Friday evening on Hall Road, Lahore. Three customers waiting, one haggling over a charger, another asking the price of a handset you moved to the back shelf last week. Your helper is shouting from the godam that the tempered glass stock is finished. And you're flipping through the bahi-khata to check how much Bilal still owes on his last phone. This is a normal hour for a mobile and electronics dukandar. The paper register can't keep up, and neither can memory.
No register or memory closes that gap. The right mobile shop software does, and most of what's sold in Pakistan doesn't fit how a dukan on Hall Road actually runs.
What a mobile & electronics shop actually needs
Your trade is not like a karyana store. Your stock is expensive and varied: handsets, chargers, cables, covers, earbuds, tempered glass, power banks, memory cards. Some items sell fifty a day. Some sit for two months. Accessory pe bacha hi kitna hota hai, so a single wrong price quoted from memory eats a whole day's profit.
So the software has to do a few things without fuss. Bill a sale fast. Know exactly how many pieces of each item are left, across your main shop and your godam. Remember who took goods on udhaar and how much is still due. And show you, at the end of the day, whether you actually made money.
Sauda is built for this. It's free, it works offline, and it runs on your Android phone, on a Windows PC at the counter, and on the web from home. Whatever you enter on one syncs to the others automatically when the internet comes back.
Billing that keeps up with a busy counter
Scan the barcode on a charger box and the price fills in. For loose accessories with no printed barcode, Sauda generates a valid barcode for the item so you can print and stick your own. A handset, a cover, a screen protector: three items, one tap each, print. Under ten seconds when the counter's slammed on a Sunday.
Load-shedding doesn't stop you. Because Sauda saves everything to the device first, the sale goes through even when the internet and the whole mohalla are down. Nothing waits on a signal.
Udhaar and hisaab, finally in order
Half the electronics business runs on trust. A regular takes a phone now and clears it over two or three visits. Written in a register, that money quietly leaks away.
In Sauda every party has a khata. You see clearly who has to give you money (lena) and who you owe (dena), with the running balance updating on every sale and every payment. When Bilal walks in, you open his name and know the exact figure in two seconds. No arguing. Our guide to managing udhaar without a paper register walks through the daily habit.
The roznamcha keeps your full day book. The profit and party reports tell you which items are earning and which are just occupying shelf space, like that Rs 400 tempered glass box that hasn't moved since Eid.
Stock across shop and godam, plus honest alerts
Set a reorder level on your fast movers, and Sauda warns you before the tempered glass or the popular cable runs out, so you're never turning a customer away over a Rs 150 item. Item-level expiry alerts are there too, useful if you also stock things with a shelf life, though most phone accessories won't need them.
If you run a counter in Saddar and a second point elsewhere, inventory and khata stay in one place. Give the owner one view and the cashier another. Let the cashier bill without seeing your profit, and keep the accounts for yourself. Owner, manager, cashier, accountant: each role sees only what it should.
One honest note. Sauda tracks stock by item, not by individual IMEI or serial number. If per-handset IMEI tracking, or keeping PTA-approved and non-approved sets on separate serial records, is your must-have, plan around that. Sauda will count your handsets and your money accurately; it won't hold an IMEI register for each piece.
Free, and it stays free
There's no monthly fee and no card to enter. No trial clock that runs out and then holds your data hostage. Sauda is free forever, the interface is in Urdu and Roman-Urdu with an English toggle, and your hisaab stays yours.
Stop running your shop out of a register that can't count. Download Sauda free and set up your first dukan tonight.