Margins vanish between buying and selling
A supplier's price rises, a customer's price does not, and nobody notices until the quarter's profit is low.
Trading & distribution
Trading & Distribution
Run the buy-hold-sell cycle of a trading house: purchase orders, store-wise stock, sales orders, delivery challans, invoices and collections on one set of books.
eSolverBooks / Sales / Sales orders
One connected workflow
See the complete operational and financial picture
A trading or distribution business earns on the spread between what it buys and what it sells, and loses it in the gaps: a price quoted from memory, stock promised twice, a delivery that was never invoiced, a customer balance nobody chased. eSolverBooks follows the goods from supplier order to customer payment, with price lists, delivery challans and aging reports tying the commercial side to the accounts.
The everyday problem
Where businesses like yours lose time and money
Double-promised stock
Two salespeople commit the same goods to two customers because nothing shows what is already allocated.
Deliveries without invoices
Goods leave the warehouse on a challan and the invoice is raised later, or not at all. Revenue and stock drift apart.
Credit and payables collide
Customers pay late while suppliers expect payment on time. Without aging on both sides, cash planning is guesswork.
Core capabilities
Everything the workflow needs to stay connected
Purchase to receipt
Raise requisitions and purchase orders, then receive goods against the order into the right store and rack.
Customer price lists
Hold agreed rates per customer or customer group so every invoice uses the price you promised.
Sales orders and challans
Confirm orders, deliver against a challan and let stock leave the store on delivery, not on paper.
Two stores and racks
Hold stock in more than one store with rack and bin locations, and sell from the store you choose.
Receivable and payable aging
See who owes you and whom you owe by age bucket, with statements ready for follow-up calls.
Supplier payments
Record bills, deduct VDS or TDS where it applies and pay suppliers with the gross, deduction and net kept together.
How it works
A clear path from setup to reporting
Buy
Order from the supplier, receive the goods into the store, and match the supplier bill to the receipt.
Sell and deliver
Quote, confirm the sales order, deliver with a challan and invoice at the customer's agreed price.
Collect and pay
Apply receipts, chase overdue balances, settle supplier bills and read profit and stock reports.
Business outcomes
Turn connected records into practical control
Agreed prices applied every time
Stock that leaves on delivery, matched to invoices
Clear customer and supplier balances
A margin view by item and customer
Compliance
VAT and withholding for traders
Traders buy and sell in volume with VAT on both sides, so organised tax records matter.
- VAT on purchases and sales is recorded per transaction; the standard rate is 15%.
- Mushak-6.3 challans and the NBR purchase and sales registers come from the same records.
- VDS and TDS on supplier payments are recorded when you pay, with gross, deduction and net together.
- The Mushak-9.1 monthly return, due by the 15th of the following month, is prepared from your transactions.
Day one
What you can do on your first day
- 1Import customers and suppliers, with opening balances.
- 2Create items with purchase and selling prices and VAT profiles.
- 3Set up your store and, on Professional, a second store with racks.
- 4Raise a purchase order and receive against it.
- 5Create a sales order, deliver with a challan and invoice.
- 6Record a customer receipt and a supplier payment.
- 7Read the AR and AP aging reports.
Questions
Common questions about Trading & Distribution
Which plan suits a trading business?
Professional is built for growing SMEs and distributors. It adds sales orders, delivery challans, purchase requisitions and orders, a second store with racks and bank reconciliation on top of Starter.
Can stock be reserved for a confirmed order?
Yes, on the Enterprise plan: stock can be reserved for confirmed sales orders so it is not promised twice.
Do you support customer-specific prices?
Yes. Customer price lists are on every plan.
Can I see what I owe suppliers and what customers owe me?
Yes. Accounts receivable and accounts payable aging reports are included on every plan.
Can I reconcile my bank account?
Bank reconciliation, with statement and MFS import, is available on Professional and Enterprise.
How many users are included?
Starter 2, Professional 5 and Enterprise 10. Additional users cost 200, 150 and 100 taka per user per month respectively.
Guides worth reading
- Mushak 6.3: when you must issue one, and what goes wrong
- Chart of accounts for a trading business in Bangladesh
- Credit control for Bangladeshi businesses: aging, collections and credit limits
- Month-end close for a trading business: a 10-step checklist
- Post-dated cheques (PDC) and bounced cheques: how to track and account for them
Get started
Build this workflow around your business
Discuss your current process, data, team, and reporting requirements with eSolverBooks.