Counter
Nijam Counter vs Vyapar
Vyapar is ahead today on native apps, Hindi, reading a supplier's bill from a scan and shops outside regular GST registration, while Counter differs in how offline bills sync and how each day's sales reach your books.
Every Vyapar statement below comes from Vyapar's own website or app store listings, checked in September 2026, and links to its source. Where their pages are silent, we leave the row out.
Where Vyapar is ahead today
If any of these matter to your shop, Vyapar may be the better fit for now.
| Nijam Counter | Vyapar (from vyaparapp.in) | |
|---|---|---|
| Native apps | Runs in a web browser on a computer, tablet or phone. There is no native app. | Per Vyapar's app store listings and PC page (checked 11 Sep 2026): apps for Android and iOS, and for Windows and Mac.[source 1][source 2][source 3] |
| Hindi | English only. | Per Vyapar's App Store listing (checked 11 Sep 2026): the app's languages are English and Hindi.[source] |
| Reading a supplier's bill | Purchase bills are typed at the counter or taken from a delivery CSV, and, with Invoicing, land in Bills to pay marked ITC to be confirmed. Nothing reads a photographed or scanned bill. | Per Vyapar's purchase page and homepage (checked 11 Sep 2026): purchase orders and purchase entries, including turning scanned purchase bills into entries.[source 1][source 2] |
| Shops without regular GST registration | Needs a registered GSTIN; composition and unregistered shops are not supported yet. | Per Vyapar's GST and non-GST invoice guides (checked 11 Sep 2026): supports composition-scheme dealers with a bill of supply, and non-GST invoices.[source 1][source 2] |
| Card machines | Records card payments with the slip number; the bank's card machine stays separate. | Per Vyapar's payment integrations page (checked 11 Sep 2026): card payments through card machines from PineLabs, PhonePe and Razorpay.[source] |
| Printer connections | Receipts print straight to 58 mm and 80 mm thermal printers over USB from Chrome or Edge on Windows, and to any printer through the browser's print dialog. | Per Vyapar's printer guide (checked 11 Sep 2026): thermal printers over USB, Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, in 2, 3 and 4 inch widths.[source] |
Where Nijam Counter is different
How each one handles offline billing, the books and the bill itself, in their own words and ours.
| Nijam Counter | Vyapar (from vyaparapp.in) | |
|---|---|---|
| Billing offline | Bills with no internet once the counter is set up, and sends each bill exactly once when the connection returns. | Per Vyapar's homepage (checked 11 Sep 2026): offline-first, with data syncing when you reconnect.[source] |
| Sales into the books | With Invoicing, each closed shift posts one entry to the ledger your business invoices also use, and counter bills are included in GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B. Each day's sales also export as Tally XML. | Per Vyapar's POS page (checked 11 Sep 2026): every sale posts accounting entries and updates ledgers, with profit and loss and balance sheet reports.[source] |
| GST returns | With Invoicing, GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B prepared in your account include every counter bill, with cancelled bills netted off as credit notes. | Per Vyapar's GST guide (checked 11 Sep 2026): GSTR-1, GSTR-3B and GSTR-9 download as Excel or JSON, to upload to the GST portal.[source] |
| Discounts on the bill | Each line shows the MRP and the rupees saved; a bill discount comes off before GST. | Per Vyapar's invoice and discount guides (checked 11 Sep 2026): the receipt can show an MRP column and a You Saved line; discounts can be per item or on the whole bill.[source 1][source 2] |
| Barcodes and labels | Creates in-store barcodes for unlabelled items and prints labels on A4 sheets of 38×21 mm labels or on 50×25 mm rolls. | Per Vyapar's barcode guide (checked 11 Sep 2026): a barcode generator that prints to label sheets, and existing manufacturer barcodes can be used.[source] |
| Barcode scanners | USB or Bluetooth scanners that type the code like a keyboard, and the device's camera, including on an iPhone. | Per Vyapar's POS page (checked 11 Sep 2026): USB and Bluetooth barcode scanners.[source] |