Sign in to KAS
Use your own name and six-digit PIN.
Type the code
The same four digits for everybody.
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Who is recording?
One tap. This is a name tag, not a second code.
No names yet
Nobody has been added. Add the first name to get in.
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Inbox
Needs attention
Ready
Check these
Waiting to be read
Photographed and stored. Nothing has been read from these yet, so nothing on them is in any figure. The reader picks them up a few times a day.
Nothing waiting
No draft is waiting for you, no handover is waiting for a side to answer, and no photo is waiting to be read.
Drafts arrive three ways: a photo of a paper, a typed message, or a form filled in by hand. A photo becomes a draft once the reader has read it, and typed messages are not built yet — tap the button below.
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Record a handover
Nothing moves until somebody accepts it.
A correction
The entry it puts right stays on screen exactly as it is. Both name who made them.
Which way did it cross the gate?
What crossed
Nothing typed yet.
The challan
The paper that came with the gold. Leave it empty if there is no challan — then there is nothing to compare against and no gap.
The gap
Type what crossed and what the challan says.
A photo of the challan
Nothing here yet.
This form does not hold a photo. To keep one of the challan, photograph it from ＋ on the Inbox: it is stored there and waits to be read.
Photograph a paper
Each page is its own paper. Nothing is read from it here — it is stored, and waits for the reader.
Opened from a job
Making the photo smaller
No page yet
Open the camera with the button below and photograph the paper.
A photographed paper
Could not show this photo
This turns it on this screen only. The stored photo stays exactly as it was.
Waiting to be read
Nothing has been read from this paper yet, so nothing on it is in any figure. The reader picks up waiting photos a few times a day.
What kind of paper it is
A job card
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Why it is in Check these
Questions for the factory
The job
Carried in on 27 August 2026
What the card writes
A solid dot is a figure the reader was sure of; a hollow dot is one it was not sure of, and that is a question. Tap a line to see it on the photo.
What the weights come to
| Line | Gold in | Weight after | Stones | Net weight | Handed back | Gold not back | The card writes |
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The gate
Everything that has crossed, newest first. An entry is never changed. A mistake is put right by adding a correction that names who made it.
Nothing has crossed yet
When a draft is accepted it appears here, and the gold figure moves.
Gold on hand
By purity
Fine weight, every purity together
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How that was worked out
What crossed the gate
Accepted entries only. A draft changes nothing.
Not in the figure above
Dust is never counted here. It enters once only, on the day it burns — counting it now would count it twice.
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Jobs
Nothing here
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New job
One making of one design. The same design made again this afternoon is another job, with its own number.
Its name
The whole name is the design number, a slash, and the job number.
This design has been made before
What this job is
A job holds no gold until its casting arrives. Design, CAD and outside casting run on their own clock, so a job that starts before the casting shows no gold yet and sits outside every gold figure.
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Needs attention
No gold yet
Its casting has not arrived, so this job holds no gold and is outside every gold figure.
Nothing is missing. The gold is still in the office, or with the casting vendor, and it is counted there.
Gold handed to this job
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Net weight now
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Indicative wastage
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Indicative, and for this job only. It is never the factory figure and is never called wastage on its own.
Metal back from the bench
Metal taken off this job
One stage started lighter than the stage before it ended at. That metal went somewhere else, so it is shown on its own rather than counted as gold this job never handed back.
What happened, in order
A job can go back to a stage it has already been through. That is normal, and the list below simply says what happened.
| Stage | Karigar | Day | Gold in | Gold back | Metal back | Gold not back |
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What happens next
Issue
Gold going out to a karigar. Nothing moves until somebody accepts it.
The job
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Who it goes to
Pick the stage the gold is going out for.
No karigar in Settings yet
Nobody has been added, so there is no name to pick.
Open Settings from your name at the top and add the people at the bench. Typing a name into every form is how one karigar ends up spelt three ways.
What goes out
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Nothing has come back on this job yet, so there is no weight to carry forward. This is the only time it is typed.
Extra metal
Only if something is handed out on top — solder, findings or raw metal. Leave it empty otherwise.
What the job card says
Only if the paper card is in your hand. It is never used as the answer — the app works its own figure out and then holds the two side by side. Leave it empty and the first badge shows a dash.
What goes out in all
Choose the karigar and the stage.
The three checks
Receive
Gold coming back from a karigar. Nothing moves until somebody accepts it.
What is out
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What the scale says now
No stones are recorded against a job yet, so this is the gold on its own. Stones arrive at job 18.
Metal coming back as well
Runner, filings and dust go to the envelope and wait for the fire. Solder, push, posts and wire are a reusable return and are kept for the next job. The difference is real money, so it is always asked.
Nothing typed yet.
Gold not back
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The percent arrives when the job is delivered. It is worked out against the net weight at Delivered, and that weight has not happened yet.
Type what the scale says.
What the job card says
Only if the paper card is in your hand. Nothing here is ever used as the answer — every one of them is worked out again from the weights and then held against what is written. Leave them empty and the first badge shows a dash.
Turned back into grams before it is compared. A percent is a percent of something, and one card wrote 12.58 % against a figure this app never divides by.
The three checks
Statement
The period
A count is taken at the end of its day. So the period runs from the day after the first count through to the day of the second.
There is nothing to work this out from yet
What went into the factory
| Pile | Purity | Grams | Fine |
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What came out of the factory
| Pile | Purity | Grams | Fine |
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What the count found
Somebody put every pile on the scale on those two days. This app did not work either figure out, and that is the only reason the one below can ever come out wrong.
The casting vendor’s share
One per cent of castings used — what came in, less anything sent back. It sits on its own and touches no job card.
Wastage
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How that was worked out
There is no recovery in this sum, on purpose. Dust that left the factory is an out line at the weight that crossed the gate. What the office gets back from it afterwards happens on the far side of the gate.
Not the same as the figure on a job
A job screen shows indicative wastage, for that one job. It is worked out a different way, from that job’s own rows, with recovery credited back.
It answers which job, which stage and which karigar is losing gold, which the figure above cannot. It is never this figure, and it is never on this page.
The page anyone can be sent
This period as a Statement of Gold Account — a PDF written for the whole company, with a signature block at the end. Look it over on the phone first, then share it.
The workbook
All eleven tabs, with the full detail, for any two days. The front page shows the wastage only when somebody counted the factory on both days.
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Record a count
What the factory is actually holding, pile by pile, on one day. It moves no gold and changes no other figure.
The day it was counted
A count is taken at the end of its day.
What each pile came to
Every purity the factory holds, including any that came to nothing. A purity left out says the factory holds less than it does, and that makes the wastage look worse with nothing able to say why.
Nothing typed yet.
What this app makes it
Type what the scale said.
A count that disagrees is not a mistake. It is the answer this whole app exists to find, and the count is the reality.
Once it is saved
A count can never be changed or removed. If it is wrong, count again — the later one written down for a day is the one every figure uses, and both stay readable.
The page to share
Nothing to put on a page
Settings
Names, and later the stages, the rates and the block gap. Every one of them is a fact stored in the database, never something built into the app.
This phone is in
Set this once. It is how the app knows which side of the gate a tap came from. A phone can never agree a handover it recorded itself.
This phone has not been told which building it is in yet.
Names in the grid
Karigars
The people at the bench. They never open this app — their work is recorded for them. Adding them here is what lets a manager pick a name instead of typing one.
Nobody has been added yet. Gold cannot go out to a karigar until there is a name to pick.
Rates
A rate is a dated fact, not a switch. Changing one adds a new rate from a chosen day; every figure worked out before that day stays exactly as it was.
Days before a stage looks stuck
Nine stages, in the order they are listed. A job can go back to a stage it has already been through — that is normal.
Removed names
A removed name leaves the grid but stays on everything it recorded. Nothing here is ever deleted.
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