Trade Types

dsGST is one program for many kinds of trade. Your Trade Type decides which fields appear on the item master and the entry screens — for example batch and expiry for pharma, serial number for appliances, or metres for cloth. Pick the type that matches your business and the screens show you what that trade needs and nothing else.

Type	Name	What it gives you
MedWhl	Medical Wholesale	Batch number + expiry enforced, tracking of NRx and Schedules of items, primary schemes.
MedRet	Medical Retail	Retail packing (RPkg) — number of tablets/capsules per strip and sale by the tablet; prescriber and registration number; MRP as the selling price.
FMCGWhl	FMCG Wholesale	Batch number + expiry and schemes.
FMCGRet	FMCG Retail	The data an FMCG retailer needs.
InstSupp	Institutional Supplier	Extra information such as PO number required for institutional billing.
Appliance	Appliances Dealership	Wholesale / retail with Serial Number per item and a text description for each item.
Cloth	Cloth Trader	Wholesale / retail, selling in pieces and in metres.
General	General Trader	Any other business that does not need trade-specific data.

tip

The trade type is part of how your company is set up with Data Spec. If screens in this guide show fields you do not see on your own screens (or the reverse), the trade type is the first thing to check.