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Where the money went, and what a sales book can honestly tell you

At closing time most shopkeepers ask three questions in the same breath. How much came in. How much is still owed. What actually moved off the shelf.

BillMadi answers all three. It is holding every bill you finished. Open My Shop and the day is already added up. You see the total. You see the hour with the most rush. You see what sold the most. Cash and UPI are two numbers, not one guess.

Credit is kept apart on purpose. When a regular takes goods now and pays on Friday, you tap On credit instead of Cash or UPI. The sale still counts today, because the goods left today. The money shows up under Credit as still to collect, with a name against it, until the day it comes in.

Money going out is kept apart from the till, on purpose. The till keeps what customers pay. What you pay your supplier, your rent or your electricity bill goes in Money in and out. Type -500 rent there. The day then shows what came in, what went out and what is left.

Know this before you start. It changes what the day total is for. It is the one true number to write in your own book, or to give your accountant. And you no longer add it up by hand at eleven at night.