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ShilaTeq

vs Excel & WhatsApp

You already built a system. It just has no rules.

If your yard runs on a spreadsheet, someone smart built it — usually a son, a daughter, or a sharp supervisor who saw the register's limits and did something about it. That instinct was right. And WhatsApp already holds your photos, your negotiations, your relationships — we like WhatsApp so much we built on it.

The problem isn't the sheet. It's that a sheet has no rules — and a stone yard needs rules.

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A clever first system — with no rules.

Inventory

  • QR block identity

    Scan any stone to pull its full record — even without logging in.

    Excel

    Manual

    A row isn't a block.

    StoneX

    Included

    A permanent QR identity, minted at intake.

    StoneX advantage

  • Find any block

    Stop losing sales while a buyer waits on the phone.

    Excel

    Partial

    Ctrl-F — if the sheet is current.

    StoneX

    Included

    Typo-tolerant search + scan, from any phone.

    StoneX advantage

  • Cutting recovery & remnants

    Know the true yield of every gangsaw cut.

    Excel

    Manual

    Edit three cells — or forget to.

    StoneX

    Included

    Recovery %, wastage, auto remnant, cut ledger.

    StoneX advantage

  • Aging & carrying cost

    Surface dead capital before it silently drains cash.

    Excel

    Partial

    A date column, if it's maintained.

    StoneX

    Included

    Fresh / amber / red aging + carrying-cost alerts.

    StoneX advantage

Sales & Money

  • Stop double-selling

    The same block can never be promised to two buyers.

    Excel

    Manual

    Cells don't reserve stone.

    StoneX

    Included

    Atomic reservation; reserved stock disappears.

    StoneX advantage

  • True margin after wastage

    Never sell a slab below its real cost by accident.

    Excel

    Partial

    Only as good as your formulas.

    StoneX

    Included

    Sale-time COGS from wastage-adjusted cost.

    StoneX advantage

  • GST invoicing

    Compliance becomes a tap, not a month-end deadline.

    Excel

    Manual

    A template you maintain.

    StoneX

    Included

    One tap: CGST/SGST/IGST, HSN 6802, ₹ in words.

    StoneX advantage

  • Payment gate

    Nothing leaves the yard until a payment is confirmed.

    Excel

    Manual

    Nothing enforces the rule.

    StoneX

    Included

    No confirmed payment, nothing dispatches.

    StoneX advantage

  • Statutory books & filing

    Keep your accountant's system — and feed it the truth.

    Excel

    Manual

    A sheet isn't statutory books.

    StoneX

    Partial

    Exports clean numbers to it — isn't a books system.

    StoneX advantage

Floor & People

  • Works offline on the floor

    A dropped signal never stalls a cut or a delivery.

    Excel

    Manual

    The sheet's on someone's laptop.

    StoneX

    Included

    The worker app logs work offline, syncs later.

    StoneX advantage

  • Worker app — Hindi & payroll

    The shop floor actually adopts it — that's where software dies.

    Excel

    Manual

    The cutter won't edit a spreadsheet.

    StoneX

    Included

    Bilingual EN/हिंदी app; attendance, wages, advances.

    StoneX advantage

  • Dispatch & delivery tracking

    Goods leave and arrive on the record, not on trust.

    Excel

    Manual

    A row, maybe.

    StoneX

    Included

    Gate pass + tracking QR; driver app; public link.

    StoneX advantage

Growth

  • Showroom, leads & customers

    Turn web visitors into quote requests — without building a website.

    Excel

    Manual

    No shopfront.

    StoneX

    Included

    Per-yard 3D showroom, price-gated, leads inbox.

    StoneX advantage

  • Reports & analytics

    Run the business on evidence instead of memory.

    Excel

    Partial

    Pivot tables, if you build them.

    StoneX

    Included

    Dashboard KPIs + P&L, profitability, receivables.

    StoneX advantage

  • Multi-branch rollups

    A consolidated group view across several locations.

    Excel

    Partial

    Link workbooks by hand.

    Excel wins here

    StoneX

    Planned

    One yard per account today; rollups on the roadmap.

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Honest concession

Where Excel sheets honestly wins

  • Infinitely flexible — becomes anything, instantly.
  • Free-ish, familiar, and psychologically yours.
  • Genuinely strong at ad-hoc analysis and pivots.

The honest trade-offs

  • You give up the sheet's infinite flexibility.

    ShilaTeq is opinionated where the trade needs discipline. Everything still exports to Excel whenever you want to slice numbers your own way.

  • The sheet's author needs a new role.

    Whoever built your spreadsheet becomes the person who runs ShilaTeq best — the instinct that built the sheet is exactly what the system rewards.

The system you built in Excel — with rules, so it can't lie to you.

Asked honestly, answered honestly

Can I get my data out to Excel?

Always. Stock, orders, reports — everything exports to Excel and CSV, hardened so ₹ symbols and formulas survive. Nothing is trapped; leaving is easy, which is why staying has to be earned.

Do I stop using WhatsApp?

No — you use it better. ShilaTeq composes the quote, the invoice message, the dispatch-tracking link, and the payment reminder; you tap send. The conversation stays in WhatsApp, where your customers already are.

What happens to my existing sheet data?

Your stock gets tagged into the system (new arrivals tag themselves via purchase orders; onboarding includes help with the first fifty blocks). The sheet retires with honour as a backup.

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