The kabadiwala's book

Weigh it. Pay it.
Know your margin.

Buying scrap is easy — weight times rate, cash in hand. The money you can't see is in the godown: how many kilos of each thing you're holding, and whether the big dealer's truck actually paid you above cost. RaddiBook keeps that book for you.

See the buy → sell cycle → See the dashboard

For kabadiwala & small scrap dealers · runs offline · subscription · pricing on discovery

01 · The problem

You know today's cash.
Nobody writes down the margin.

A kabadiwala's buying is fast and honest — weight times rate, paid in cash. But the day never gets written down. Bags pile in the godown, the dealer's truck comes and goes, and the one figure that decides whether you made money — cost versus resale — lives nowhere.

The payout is maths in your head

Paper at one rate, iron at another, plastic at a third — you add it up on the spot, hand over cash, and there's no slip to show for it later.

The godown is a guess

How many kilos of cardboard are stacked back there? How much iron? You find out when the truck weighs it — not before you agree a price.

Margin is invisible

You bought paper at ₹14 all week; the dealer paid ₹13 today. Did you lose on that lot? Without the buy rate written down, you'll never know.

No proof for the household

People want a receipt for the raddi they sold you. You promise one later — and later is a scrap of paper that gets lost.

02 · The insight

Buying scrap is a solved sum. The leak is in the middle — the stock sitting in the godown and the margin between what you paid and what the dealer paid you.

RaddiBook's whole job is to close that gap. Every purchase becomes a payout slip and adds to stock by category; every sale to a big dealer is priced against your average buy rate so the margin is booked the moment the truck leaves — not guessed at year-end.

03 · How it works

Four taps a buy. Stock and margin keep themselves.

  1. 1

    Record a purchase, weighed by category

    Pick the supplier, weigh each category — paper, plastic, iron, cardboard, glass, e-waste — punch the rate per kg. RaddiBook totals the exact cash to pay.

  2. 2

    Print the cash payout slip

    A numbered slip (PAY-YYYYMMDD-NNNN) for the supplier, and a "paid in full" WhatsApp receipt queued to their number. Proof, handled on the spot.

  3. 3

    Stock accrues by category, on its own

    Every buy adds to the godown. On-hand per category is always purchased minus sold, valued at your weighted-average buy rate. No stocktake needed.

  4. 4

    Sell to a big dealer → margin is booked

    Record the sale at the dealer's rate. RaddiBook prices the cost at your average buy rate and books the resale margin — green if you beat cost, red if not.

04 · What's inside

The whole buy → stock → sell cycle, in one book.

Weight × rate purchases

Line items by category, each weighed with its own rate per kg. The payout total is exact — no float drift, money kept in whole rupees.

Numbered cash payout slips

Every purchase prints a PAY-YYYYMMDD-NNNN slip and queues a WhatsApp receipt, so the household walks away with proof of what they were paid.

Stock by category, derived

On-hand kilos and value per category — paper, plastic, iron, cardboard, glass, e-waste. It's a query (purchased minus sold), never a number to maintain.

Weighted-average buy rate

Buy the same paper at different rates all week; RaddiBook holds a blended cost per kg, so your stock is valued at what it actually cost you.

Resale margin on every sale

Sell to the big dealer and see the margin against cost — beat it and it's green, under-paid and it's red. The number nobody else writes down.

Dashboard for today & this month

Today's purchases and cash paid out, stock by category, and this month's sales and margin — the whole shop in ten seconds, and it runs offline.

05 · The dashboard

Open it in the morning. See the godown and the margin.

06 · Pricing

Simple subscription. However much scrap you turn.

If RaddiBook catches one lot the dealer under-paid on, or one payout you'd have gotten wrong in your head, it's already earned its keep — and you finally have a book that tells you if the week made money.

  • Unlimited purchases, suppliers & sales
  • Cash payout slips + WhatsApp receipts
  • Stock by category at weighted-average cost
  • Resale margin on every dealer sale & a live dashboard

RaddiBook

Pricing — on discovery

Subscription basis

We set pricing on a short discovery call and bill it as a simple monthly subscription — sized to how much scrap you turn. Early users get founder terms.

Book a discovery call

07 · Who it's for & questions

Built for the kabadiwala, not the recycling plant.

RaddiBook is for the person who buys raddi from households and sells it on to a big dealer — a shop, a cart, a small godown. Big enough that the margin matters; small enough that ERP software is overkill and priced for someone else. If you run it on cash and memory today, this is your book.

Kabadiwala Small scrap dealers Godown & cart buyers Raddi & recyclables
How does the payout slip work?

You weigh each category, punch the rate per kg, and RaddiBook totals the exact cash to pay. It prints a numbered cash payout slip for the supplier and queues a "paid in full" WhatsApp receipt to their number. No mental maths, no drift on the weight × rate.

How does it know my stock and resale margin?

Stock isn't a number you maintain — it's purchased minus sold, per category. Every buy adds to the godown, valued at your weighted-average buy rate. When you sell to a big dealer, RaddiBook prices the cost at that average and books the margin — green if you beat cost, red if the dealer under-paid.

Which scrap categories are supported?

Six by default — paper, cardboard, plastic, iron, glass and e-waste. A purchase can mix any of them as separate weighed line items, each with its own rate, and stock is tracked separately per category.

Does it work offline, and is there a lot to set up?

Yes to offline — RaddiBook runs fully local with no API keys. And the demo is the pitch: on first open it seeds a real kabadiwala's week of purchases and sales, so the dashboard, stock board and margins are alive before you enter anything of your own.

What does it cost?

Pricing is worked out on a quick discovery call and billed monthly on subscription. We're keeping public prices off the page while we onboard our first users.