Margins this thin leave no room for a guess
A kirana shop makes a few rupees on a packet and makes it back on volume. That means the counter has to be fast, the khata has to be exact, and the difference between the purchase rate and today’s selling rate has to be visible — not remembered.
- Bill-by-bill khata
- Weighted-average cost
- Credit limit & days
- Reorder levels
- Offline-first
- Keyboard-first
What makes this trade different
The khata is the real ledger
Regulars buy through the month and settle in parts. A single running balance hides which month’s purchases are still unpaid and which were already cleared.
Rates move under you
Oil, dal and atta land at a different cost each time. If the book values every lot at whatever you paid last, the margin you think you made is fiction.
Shelf, back room, godown
Stock is split across places within one shop. Total quantity is easy; knowing whether the case is behind the counter or two streets away is what saves the trip.
Shelf life you chase by hand
Perishables and dated packets have to move before they turn. Most shops track this by walking the shelf, and the software is no help at all.
Features that exist, doing the actual work
Everything below is in the build you can download today.
Khata as bill-by-bill outstanding
Every credit sale creates a bill; a part-payment allocates against the specific bills it clears. So "kitna baaki hai" answers with a list of dates and amounts, not one number.
Weighted-average costing that keeps up
Set weighted-average as the company default and each new inward lot re-averages the cost automatically — so margin reflects what the stock actually cost, not the last rate you happened to type.
Credit limit and credit days per customer
Both sit on the ledger master. The terms you agreed with a party are recorded where the party is, instead of living in your head and being renegotiated at the counter.
Billing without a mouse, without the internet
Type, Enter, print, next — the whole app is keyboard-driven, and the book is a local encrypted database. A broadband outage is not a shop closure.
Reorder levels on the item master
Minimum, maximum and reorder quantities are fields on each item, so the list of what has dropped below its level is data you can read rather than a shelf you have to walk.
Batch and expiry on stock movements
Stock journals, delivery challans and the Stock Ledger carry batch number, manufacture date and expiry date, so a lot you took in can be traced through the godown.
Moving from older accounting software?
Where Acronix is genuinely different — and where the tool you have already does the job. No invented weaknesses.
- Data at restAES-256 encrypted file — unreadable if the disk is copiedUsually a plain local data folder
- Switching machinesSign in on the new device and your books sync downSurrender the licence, copy a backup, restore by hand
- Working offlineFully offline-first — no internet needed to runOffline too, but cloud backup is bolt-on
- Keyboard-first entryEvery action has a shortcut; hands never leave the keysKeyboard-driven — the one thing they got right
- The interfaceA modern, high-density UI built this decadeFunctional, but a 1990s screen
- GST suiteGSTR-1, 3B, e-invoice, e-way bill from the same vouchersPresent, often as paid add-ons
Questions
Grocery & Kirana — questions, answered
Can I track khata credit bill by bill, so "kitna baaki hai" has real dates behind it?
Yes. Every credit sale creates a bill and a part-payment allocates against the specific bills it clears, so the answer to "kitna baaki hai" is a list of dates and amounts rather than one running number that hides which month is still unpaid.
Oil, dal and atta land at a different rate each time — does my margin reflect that?
Set weighted-average as the company default and each new inward lot re-averages the item's cost automatically, so margin reflects what the stock actually cost rather than the last rate you happened to type in.
Can I set reorder levels so I know what to re-buy?
Minimum, maximum and reorder quantities are fields on each item, so the list of what has dropped below its level is data you read rather than a shelf you have to walk.
Does billing work without the internet and without a mouse?
Yes. The whole app is keyboard-driven — type, Enter, print, next — and the book is a local encrypted database, so a broadband outage is not a shop closure.
Is GST — GSTR-1, GSTR-3B — included?
Yes, in the single plan. GSTR-1, GSTR-3B, HSN-wise summaries and e-invoice all read the vouchers you raised at the counter, so the return follows the billing you already did.
Can I capture batch and expiry when goods come in?
Stock journals, delivery challans and the Stock Ledger carry batch number, manufacture date and expiry date, so a dated lot you took in can be traced through the godown as it moves.
Try it on your own books
14 days, every feature unlocked, no credit card. Your data stays encrypted on your own machine.