Looking for billing software for a garment and clothing shop? The short answer: pick software that bills fast at a busy counter, gets the apparel GST rate right on every piece, prints a clean receipt (thermal or A4), and keeps working when the internet does not. This guide covers the GST rates a clothing shop deals with every day, the features that actually matter on a garment counter, and a worked example bill you can check line by line.
Garment retail has its own rhythm — sizes and colours to track, a wholesale rate next to the retail rate, hang-tags to scan, and a festival rush where the queue cannot wait. The right billing software should make all of that quiet and quick.
What billing software for a garment and clothing shop needs to do
Before the feature list, the honest test is whether the software fits how a clothing shop sells:
- Speed at the counter. During Navratri, Diwali or a wedding-season Saturday, billing has to keep up with the queue — scan or type, and the line fills itself.
- The right GST rate per piece. Apparel is split by price, so the software must apply 5% or 18% correctly on each item (more on this below).
- Sizes, colours and variants tracked in a way that keeps your stock count honest.
- Wholesale and retail rates on the same items, if you sell to both.
- Receipts that suit the sale — a small thermal slip for a walk-in, a full A4 tax invoice for a bulk buyer.
- It works offline, because a dropped connection should never stop a sale.
GST on clothes: the rates a garment shop bills every day
Apparel GST changed under the GST 2.0 rate rationalisation. As of 22 September 2025, readymade garments and clothing are taxed on a simple two-rate structure based on the sale value per piece:
| Item | Condition | GST rate |
|---|---|---|
| Readymade garments / apparel | Sale value up to ₹2,500 per piece | 5% |
| Readymade garments / apparel | Sale value above ₹2,500 per piece | 18% |
| Most fabrics (woven / knitted) | Any value | 5% |
The key point for a clothing counter: the rate is decided per piece, not per bill. A ₹800 shirt and a ₹3,000 designer kurta on the same invoice carry different rates. Good billing software applies this automatically from each item’s price so you never have to think about it mid-sale.
Rates and thresholds do change, so treat these as a starting point and confirm the current rule on cbic.gov.in or with your CA before you rely on them.
HSN codes for apparel and fabrics
Registered sellers show an HSN code for goods; the number of digits depends on your turnover — confirm the current requirement on gst.gov.in or with your CA. For a clothing shop the common chapters are:
| Goods | HSN chapter |
|---|---|
| Articles of apparel — knitted or crocheted (T-shirts, hosiery) | 61 |
| Articles of apparel — not knitted (shirts, trousers, sarees, suits) | 62 |
| Other made-up textiles (bedsheets, towels, curtains) | 63 |
| Fabrics (cotton, silk, man-made) | 50–60 |
Software that stores the HSN and rate against each item prints them on the bill without extra typing.
A worked example — a Jaipur garment shop bill
Say Ridhi Fashions, a clothing shop in Jaipur (Rajasthan), sells to a walk-in customer also in Rajasthan. Because the shop and the buyer are in the same state, the tax splits into CGST + SGST (half each). Two items, two different rates:
| Item | Price / piece | Qty | Taxable | Rate | GST |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cotton shirt | ₹800 | 2 | ₹1,600 | 5% | ₹80 |
| Silk kurta | ₹3,000 | 1 | ₹3,000 | 18% | ₹540 |
- Shirt — ₹800 per piece is ≤ ₹2,500, so 5%: CGST ₹40 + SGST ₹40 = ₹80.
- Kurta — ₹3,000 per piece is above ₹2,500, so 18%: CGST ₹270 + SGST ₹270 = ₹540.
Adding it up:
- Total taxable value = ₹1,600 + ₹3,000 = ₹4,600
- Total CGST = ₹40 + ₹270 = ₹310
- Total SGST = ₹40 + ₹270 = ₹310
- Total GST = ₹310 + ₹310 = ₹620
- Grand total = ₹5,220
If that same kurta went to a customer in another state, it would be a single IGST at 18% (₹540) instead of the CGST + SGST split — the total tax is the same, only the routing changes. For a full walk-through of when it is CGST + SGST versus IGST, see CGST, SGST and IGST — the difference.
Features that matter on a clothing counter
Here is what to look for, and how Yojika handles each — honestly, without over-promising.
- Fast keyboard-and-scan billing. Scan a hang-tag barcode or type the item, and the rate, HSN and tax fill in. Yojika also prints barcode labels, which helps when you tag new stock yourself.
- Sizes and colours. Garment shops usually keep each size or colour as its own item so the stock count stays right. Yojika uses a simple item list with categories and units (not a size-colour grid), so set up the variants that matter to you as separate items, or record the detail as an item note.
- Wholesale and retail on one item. Yojika supports wholesale price tiers next to the retail price — useful if you sell both over the counter and in bulk.
- Per-line discounts. Give a festival discount on one item without touching the rest of the bill; the tax is recomputed on the discounted value automatically.
- The right receipt for the sale. Print A4, A5 or thermal (58 / 65 / 80 mm) — a small slip for a walk-in, a full A4 tax invoice for a business buyer.
- Returns and exchanges. Clothing gets returned a lot; Yojika handles credit notes for sales returns cleanly.
- The customer’s language. Print names and items in any of the 22 official Indian languages — handy for a neighbourhood clientele.
For the full picture, see the features page.
Why offline-first suits a garment shop
A clothing counter is busiest exactly when the network is least reliable — a crowded market on a festival evening. Yojika keeps all your data in a local database on the shop PC, so billing, printing and reports never wait on the internet, and your sales stay private on your own machine. Only your one-time licence activation touches the internet.
If you want to compare a few options on honest criteria rather than a ranking, read our buyer’s guide to GST billing software, and for a high-throughput counter setup see supermarket billing software in India.
How Yojika helps a garment and clothing shop
Yojika is offline-first GST billing software built for Indian small shops. For a garment shop that means fast counter billing, the correct apparel GST rate on every piece, barcode labels and thermal or A4 receipts, wholesale and retail pricing, and credit notes for returns — all working without internet and with your data staying on your PC.
You can try it free for 14 days. See the pricing and download Yojika to bill your first invoice today.
Yojika creates GST bills and reports; it does not file your GST returns — that stays with you or your CA. GST rates and thresholds change, so confirm the current apparel rate on cbic.gov.in or with your accountant.