45 retail terms in three sets. 10 a shop says constantly, 25 more it says every day, and 10 this app says back — each naming a behaviour you can check on a screen in sixty seconds.
Type on Roman keyboard (udhar, parchi, galla), in Devanagari (उधार, बही-खाता), or search by English meaning. Filter by category or explore where Karobari honestly refuses to fake a feature.
Goods handed over now and paid for later. Karobari keeps udhaar as a running balance per customer, worked out from entries rather than overwritten.
The book the credit is kept in — a udhar khata is the credit ledger. In Karobari the khata is visible to the shop owner alone, never to staff.
What a customer still owes today. Karobari shows the bakaya before the shopkeeper agrees to give more credit, not after.
The shop itself — which may be a room, a cart, a stall or a round. Karobari does not require a dukan to be a building, and never blocks billing over it.
What is on the shelf. Karobari holds every item in exactly one of three states — selling, archived, or not for sale — and every quantity carries its unit.
The slip handed across the counter. A parchi from Karobari carries the shop's name and no watermark of ours.
The day's reckoning — what came in, what went out, what is owed. Staff using Karobari never see it: no day total, no khata, no other member's bills.
Without a network — the phrase a shopkeeper actually uses. A bill in Karobari is written to the phone first and uploaded on its own when the signal returns.
A rough, unnumbered slip that stands in until the real entry is made. A Karobari bill is the record itself — saved on the phone and numbered in the shop's own sequence.
The numbered bill a customer can hold the shop to. Every Karobari bill gets a number in the shop's sequence, and when a shop sets its GSTIN the receipt carries it with the bill's tax total.
The bound book, as an object — the thing that gets soaked, lost or eaten by insects. Karobari keeps the same record on a server as well as the phone, so the book is not the only copy.
The two columns of a shop's day. Karobari records both as entries that are never overwritten — a payment is a new row, not a correction to an old one, so the two columns always add up to the balance.
Rokad Bahi in English means Cash Book or Cash Ledger (Roznamcha) — the register tracking cash in hand, incoming cash receipts, and counter cash outflows. In Karobari, every bill records payment mode (cash, UPI, or udhaar) so your digital rokad bahi reconciles with the cash drawer (galla) automatically.
In English, Karobari means a merchant, businessman, shopkeeper, or trader who runs a business (karobar). In retail commerce, the karobari manages stock, pricing, and customer billing at the counter. Karobari software is built specifically for these shop owners.
The complete commercial accounts and customer credit ledger kept by a retail shopkeeper. In Karobari, the khata is digital, private to the owner alone, and updates automatically with every bill and repayment.
The daily transaction journal in traditional Indian retail bookkeeping. Karobari generates an automatic daily summary of total sales, cash collections, and pending dues so no manual roznamcha diary writing is needed.
The drawer, and by extension the day's takings in it. Karobari's Today figure is the same number the galla should hold at closing, minus what went out on udhaar — and staff never see it.
Selling to somebody who is buying to sell again. A Karobari shop can be marked as trade-facing, which changes what the app assumes about the customer — but there are no per-buyer rate slabs.
Selling singly, off a pack, to the person who will use it. Karobari treats loose and packed as the same record with different units, so a single cigarette and a carton are both just quantities.
Stock held away from the shelf — a back room, an upstairs, a rented space. Karobari holds one count per shop and does not separate shelf from godam, so what it shows you is the total of both.
A list of goods sent without prices on it, for material going to a site. Karobari does not make one — every document it produces is a priced bill — so a challan stays a separate pad.
What some shops add to an overdue udhaar balance. Karobari never computes it: the ledger records what was taken and what was paid, and any interest you charge is an entry you make yourself.
Going out to collect what is owed. Karobari shows you who owes what and composes a reminder you send from your own WhatsApp — it never sends one by itself, and there is no collection agent.
Measuring and weighing at the counter. Karobari carries a unit on every quantity — kilo, gram, litre, metre, square foot, quintal — but it does not read your scale: you look at the display and type the number.
The price printed on the pack, which a customer can read as well as you can. Karobari holds MRP alongside your selling rate, and tax comes out of the price rather than being added on top of it.
The physical goods held for sale across the shelf and godown. Karobari keeps count of every item in three states — selling, archived, and not for sale — and decrements quantities instantly at counter checkout.
The printed optical pattern on packaged items and the scanner gun that reads it. Karobari supports standard USB and Bluetooth laser guns as well as budget Android camera scanning with zero driver configuration.
Commercial adjustment notes issued when sold goods are returned by a customer (Credit Note) or when a supplier overcharges (Debit Note). In Karobari, sales returns update stock back to the shelf cleanly.
A legal transport goods dispatch note issued when moving material between godowns or on approval without a final tax invoice. In Karobari, quotations serve counter price approvals and convert to full bills when accepted.
The monetary difference between the purchase cost and the customer selling price. Karobari calculates item-wise gross margin and net turnover so you know actual shop earnings rather than just galla cash flow.
The manufacturer production lot and discard date on food and pharmaceutical goods. Karobari lets medical stores track batch numbers and expiry dates so near-expiry inventory can be sold or returned before financial loss.
The compact heat-sensitive receipt printer sitting on retail counters. Karobari prints 58mm and 80mm bills directly via WebUSB and Bluetooth with zero printer drivers or watermark.
Informal quotation estimate (kacha bill) vs a statutory GST tax invoice (pakka bill). In Karobari, quotations hold counter prices without deducting shelf stock and convert to pakka bills in one tap.
The 15-digit business GST identification number and item tariff code. Karobari prints your GSTIN and HSN codes on Rule 46 invoices and exports clean GSTR summary reports for CA return filing.
Exporting counter sales, daybook transactions, and inventory balances to Tally XML files so your CA or auditor can import them without manual accounting re-entry.
One of exactly three states an item can be in. On the shelf, on the bill screen, and the only state that ever appears in a customer-facing search. There is no fourth state, and “out of stock” is a count of zero rather than a state of its own.
You have stopped stocking it. It comes off the bill screen and stays in every bill you ever made with it — history is not rewritten to tidy a list, which is the whole reason a two-year-old bill still adds up.
On the shelf and deliberately not sellable: a display piece, a reserved carton, the last one held back for a customer. It is counted, and it cannot be billed by accident.
The bills and stock changes made while there was no signal, waiting on your phone to go up. The count is on the Today screen rather than hidden in a settings page, because a queue you cannot see is a queue you cannot trust.
What the count does when an offline sale takes an item below zero. It stops at zero rather than going negative, the difference is flagged, and you are asked to recount. The sale is never refused — the money already changed hands.
The app asking you to count what is actually on the shelf for one item, after a clamp. It lists only the items in question, so it is a minute rather than an evening.
A price given before a sale. Nothing leaves the shelf, nothing enters the khata, and it never counts towards the day's total — and it is not a reservation, so you can quote the same last carton to two customers. When the customer agrees, one tap turns it into a bill and stock is checked at that moment.
Money off one sale, in front of one customer. Anyone who can bill can give one, and it never changes the shelf price. Changing the shelf price is a different thing needing a permission the owner grants per person.
Two boxes of the same thing with different expiry dates are two batches, not one number. The app sells the nearer-dated one first, and shows you a batch that is close to turning where you would look for it — nothing is pushed to your phone, because there is no notification channel yet. Switched on for the trades where it matters — a chemist, a dairy, a kirana.
The member who rang up a bill, recorded on it and printed on the receipt. It is why a phone can be handed to a helper during a rush and the day still reconciles.
A software application that calls udhaar "accounts receivable" or a cash drawer "petty cash register" is built for an accountant's desk, not a busy Indian retail counter.
Over 80% of Indian smartphone users type Hindi using Roman script because standard keyboards open to QWERTY. Karobari indexes Roman transliterations alongside authentic Devanagari so search always matches what shopkeepers actually type.
Terms like Selling, Archived, Not for sale, The queue, and Clamp are not decorative labels. They are precise, deterministic state machines running in the phone's local database.
We openly define what Karobari does not do — no unpriced delivery challans, no compounding interest on khata, and no fictitious Bluetooth scale reads. Declaring real limits protects trust at the counter.