Surat · Gujarat
Billing for Surat's neighbourhood shops, in three languages.
One billing app a Gujarati owner and helpers who read Hindi or Marathi can all use, built for small, frequent and credit-heavy sales.
Surat runs on two trades. It is India's largest centre for man-made fibre, producing roughly 60 percent of the country's polyester cloth, and most of the world's natural diamonds are cut and polished here. The textile wholesale trade is concentrated along Ring Road and the lanes around it, a cluster that trade bodies put at about 220 markets and more than 75,000 shops. How dense that cluster is became clear in July 2025, when heavy rain flooded more than a hundred textile markets and over 500 shops in Raghukul Market near the Kamela drain alone went under water.
Those two industries draw workers from across the country, and the neighbourhood retail around the mills and diamond units is shaped by that. In the 2011 census about 54 percent of Surat residents gave Gujarati as their first language, about 22 percent Hindi and nearly 10 percent Marathi, with Urdu, Odia and Bhojpuri speakers as well. A kirana near a workers' colony sells in small quantities, many times a day, and a fair share of it goes on credit until payday. The person billing and the person buying often do not share a first language.
Fresh produce reaches the city through the Agricultural Produce Market Committee, Surat. Its Sardar vegetable market in Sanjay Nagar sells fruit and vegetables at wholesale and retail rates. In December 2025 the APMC opened Gujarat's first elevated market yard, where trucks drive up a wide ramp to unload directly at first-floor shops, with growers coming from about fifteen states. Older retail still runs through places like Chauta Bazaar, one of the city's oldest markets, which grew up around a temple whose visitors bought utensils, clothes and groceries from the shops around it.
Gujarat GSTINs begin with 24. A regular dealer charges CGST and SGST on a local sale and needs HSN codes on a tax invoice. Many small kiranas are composition dealers or unregistered, and only need a simple bill they can hand over quickly.
Bazaar IQ is built for that kind of counter. Gujarati, Hindi and Marathi are all app languages, so an owner and helpers from different states can each read the same screen in their own language. Credit to regular customers sits in a khata ledger that is part of the bill, with a running balance for each person. Wholesale buying from the APMC goes in as storage stock. An owner with a second shop in another part of the city keeps separate stock for each and records transfers between them.
Many small bills, fast
A shop near a workers’ colony makes a lot of small bills: a packet of tea, two eggs, a bar of soap. Billing is built for that. Scan a barcode with the phone camera or search by name. An item that is not in the catalogue yet can still be billed, so the queue keeps moving.
Credit until payday
Regular customers often take goods on udhaar and pay when wages come in. In Bazaar IQ, khata is one of the payment options on the bill. Each customer has a running balance, and the owner can see who owes what without opening a diary.
One screen, three languages
The owner can work in Gujarati. A helper from Maharashtra can use Marathi, and one from the north can use Hindi. Everyone bills from the same stock, and staff permissions decide who can see reports or change prices. If a staff member voids a bill, the owner is alerted.
At the end of the day, the owner dashboard shows sales, credit given and cash in hand. Start with the 14-day free trial, no card needed, or see pricing.
What Bazaar IQ does at your counter
Bill on empty. Never stop the queue.
Fast counter billing that keeps working even when your catalogue doesn't.
Learn more →Khata that adds up.
A per-customer credit ledger with running balances you can actually trust.
Learn more →Stock that stays honest.
Shelf and godown stock tracked separately, the way a real shop is laid out.
Learn more →GST, only when you want it.
Tax handling that matches your registration, whatever it happens to be.
Learn more →Questions from shops in Surat
My helpers read Hindi or Marathi, not Gujarati. Can they still bill?
Yes. Bazaar IQ is available in Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi and English. Each login chooses its own language, so the owner and every helper can read the screen comfortably.
Many of my customers pay at the end of the month. How is that tracked?
Mark the bill as khata for that customer and their balance updates straight away. Part payments and full settlements come off the same ledger, and you can open any customer to see every bill behind the total.
Does it work for a composition or unregistered shop in Surat?
Yes. A regular dealer prints GST tax invoices with HSN and CGST and SGST. A composition shop prints a Bill of Supply with the required composition line and no tax lines, and an unregistered shop a plain cash memo.
I have two shops in different parts of Surat. Is stock kept separate?
Yes. Each shop has its own stock count. When you move goods from one shop to the other, record it as a stock transfer and both counts stay right.
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