The first week with Casho
A short plan for getting a shop running on it without stopping trade for a day.
The mistake with new software is trying to move everything at once — every product, every customer, every past balance — before making a single bill. The shop is busy, the job stalls halfway, and the software gets blamed.
Here is a week that works instead.
Day one: bill one sale
Put in the business name, phone and address, then make one real invoice for a real customer. Nothing else. The point is to see a document with your name on it and know the loop closes.
Day two: add what sells
Not the whole catalogue — the forty or fifty lines that make most of your takings. Name each one the way you would say it, with the size in the name. Put in the selling price. Cost can wait.
Day three: open the till
Ring up an hour of counter sales. You will find two or three missing products and add them as you go; that is the intended way to fill a catalogue, not a data-entry evening.
Day four: bring in the khata
Only the people who currently owe you money. For each, one opening balance is enough — you do not need to re-enter a year of history to start being useful today.
Day five: check the numbers
Compare three things against reality: the cash in the drawer, the count of three products, and what the khata says two customers owe. If they match, trust the system from here. If they do not, the gap is nearly always a step somebody skipped, and it is easier to find now than in three months.
Day six and seven: leave it alone
Do not tune anything. Run the shop. The settings that matter will make themselves obvious by being annoying.
What to skip at the start
Templates, the online shop, staff accounts and reports can all wait. They are useful later and a distraction now. Billing, the till and the khata are the three that change your week.
