Glossary

The terms you'll meet across RetailDek — Indian retail and tax vocabulary, and the app's own words.

Term	Meaning
Advance	Money taken on a sale order before billing; the balance collects at invoice time.
Challan (delivery challan)	The document that travels with goods — vehicle, driver, transporter, LR number. Moves goods on paper; stock deducts when it's billed.
Commitment	A recorded promise to a customer — marking, delivery, installation, service, or a problem visit — with an owner and a status.
Company profile	One store or business location, with its own address, GSTIN, bank/UPI details, and document number series.
Contact	A customer or supplier. The type follows the GST number in the form: with one, a supplier; without, a customer.
Counter session (shift)	The accountable period a cashier holds the POS drawer, from opening float to counted cash.
Credit note	Issued to a customer for a sales return — restocks the goods and gives GST credit.
Day Book	The daily close: collections, expenses, bookings, and the cash counter for one day. Registered entries are locked.
Debit note	Issued to a supplier for a purchase return — deducts the returned stock.
Display stock	Showroom pieces tracked apart from sellable stock.
Drawer variance	The gap between expected and counted cash at shift close; a variance flags the shift for manager review.
GSTIN	A 15-character GST registration number; RetailDek validates it before saving.
GSTR-1 / 2 / 3B / 4 / 9	The GST returns: outward supplies, inward supplies and credit, the monthly summary, the composition return, and the annual return.
HSN / SAC	The goods (HSN) or services (SAC) classification code that determines GST treatment; set per category, inherited by items.
ITC	Input-tax credit — GST paid on purchases that offsets GST collected on sales.
Ledger (khata)	A contact's running account: every debit, credit, and the balance.
MRP	Maximum retail price printed on the item; the sale price sits at or below it, and the difference shows as savings.
Opening float	Cash already in the drawer when a counter session opens.
Opening balance	A contact's balance carried in from before RetailDek — positive when they owe you, negative when you owe them.
Proforma invoice	A quotation formatted as an invoice, before the sale; raised from the Quotations screen.
Purchase invoice	The supplier's bill; recording it brings stock in and puts the amount on their ledger.
Receivable / Payable	What customers owe you / what you owe suppliers, aged from each bill's date.
Reserved (booked) stock	Units held by open sale orders and not available to sell.
Serial / IMEI tracking	Items traced unit by unit — each sale picks the exact unit.
Stock audit	A physical count against system stock, with shortages and excesses applied as adjustments.
Tender	The way a bill was paid — cash, UPI, card, bank transfer, cheque, finance/EMI.
Variant product	An item that comes in several sizes, colours, or styles, each tracked as its own item.
Voucher	A receipt (money in) or payment (money out) recorded against a contact.