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Kiwikit Knowledge Base & Guides

Practical guides for running a modern repair shop.

Proven workflows, downloadable templates, and operational advice written specifically for mobile and laptop repair business owners in India.

Job Cards
6 min read

Mobile Repair Job Card Format: Free Excel & PDF Structure Guide (2026)

A complete guide to what must be included on a professional repair job card — customer intake, IMEI verification, pattern locks, accessories checklist, and legal terms.

Software & Operations
7 min read

Mobile Shop Software in Excel: When Spreadsheets Work & Where They Fail

An honest look at using Excel or Google Sheets for repair counter management. Why spreadsheets work for solo technicians, and the 5 breaking points when your shop grows.

Buyer Advice
5 min read

Mobile Repair Shop Software Free Download: Crack Risks vs Cloud Trials

Looking for free repair shop software? Understand the security risks of cracked desktop downloads versus using a safe, zero-installation 3-day cloud trial.

Buyer Advice
5 min read

Job Card Software Free Download: What's Actually Free

An honest comparison of every 'free' option for tracking job cards — paper, Excel, cracked tools, crippled free tiers — and when each one is genuinely the right call.

Job Cards
6 min read

Laptop Repair Job Sheet Format: What to Record Before You Open the Chassis

A laptop job sheet isn't a phone job card with the fields renamed. Serial number, accessories checklist, and chassis condition — the structure that actually holds up at delivery.

Job Cards
5 min read

Watch Repair Job Card Format: What to Write Before You Open the Case

Battery jobs are quick, movement repairs are not, and both need a slip. Serial number, case and dial condition, what was handed over and the estimate — the format that holds up at delivery.

Job Cards
5 min read

Spectacle Order & Repair Slip Format for Optical Shops

Every pair that goes to the fitting bench needs a slip: frame, lens type, prescription reference, delivery date and advance. The format, and the three lines most slips forget.

Job Cards
6 min read

TV Repair Job Sheet Format for LED & Smart TV Service Centres

TV repairs wait on a diagnosis and a costly part. Model and serial number, panel condition, the remote and stand, and an estimate the customer approved — the job sheet for a TV bench.

Job Cards
5 min read

Printer Repair & Cartridge Refill Register Format

Refills come back every month and offices want a GST bill. Printer serial number, cartridges received, refill count and page test — the register a printer shop actually needs.

Job Cards
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Inverter Battery Warranty & Service Register Format

A battery comes back for a claim long after it was sold. Serial number, sale date, warranty months, test readings and claim status — the register that answers the counter at once.

Billing & Compliance
5 min read

GST Billing for Repair Shops: A Practical Walkthrough

Unregistered, Regular or Composition — and why splitting parts from labour on every invoice is the one habit that keeps a repair bill audit-ready.

Operations
6 min read

How to Manage a Mobile Repair Shop

The six things running a shop actually breaks into — intake, technicians, inventory, customers, billing, and knowing which repairs make money.

Operations
5 min read

Mobile Repair Shop Inventory Management

Why a drawer of spare parts isn't inventory, what to actually track, and the one habit — linking a used part to its job card — that keeps stock honest.

Operations
5 min read

How to Manage Mobile Repair Technicians

Assigning jobs fairly, and the number most shops never check — profit per technician after parts cost, not just repairs closed.

Operations
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Mobile Repair Shop Customer Management

Repeat customers, warranty follow-ups, and the 'is my phone ready?' calls that eat your counter time — what's actually worth tracking.

Registers & Compliance
6 min read

IMEI Register Format for Mobile Shops

The columns an IMEI register needs — IMEI 1 and 2, condition, accessories, seller ID, signature — and why police checks and warranty claims depend on it.

Billing & Payments
6 min read

How to Track Udhaar (Credit) in a Repair or Mobile Shop

Where the paper khata leaks money, what to write for every credit sale, and how to remind customers on WhatsApp without the awkwardness.

Software & Operations
7 min read

Move Your Shop's Customers and Purchases From Excel to Kiwikit

The exact columns Kiwikit's customer and purchase importers read, what gets checked before saving, what isn't imported, and the free migration.

Digital Transformation

Ready to stop writing paper registers?

Explore how Kiwikit helps hundreds of Indian repair counters eliminate manual notebook tracking with digital job cards, automated WhatsApp alerts, and thermal barcode labels.