How to track a milkman or maid tab without a notebook

Most Indian households run a few monthly tabs with people who will never download an app: the milkman, the maid, the newspaper, the tiffin service. The notebook on the fridge works until the page goes missing, or two people mark the same day.

What goes wrong

• Nobody remembers whether Tuesday was logged.
• Different people write different things: litres in one place, a tick in another.
• At month end the vendor's count and yours don't match, and there's nothing to point to.

A simple system

Keep one shared record that everyone in the household can edit. Log each delivery or attendance as it happens, with the quantity. Note who logged it so a disputed day has a trail. At the end of the month, add it up once, pay once, and mark that period as settled.

It also helps to record the rate and any changes in it (milk price changes, extra litres for guests) so the total is explainable line by line.

This is what Jozzo's Tally does: a running tab with a vendor who isn't a user, shared by the people in your flat. You log a day in a tap, see who added what, and settle a range in one go.