min readThe trip you keep postponingYou cannot leave the shop, so you do not meet suppliers, customers or anyone new. The economics of that are unusually well documented, and so is the way out.
Jun 2021 · rev Sep 2026 · 10 min readThe stall, the queue, and the boxes behind youAn exhibition is your shop with the shelves taken away. What actually breaks when the queue does not stop, and how to arrive on day two already counted.
Jan 2020 · rev Sep 2026 · 9 min readTwo bottles, two dates, one saleTracking expiry costs you time at the receiving desk, every delivery, forever. What it buys, when it is worth paying, and when the honest answer is no.
Mar 2019 · rev Sep 2026 · 5 min readHow to tell a software team what your business actually doesSeven ways owners describe what they need, and what each one has to do differently to get software that fits the way the shop really trades.
Oct 2018 · rev Sep 2026 · 6 min readDirect thermal or thermal transferOne question decides it: how long must the label survive, and what will it touch? Plus the two costs nobody mentions when they say direct thermal is cheaper.
Nov 2017 · rev Sep 2026 · 6 min readOffline or cloud, and how to actually decideBoth editions cost Rs 25,000 to start, so price does not settle it. What does: where your data should live, and what each choice honestly costs you.