Kitna bika, kitna bacha — the daily stock check
"Dukan ka maal kitna bika aur kitna bacha" — the two numbers every owner wants at closing time. Most shops answer it with a rough shelf scan and a feeling. Here is the report that answers it exactly, and how to read it in five minutes a day.
The arithmetic is simple — the record is not
Opening stock + what arrived today − what sold today = what should be on the shelf. If the record is clean, "kitna bacha" is a lookup. It stops being simple when arrivals go unrecorded, a sale is made without billing, or a return goes back on the shelf without a system entry. Every gap turns the expected number into a guess.
Read the daily report in this order
- Sales today — total and by payment type, matched against the day-close cash.
- Top movers — what is actually selling, not what you think is selling.
- Low-stock items — what needs reorder before the shelf runs dry.
- Negative or impossible counts — the first sign of unbilled sales or entry errors.
In SYEZPOS this is the same record the counter writes: every sale updates stock instantly, so the end-of-day number is already true before you start counting.
Spot-check, don't full-count
Counting the whole shop nightly kills the habit. Pick ten items a day — the expensive ones and the easy-to-carry ones — and compare shelf to system. When the same item is short repeatedly, you have found a leak: unbilled sales, a receiving error, or a people problem. The full stock-count guide covers the monthly version.
Variance is the signal, not the enemy
A clean record makes variance meaningful: shelf minus system, by item, tells you exactly where to look. A messy record makes every number suspect. Owners who see a short count and shrug are the same owners who discover a pattern at year end — when it is too late to fix.
The habit is small: five minutes at close, one report, ten items counted. The result is that "kitna bika, kitna bacha" stops being a question and becomes a number you already know.