Product Summary

The executive close: what ShilaTeq is, who it serves, the impact it delivers, and where it's headed — a leave-behind for stakeholders, investors, and decision-makers.

📋 Product Overview

ShilaTeq is the operating system for stone yards — a mobile-first, multi-tenant ERP purpose-built for the businesses that quarry, cut, and trade dimensional stone. It gives every stone block a permanent, QR-coded digital identity the moment it arrives, and from there runs the entire business: procurement, cutting, quotations, orders, GST invoices, dispatch, payments, payroll, and a public 3D showroom that turns web visitors into leads.

Unlike paper registers, spreadsheets, or generic accounting software, ShilaTeq is engineered for the physics and economics of stone — volumetric pricing, cutting recovery and wastage, block-and-slab lifecycles, carrying cost, and Indian GST — and for the reality of the shop floor: cheap Android phones, patchy connectivity, and a low-literacy, Hindi-speaking workforce. It works on any phone, in English or Hindi, and keeps working when the internet doesn't.

ShilaTeq is a live production platform that has evolved well beyond its original MVP scope. It is India-native by design — rupee currency, GST (CGST/SGST/IGST), HSN 6802, and WhatsApp as the messaging layer are all first-class.

In one line: ShilaTeq lets a yard owner run a multi-crore business on evidence instead of memory — seeing exactly what they own, what it cost, who owes them, and what it's worth.

👥 Target Audience

ShilaTeq is built for the people who touch a stone yard every day, and sold to the owner who runs it.

Audience	Who they are	Why ShilaTeq matters to them
Yard Owners / Admins	Family-run stone-yard proprietors	Full, real-time visibility of stock, cash, margin, and staff in one place
Supervisors / Managers	The operational drivers of the yard	One connected flow for quotes, orders, payments, and dispatch
Shop-floor Workers / Cutters	Phone-only, low-literacy, Hindi-first	Simple, offline, bilingual screens to log real work and see their pay
Drivers	Workers assigned to deliveries	A focused view of just their deliveries, with clear next steps
Prospective Buyers	Web visitors browsing for stone	An always-on 3D showroom and a one-tap path to request a quote

Market fit: small-to-mid, family-run stone yards, processors, and traders across India's stone belts — Rajasthan and Gujarat especially — with natural adjacency to tiles, engineered stone, and export processors. 💡 Inferred: the addressable market spans thousands of such yards, most running on near-zero software today.

See User Roles for the complete permissions matrix.

🧩 Core Modules

ShilaTeq is organised into a set of connected business modules. Each is documented in full in Modules.

📦 Inventory & Identity — QR-coded blocks and slabs, tagging, aging, carrying cost, typo-tolerant search.
🪚 Manufacturing — the partial-cut engine: recovery %, wastage, remnants, and an immutable cut ledger.
🛒 Sales — leads, quotations, orders with credit gates and atomic reservation, and returns/RMA.
🚚 Procurement — suppliers, purchase orders, receive-to-blocks intake, and payables.
💰 Finance — payments, store-credit ledger, credit limits, unified ledger, expenses, and GST invoices.
👷 Workforce — worker provisioning, attendance with wage snapshots, payroll, advances, and piece-rate cutting.
🧾 Logistics — dispatch, gate passes, driver deliveries, public tracking, and delivery-to-sold reconciliation.
🖥️ Public Showroom — the per-yard 3D catalog with price gating and lead capture.
📊 Reporting & BI — dashboard KPIs, five-tab analytics, and multi-format exports.

⭐ Major Features

A snapshot of the signature capabilities — the full catalog lives in Features.

Feature	Why it stands out
QR digital identity	Every block findable in seconds from any phone; camera QR scanning built in
Partial-cut engine	Recovery %, wastage, remnant blocks, and recovery-adjusted slab costing — yield that no paper ledger captures
Offline-first worker app	An outbox that queues shop-floor work with no signal and syncs safely, never double-counting
Public 3D showroom	A WebGL catalog per yard that gracefully degrades and doubles as a lead funnel
Bilingual EN/हिंदी UX	Icon- and number-first screens designed for a low-literacy workforce
India-native commerce	GST splits, HSN codes, rupee amounts in words, one-tap invoices and gate passes
Financial depth	Store credit, credit-limit gates, receivables aging, DSO, and sale-time COGS snapshots
WhatsApp messaging	Zero-setup deep links for quotes, invoices, dispatch, lead replies, and payment reminders
Live sync + realtime	Multi-tenant isolation with event-driven refresh so every screen stays current
Zero-infra demo mode	The whole product runs in a browser with realistic data — instant demos, no setup

📈 Business Impact

ShilaTeq is designed to move the numbers a yard owner actually cares about. The mechanisms below are ✅ Confirmed capabilities; the magnitudes are 💡 Inferred / illustrative.

Business outcome	How ShilaTeq drives it	Confidence
Faster quotes, recovered labour	Find any block in seconds instead of hours via QR + typo-tolerant search	✅ Mechanism / 💡 magnitude
Protected margin	Recovery-adjusted costing + sale-time COGS make wastage and true cost visible	✅ Mechanism / 💡 magnitude
Less dead capital	Aging buckets and carrying-cost alerts surface slow movers early	✅ Mechanism / 💡 magnitude
Lower credit losses	Credit-limit gates, payment gating, and a store-credit ledger contain exposure	✅ Mechanism / 💡 magnitude
More inbound demand	An always-on public showroom converts web visitors into leads	✅ Mechanism / 💡 magnitude
Compliance made easy	One-tap GST invoices and gate passes reduce clerical time and error	✅ Mechanism / 💡 magnitude
Reliable shop-floor throughput	Offline-first, bilingual worker app keeps work flowing without signal or literacy barriers	✅ Mechanism / 💡 magnitude

💡 Note on figures: ShilaTeq's documentation deliberately avoids inventing specific ROI percentages or price points. The capabilities that produce these outcomes are confirmed in the product; the size of the gain will vary by yard. See Reports & Analytics for the metrics ShilaTeq surfaces to quantify impact in each yard's own numbers.

🎁 Customer Benefits

For the people who use it every day, ShilaTeq delivers benefits that are felt immediately:

For owners — a single screen that tells the truth about stock, cash, margin, and staff; the end of running a high-value business from memory and paper.
For supervisors — one connected flow instead of scattered ledgers, WhatsApp threads, and mental math; quotes to dispatch without leaving the app.
For workers — screens they can actually use, in their language, that keep working offline and let them see their own earnings and request advances.
For drivers — a focused, unambiguous view of just their deliveries.
For buyers — a real online presence to browse, and a frictionless way to ask for a price.

💡 Tip for evaluators: the fastest way to feel the benefit is the built-in demo mode — the full product, realistic data, zero setup. See the Product Overview for a guided walkthrough.

🏆 Why Organizations Should Choose ShilaTeq

ShilaTeq wins on the things a horizontal ERP or a spreadsheet simply cannot match:

Domain depth that can't be faked. ShilaTeq models the stone itself — blocks, cutting, slabs, remnants, recovery, carrying cost — not a generic product. This is the hardest capability for any general-purpose tool to replicate.
Built for the real environment. Offline-first, mobile-first, and bilingual by design — engineered for spotty yard Wi-Fi, cheap Android phones, and a Hindi-speaking workforce, not a clean office.
Financial integrity end to end. Payment gating, credit limits, store-credit ledgers, payment caps, and honest COGS snapshots protect the yard's money at every step — and refuse to fabricate a margin when cost is unknown.
India-native, not localised as an afterthought. GST logic, HSN codes, rupee amounts in words, and WhatsApp messaging are core, not add-ons.
A growth engine, not just a system of record. The public 3D showroom turns the platform into a lead funnel every yard gets for free.
Honest and transparent. ShilaTeq is candid about its boundaries — manual payment recording, WhatsApp-based messaging, web-first (PWA-installable) delivery — so buyers know exactly what they're getting. See Product Opportunities for the honest roadmap.

The strategic case: ShilaTeq is the first platform to treat the stone yard as a first-class business to be run, not a generic warehouse to be inventoried. For the full competitive breakdown, see Product Strengths.

🔮 Future Vision

ShilaTeq's north star is to become the operating system for the entire dimensional-stone trade — the single source of truth for every block, cut, rupee, and customer across India's stone economy and beyond. Building toward that, the natural horizons include: 💡 Inferred / directional

Deeper financial rails — an integrated online payment gateway to complement today's manual recording, and richer receivables automation.
A native mobile experience — extending the installable, offline-capable web app toward first-class native apps for the shop floor.
Broader reach across the value chain — from quarry-side intake through export processors, tiles, and engineered stone.
Multi-yard and group rollups — richer org-level consolidation for owners running more than one yard.
Stronger notification channels — email and richer messaging alongside the existing WhatsApp and in-app layers.
Deeper intelligence — turning the platform's rich operational data into predictive insight on aging, pricing, and demand.

Each of these builds on a foundation already in production. The vision isn't a pivot — it's the same mission, extended: give every stone block a permanent digital identity, and let every yard run its entire business from any phone, even offline, in its own language.

The closing thought: the stone trade has waited a long time for software that understands it. ShilaTeq is that software — live today, honest about its edges, and pointed squarely at becoming the industry's default operating system.

Part of the ShilaTeq Product Documentation Hub — the operating system for stone yards. Return to the Documentation Hub.