Free Billing Software in Pakistan — No Subscription, No Card

It's a Saturday evening in a karyana store off Lahore's Hall Road. The counter is three customers deep, bijli chali gayi, and the shopkeeper is scribbling a sale into a register with one hand while punching numbers into a calculator with the other. One customer wants his udhaar total. Another is arguing about last month's hisaab. Somewhere under the counter, the bahi-khata has a page stuck to it.

The ads all show a clean tablet on a clean counter. Nobody sells the Saturday-night crush. That's the counter Sauda was built for.

What "free" should actually mean

A lot of billing apps in Pakistan say "free" and mean "free for 14 days." Then a screen pops up asking for a card, a monthly fee, and your phone number for a "sales call." For a dukandar working on thin margins, that's not free. That's a trap with a countdown.

When we say Sauda is free billing software, we mean free forever. No subscription. No card. No trial that expires and locks your data behind a paywall right when you've entered three months of stock and khata into it.

You download it, you start billing. That's the whole deal.

Billing that keeps working when the light goes

Here's the test that matters in Faisalabad's cloth market or Karachi's Saddar: does the app still work when the internet drops or the bijli goes and your phone is running on its own battery?

Sauda is offline-first. Every sale, every udhaar entry, every stock change writes to your device first, instantly. No spinner waiting for a signal. When the connection comes back, it syncs quietly in the background to your other devices. Bill on the Android phone at the counter, check the day's total on the Windows PC in the back, look at reports from home on the web. Same data, everywhere. No manual "back up" step to remember.

You get a proper receipt and barcode scanning, and if a product has no barcode the app generates a valid one for you. Tap the item, set the qty, done. No sub-menus to dig through when three people are waiting.

Khata and stock, not just receipts

Billing alone is half the job. The other half is the udhaar bahi and the godam.

Sauda keeps a running khata for every party — customer or supplier — so you always know the lena-dena at a glance. Who owes you, how much, since when. Kise dena hai, kise se lena hai. No more flipping pages or trusting memory.

On the stock side, you can track inventory across more than one shop or godam, get low-stock warnings before you run out, and item-level expiry alerts so a karyana or general store doesn't get stuck with dead stock on the shelf. Underneath, proper double-entry accounting runs on its own. A roznamcha (day book), profit reports, and party statements build themselves from your everyday billing. You never have to "do accounting." You just sell, and the hisaab adds up.

A few honest notes so there are no surprises. Sauda doesn't do FBR or tax fiscalization — tax is off by default, and only optional sales-tax fields exist if you ever switch them on. There's no pre-loaded medicine database and no batch or lot tracking. It's built for the everyday shop, not a full pharmacy or hospital setup.

Made for a Pakistani counter

The app speaks your language — Urdu and Roman-Urdu by default, with an English toggle if you prefer. You can add your staff with the right roles: owner, manager, cashier, accountant. The cashier bills, the accountant sees the books, and you see everything. There's basic payroll for staff ki tankhwah too.

Loading a 400-item karyana catalog, or running a hardware shop, a cloth or mobile-and-electronics dukan, a medical store, or a wholesaler across several locations — it holds up.

Is it really free?

Yes. Free forever, on Android, web, and Windows, with automatic sync between them. No subscription, no card on file, no upsell that quietly starts charging in month two. If you're not sure, poochh lein apne saath waale dukandar se, or just try it yourself for a shift.

Try it on today's sales

Don't take my word for it. Put your own numbers in.

Download Sauda free on Android, or open it on web or Windows, and run today's actual sales and udhaar through it for one evening. No card, no sign-up fee, nothing to cancel later. If it doesn't make your closing hisaab faster and cleaner than the register, you've lost nothing but one shift.

Get Sauda free — free billing software for Pakistan that stays free.