The Complete Distribution Platform for Paints & Coatings

Bases, shades, pack sizes, and schemes that change every quarter — paint distribution runs on detail. Trade Node gives paint and coatings distributors one system to publish dealer prices, track scheme progress, control credit, and move stock from depot to counter without the month-end scramble.

• Shade & pack-size catalog
• Scheme & slab tracking
• Dealer credit control

The problems this trade lives with

• One product, forty SKUs: A single emulsion lives as bases, shades, and pack sizes from 200 ml to 20 litres. Price lists run to thousands of rows, and every manual update risks a dealer billing at the wrong rate.
• Schemes decide the margin: Quarterly slabs, cash discounts, festival offers — the real margin sits in schemes, tracked in spreadsheets. Dealers claim what they remember; you settle what you can reconstruct.
• Season stretches credit thin: Festive and post-monsoon demand means dealers stock up on credit. Outstanding balloons exactly when you need working capital for fresh company purchases.
• Depot stock in the dark: Fast shades stock out mid-season while slow movers gather dust on the rack. Without live depot-wise stock, transfer and reorder decisions are guesswork.

How Trade Node runs it

• A catalog built for bases and shades: Every base, shade, and pack size is a structured item with its own rate and stock. Dealers search and order the exact SKU — no free-text orders, no wrong-shade returns.
• Schemes tracked from circular to settlement: Publish slab targets and discounts once; the system tracks every dealer's progress live and computes what each has earned — settlements stop being an argument.
• Credit limits that hold in season: Per-dealer limits check outstanding plus fresh orders before dispatch. Season pressure stops silently becoming bad debt.
• Depot-to-counter stock visibility: Live stock by depot, godown, and SKU with movement history — fast shades get reordered in time, and slow movers get pushed with offers instead of being written off.
• GST billing and Tally, already reconciled: Invoices carry correct GST and flow to Tally through bi-directional sync. Your accountant closes the month without re-entering a single bill.

Why one platform

• Built for scheme-driven trade: Generic billing software treats schemes as an afterthought. Trade Node treats slabs, targets, and payouts as first-class — because in paint, schemes are the business.
• One platform, every counter: Price publishing, ordering, credit, dispatch, and settlement in one connected flow — from your depot to every dealer counter you serve.
• Dealers onboard themselves: A clean portal on the phone: live rates, order status, ledger, and scheme progress. If a dealer can use WhatsApp, they can order from you.

Modules for this trade

• Trade: Publish dealer price lists across bases, shades, and pack sizes in one update — every counter sees the same rate, with history preserved.
• Trade: Slab targets, cash discounts, and festival offers tracked live per dealer — earned benefits are computed by the system, not by memory at settlement time.
• Trade: Dealers order exact SKUs from their phone against live stock; your team sees every order move from booking to delivery.
• Finance: Live outstanding per dealer with credit-limit enforcement, so festive-season stocking never silently crosses into bad debt.
• Operations: Depot- and godown-wise stock by SKU with movement history — fast shades reordered on time, slow movers surfaced before they age.
• Engagement: Dealers get automatic alerts on order status, dispatches, payments due, and new scheme circulars — without your team sending a single message.

Frequently asked questions

Can Trade Node handle bases, shades, and pack sizes as separate SKUs?

Yes. The catalog treats every base-shade-pack combination as a distinct, searchable, priceable item, so orders and stock stay exact down to the 200 ml pack.

How are dealer schemes and slab discounts managed?

You publish the scheme once — targets, slabs, and benefits. The system tracks each dealer's progress live and computes earned amounts, so quarter-end settlement is a report, not a negotiation.

Does it work with Tally for GST billing?

Yes. Invoices generate with correct GST and sync bi-directionally with Tally, so operations run on Trade Node while your books stay exactly where your accountant wants them.

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