Type it how you say it
“thakkali”, “tomato” or தக்காளி — search finds the item from Tamil, English or Tamil typed in English letters.
Built for Tamil Nadu’s shops
Fatura bills a customer in seconds, prints a clean Tamil bill on the Bluetooth printer already on the counter, and keeps stock, dues and every day’s sales on one phone.
01 — What it does
“thakkali”, “tomato” or தக்காளி — search finds the item from Tamil, English or Tamil typed in English letters.
Big quantity, KG ↔ G switch, one-tap 250 G / 500 G / 1 KG, price for this bill. Every line has an edit button.
Bills by day with cash, UPI and credit split. Send the day’s summary to the owner on WhatsApp in one tap.
Each bill takes stock down. Low items raise an alert and go straight into a reorder list for the supplier.
Edit a printed bill and reprint it with the same bill number. The old version is kept, so nothing is ever lost.
Staff bill; only the owner edits bills, prices and stock. Five wrong PINs lock the login for a while.
02 — The hard part
Cheap thermal printers have no Tamil font. So Fatura draws the whole bill as a picture — 576 dots wide, in a proper Tamil typeface — and streams it over Bluetooth in small paced chunks the printer can keep up with. Any length of bill, no garbled text, a clean cut at the end.
03 — Built with
Hand-drawn interface in the Crayont design system. The whole app is under 90 KB compressed.
Runs at the edge close to the shop, so saving a bill takes a fraction of a second.
SQLite with money kept in paise, so totals never drift. Point-in-time restore built in.
A full copy of every shop, kept 35 days, plus a one-tap download for the owner.
Native Bluetooth Classic printing, a Tamil keyboard hint, and one-tap in-app updates.
Bills drawn at the printer’s own dot width and sent as images, so Tamil prints perfectly.
04 — Made by Crayont
Fatura started with one grocery shop and a printer that would not print Tamil. Crayont designed it, engineered it and shipped it — app, server, Android and printer driver. That is what we do: take a real problem in a real business and build the product that solves it, properly.
05 — Your turn
Tell us about your business and what’s slowing it down. We’ll get back to you on WhatsApp or email — your choice.
Already a Fatura shop?
Bluetooth printing, a Tamil keyboard and one-tap updates. Install once — updates arrive inside the app.