Job-work parts, dealer orders and hostel rent for Aligarh’s lock makers and the AMU trade.
Aligarh’s economy centres on locks and hardware made through job work, and on the student trade around AMU. Casting, levers, keys and plating are done by different old-city workshops, assembled in Talanagri and sold to dealers across India on credit. Records sit in notebooks and Tally. Software for both trades is built in Nagarbhavi, west Bengaluru.
Locks are made across Aligarh’s old city in small family workshops, each doing one step such as casting, pressing, polishing, plating or key cutting. Larger units in the Talanagri industrial area assemble and pack them under their own brands. One lock can pass through five workshops. Hinges, handles, brass fittings and builders’ hardware come from the same streets.
Aligarh Muslim University shapes the other half of the town, with hostels, PGs, coaching centres and bookshops around the campus and on Marris Road. Railway Road and Centre Point carry retail, clinics and professional firms serving the district.
The areas, estates and markets that matter in Aligarh.
How Aligarh businesses pick and use software.
A finished lock needs a body, levers, a shackle and a set of keys, each made by a different workshop. Software for lock makers has to hold that bill of material and the job workers behind it, so a dealer order can be checked against the parts actually available. Systems that treat a lock as a single item do not fit.
Many units are family firms, with one member handling dealers and another the workshops. Tally can stay as the accountant’s book of record. Orders, parts and dispatch sit alongside it.
Where Aligarh businesses lose time and money.
Parts held by platers are not visible
A dealer order can be ready except for plated shackles still with a job worker in another part of the city. That is discovered on packing day. A parts-pending view shows it earlier.
Dealers order from photographs
A lock maker with hundreds of models sends WhatsApp photos to dealers, who then order by model number. Mismatches lead to wrong items and returns. A catalogue with prices removes the guesswork.
Hostel rent records are kept in registers
A PG near AMU collects rent, mess charges and deposits from students who come and go by semester. The owner reconciles these in a register every month. Occupancy changes each semester.
What we would build for Aligarh businesses.
Usually in this order, starting with whatever the audit ranks first.
ERP, CRM and Business Software Implementation
One record of stock, orders, customers and accounts, set up so your team opens it every day.
Learn moreBusiness Process Automation
Approvals, reminders, follow-ups and reports that run on their own instead of on someone remembering.
Learn moreWeb and Mobile Application Development
Web and mobile apps for customers, field staff and dealers, built to work on ordinary phones.
Learn moreE-Commerce and Digital Commerce
An online store or B2B order portal wired to your stock, billing and dispatch.
Learn moreA product already built for Aligarh businesses.
It is adapted to how your business works before it goes live, and anything your trade needs that it lacks is added then.
Paying Guest Management System
Bed-level occupancy, rent and food billing, deposits and tenant documents for PG owners, set up around your blocks and sharing rates.
How the work runs from Bengaluru for Aligarh.
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The audit, by call
A screen-share and a look at the sheets, accounting reports and WhatsApp groups your team uses. No travel needed.
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A written proposal
Scope, what we build first and the cost, agreed in writing before anything starts.
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Build in short rounds
Working screens shared every few weeks. Your team tests them from your own office.
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Go-live, in person when it helps
For data migration and training we can come to Aligarh. Travel is agreed in advance.
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Support online
Fixes, changes and hosting handled remotely by the same team that built it.
The work we have published.
We don’t claim Aligarh clients we don’t have. These are systems our team built; the way we work is the same wherever you are.
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Read the case study Paying guest accommodationSAM Atithi Pavathi: bed-level occupancy as the source of truth
PG management software where allocation, rates and invoices are derived from bed-level occupancy and not maintained in parallel spreadsheets.
Read the case study School transport servicesSAM Tours: school transport on a single ledger
Registration, fee collection, routing and finance write to the same records, closing the gap between journeys run and fees collected.
Read the case study Microfinance and Self Help GroupsVikasa RDO: making SHG loan recovery auditable
Loan proposals, recoveries and commissions sit on one record, with a person attached to every state change, so a business handling a bank’s money can show where each rupee went.
Read the case studyQuestions Aligarh owners ask before they call.
Can the software handle a lock’s parts and the job workers who make them?
Yes. A bill of material is set up for each model. Parts issued to and received from each job worker are tracked, so the assemblies that can be completed today are visible. The person who does the rounds can update it from a phone.
Can dealers order from a catalogue on their phone?
Yes. A dealer order app carries models, photographs and prices, and each dealer sees their own rates and outstanding balance. Orders come into the system instead of WhatsApp. Which models go in first is settled with you at the start.
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.
Industries we build for in Aligarh.
Tell us what your Aligarh 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
- A senior engineer reads your answers. Nobody phones first.
- Within one business day you get a written note: what we understood, what we would start with, and the questions we still have.
- If it fits, a proposal follows with the order of work, what we need from you and what you receive at each step.
- 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