Guides
The answers a calculator cannot settle.
The Workbench answers what a number can answer. These are the other questions — a catalogue blocked without a reason, a settlement that lands short, a parcel that comes back empty, a rate that is different in every shop on the road.
Festive photos for Karwa Chauth, Dhanteras and Diwali, on a model or on diyas and marigold, from one phone photo.
Business26 August 2026Starting Out: What a Jewellery Seller Decides FirstThe decisions a jewellery seller makes before the first listing exists — registrations, stock, what photographs cost, and what to read next.
Listing26 August 2026Getting Listed and Staying ListedWhy a marketplace blocked, flagged or buried a jewellery listing, and the order to fix it in.
Pricing26 August 2026The Money That Leaves After the SaleEverything between the order value and the bank credit: fees you can price, taxes that come back to you, recoveries you can dispute.
Pricing26 August 2026Metal, Purity and the BenchWhere a rate comes from, how purity is tested, which weight a percentage sits on, and the words a karigar uses.
Shoot26 August 2026Photographs of Your Own StockThe four faults the camera cards and the lightbox wizard do not cover: dark stones, the room behind you, colour that shifts, and where a phone stops.
Listing26 August 2026Meesho Rejected the Catalogue and Did Not Say WhyThe reason string Meesho shows is generic. Which of the four rejection families you are in, and the order to fix them in.
Business26 August 2026The Wrong Piece Came Back: Building a Claim That HoldsA return arrives with the wrong piece inside, or nothing at all. What the platform will look at, and the evidence that has to exist before you file.
Pricing26 August 2026Your Settlement Is Short: TCS, TDS and the Lines Nobody ExplainsThe order value and the bank credit do not agree. How to tell a fee from a tax from a recovery on one settlement report.
Business26 August 2026The Marketplace Festival Calendar: Enrolment, Parity and the Courier CutoffEnrolment windows, price parity and the last safe dispatch date — the platform's festival calendar, which is not the karigar's.
Business26 August 2026Packing a ₹3,000 Piece So the Claim Is WinnablePacking solves three problems at once: damage in transit, a weight dispute, and a return that arrives sealed and empty. Most sellers solve only the first.
Shoot26 August 2026It Looked Right on the Phone and Wrong on the ListingThe gold reads warm on one screen and pale on another. Three different things are happening after the shutter, and only one of them is your photo.
Pricing26 August 2026Wastage on Gross Weight: The Line That Bills Gold on StoneThe percentage looks reasonable. What it sits on — gross weight or net — is where the money moves on a stone-set piece.
The five sections
Starting Out: What a Jewellery Seller Decides First
The decisions a jewellery seller makes before the first listing exists — registrations, stock, what photographs cost, and what to read next.
Getting Listed and Staying Listed
Why a marketplace blocked, flagged or buried a jewellery listing, and the order to fix it in.
The Money That Leaves After the Sale
Everything between the order value and the bank credit: fees you can price, taxes that come back to you, recoveries you can dispute.
Metal, Purity and the Bench
Where a rate comes from, how purity is tested, which weight a percentage sits on, and the words a karigar uses.
- Wastage on Gross Weight: The Line That Bills Gold on Stone
- 3%, 5% or 18%: The Making-Charge Line Half the Internet Gets Wrong
- Kasauti, Karat Meter, Acid: How a Counter Really Tests Purity
- The Words on Your Karigar's Slip
- Who Actually Decides Today's Gold Rate
- The Words on an Indian Jewellery Bill
- Selling Gold That Carries No Hallmark
Photographs of Your Own Stock
The four faults the camera cards and the lightbox wizard do not cover: dark stones, the room behind you, colour that shifts, and where a phone stops.
What is here, and what is on the bench
A guide is written only where a calculator cannot finish the job. If the honest answer is a number, it lives on the tool that works the number out — which is free, needs no account, and is linked from inside the guide at the point you need it. If the answer is a judgement, a sequence or a piece of evidence, it is here.
That line is enforced rather than remembered: the build fails if a guide targets a question one of the 36 tool pages already answers.
How these are kept current
Every guide carries the month its figures were checked and the date it is next read again — twelve months for something that does not move, six for anything decided by a Budget or a GST Council meeting, three for a marketplace rule. When a figure changes it is corrected on the guide, on the tool page that answers the same question, and in llms.txt, in one commit.
No guide prints a live gold, silver or diamond rate. The tools refuse to fetch or guess a rate, and a page that printed one would be wrong by the afternoon.