THE NIZAM HANDBOOK
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From your first invoice to the last check of the day.
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FIND YOUR WAY
What are you working on?
10 guides
Getting started
Install Nizam, create your company and prepare for the first working day.
12 guides
Sales & purchases
Create, price, find, correct and print your invoices.
11 guides
Items & stock
Set up your catalog and understand quantities, costs and stock history.
6 guides
Parties & balances
Keep customer and supplier accounts, opening balances and statements.
13 guides
Cash, bank & expenses
Record receipts, payments, transfers and business expenses.
23 guides
Claims & scrap
Receive batteries, settle customers, recover from suppliers and sell scrap.
24 guides
Reports & accounting
Read business reports, export records and use advanced accounting.
5 guides
Team & permissions
Invite staff, assign access and work across PCs.
8 guides
Backups, sync & updates
Protect company records, use cloud sync and manage your installation.
22 guides
Troubleshooting
Resolve common problems and understand current limitations.
A GOOD PLACE TO START
The everyday essentials.
Short, practical guides for the things you will use most often.
Your first-day checklistSet up Nizam for your first working dayA practical order for setting up an existing battery business without counting old transactions twice.Create a sale invoiceRecord a customer sale with the correct model, quantity and net price.Receive a customer payment in cashRecord money received against a party’s balance.Check available stock before sellingFind the current saleable quantity for a model.Read the Profit & Loss reportSeparate sales margin from other income, expenses and net profit.Receive a defective battery from a customerCreate a traceable claim before deciding on a replacement or refund.
THE COMPLETE DIRECTORY
Every guide, in one place.
Getting started10 guides+
- Set up Nizam for your first working day
- Install Nizam on a Windows PC
- Create your account and first company
- Sign in to an existing company
- Verify your email or request another code
- Add your company logo and invoice details
- Set invoice and stock defaults
- Switch between companies
- Create another company under your account
- View plans and request a license or renewal
Sales & purchases12 guides+
- Create a sale invoice
- Record a purchase from a supplier
- Calculate a battery invoice discount
- Use an agreed net rate instead of the formula
- Edit or remove an item before saving
- Find an invoice by customer, number or item
- Correct a saved sale or purchase invoice
- Cancel an incorrect sale or purchase invoice
- Record a sale on credit and collect it later
- Print an invoice or export a copy
- Print a gate pass for dispatched batteries
- Enter or correct a transaction date
Items & stock11 guides+
- Create a battery brand
- Change a brand’s default discount
- Add a battery model with opening stock
- Enter stock you already own when starting Nizam
- Change item details or catalog prices
- Check available stock before selling
- Filter and export the stock summary
- Trace why an item’s quantity changed
- Understand stock value and weighted-average cost
- Allow a sale when stock has run out
- Update a model’s retail price safely
Parties & balances6 guides+
Cash, bank & expenses13 guides+
- Add a bank account with its starting balance
- Receive a customer payment in cash
- Record a customer receipt into a bank
- Pay a supplier from cash or bank
- Transfer money between cash and bank accounts
- Correct a receipt, payment or transfer
- Reverse a wrongly recorded money movement
- Understand payments, invoice balances and advances
- Record an advance paid to a supplier
- Record rent, repair or another operating expense
- Create or rename an expense category
- Correct or reverse a paid expense
- Check your cash balance at the end of the day
Claims & scrap23 guides+
- Receive a defective battery from a customer
- Receive a claim and settle the customer immediately
- Issue the same or a different replacement model
- Refund a customer claim in cash or bank
- Record claim money owed to the customer
- Pay an outstanding customer claim amount
- Combine replacement, refund and money payable later
- Correct a customer claim settlement or payment
- Find a customer claim and check its history
- Send multiple defective batteries to a supplier
- Approve supplier value and receive it later
- Receive a supplier replacement in the same or a different model
- Receive a different model with a price difference
- Receive supplier claim money into cash or bank
- Receive supplier credit against a claim
- Receive an approved supplier claim in several parts
- Reject a supplier claim and receive the battery back
- Correct supplier approval or recovery
- Cancel an incorrect supplier dispatch
- Sell available defective batteries as scrap
- Correct or cancel a scrap sale
- Check where defective batteries are now
- Review and export customer claim activity
Reports & accounting24 guides+
- Choose the right Nizam report
- Review sales and purchase invoice registers
- Review daily sales by item
- Check gross profit on an invoice
- Compare gross profit by party or item
- Read the Profit & Loss report
- Review the Balance Sheet
- Check the Trial Balance
- Trace a balance through the General Ledger
- Read the Cash Flow Statement
- Check overdue customer invoices
- Check overdue supplier invoices
- Review activity for one bank account
- Review expenses by category and period
- Review the invoice figures shown in Tax Report
- Review invoice discounts
- Understand report labels and available workflows
- Print or export a report to PDF, Excel or CSV
- Create or organize an accounting account
- Post a balanced general entry
- Reverse a posted general entry
- Archive an unused custom account
- Correct a party opening-balance mistake
- Close the day with a quick records check
Team & permissions5 guides+
Backups, sync & updates8 guides+
- Create a local company backup
- Choose a folder for a second backup copy
- Restore an earlier local company backup
- Restore a local backup from another folder
- Move your work to another Windows PC
- Enable cloud sync for a local company
- Check synchronization and a slow Team Mode save
- Check and install a Nizam update
Troubleshooting22 guides+
- My verification code has not arrived
- Why did Nizam sign me out on another PC?
- I signed in but cannot see the company
- A menu, save action or export is missing
- Nizam opens in read-only mode
- The license payment QR is missing or unclear
- This record changed on another PC
- My saved invoice is not in the list
- The invoice says paid, but cash or the party balance did not change
- Adjust Item did not change the stock quantity
- Retail Prices Update does not save the new prices
- The retail-price grid differs from the invoice price
- Low Stock does not match the current quantity
- An item has quantity but no stock value
- An older sale’s profit changed after a purchase
- A stock-related edit or reversal is blocked by its date
- The claim was saved but settlement failed
- A defective battery is missing from Send to supplier
- The printed invoice shows zero Sales Tax
- A backup, second copy or restore failed
- Nizam asks to update the cloud service
- A newer update is not being offered