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Dukaan POS udhaar chase list showing customers who owe money and who promised to pay today

· 7 min read

Udhaar Khata App for Shops: How Dukaan POS Tracks Customer Credit and Gets It Paid Back

How Dukaan POS replaces the paper udhaar register: credit at the counter, part payments, promised dates, itemised statements and a chase list.

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Dukaan POS reports on a desktop showing takings, gross profit after the cost of goods, and expenses

· 5 min read

Supplier Ledger for Shops: How Dukaan POS Tracks Deliveries and What You Owe Suppliers

Track what you owe each supplier, record deliveries with invoice numbers, and keep cost prices current. How Dukaan POS handles khareed for small shops.

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Dukaan POS bill detail for a corrected bill, marked part refunded, with the reason and the items

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Edit a Bill After Payment: How Dukaan POS Corrects Today's Sales Without Breaking Your Records

A customer wants one more item after paying? Dukaan POS reopens the bill, updates it under the same number, moves stock by the difference and reprints it.

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Dukaan POS All branches dashboard showing today's takings for three branches and which ones have reported

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Multi-Branch POS Software: How Dukaan POS Runs Several Shops and Keeps Them in Sync

One product list for every branch, daily totals from each shop, and a dashboard for the owner. How Dukaan POS syncs several branches, even offline.

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Dukaan POS scanner settings screen confirming that a counter barcode scanner is working

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POS System With Barcode Scanner: Use a Scanner Gun or Your Phone's Camera With Dukaan POS

Scan products with a USB barcode scanner or your Android phone's camera, even offline. How Dukaan POS handles barcodes, unknown products and scanner setup.

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Shared Khata trip khata showing a total balance of PKR 850 and who paid for each expense

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Split Expenses With Friends and Family: How Shared Khata Keeps Everyone's Hisaab Clear

A free split expenses app for friends, roommates and trips. See who paid and who owes, split bills and keep hisaab offline, in English or Urdu.

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KMP Inspector on a desktop window showing captured network requests with status codes, timings and sizes

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KMP Inspector: An In-App Debugger for Compose Multiplatform on Android, iOS and Desktop

KMP Inspector is an open-source in-app debugger for Compose Multiplatform: inspect network calls, databases, logs and crashes on Android, iOS and desktop.

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KMP Inspector request detail for a GET request showing status 200, timing, size and a copy as cURL link

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How to Inspect Ktor Network Requests in Kotlin Multiplatform on Android, iOS and Desktop

Go beyond Ktor logging: inspect requests, headers, JSON bodies, timings and errors inside your running Kotlin Multiplatform app on Android, iOS and desktop.

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KMP Inspector Database panel with a SQL query and its results

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Room Database Inspector for Kotlin Multiplatform: View, Query and Edit Room on iOS, Android and Desktop

View, query and edit your Room database inside a running Kotlin Multiplatform app on Android, iOS and desktop, with no cable or Android Studio needed.

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Dukaan POS, point of sale software for shops in Pakistan, shown on a laptop

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POS Software in Pakistan: How to Choose One for Your Shop, and Why I Built Dukaan POS

What to look for in POS software in Pakistan: offline billing, udhaar, stock, Urdu and receipt printing. A practical guide from the developer of Dukaan POS.

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