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  <description>How DukaanKit is built: shop billing, the phone till, free tools and what goes wrong along the way. Written by the founder.</description>
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    <title>UPI and cash billing mistakes at a busy counter</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:00:00 +0530</pubDate>
    <description>How UPI bills get saved as cash, why a default button causes it, what we changed on the DukaanKit till, and five checks any shop owner can do.</description>
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    <category>Food counters</category>
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    <title>Server migration without downtime: moving a live shop</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:00:00 +0530</pubDate>
    <description>How I moved DukaanKit to a new server while the first shop was closed, the five problems a rehearsal found, and what I did not test.</description>
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    <category>Back-office</category>
    <category>Reliability</category>
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    <title>Swiggy Zomato commission calculator: a ₹500 order</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 10:30:00 +0530</pubDate>
    <description>A ₹500 online order, line by line: commission, GST on fees, gateway fee and your own discount. A worked example with our free calculator.</description>
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    <title>Billing software with audit trail: void, don't delete</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0530</pubDate>
    <description>Why a bill in DukaanKit POS is voided with a reason and never quietly deleted, what the owner sees on their phone, and what the record cannot do.</description>
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    <category>POS</category>
    <category>Back-office</category>
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    <title>Billing software security: I audited my own app first</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:00:00 +0530</pubDate>
    <description>Before showing DukaanKit to strangers, I audited our site, server and till apps against a 20-point checklist. What passed, what failed, what we fixed.</description>
    <category>Journey</category>
    <category>Security</category>
    <category>Building</category>
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    <title>Why we made free business tools for Indian shop owners</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:00:00 +0530</pubDate>
    <description>Our most visited pages sell nothing. Why DukaanKit has 16 free calculators and bill makers, what they do, and what they are honestly not.</description>
    <category>Product</category>
    <category>Free tools</category>
    <category>Journey</category>
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    <title>Why the staff PIN is moving to 4 digits</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:00:00 +0530</pubDate>
    <description>I forgot the PIN to my own billing app. That led to 4-digit staff PINs, stricter limits on guessing, and owner approval for every new phone.</description>
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    <category>Security</category>
    <category>Staff</category>
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    <title>A food counter's day on a KOT billing app</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:30:00 +0530</pubDate>
    <description>One day at a snack counter on DukaanKit POS. PIN in, picture tiles, bill and KOT, Swiggy and Zomato orders, and the four things we got wrong first.</description>
    <category>Product</category>
    <category>POS</category>
    <category>Food counters</category>
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    <title>A phone browser cannot use a Bluetooth thermal printer</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0530</pubDate>
    <description>Why we stopped building a web POS halfway and made an Android till instead. A web page on a phone cannot print a shop bill on most thermal printers.</description>
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    <category>Android till</category>
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