Practical Notes For Growing Businesses
Straight answers on billing, inventory, and running operations — not fluff, and not a pitch dressed up as advice.
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- The Storely founder
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- Updated
- Whenever a rule changes
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GST Invoice Rules Every Small Retailer Should Know
What has to be on every GST invoice, when e-invoicing applies, and the small mistakes that cause the most rejected input tax credit claims.
In this guide- 01What information must every GST invoice include?
- 02When does e-invoicing become mandatory?
- 03What mistakes cause GST invoices to get rejected?
- 04How do you stop these mistakes from happening in the first place?
Why Your Stock Count Never Matches What’s Actually On The Shelf
The real reasons stock counts drift from the shelf, how to run a count that actually finds them, and why the fix is rarely "count more carefully."
In this guide- 01Where do stock discrepancies actually come from?
- 02Why doesn’t counting more carefully fix it?
- 03How do you run a stock count that actually finds the cause?
- 04What actually fixes recurring stock discrepancies?
Selling On WhatsApp In India: What’s Actually Allowed
What WhatsApp actually permits for catalogs and payment links, and the opt-in rule that gets business numbers banned when businesses ignore it.
In this guide- 01What does a WhatsApp Business account actually let you do?
- 02What is WhatsApp’s opt-in rule for business messaging?
- 03What gets WhatsApp business numbers banned most often?
- 04How do you run WhatsApp marketing without risking a ban?
Spreadsheet vs. Inventory Software: When To Switch
A spreadsheet works fine for stock — until it doesn’t. An honest, threshold-based way to tell which side of that line you’re on.
In this guide- 01Is a spreadsheet actually good enough for tracking inventory?
- 02What are the real signs it’s time to switch to inventory software?
- 03What actually breaks first when a spreadsheet outgrows its job?
- 04What does inventory software actually give you that a spreadsheet can’t?
Single Storefront vs. Marketplace-Only: What Changes
What actually changes for a D2C brand when it adds its own storefront alongside marketplace selling — margin, data and repeat customers.
In this guide- 01Does a storefront actually make more margin than marketplace selling?
- 02Who owns the customer data — the marketplace or the brand?
- 03Should a D2C brand drop marketplaces once it has its own storefront?
- 04What’s the hardest part of running a storefront and marketplace together?
What A Restaurant POS Should Log Besides The Bill
A point-of-sale that only totals the bill is leaving most of the useful data on the table. What it should actually be logging.
In this guide- 01What should a restaurant POS track besides the bill total?
- 02Why don’t most restaurant POS systems track this already?
- 03What do you gain once billing and stock are connected?
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