Notes from running dry cleaning software.
Pricing, GST, staff habits, garment tracking and the things that quietly cost a laundry money. Written by the people who build and install the system.
How to start a laundry or dry cleaning business in India: the complete guide
Every licence and registration you actually need — Shop Act, GST, Udyam, Pollution Control — the real investment range, staffing rules, and where software fits once the paperwork's done.
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The four places a dry cleaner quietly loses money.
Forgotten dues, untraceable garments, unrecorded expenses and services that look busy but earn nothing. What we see in the data from shops we've installed.
OPERATIONS · 8 MIN04 AUG 2026GST on laundry services: what to print on the invoice
Rate, HSN, inclusive versus exclusive pricing, and how to set it once in the catalog so staff never think about it again.
PRICING & GST · 6 MIN28 JUL 2026Offline or web: an honest way to decide
Three questions about branches, owners and internet that settle it in about a minute — including when the ₹10,000 build is genuinely enough.
SOFTWARE · 5 MIN19 JUL 2026Tagging garments so nothing gets lost in the plant
Colour, tag and item notes at the counter, and what a good tag slip should actually carry through washing and pressing.
OPERATIONS · 7 MIN08 JUL 2026Moving five years of registers into software in one weekend
The Excel templates we hand over, what's worth typing in, and what to leave in the old books.
GUIDES · 9 MIN30 JUN 2026Why we hand over the source code
Vendor lock-in is the real cost of cheap software. What handover means in practice, and what it doesn't.
SOFTWARE · 4 MINRather see the software than read about it?
The sandbox is open, the brochure is a click away, and a walkthrough takes twenty minutes.