In every super market entire day is divided in to two parts namely business hours and non business hours. In business hours product selling, creation of sales bill, sales return and receipt of items happens. In business hours one action that happens (at one or more billing counters) continuously and i.e. number of buyers (customers ) are standing in line to pay their bills so as to collect items or goods and take exit from the super market. Keeping billing counter neat, clean, and presentable is the need of super market. Keeping billing machine (at billing counter) ready for all the time is the need of business. Acme’s Insight offers many features. Acme’s Insight software product is the best buying bet for Super Market. Read each feature.

• Type 10 sales bills at a time from single window
  Acme’s Insight allows to type 10 sales bills at a time from single window visible on computer screen or monitor.
• Print sales bill immediately
  As soon as bill is typed by the user, user can print the sales bill on printer (thermal or dot matrix) using function keys support provided in Acme’s Insight.
• Cashier module
  This software module keeps a track of impress amount given it to each cashier (daily) and cash collected across the day by each cashier. Cashier wise collection report is the outcome of this software module. Cashier module is useful wherever multiple billing users are appointed by super market business owner.
• Use barcode or item code while generating sales bill.
  Some users working in Super Market prefer to use barcode. Some prefer to use item code. Acme’s Insight handles both the requirements.
• Enter cash received from the customer
  This feature allows billing user to enter cash received from the customer. It keeps the record of sales bill amount, cash received from the customer and exchange or remaining cash paid back to the customer.
• Automatically select free item or free gift item
  This function automatically alert billing user in case customer is offered some gift product or discount. Acme’s Insight software handles both. Free gift item as well as discount.
• Loyalty card
  This feature allows Super Market owner to run loyalty card scheme to increase customer base for consistent purchase. This module helps Super Market owner to increase the business and to spread Super Market brand.
• Multiple payment mode in sales bill
  Using this feature, sales bill creating user can accept multiple mode payment against single bill. E.g. customer pay some payment in cash and some via credit card.
• Link the weight of bulk product purchase from weighing scale machine
  This feature allows sales bill user to capture the weight of bulk products purchased by the consumer. E.g. Consumer wants to purchase grocery items above 100 kilograms. In this case; first grocery items will be kept on weighing scale machine. Weighing scale machine will be connected to Windows based PC via serial port. Acme’s Insight software will capture the weight via serial port and captured weight will directly appear in sales bill.
• Print sales bill in regional language
  This feature print sales bill in regional languages. This feature helps those consumers who do not read and understand English language sales bill. For such customers, printed sales bill in regional languages create more comfort and understanding.
• Create Yadi (standard monthly grocery item template) for those customers who prefer to buy grocery and other essential products on month to month basis
  This feature allows sales billing user to copy complete list of purchased items (from the last bill) to create new sales bill. Customer and sales bill user can add more items or delete existing items.
• Print sales bill without touching keyboard & mouse
  As soon as all the items are entered by the sales user in sales bill? User can use barcode machine gun and user can enter a unique barcode number in sales bill window and automatically that sales bill saves and printing starts immediately.
• Print how much money is saved by consumer
  Acme’s Insight software automatically calculate MRP rate v/s actual sales rate and print the total amount saved by the customer in that sales bill. This feature gives emotional pride to the customer. It is being observed that such customers actually talk about this with pride to their friends.

Maintaining stock, tracking stock, updating stock, etc. are the key needs of Super Market business. Acme’s Insight offers multiple features in this category that helps business to grow, sustain and scalable.

• Import purchase bill
  Entering purchase bill consumes lot of time. Acme’s offers import of purchase bill (computerized) from supplier. Kindly contact Acme’s office or partner’s office to know how to import purchase bill.
• Enter and maintain batch wise Inventory
  Acme’s Insight software store item data with batch wise, date wise, etc. This feature is useful to super market business for all the eating products, for all grocery products, for all milk based products, and for all fast moving consumer products where batch number, manufacturing date and expiry date is mentioned. e.g. Milk and by products of milk. Fruit pulps & fruit juices. Tooth paste & Tooth powder. etc.
• Alert for expired products and display alert as soon as Acme’s Insight is started
  This function alert Insight on daily basis and as & when product expires. This feature is available in the form of settings.
• Inward stock with bill or with delivery challan
  Super Market can enter product master entry via delivery challan or via invoice.
• Validate purchase price and sale price while entering stock
  Acme’s Insight software allows Insight users to validate purchase price and sale price while entering product master data. This feature validate accuracy of price factor.
• Multiple storage locations (godown) within market premises and outside too.
  Using this feature, super market owner can maintain stock at various locations like stock available in godown and stock available in super market. In super market business premises, super market owner can name each rack with unique numbering system so that it becomes easy to keep the stock and to remove the stock.
• Reorder level and Minimum order level quantity
  This feature allows super market staff to record minimum order level quantity and reorder level quantity for each item. This feature alert super market staff as soon as stock item reaches to minimum level. This feature allows super market owner to reorder items on respective suppliers.
• Formula function for Item Master Entry
  Once the formula is set by super market business owner! Sale price of each item can be automatically calculated by Acme’s Insight.
• Add multiple attributes and properties to each item
  Acme’s Insight software is completely driven by stock data. Acme’s Insight software allows super market business owner to add multiple attributes or properties for each item.
• Maintaining stock in multiple units and multiple packaging
  This feature allows super market staff to convert units of purchase items in to saleable items. E.g. grocery items are purchased in tons where as they are packed & sold in kilograms or in grams. Beauty products like soap, shampoo, hair oil, skin cream, etc. are purchased in boxes where as they are sold in peaces. Stationary items like notebooks and diary are purchased in dozens and sold as peaces.
• Add free quantity while purchase bill is entered
  This feature allows super market business owner (or staff) to enter free quantity scheme offered by the original producer. Super Market owner can also introduce own scheme of free items. Added free quantity or product appears automatically in sales bill when typed.
• Allow multiple challans while entering purchase bill
  This feature allows super market business owner (or staff) to enter multiple challans (received from supplier) for entering purchase details.
• Auto calculate rates while entering purchase bill
  This feature allows Acme’s Insight to calculate purchase rate, sales rate and MRP rate when stock is entered in to Acme’s Insight software. This feature allows super market business owner (or staff) to define the formula for purchase price, sale price and MRP. This feature is available in the form of settings.
• Lock sales rates in sales bill
  This function helps super market owner not to allow billing users to play with sales rates.
• Create item wise category for entering items
  This function is useful to super market while entering grocery stocks and few selected FMCG products. E.g Grains can be defined as main category and under grains various types of grains (various names that are popular in grains) can be entered
• Scheme module
  This feature allows super market business owner to run schemes for end customers. e.g. Monthly purchase schemes. Monthly savings schemes. Free gift scheme. Value purchase scheme. Buy 2 get 1 free scheme. Buy 3 get 1 free scheme, etc.
• Show item balance while creating sales bill
  This feature display number of items available in stock while creating sales bill.
• Production module/packaging module
  In super market business, number of grocery items are bought in bulk. These items are repacked in smaller packets. e.g., Wheat, Rice, Pulses, etc. are purchased in bags of 50 kilograms or 100 kilograms. These products are repacked in 500 grams packet or 1 kg packet or 5 kg packet in godown. Second E.g., Besan floor, Rice floor, Wheat floor, Sorghum floor, Bazari floor, Corn floor, Maida, Jad Pohe, Patal Pohe, Jad Rawa, Patal Rawa, etc. are purchased in 25 kg or 50 kg bags. These products are repacked in 250 gm packet, 500 gm packet and 1 kg packet in godown. These packets are labeled and then kept in super market for sale purpose. Acme’s Insight production module keeps the track of purchase as well as sales. Acme’s Barcode software module allow super market owner to create own brand of barcode labels.
• Purchase bill module with approving authority
  Super Market staff can prepare purchase orders on suppliers. These purchase orders will appear on Super Market owner’s PC and/or on authorised person’s PC to approve. Authority person can recheck the purchase order, validate it with current stock and then approve the purchase order for further processing.
• Ratio exception report
  This feature shows if there are discrepancies as regards to purchase rates for the products ordered by Super Market. This report educate & empower Super Market owner about the prices received from the supplier in earlier purchase bills and in current purchase bills.
• Print barcode labels instantly as soon as stock items are entered
  This feature is useful since number of items in Super Market are more. This feature allows Super Market staff to print barcode labels for all those items where barcode label is not provided by the producing company. Super market business can also use company barcode label wherever supplied.

•  Barcode label (on each product) is the soul of super market business.

Barcode label (on each product) is the soul of super market business. Acme has developed barcode software module.  Using this feature, Super Market can generate their own branded labels that can spread market brand. This feature also takes care of company’s barcode labels that are pre fixed on various products bought by Super Market. This function saves time, efforts, resources, barcode printer, barcode stationary, etc. Regeneration & reprinting of barcode labels.  This feature allows Super Market owner to redefine sales prices of those items which slow selling items. Using this feature, Smart Market owner can reduce the prices and reprint barcode labels once again.

CRM means customer relationship management. Now-a-days (in the era of Mobile phones, Smartphone, Web sites, Web Portals, Internet, TV, etc.) CRM has become an utmost important activity for Super Market since competition is increasing beyond imagination, thinking and speed. Acme’s Insight software offers CRM for various PR activities to be done with actual buyers. Those are as follows:-

• Send transactional messages on mobile
  Using this function market can send text messages as soon as sales bill is created. e.g. “Thank you very much for visiting our Market and giving us an opportunity to service your product need” or “Thank you for visiting our Market. We appreciate your time investment” or “Thank you very much for visiting our market and look forward to see you tomorrow”. These messages inspire buyers. These messages emotionally connect market with buyers mind. These messages helps buyer to spread good brand in their friend circle.
• Send personal greeting messages
  Using this function, Acme’s Insight can send personal greeting messages or emails for entire customer database. e.g. Happy Birthday, Happy Wedding Anniversary, etc.

CRM means customer relationship management. Now-a-days (in the era of Mobile phones, Smartphone, Web sites, Web Portals, Internet, TV, etc.) CRM has become an utmost important activity for Super Market since competition is increasing beyond imagination, thinking and speed. Acme’s Insight software offers CRM for various PR activities to be done with actual buyers. Those are as follows:-

• Send transactional messages on mobile
  Using this function market can send text messages as soon as sales bill is created. e.g. “Thank you very much for visiting our Market and giving us an opportunity to service your product need” or “Thank you for visiting our Market. We appreciate your time investment” or “Thank you very much for visiting our market and look forward to see you tomorrow”. These messages inspire buyers. These messages emotionally connect market with buyers mind. These messages helps buyer to spread good brand in their friend circle.
• Send personal greeting messages
  Using this function, Acme’s Insight can send personal greeting messages or emails for entire customer database. e.g. Happy Birthday, Happy Wedding Anniversary, etc.

Sales return and purchase return, these are the two utmost unpleasant activities that happens in super market business. No one likes it. However, they are non-avoidable. These two activities if controlled tightly & systematically, it helps super market business to grow, to sustain and to make less losses. Acme’s Insight software understand these aspects correctly and offers value for money features that helps business to grow, business to sustain and helps super market business owner to make less losses.

• Sales return passing module
  This feature is needed where physical sales return is undertaken by counter staff but sales return document is passed by the authority person. Authority person can decide how to reimburse end customer for sales return. It could be product to product replacement in case sales return product is defective. It could be one product to another product exchange of same price or lower price or higher price. It could be cash return to end customer. Choice completely resides on market authority and end consumer
• Capture non moving or non saleable barcode label items and create purchase return document automatically on respective suppliers
  Acme’s Insight software offers this powerful feature. This feature allows Super Market staff to capture all those items that are getting sold for long time. Using barcode gun, staff can capture the barcode label and then Acme’s Insight will create purchase return document automatically created for respective suppliers within less time. This feature saves time, efforts, resources and money too. This feature helps to avoid mistakes & errors.

Printed reports give an opportunity to business owner, accountant or staff to work out various strategies. Printed reports (somehow) got more impact that is emotional on every humankind than seeing same report electronically on computer monitor. Acme’s Insight provides some standard reports. In addition, Acme’s Insight also provide Report Writing module. Using this module, business owner or accountant or CA or tax consultant or staff can generate customized reports as per the need of business. Acme’s call center staff is available from 10.00 AM to 06.00 PM daily to help business owner on creating these reports. Business owner can use Phone, Internet Connectivity and Teamviewer tool for availing this help from Acme. Following reports are available in Acme’s Insight namely

• Stock report
  Stock report item wise, category wise, supplier wise and producer wise. Fast selling items, dead items, slow moving items, etc. Sales report product wise, category wise, value wise, quantity wise, profit wise, etc.
• Accounting Reports
  Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss, Trial Balance, Sales Register, Purchase Register, Bank Book, Cash Book, Expenses Book, Creditor’s Register, Debtor’s Registers, General Ledger, Interest Calculation, Bank Reconciliation, Cheque book maintenance, Supplier wise blank cheque maintenance, etc.
• VAT report
  VAT paid report, VAT collected report, VAT difference report on purchase return and VAT difference report on sales return, if any.
• Print Date & Time on each report
  Acme’s Insight print date & time on each report so that trailing on each reports becomes easy. This function is available via settings.
• Expired product report
  Daily report of products being expired.

There are many things (task in hand) that happen in market business before market is opened for consumers and market is closed for consumers. These activities (task in hand) fall under the category of back-office task. Listing down features of Acme’s Insight that falls under Back-office category namely:-

• Business Analysis and Intelligence
  Acme’s Insight got built-in dashboard UI (User Interface) module. This module display selected & important business data in the form of graphical charts. Graphical charts are more appealing in terms of understanding the data. e.g. Supplier wise sales, product wise sales, counter wise sales, product category wise sales, price group wise sales, etc. These reports are instantly available on computer monitor and they are updated as and when actual transaction happens in Insight like entering of purchase bill, selling items to customer, entering bill payment, giving payment to suppliers, etc.
• Multiple firms
  Acme’s Insight allows Super Market owner to create multiple firms in single premises. Using this feature, Super Market owner can reduce tax liability of the business. Acme’s Insight also allows Super Market owner to create single sales bill from multiple companies or multiple bills from multiple companies.
• View customer ledger for multiple firms
  Acme’s Insight allows Smart Market owner or staff to view customer ledger from multiple firms. This feature is unique when Smart Market owner deploy Acme’s Insight for multiple firms.
• Supplier data entry linked with manufacturing firms
  Acme’s Insight allows business owner can add manufacturing company names while creating supplier database. Efforts invested in data entry actually help business owner or staff when purchase order is created on these suppliers .Acme’s Insight software shows only those product names that are directly linked with supplier plus produced by concerned producers. This feature speed up the computer performance by showing limited product names than showing entire product names produced by countless firms.
• Scheduler & task manger
  Acme’s Insight software offers another powerful feature that can be used before or after transaction hours. Acme’s Insight software allows business owner to add all those tasks that are also equally important like selling goods to customers or buying goods from suppliers like Renew various licenses, Submit VAT report, Submit VAT Challan, Pay VAT Submit IT Returns, etc. All these tasks can be added in to scheduler software by mentioning due date and advance date. Acme’s Insight will automatically send mobile message on advance date as well as on due date on business owner’s mobile phone.
• Multiple on-line or off-line branch module
  Acme’s Insight offers this unique feature. It allows Super Market owner to open up multiple outlets within city or outside city too. These branches can be on-line or off-line. On-line branches will generate data in local machine but data will always get store on HO server PC. For on-line branches effective broad band connectivity is needed. Off-line branches will generate data in local machine. Data will be stored on local machine only. Once in a day or two times a day, off-line branch will push the data in HO server PC. For off-line branches, dial up and/or low band connectivity is needed.
• Automatic back-up of Insight
  Acme’s Insight offers this most important feature to every buyer of Insight. This feature automatically take back-up of data created & generated via Insight. Back-up data is stored in computer hard disk in day wise folders. Each folder is given day name like Monday, Tuesday, etc. Each customer is requested to copy daily back-up outside the computer. May be on pen drive or USB hard drive. But copying daily back-up out of computer is must. In India, power conditions (supply) are not healthy and consistent. Sudden spike in power supply can ruin the entire computer setup available in automobile spare part shop. This is must activity. Do or die activity.

Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar counter is the most dynamic counter where countless actions happens across the day and year after year.  Keeping the counter pleasant, neat, clean, smiley, presentable and automated is the need of time. Using computer (one or two or multiple), printer (one or two or multiple), UPS, Inverter, etc. is the need of business. Using computer with Acme’s Insight software BAP (Business Application Processing) software add sugar in milk. Acme’s Insight BAP (Business Application Processing) software in 8 in 1. Acme’s Insight runs on single Windows based PC as well as on multiple Windows based PC’s connected on Windows Server or on Linux Server. Acme’s Insight saves huge time, efforts and money of Grocery or Kirana Bhusar owner and working staff. Acme’s Insight software helps and avoid mistakes or errors that happens because of ignorance, over confidence and (good or bad) habits. Acme’s Insight software helps Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business to grow by providing accurate business intelligence to the business owner through various features and functions. Let us read about each feature and read out how each feature benefit the business, Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar shop owner, staff associated with the business and above all customers who buy countless grocery products.

• Type 10 sales bills at a time
  This feature allows user working in Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar store to type ten sales bills at a time. This feature is needy since buyers at counters are always more and in numbers.
• Create list of grocery items needed by the customer, then collect the cash, then print the sales bill and then deliver items to consumers.
  There are many Grocery or Kirana Bhusar owners in State of Maharashtra who follows this process. According to them this well tested & well proven process to avoid mistakes, errors, complaints & stealing.  Acme’s Insight software handles this process seamlessly and smoothly. This process do not allow buyer (customer alias consumer) to take undue advantage of the business.
• Number of item names to be printed in single sales bill
  This feature allows business owner to decide number of item names to be printed on single sales bill. This feature is useful to the business since number of items asked by the customers are unknown. They could one or more. More is not fixed and it is unpredictable.
• Number of copies to be printed of single sales bill
  This feature helps Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner to decide number of copies to be printed for each sales bill.  This feature is useful when billing counter and delivery counter is kept separately.  One copy can be retained by the billing user and one copy by the customer after products are delivered by the delivery person standing on delivery counter.  Acme’s Insight software also provide printing of gate pass feature wherever consumer is asked to take the delivery of goods from a different location.  This location could be at the backside of Grocery or Kirana Bhusar store.  This feature is applicable wherever billing location and delivery location is different.
• Save + Print Bill Immediately After Entry
  This feature in the form of settings allows billing user to print the bill as soon as it is created & saved.
• Round Sales Bill and method
  This feature allows Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner to decide how rounding to be done when final sales bill is prepared and rounding method to be used for rounding purpose. This feature is available in the form of settings.
• Default Memo Type In Sales Bill
  This function allows Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner to decide what type of sales bill to be prepared as default. Choices are cash bill, credit card bill, credit bill or combination of all three. This feature is available via settings.
• Use Itemcode and Customer code while creating sales bill
  In grocery business, many customers are regular buyers. They prefer to buy grocery products on monthly basis or weekly basis or once in fifteen days.  In India, these consumers prefers to settle their bills on monthly basis.  Acme’s Insight allows billing user to create sales bill by selecting customer name by code and then item name by code too. These codes can be decided by Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar owner or by staff on their comfort level.
• Show customer balance in pick list
  This feature helps Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner or billing user to get accurate information about outstanding payment when credit customer visit (again) to buy more products. More over, when Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner or billing user click on each visible outstanding amount, they can also get more information about each bill and items bought in each bill.
• Pick list by letters in sales bill
  This is customizable feature available for settings. By this feature, Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner or billing user can decide how pick list of items to be selected in sales bill. Here they got 3 choices, first character of the product, first two characters of the product or first three characters of the product. Once the setting is selected, UI (user interface) of sales bill will act accordingly. User’s comfort is addressed accurately in Acme’s Insight since definition of users comfort changes from city to city and from state to state.
• Allow Multiple Payment Details In Sales Bill
  This function helps Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner or cash counter staff to accept multiple payments for single sales bill namely collect some payment in cash, collect some payment by cheque, collect some payment by credit card, some payment by electronic transfer and/or keep some payment as credit.
• Show and print items location/rack wise
  When sales bill is printed! Printed bill can display location of item. This function helps delivery staff to take out products quickly than searching for the products across the shop.
• Enter received cash from customer in sales bill
  This feature force billing user to enter received amount from the customer. As soon as received amount from customer is entered in sales bill. Acme’s Insight automatically calculate amount to be returned (if any) to the customer. Sales bill amount, received cash from customer and exchange returned to the customer, all three records are stored by Acme’s Insight software in sales bill as well as they are printed on sales bill too.
• Yadi (List of monthly grocery items) function. Copy previous sales bill of customer and create new sales bill by copying all the items purchased in last sales bill
  Using this feature, billing user can copy previous monthly grocery sales bill. Billing user can copy all the items from previous bill and can create fresh sales bill. Billing user can add more items or can delete items too if customer insist. This feature saves huge time and efforts of billing staff and customer too.
• Print sales bill in regional languages
  Acme’s Insight software offers this feature by which English language entered sales bill is automatically printed in regional language. This feature is required by all those businesses where English sales bill is not read and understood by the buyers.
• Operate Customized Scheme
  This feature is useful when business owner wants to create his/her own defined schemes for regular customers who buy grocery items in bulk.

Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business is completely driven by number of saleable products available in the outlet. Let us repeat. Saleable products. Keeping tight control on saleable (as well as non saleable & dead) items is the need of business. Regular update of stocks, regular checking and physical checking of stock helps Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner to grow the business, to sustain in business with profits and to make less losses. Acme’s Insight software offers following features:-

• Import computerized purchase bill received from supplier
  Entering purchase bill consumes huge time of Insight user and Acme understand this very well. To save time, efforts, avoiding mistakes & errors while entering purchase bill (suppliers), Acme’s Insight software allows Insight user to import supplier’s bill generated on computer. Please contact Acme’s office or Acme’s partner’s office on how to import computerized bill in Acme’s Insight software.
• Batch wise and category wise Inventory
  Acme’s Insight software allows user working in Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business to store grocery products batch wise and category wise. Here batch could be actual batch number printed on grocery bags, it could challan number & date from supplier.
  Entering grocery products and other FMCG products batch wise (or category wise) helps Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner to understand age wise stock. This is very important feature and it must be used by every owner.
• Warning of expiry date for grocery and FMCG products
  This is another feature that can be used for some of the grocery items, some of the eating products and some of the products from FMCG.e.g. Items like toothpaste, tooth powder, etc. carry expiry dates.  Items like Rawa, Besan aata, Gahu Aata, etc. also carry expiry dates etc. Various sauce’s carry expiry dates. All these items must be entered with batch wise and with expiry date.  Acme’s Insight alert billing user as soon as these products are out expiry date. Expiry alert can be set in advance for number of days.
• Raise Expired Product Warning Alert While Starting Program
  This feature must be used by Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner. This feature alert Insight user about expiry of products as soon as Insight software is started.                                       
  
• Inward stock with bill or with delivery challan            
  There are many Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar suppliers who raise the bill once in a month or once in fifteen days. Why? We don’t know. But we know they don’t raise the bills when they delivery goods. These suppliers supply their products only with delivery challan. Acme’s Insight software allows Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner to enter product details using delivery challan and invoice too.
• Validate purchase price and sale price while entering stock
  Acme’s Insight software allows Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner to validate purchase rate and sale rate while entering product data. This feature empower & educate Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner to validate accuracy of purchase rate + sales rate that is utmost important to every business including Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar.
• Multiple stocking (store) locations
  Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner can keep and maintain stock at multiple locations within business premises. These locations can be numbered or names can be given for each location or rack. By following this process, delivery staff can remove those items when delivery of these items takes place. This process also help delivery staff when goods arrive from suppliers office. Delivery staff can keep fresh goods in respective locations or racks.
• Enter minimum level quantity and reordering quantity
  Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner can set minimum quantity level and reorder quantity level for all those products that are fast moving (fast selling) in business. This feature helps Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner to reorder these items quickly.
• Formula function for product master entry
  This feature allows Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner to follow and to adopt about sale price to be defined for each item. Once the formula is set by Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner, Sale price of each item can be automatically calculated by Acme’s Insight by entering purchase rate picked up from suppliers bill.
• Add multiple attributes for grocery products
  Acme’s Insight is completely driven by stocking features. This feature helps Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner to keep a track of each supplier and products coming from respective supplier.
• Maintaining stock in multiple units and multiple packing’s
  This feature keeps the track of what is purchased and how is sold?
  e.g. Grocery items are bought in bags of 25 kg or 50 kg. They are repacked and sold to consumer in 500 gm pack, 1 kg pack and in 5 kg pack. Same process can be adopted for Gehu (Grains) Aata, Jwari (Sorghum) Aata, Bajari Aata, Besan Aata, etc. Same process can be applied for stationary items. Notebooks are purchased in dozens or in boxes and sold to consumers in peace, peaces, number or numbers. Same process can be applied for FMCG products like soap, shampoo, hair oil, etc.
• Add free quantity while purchase bill entered
  This feature allows Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner to enter free quantity scheme offered by the original producer or by the stockiest. This function helps for stock as well as when sales bill is generated on customers.
• Display batch details while entering master item
  This feature allows business owner or staff to see about items already having in stock. This function is available in the form of settings.
• Allow multiple challans while entering purchase bill
  This feature allows business owner and staff to enter various delivery challan numbers. This is need of time since generating purchase bill and delivery challan is under control of original producers. Normally producer generates delivery challan batch wise and invoices are printed only when complete delivery is ready for for a particular batch. It is being found that one invoice comprises of one or more delivery challan and that’s how this feature helps the business. This function is available in the form of settings.
• Auto calculate rates while entering purchase bill
  This feature allows Acme’s Insight to calculate purchase rate, sales rate and MRP rate when stock is entered. This feature allows Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner to define the formula for purchase price, sale price and MRP. This feature is available in the form of settings.
• Define default rates and user definable rates
  Both these options (Auto calculate rates while entering purchase bill and define default rates plus user definable rates) are available in the form of settings. Setting default rates helps sales billing user to create quick bill. User definable rates helps sales billing user to type different rates for regular customers who buy grocery in bulk.
• Lock sales rates in sales bill
  This function is available in the form of settings. This function helps Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner not to allow billing users to play with sales rates.
• Create batch wise or group wise category for entering batch wise or group wise products.
  This function is useful specifically for grocery items. Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner can keep the track of supplier and grocery goods arriving from respective supplier.
  e.g. Create Gehu (Grains) as a category and then enter various categories of Gehu (Grain) bags received from the supplier. e.g. In Indian market, Gehu (grains) are available in categories like Lokwan, Makhanmalai, etc.
• Allow free items
  This feature allows purchase bill entry user to add free items if they are offered by the original supplier or by stockiest. This feature also helps sales bill creator while generating sales bill.
• Scheme module and Loyalty card
  This feature allows business owner to run scheme for customers so that they are inspired to buy more products from Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar store. Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar owner can also run loyalty card for those consumers who buy only monthly grocery items from the shop.
• Show item balance while creating sales bill
  This function is linked with stock data. Here Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner can decide how balance to be shown after item is selected in sales bill namely after entry of every item or after entry of 20 items. Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar Business owner can decide as per their comfort and as per their business process. This function is available in the form of settings.
• Facility to change sales rate for selected grocery items
  Like Gold or silver business, there are many grocery items where buying and selling rates are changed every day. These rates can be changed for bulk quantity too.  e.g. Rice, Sugar, Pulses, Jiggery, etc. Acme’s Insight software allows to change the sales rates of these items daily.
• Production module (BOM)
  Acme’s Insight software allows Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner to create own packs of grocery items under their business brand or name.  e.g. Buy pulses in bags (25 kg or 50 kg) and then repack pulse in 500 gm pack or 1 kg. pack.  Buy grains in bags (50 kg or 100 kg) and then repack grains in 500 gm, 1 kg. and in 5 kg. packs. Buy spices in kilograms and then repack them in 25 grams, 50 grams and 100 gms packets.

• Getting skill, low cost & low overheads worker for grocery business is becoming difficult.
  Now-a-days getting skill, low cost & low overheads worker for grocery business is becoming difficult day by day. Multinational and multi city or multi state Indian Retail stores realized this problem long back. Most of them introduced barcode labeling system in their business. Each product with barcode label helps to raise sales bill within less time. Look at Reliance Mart, D Mart, Big Bazaar, More, etc.  In India very few grocery outlets opted for this system. Acme’s Insight software is already geared up for this business need long back. Acme offers barcode software module as an optional module. Using barcode software module, Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner can design, create, generate & print own barcode labels. Acme’s Insight software also allow Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar owner to use company printed barcode labels.

CRM means customer relationship management. Now-a-days (in the era of Mobile phones, Smartphone, Web sites, Web Portals, Internet, TV, etc.) CRM has become an utmost important activity for every Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner since competition is increasing beyond imagination, thinking and speed. Acme’s Insight software offers CRM for various PR (public relation) activities to be done with actual buyers of grocery items. Those are as follows:-

• Send transactional messages on mobile phones
  Using this function, Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner can send transactional messages to regular buyers reminding them to order more grocery items. Message can be also sent when goods are delivered to customer’s home on credit. Message can be also sent to remind consumer about payment.
• Send personal greeting messages
  Using this function, Acme’s Insight can send personal greeting messages to entire existing customer database of bulk grocery buyers. e.g. Happy Birthday, Happy Wedding Anniversary, etc.

Accounting is an integral part of every business. Acme’s Insight offers complete accounting on click of mouse button. Read below about features alias functions that are available under Accounting feature group namely:-

• VAT accounting
  Every month, every Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner is forced to submit VAT report to respective government. VAT accounting is an important business task. Acme’s Insight software handles this part very systematically. When suppliers bills are entered in to Insight? VAT paid on purchase is automatically added in to VAT paid register. When sales bill is printed on customer, VAT collected from customer is automatically added in to VAT collection register. When expired FMCG/Grocery products or damaged FMCG/Grocery products are returned to suppliers using purchase return document? Difference of VAT is automatically calculated by Acme’s Insight and posted in to VAT register for purchase return. Whenever customer return FMCG products for damaged packaging? Acme’s Insight automatically calculate VAT on sales return and post it in to VAT report on sales return.
• Bank reconciliation
  Bank reconciliation is one of the most tedious task for every Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner. Acme’s Insight software offers a feature by which bank reconciliation happens in lesser time. Kindly contact Acme’s office or Acme’s partners office to see how this feature helps business owner and save owners time.
• Interest calculation
  In Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business, supplier charge interest when bills are not paid in time. This feature calculate the interest being charged by the supplier. Many Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar keep FD’s with banks. Bank gives them interest. Interest received from the bank can be rechecked by Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar owner using this feature available in Acme’s Insight.
• View and print Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss and Trial Balance
  Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss, Trial Balance, Creditors, Debtors, etc. are the important documents that display health of retail business. These reports are available on click of mouse button. The best thing about Acme’s Insight is, Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner, accountant or staff does not have to have accounting knowledge to generate these reports. Acme’s Insight is developed in such a way that if Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner, accountant and staff enter every purchase bill, enter every receipt, every payment, sale every product, enter every payment + expenses, enter every sales or purchase return using Acme’s Insight! These reports will automatically be updated as soon as these entries are made in to Acme’s Insight.
• Create Daily / Monthly Series For Cash And Bank Vouchers
  This feature allows business owner to have series of cash & bank vouchers generated by the system. This feature is made available in the form settings.
• Export accounting data to Tally
  Many business owners in India still avail or prefer the services of CA or professional tax consultant. In India, many CA’s or professional tax consultant use Tally software tool in their office. Insight's export accounting data to Tally feature allows Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner to share accounting data with such tax professionals. Having said this, business Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner can also generate accounting reports like balance sheet, P&L statement, trial balance sheet, creditor’s list, debater’s list, etc. on his or her own. In addition, Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner can also print various business registers like sales register, purchase register, bank book, cashbook, creditors list, debtors list, receipts, expenses, payment, etc. on click of mouse button.
• Alerts & budgeting for suppliers
  Acme’s Insight offers alert for the payment due to various suppliers as well as payment to be received from consumers.

Sales return and purchase return, both the words, activities associated with these two words and task associated with these two words, no one likes it. They are unavoidable. Acme’s Insight offers some unique and value for money features namely:-

• Sales return in sales bill itself
  Acme’s Insight offers sales return in sales bill itself if sales return happens same day. Other wise, sales return by separate document is also available.
• Purchase return for expired items
  Acme’s Insight automatically create purchase return for the stocks that are expired and located in product racks as well as stocks arrived via sales return. Purchase return document is automatically created on respective suppliers.

Printed reports give an opportunity to Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner to work out various strategies on how to grow business. Printed reports (somehow) got more impact that is emotional on every Indian business owner than seeing the same report on computer monitor. Acme’s Insight provides some standard reports. In addition, Acme’s Insight also provide Report Writing module. Using this module, Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner or accountant or CA or tax consultant or staff can generate customized reports as per the need of business.

• Stock report
  Stock report item wise, category wise, bag (packing wise) wise, supplier wise, price group wise, etc. are available.
• Accounting Reports
  Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss, Trial Balance, Sales Register, Purchase Register, Bank Book, Cash Book, Expenses Book, Creditor’s Register, Debater’s Registers, General Ledger, etc.
• VAT report
  Acme’s Insight generates VAT reports namely VAT paid, VAT collected, VAT report on purchase return and VAT report on sales return. All these are crucial reports needed by the business.
• Print Date & Time on each report
  Acme’s Insight print date & time on each report so that trailing on each report becomes easy. This function is available in the form of settings.
• Expired grocery items & FMCG items supplier wise
  This report helps business owner to decide what to do with expired items. Keeping expired items in retail outlet can be danger, unhealthy and may be against FDA or Government laws and rules.

There are many things (task in hand) that happen before business starts and after business is closed. These activities (task in hand) fall under the category of back-office task. Listing down features of Acme’s Insight that falls under Back-office category namely:-

• Business Analysis and Intelligence
  Acme’s Insight got built-in dashboard UI (User Interface) module. This module display selected & important business data in the form of graphical charts. Graphical charts are more appealing in terms of understanding the data. E.g. Supplier wise sales, product sales, counter sales, salesperson wise sales, profitability of the business, etc. These reports are instantly available and they are updated as and when actual transaction happens in Insight like entering of purchase bill, selling products to customers, entering bill payment, giving payment to suppliers, entering expenses, etc.
• Multiple firms with single sales bill or with multiple sales bills
  Using this feature business owner can divide grocery business in multiple business firms so as to reduce tax burden & liability. The best thing about this feature is like this. Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner can print single sales bills for multiple companies or can print multiple sales bills for multiple firms. As soon as sales bill is saved & printed, Accounting effect to multiple firms is seamlessly handled by Acme’s Insight.
• Scheduler and task manager
  Acme’s Insight software offers this another useful feature. Using this feature, grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner can enter all other important business tasks like renewal of shop act license, payment for utility bills, payment for insurance premium, payment for mobile + land line + Internet, vehicle insurance premium, vehicle maintenance, etc. Acme’s Insight will send an alert text message on mobile phone owned by Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner.
• Security system
  Acme’s Insight software provides user based accessing and security system. By this system, Grocery alias Kirana Bhusar business owner can create one or more users within the system. These users can be defined as per the role of that user. e.g. Create sales bill user. This user will get access to all the features that are linked to sales bill. But this user will not get access to use accounting features, view or print reports, see business intelligence data, use purchase functions, etc.
• Automatic back-up of Insight
  Acme’s Insight offers this most important feature to every buyer of Insight. This feature automatically take back-up of data created & generated via Insight. Back-up data is stored in computer hard disk in day wise folders. Each folder is given day name like Monday, Tuesday, etc. Each customer is requested to copy daily back-up outside the computer. May be on pen drive or USB hard drive. But copying daily back-up out of computer is must. In India, power conditions (supply) are not healthy and consistent. Sudden spike in power supply can ruin the entire computer setup available in automobile spare part shop. This is must activity.