Switch from paper
The notebook has run your shop for years. It has also lost things for years.
Most watch repair shops run on a register, a phone camera, and memory. It works until it does not: a lost page, a disputed estimate, a tax notice, a customer who swears they were promised Friday. Here is exactly what changes when the same shop runs on Bench.
On paper
The job register is one notebook, and it is wherever the notebook is.
On Bench
Every job is a numbered card with a timestamped status trail, searchable from any device, forever.
On paper
GST is worked out by hand, and the CGST/SGST vs IGST split depends on who is doing the maths that day.
On Bench
Bench reads the customer's state and splits the tax correctly on every invoice, automatically.
On paper
A customer calls to ask about their watch, and someone walks to the back room to find out.
On Bench
Anyone at the counter answers in five seconds from the job card, with the full history in front of them.
On paper
Your authentication opinion is a verbal assurance or a photocopied letter.
On Bench
It is a branded certificate with a public verification page and a QR code your customer's buyer can scan.
The register page, replaced: one job, its whole story.
The hand-written bill, replaced: GST split computed from the customer's state.
Moving is smaller than it sounds.
- 1. Sign up free and load the sample data to see the shape of things. Two minutes.
- 2. Enter jobs as they come in. Do not migrate the old register; let it retire naturally.
- 3. Issue this week's invoices from Bench. The GST split is handled from day one.