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.
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.