At night, she presses to configure a simple invoice and prints a neat bill for her customers.
"It’s like a map of my shop!" she gasped.
Meera’s eyes widened. On the right side (Liabilities), it showed: Sharma Traders: ₹2,000 (This is a debt she owes). On the left side (Assets), it showed her stock of sugar.
Now, Meera doesn’t use a notebook. Every morning, she opens Tally Prime (shortcut: double-click the icon → Select her company → Press Enter ). She records sales with F4 and purchases with F9 .
Every evening, she scribbled sales in a tattered notebook. "Sold ₹2,000 of samosas. Bought ₹5,000 of sugar." But at the end of the month, the numbers never matched. Her cousin, Arjun, a college student, visited one day.
Meera ran a small sweets shop, "Meera’s Mithai." She made delicious gulab jamuns and rasgullas , but she had one big problem: she didn’t know if she was actually making money.
Just then, a customer bought 10 ladoos for ₹500 cash.
"Meera," he said, "you need Tally Prime. Think of it as a digital khaata (ledger) that never makes mistakes."
The next day, Meera bought ₹2,000 of sugar from Sharma Traders on credit (meaning she’ll pay later).
"Tally works on a simple rule," Arjun explained. "Every time you touch money, you must tell it where the money came from and where it went to ."
