Pulling from your books
Your shops already know your cash, your udhaar and your stock. Rather than re-typing them, bring the figures across — as they stood on your Zakat day.
If you keep your shop in Businessly, a good part of your Zakat worksheet is already recorded — and for the year you are currently working on, it arrives on its own.
What comes across, and it stays live
Your open year gathers, one line each:
- every person who owes you, and every person you owe — by name
- your loans given and taken
- cash in hand, per business
- stock, valued at cost
- one line per property
These rows carry a LIVE tag, and they mean it. They are not a copy taken the day you opened the year: they keep reading your books until you lock the year. Somebody pays you back, somebody new takes udhaar, an amount changes — the worksheet is already right.
As it stood on the Zakat day
This is the part worth understanding. Businessly does not take today's figures. It replays your ledger to your Zakat day and takes the position as it was on that date.
When it stops being live
Two things end the link, both of them yours to choose:
| You Lock the year | Every live row is written down at its final figure and never moves again — it becomes that year's own entry |
| You type your own amount over a row | The row unlinks from your books and behaves like any line you entered by hand |
Stock is at cost
Stock is valued at what you paid, not what you hope to sell it for.
It is a starting point, not an answer
These land in the worksheet like anything else — as lines you still review, and nothing counts towards your Zakat until you confirm it.
What it will not do
It does not know about anything outside Businessly — your bank balance, gold, plots, committees. Those you enter yourself in the worksheet.
It also does not touch your shop's books. Pulling reads; it never writes.
If you do not use Businessly for your shop
The pull simply finds nothing, and you fill the worksheet in by hand. The Zakat Book works perfectly well on its own — plenty of people use it without keeping a shop ledger at all.