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Sambalpur’s master weavers keep yarn, advances and sarees in separate notebooks.

Sambalpur has ikat weavers and traders, rice mills in the Hirakud command area and the shops of Golebazar. Yarn stock, weaver advances and sales are kept in notebooks, Tally and WhatsApp. GullySystem designs weaver tracking, stock, online store and billing systems for these businesses in west Bengaluru, at Nagarbhavi. One saree can be listed in two places.

At a glance

Sambalpuri sarees are woven in villages across Sambalpur, Bargarh and Sonepur, and master weavers and traders in town buy yarn, give it out with advances and collect the sarees. Sales are through dealers, emporia, exhibitions and online.

Golebazar and the town’s markets serve families from Jharsuguda, Deogarh and Bargarh. Burla holds the medical college and hospitals, and the Hirakud command area feeds rice mills and warehouses around the town.

Around Sambalpur

The areas, estates and markets that matter in Sambalpur.

The ikat weaving villages and master weavers

Weavers in Sambalpur and Bargarh districts working for master weavers and traders, mostly to a design and yarn count the trader chose. Yarn issued, designs, advances and sarees received are the core records.

Golebazar

Cloth, grocery and general wholesale and retail trade for western Odisha. Credit to district shops is tracked in ledgers.

Burla and the medical college area

Hospitals, clinics, diagnostic labs and pharmacies serving western Odisha. Patient registers and pharmacy stock make up the daily records.

The Hirakud command area mills

Rice mills and warehouses buying paddy from irrigated farms. Paddy receipts, milling and custom milling accounts are kept by hand.

How software gets chosen

How Sambalpur businesses pick and use software.

Weaving businesses in Sambalpur are typically family-run. Terms such as advance, yarn issue and dealer credit are used in the system as the trade uses them. A new system is reviewed against existing practice before anything changes.

Sambalpuri is spoken in the villages and at the looms. Some weavers have not used an app. A workable design runs through a coordinator’s phone rather than asking every weaver to log in.

Where it breaks

Where Sambalpur businesses lose time and money.

Yarn held at each weaver’s house is not recorded

Yarn goes out in small lots with each design, and without a record per weaver, the trader cannot see what is being woven. Each lot needs a design, weight and date.

Online and exhibition stock sit in separate lists

Handloom traders selling at exhibitions, to dealers and online keep stock in separate lists, so one saree can appear in all three and be promised to two buyers. One shared list shows what is still available.

Custom milling rice and own stock share one register

Mills around Hirakud take paddy under the state’s custom milling scheme and also buy on their own account. Rice owed back and the mill’s own stock are kept in one register. Reconciliation takes longer as a result.

How it works

How the work runs from Bengaluru for Sambalpur.

  1. 1

    The audit, by call

    A screen-share and a look at the sheets, accounting reports and WhatsApp groups your team uses. No travel needed.

  2. 2

    A written proposal

    Scope, what we build first and the cost, agreed in writing before anything starts.

  3. 3

    Build in short rounds

    Working screens shared every few weeks. Your team tests them from your own office.

  4. 4

    Go-live, in person when it helps

    For data migration and training we can come to Sambalpur. Travel is agreed in advance.

  5. 5

    Support online

    Fixes, changes and hosting handled remotely by the same team that built it.

Common questions

Questions Sambalpur owners ask before they call.

Can a Sambalpuri saree trader track each weaver’s yarn and advance?

Yes. Each weaver has a record of yarn given, design, advance paid and sarees returned, and a coordinator can enter it from a phone in the village. The trader sees every balance in town.

Can online and exhibition sales share one saree stock?

Yes. Every saree gets a code and a photo, and stock updates wherever it is sold. When a piece is sold at an exhibition, it is removed from the online store.

What happens after I share my requirements?

An engineer reads what you send and replies within one business day. We then look at the software, spreadsheets and WhatsApp groups your business runs on today and write down what works, what slows your team down and what is missing. A demo login, a screen-share or a few screenshots are enough. You get a short written summary ordered by priority, with no obligation to hire us afterwards.

How much will the software cost?

We don’t publish a price, because it depends on what the system has to do. That first review settles the scope, and the cost goes into a written proposal before any work starts.

Talk to us

Tell us what your Sambalpur business runs on today.

Send a short note on the spreadsheets, software or WhatsApp groups your team depends on. We reply the same working day.

What happens after you share your requirements

  1. A senior engineer reads your answers. Nobody phones first.
  2. Within one business day you get a written note: what we understood, what we would start with, and the questions we still have.
  3. If it fits, a proposal follows with the order of work, what we need from you and what you receive at each step.
  4. No call is booked and nothing is paid until you have read the note. Your details stay with us.

Start with your requirements

Seven short steps that tell us what you need. A senior engineer reads them before anyone gets in touch.

Share your requirements