ManyBilling for a Tea Shop
Tap the tea, the coffee and the snacks, see the total and the change, and know the day's sales when you close.
This browser is not keeping what you do here (a private window, or its storage is full). Bills made now will be gone when the page is closed.
Answer a few questions — your kind of shop, what you sell and your prices — and the counter is ready to bill. It takes about two minutes.
Or add a ready list of item names straight away, and price them as you go:
Nothing on the menu matches.
No bills on this day.
No bills on this day.
Nothing on this day.
No one buys on credit yet. Choose “Credit” when a bill is paid to start an account.
No bills in this month.
Each button saves a spreadsheet file (CSV) for the days chosen. It opens in Excel, Google Sheets and LibreOffice.
The menu, the shop's details, every bill and every account are kept in this browser on this device only. A backup file is the way to move them to another phone, and to keep them safe if the browser's data is cleared. Bringing a file back replaces what is here.
See the numbers
See the numbers
The receipt's own words — bill, total, cash, change — are printed in this language. Your item names are printed as you typed them.
That does not look like a UPI ID. It is written like name@bank.
The code carries the bill's total, so the customer's app opens with the amount filled in. The money goes straight from their bank to yours; this page never sees it and cannot tell whether a payment arrived — check your own UPI app.
Without a printer joined here, Print opens this device's own print window, which works with any printer the device already knows. Joining a receipt printer below prints straight to it, with no window in between.
This browser cannot join a printer itself. Chrome or Edge on Android, Windows, Mac or Linux can. Print still works through the device's own print window.
The browser asks you to choose the printer each time the page is opened. A receipt in plain English letters is sent as text, which prints fastest; one in any other script, and every payment code, is sent as a picture.
What is new in each version
The setup asks what kind of shop it is, what you sell and your prices. Running it again adds to your menu; it does not remove anything.
This browser cannot listen. Chrome, Edge and Safari can.
Tap Speak on the counter and say the order: “two tea, one vada”, “tomato half kilo”, “onion for 20 rupees”. The browser's own speech service turns your voice into words, which in most browsers needs the internet; this page then finds those words on your menu. If it mishears a name, add that spelling under “Also called” for the item.
A counter for a tea shop
A tea shop sells a few things, quickly, to many people. This counter is built for that: each thing you sell is one large tile, each tap adds one to the bill, and the total is always in view. Three teas and two vadas is five taps and one tap on Pay.
Tap Set up step by step and choose Tea shop as your kind of shop to start from a ready list of 17 things a tea shop usually sells, sorted into Drinks, Snacks and Other. Among them:
- Tea
- Coffee
- Black tea
- Lemon tea
- Ginger tea
- Vada
- Banana fritter
- Samosa
- Bonda
- Bajji
- Cutlet
- Egg puffs
The list is names only. The setup has a box beside each one for your price, and the price is kept from then on. Remove what you do not sell and add what you do under Menu, where each item can also be moved up or down so your fastest sellers are the first tiles.
Things a tea shop needs
The change, worked out. When a bill of ₹54 is paid with a ₹100 note, tap ₹100 and the screen shows ₹46 to give back. The notes offered are the ones just above the bill's total.
Regulars who pay at the end of the week. Choose Credit when the bill is paid and pick the customer's name. The Day book keeps what each one owes and takes off what they pay back.
Token numbers. If customers wait for their order, switch on “Give each bill a token number” under Shop. The token is printed large on the receipt and starts again from 1 each day; the bill number carries on.
A bill that has to wait. When one customer is still choosing and the next is ready, tap Hold. The bill waits above the counter until you tap it again. Twenty bills can be on hold at once.
Speaking the order. With wet hands, tap Speak and say “two tea, one coffee, three vada”. The ready list knows “chai” and “chaya” as other names for tea, and you can add your own.
Something that is not on the menu. The “Other amount” tile adds a line with an amount you type, for a one-off sale.
What the day book tells you
At closing, the Day book shows how many teas, coffees and snacks were sold and what each brought in, so you can see what to make more of tomorrow. Add what you paid out during the day — milk, gas, sugar — with + Expense, and type the cash you started with under Opening cash; the book then shows the cash that should be in the drawer.
Taking the money and printing
Tap the green Pay button. Choose Cash and tap the note the customer hands over — the change is shown at once — or choose UPI to show a payment code with the bill's total in it, or Credit to put the bill on a regular customer's account. Save and print keeps the bill and prints the receipt on a 58 mm or 80 mm roll; Save keeps it without printing.
At closing time, open Day book: it shows the day's sales, how much came in cash, by UPI and on credit, what sold, and the cash that should be in the drawer. Printers, speaking the order, exporting to a spreadsheet and the backup file are explained in the main guide.
Do I need a printer to use it in a tea shop?
No. Many tea shops never print a receipt. Use the counter to add up the bill and work out the change, and let the Day book keep the day's sales. A receipt can still be shared as a picture or a WhatsApp message when a customer asks for one.
Which small printer can I use?
A 58 mm thermal receipt printer is the usual choice for a tea shop. Print through your phone's own print window, or join an ESC/POS printer by Bluetooth Low Energy or USB from Chrome on Android. Print a test receipt from the Shop page first.
Can it print the receipt in my language?
Very likely. Choose the language of the receipt under Shop, from a list of 50 that includes Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi and Urdu. The receipt's own words — bill, total, cash, change — are printed in that language. The ready list of items is named in English, Malayalam or Hindi, and starts in English for the rest; your own item names are printed as you typed them.
Are prices included in the ready list?
No. The ready list has 17 names and no prices. Every price is typed by you, so the bill always shows what your shop charges.
How do I keep track of customers who pay later?
Choose Credit when you save their bill and pick or type their name. The Day book lists every customer with what they owe. Open a name to record a payment in cash or by UPI, or to send them the amount by WhatsApp.
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