paint shop billing software for shade codes, pack sizes and dealer credit
A paint shop is a hardware shop with a colour card attached. RetailDek keeps every shade and pack as its own stock line, bills a 1 litre tin and a 20 litre bucket from the same catalogue, and keeps painter and builder accounts running clean.
Challenges in paint shops
The everyday problems this trade knows too well.
One product, forty shades
Ivory, almond and off-white are three different tins to the customer and three different stock lines to you. A single "emulsion" row on a stock sheet tells you nothing worth knowing.
The same shade in four pack sizes
1 L, 4 L, 10 L and 20 L at four different rates. Quoting from memory across a wall of tins is where the margin quietly leaks out.
Painters buy on udhaar for a site
Material goes out for a job and is settled when the builder pays. Without a running account, a ₹40,000 gap only surfaces months later, in an argument.
Half the shop is not paint at all
Brushes, rollers, putty, thinner, tape and sandpaper share the counter with the tins, and they do not all carry the same GST rate.
How RetailDek fits
The real features that solve the way paint shops actually work.
Shade and pack as one stock line
Create every shade-and-pack combination as its own item with its code, rate and live quantity, so you know the 4 L ivory is finished before a painter asks for it.
Labels that carry the shade code
Print barcode labels for tins and rack edges so a scan brings up the exact shade and pack, instead of reading a code off a lid that paint has already run over.
Sell in the unit the customer buys
Set the unit on each item — litre, tin, kg or piece — so tins, putty bags, thinner and brushes all bill correctly on the same invoice.
Running accounts for painters and builders
Every contractor and dealer is a party with a ledger. Site material goes out on account and the outstanding figure is on screen the day he comes to settle.
Paint at 18%, the rest at its own rate
Paints and varnishes sit at 18% under the rates effective 22 September 2025, while sundries carry their own. Each item holds its HSN code and rate, so one bill splits CGST/SGST with round-off.
A day in the shop
How a typical day flows with RetailDek.
Build the shade catalogue
Import shades and pack sizes from Excel with their codes, units, HSN codes and rates, then print barcode labels for the racks.
Bill the counter and the site
Scan or search to bill a walk-in for cash, or bill a contractor on account; send material to a site on a delivery challan and invoice it when the supply is billed.
Restock and collect
Enter the distributor bill so stock replenishes and input tax is recorded, then work through contractor ledgers and slow shades from the reports.
Built around your counter
A quick look at how paint shops come together on screen — clear totals, live figures, and nothing to re-key.
- Shade and pack as one stock line
- Labels that carry the shade code
- Sell in the unit the customer buys
Features that matter most here
The parts of RetailDek paint shops lean on every day.
Paint Shops — FAQs
Answers to the questions owners in this trade ask most.
Yes. Each shade and pack size is created as its own item with its own code, barcode and live quantity, so the stock figure answers the question a customer actually asks at the counter.
Run your paint shops on RetailDek
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