India has about 12 million kirana stores — small neighbourhood shops that sell everything from rice to shampoo. Most of them still track bills on paper and manage customer credit in handwritten notebooks.
The tools that exist are built for people who are comfortable with apps. These shopkeepers aren't that. They're busy, their hands are usually full, and they don't want to learn a new interface.
ShopEZ starts with the camera. Point at products, the bill builds itself.
The first thing a shopkeeper sees is the splash — "Point. Scan. Bill." Three words that tell them exactly what this app does. No feature tour, no 5-step onboarding carousel. Just the value, immediately.
The welcome screen uses language they actually use. "Khata" is Hindi for ledger — every shopkeeper knows what that means. "No more paper khata" lands differently than "digitalise your billing workflow."
The home dashboard shows what matters: today's sales, how much credit is outstanding, and which items are running low. The shopkeeper gets a complete picture of their business in one glance.
This is the core of the app. The shopkeeper points their phone at the products sitting on the counter. The AI model identifies each one — Tata Salt, Aashirvaad Atta, Parle-G — and shows how confident it is. 95%, 88%, 100%.
The whole point is that the shopkeeper's hands are busy. They're handling products, making change, talking to customers. The camera does the work. They just confirm.
The billing flow has four steps: scan, review, pick a customer, and settle.
After scanning, the shopkeeper reviews what the AI detected. They can fix quantities, remove wrong items, or add something the camera missed. "Scan More" takes them back to the camera without losing anything.
Then they pick a customer. For a regular who buys on credit, they search by name. For a quick cash sale, they tap "Walk-in Customer" and skip straight to payment. The bill total carries across every screen so there's never a "did my data transfer?" moment.
Settlement offers three options: cash, UPI, or credit (added to the customer's tab). A typical 5-item bill takes under 30 seconds from scan to done.
The AI isn't a black box. Every item it detects goes through the shopkeeper before it becomes a bill.
This was a deliberate design choice. The confidence scores on the camera screen show the shopkeeper how sure the model is. The review screen lets them fix anything that's wrong. And the "Add manually" button handles the edge cases — loose items, products behind the counter, things the camera can't see.