Blog & guides
Guides for boutique and shop owners
Practical, simple advice on running a boutique, tailoring shop, readymade garment store or footwear shop in India. Written by the SmartBoutique team, from what shop owners ask us every day.
Running your boutique
How to manage a boutique business: a simple guide for Indian boutique owners
Orders, measurements, karigars, khata, stock and money: a practical guide to running a calmer, more profitable boutique in India.
Readymade & footwear
Barcode billing and stock control for clothing and footwear shops
How readymade garment and footwear shops can bill faster with barcodes, track stock by size and colour, and stop losing money to dead stock and counting errors.
Stitching & tailoring
The best way to keep customer measurements in your boutique
Stop losing measurement slips. How to take, write, store and reuse customer measurements for suits, blouses and lehengas, with fewer fitting mistakes.
Billing & GST
Boutique billing with GST: a plain-English guide
What a GST bill should show, CGST and SGST vs IGST, composition bills, advances, discounts and returns. General guidance for Indian boutiques, not tax advice.
Selling online
How to start selling your boutique's clothes online
A step-by-step plan for Indian boutiques to sell online: photos, prices, WhatsApp and Instagram, your own online store, payments, delivery and returns.
Stitching & tailoring
Managing karigars and stitching work without the daily chaos
How to assign stitching work clearly, track every piece, handle outside job work, check quality and pay karigars fairly in an Indian boutique.
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