Retail stores and distribution companies face unique inventory and margin management challenges. Here's how we help you navigate them.
Managing stock across multiple locations, tracking slow-moving and dead inventory, optimizing reorder points, and preventing stockouts.
Controlling shrinkage and theft, managing promotional pricing, negotiating vendor terms, and maintaining healthy gross margins.
Centralizing financials across outlets, tracking store-wise profitability, allocating overhead costs, and managing inter-store transfers.
Managing input tax credit, handling sales returns and credit notes, inter-state stock transfers, and e-way bill compliance.
Tracking purchase orders, managing credit terms, reconciling vendor statements, and optimizing payment schedules for cash flow.
Managing distributor margins, tracking franchise royalties, scheme and discount accounting, and monitoring channel partner performance.
Complete financial solutions for retail stores, distributors, and consumer goods companies
Specialized accounting for retail chains, distributors, and consumer goods businesses
Chain-wide financials, outlet profitability tracking
Product-wise margins, category performance
Royalty calculations, franchisee reporting
Bin location tracking, warehouse cost allocation
Point liability tracking, redemption accounting
Same-store sales growth, footfall conversion
Retailers and distributors earn on volume and thin margins, with stock spread across stores, godowns and states. Control of stock, credit and supplier payments protects the margin.
Stores in different states need their own registrations, and stock moving between them is a supply with its own documents. Credit is available only in the state where it is booked.
Many suppliers file late or incorrectly. Credit that appears in your books but not in GSTR-2B must be held back and followed up each month.
Closing stock is valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value. Shrinkage, expiry and markdowns reduce value and should be recorded when identified.
Distributors receive scheme income from manufacturers, sometimes through credit notes. The GST treatment of discounts depends on how they are agreed and documented.
Franchise fees, royalties and stock supplied to franchisees are taxed differently from sales at company outlets. The agreement drives the tax treatment.
Distributors extend credit to retailers and buy from small vendors. Payments to Udyam-registered micro and small suppliers beyond the permitted period can be disallowed as a deduction under Section 43B(h).
We combine stock, sales and tax data into one monthly pack. For credit matching, see the GSTR-2B reconciliation tool, and for planning a new outlet use the break-even calculator.
Generally, yes. Each state where you supply goods from a place of business needs its own registration, with separate returns.
Stock moved between registrations in different states is a taxable supply and needs a tax invoice or delivery challan and an e-way bill where applicable.
Suppliers may not have filed their returns, or invoices may be reported late. Match purchases to GSTR-2B monthly and hold back credit that has not appeared.
Use a consistent method such as FIFO or weighted average, and compare cost with net realisable value. Retailers with very large item ranges sometimes use the retail method.
It depends on the terms. Discounts given before or at the time of supply and recorded in the invoice can reduce the taxable value, while later credit notes need specific conditions. Our indirect tax team can review your schemes.