Practical guides, written for Pakistan
Step-by-step explanations of the everyday jobs our products and free tools help with — getting paid online, keeping a khata, running a school office, issuing salary slips, and getting photos and PDFs into the shape forms and printers expect. No sign-up, nothing to buy: just the know-how.
Running a business
Choosing Business Software in Pakistan: A Practical Checklist
What a small Pakistani business really needs from software — payments, bookkeeping, stock and records — and the questions to ask before you pay for anything.
5 min readHow to Accept Online Payments in Pakistan: Raast QR, Wallets and Cards Explained
A plain-language guide to the ways a Pakistani business can get paid online — Raast QR, mobile wallets, cards and payment links — with costs, settlement times and common mistakes.
5 min readDigital Khata: Moving Your Shop’s Udhaar Register from Paper to an App
How to switch a shop’s khata, udhaar and stock from a paper register to a digital khata app without losing a single balance — a step-by-step plan for the first month.
5 min readSchool Management System: What a Pakistani School Should Look For
Fees, attendance, results and parent communication — what to check before choosing a school management system, how to migrate, and the mistakes schools make in the first term.
Salary & payroll
How to Make Salary Slips from an Excel Salary Register
Turn a monthly Excel salary register into a printed salary slip for every employee — how the register should be laid out, how to check it, and how to issue slips in bulk.
5 min readGovernment Pay Slip Explained: BPS, Allowances and Deductions
What every line on a Pakistani government salary slip means — basic pay and BPS, house rent, conveyance, medical and ad-hoc relief allowances, GPF, benevolent fund, group insurance and income tax.
7 min readGP Fund Subscription and Profit Rates: Complete History with Official Notifications
Every Federal Government GP Fund subscription table for BPS 1–22 since 2008 and every notified rate of profit since 2011-12, with the Finance Division O.M. or Resolution behind each figure.
5 min readHow to Calculate Your GP Fund Balance (Federal Government Employees)
A step-by-step guide to working out a General Provident Fund balance — monthly subscriptions by BPS, promotions, the yearly profit under GPF Rule 14, and a worked example you can check by hand.
Images & PDFs
Free Online Tools for Office Work: How to Use Them Safely
Free converters and generators save hours of office work. Here is how to tell a safe online tool from a risky one, and which documents you should never upload anywhere.
4 min readHow to Reduce Photo Size for Online Forms and Job Portals
Online forms often reject photos and scans that are too large. Learn how image size, resolution and quality work, and how to compress a photo to the KB limit without making it blurry.
4 min readHow to Turn Phone Photos of Documents into One Clean PDF
Photograph documents with your phone and combine them into a single, readable PDF — how to take the photos, choose page size and quality, and keep the file small enough to email.
4 min readHow to Convert PDF Pages to JPG or PNG — and When You Should
When to turn a PDF into images, which format and DPI to pick for WhatsApp, websites or printing, and how to extract just the pages you need.