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What things actually cost, when software is worth it, and when your spreadsheet is still the right answer. Written for people running shops in Pakistan.

7 October 2026 · Guides

Sialkot exporters: five documents, one shipment, and the numbers that must agree

Five documents leave with every shipment. If any two disagree on quantity or value, the payment stops before the container does.

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7 October 2026 · Inventory

Where the order actually is: tracking surgical work that sits with the makers

A 600-piece export order is never in one place. How Sialkot manufacturers track work sitting with outworkers without counting it as finished stock.

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7 October 2026 · Inventory

Stock register in Excel: the format, the formulas, and where it breaks

The column layout, the four formulas that do the work, and the three places a hand-kept stock register goes wrong. Copy the format, use it, and know what to watch for.

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7 October 2026 · Point of sale

FBR POS integration in 2026: who has to do it, and what it costs

FBR's 2026 draft rules widen who must invoice electronically, licence the integrators and penalise staying out. Who is covered, what it costs, and what to do next.

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11 September 2026 · Guides

FBR digital invoicing: getting your data ready

Connecting is the easy half, and PRAL does it free. What delays businesses is their own records. Four things to fix before anyone integrates you.

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11 September 2026 · Pricing

How much does inventory software cost in Pakistan?

Free to about Rs 6,000 a month, and the gap is not features on a list. It is whether the system covers buying as well as selling.

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3 September 2026 · Inventory

Raising a purchase order before the rate is agreed

Import buying rarely has a price on the day you raise the order. Guessing one puts a number that was never real into every report you own.

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3 September 2026 · Inventory

When the delivery does not match the order

Short, extra and damaged each need a different answer at the door. Signing for the paperwork instead of the goods is how stock records start lying.

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3 September 2026 · Online store

One shelf, two channels, and the sale you cannot honour

Your shop and your website are selling the same physical unit. Faster syncing narrows the gap where an oversell happens. It does not close it.

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3 September 2026 · Point of sale

The till that keeps working when the internet drops

Eleven people in the queue and the line goes down. Selling offline is the easy half. Coming back without duplicating every sale is the hard part.

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3 September 2026 · Pricing

What inventory software really costs in year one

The monthly fee is the number everyone compares. The first-year total is usually two to four times bigger, and almost all of the difference is your own time.

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10 August 2026 · WhatsApp orders

How to take orders on WhatsApp without a website

You do not need a website, a domain or a developer to stop losing orders in DMs. Here is the setup, in about ten minutes, and what it costs.

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