Jaipur has long been one of India's best-known centres for coloured gemstones and traditional jewellery, including kundan and meenakari work. Businesses here range from gemstone traders and cutters to showrooms and exporters. Their stock and production differ from plain gold jewellery, and their software needs to reflect that.
What Makes Stone-Heavy Jewellery Different
- Value often depends more on stones than on metal weight.
- Each piece may contain many stones of different types, sizes and qualities.
- Stone weights are measured in carats or ratti, separately from metal weight.
- Craftsmanship such as kundan setting and meenakari adds significant labour value.
- Loose stones are also traded and must be tracked as inventory.
Software Requirements
Detailed Stone Records
For each piece: stone type, count, weight, quality or grade, and rate, alongside metal weight and purity.
Loose Stone Inventory
Track loose gemstones by lot, weight, shape, size and quality, including stones issued for setting.
Component-Based Pricing
Price calculation that adds metal value, stone values, setting and craft charges, rather than relying only on gold rate and making charges.
Karigar and Craft Stages
Track pieces through stages such as setting, meenakari and polishing with different artisans, including stones issued and returned at each stage.
Certificates
Store gemstone certificate details and link them to pieces.
Export and Wholesale
Many Jaipur businesses sell to wholesalers and international buyers. Approval or memo-based sales and export documentation may be needed.
"In gemstone jewellery, the details are the value. Software has to capture every stone."
Tagging and Audits
Barcode or RFID tags linked to full stone and metal details help staff answer customer questions quickly and make audits reliable.
Before You Choose
Ask vendors to demonstrate a piece with multiple stone types, a loose-stone issue to a karigar and a price calculation built from components. If the software is built only for plain gold, it will struggle.
Common Questions
Can software track stones issued to setters? Yes. Stones issued for setting can be recorded by type, count and weight, and reconciled when the finished piece and leftover stones are returned.
How should gemstone prices be maintained? Maintain rates by stone type, size and quality in a price master, and update them as market prices change. Prices for individual high-value stones can be recorded separately.
Can we record certificates for important stones? Certificate numbers and details can be stored against the stone or piece and shown to customers during sale.
Does the software support both retail and wholesale? Retail billing and wholesale or approval-based sales have different workflows. Check that the system supports the sales modes you use, including returns from approval.
ITELLIC Jewellery Management System
ITELLIC's jewellery software tracks items by tag with gross weight, net weight, purity, stones and making charges, plus karigar work, customer orders and billing. Book a demo with a few of your actual pieces, and we will show how they are recorded and priced, and discuss any configuration your stone-heavy inventory needs.
Jewellery Management System
Built for the way jewellers actually work.
