Run a steel traders association of stockists and dealers from one place: member firms, GST copies, annual fees, receipts, rate circulars and meeting attendance, without a yard register and a calling list.
Members are in the yard. The association office still runs on a notebook of firm names and a receipt book that travels with the treasurer.
One body mixes roles. The fee and the papers differ, but the register treats everyone as “steel”.
The treasurer collects cash when a truck is unloading, writes a receipt, and later cannot match the name.
Trade papers arrive as photos. When a member needs a letter, last year’s scan is missing.
A price circular is forwarded until half the market still works on yesterday’s number.
The hall is booked. Attendance is a signature sheet nobody types up.
A member wants a dealer in another area, and has to call three office bearers.
Each card is a feature that is live in Associan today.
A stockist applies with firm name, GST, PAN, city and category from a phone in the yard office.
The documents your committee asks for stay with the firm, not in a drawer under the receipt books.
Set separate fees for stockist, retailer and associate, each with its own duration.
Members pay online. Cash collected in the yard is recorded against the same member.
Post a rate or meeting note once. Members read it in the app instead of a chain of forwards.
Members search other steel traders by city and category when they need a partner.
On Monday the secretary filters firms whose membership ends this month and emails the fee with a payment link. Stockists that pay from the yard office get a numbered receipt the same afternoon.
A new dealer applies with GST while a truck is being unloaded. The committee checks the papers that evening. Cash still collected at the counter is entered against the same firm.
Saturday’s meeting starts with a volunteer scanning passes. The unpaid list for the next round is an export, and the rate circular from last week sits on one notice board.
Payments create PDFs; the treasurer stops writing names at night.
Firms update their own phone and category.
One board for rate notes and meeting calls.
The next secretary logs in to the same records.
The same simple flow for every steel trader, set up for your association in about a day.
Post it in your group or on your letterhead. Each steel trader fills the form on their phone.
Firm details, GST and the documents your committee needs are uploaded with the application.
The committee approves and the fee is paid online, or recorded if paid by cash or cheque.
Membership number, PDF receipt, certificate and QR member pass are issued automatically.
AICR moved operator joining, fee collection, certificates and chapter-meet check-in onto one white-label app with its own name, logo and CIN on every PDF. Applications, document checks and payments that used to live in WhatsApp groups and spreadsheets now sit in one place the committee can see.
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