Peshawar · served from Islamabad
Software house for Peshawar and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
We build custom software for Peshawar traders, manufacturers and family businesses from our Islamabad office, about two hours away on the M-1. That means planning for Pashto text, trade that crosses a border and owners who may be running things from the Gulf.
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The market
Building software for Peshawar
Peshawar has always made its living from trade. The city sits on the road to the Torkham crossing, so goods bound for Afghanistan and Central Asia pass through its warehouses, transporters and wholesale markets, from Qissa Khwani Bazaar in the old city to Karkhano market. Alongside the trade there is a manufacturing base in the Hayatabad Industrial Estate, where pharmaceutical and food processing units live by batch numbers and expiry dates. And a great many Peshawar households and family businesses are tied to relatives working in the Gulf, whose earnings often paid for the shop in the first place.
Off-the-shelf software rarely accounts for how business here actually runs. Customers and staff write in Pashto, Urdu, English and Roman Urdu, sometimes within one message, and Pashto uses several letters that an Urdu-only font or keyboard does not have. Trade accounts carry goods that have left one warehouse and not yet reached a buyer, sometimes priced in one currency and settled in another. Sales tax on services in the province is collected by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Revenue Authority, not the Punjab or Sindh authorities, so an invoicing setup copied from a Lahore firm does not simply carry over.
We serve Peshawar from our office in E-11, Islamabad, and we do not have an office, staff or address in Peshawar. The M-1 puts the city about two hours away, so a working session at your premises is realistic when a decision needs everyone at one table, even though most of the work happens on calls and in shared tools. You deal with the senior engineer who scoped the job for the whole of the build, invoices come in rupees under a Pakistani contract, and the code and documentation belong to you at handover.
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What is specific
What building for Peshawar actually requires
Pashto that displays properly
Pashto has several letters that Urdu does not, and a font or keyboard chosen with only Urdu in mind turns them into empty boxes. Search has to treat the Pashto, Urdu and Roman Urdu spellings of the same product or family name as related, and right-to-left screens should be tested with real Pashto text. We settle which languages each screen supports at the start, because adding a script late means revisiting every form, report and message template.
Trade that crosses a border
Wholesale and transit businesses need more than a sales ledger. Consignments sit in transit for days, and much longer when the crossing slows or closes, and the stock and cash tied up in them has to stay visible. Accounts may be kept in rupees, dollars and afghanis, with transporters and clearing agents each holding part of the paperwork. We build a record for each consignment so an owner can see what is where, who has been paid and what is still owed.
Owners who are in the Gulf
Plenty of Peshawar businesses are owned by someone working in Dubai, Riyadh or Doha and run day to day by family at home. That owner wants the day’s sales, cash and stock on a phone, a say over anything large, and a clear record of who changed what. Gulf working hours sit an hour or two behind Pakistan, so summaries can be timed for the end of the owner’s day. We design roles and permissions around that family arrangement.
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Working together
How working with us goes from Peshawar
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Who uses it, and in which language
A first call with the engineer who would lead the build, about who will actually use the system: staff at the counter or in the godown, the owner abroad, customers on WhatsApp, and the language each of them works in. Screens are designed around those answers.
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A day at your premises if it helps
Peshawar is about two hours from our office on the M-1. When a warehouse, a production floor or a family decision needs to be seen in person, we arrange a working visit instead of guessing from photographs.
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An honest build-or-buy answer
You get the approach, the risks and a realistic cost range in rupees, in writing. If a well-configured off-the-shelf package would serve you better than a custom build, we will tell you before you spend anything.
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Training at home and abroad
Code, documentation and admin access are transferred to you, with training for the staff who use the system every day and for the owner who checks it from abroad.
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Services
What we build for Peshawar clients
Project delivery, owned end to end. We take on the outcome rather than supplying engineering hours.
Working with Yarqat in Peshawar
Do you have an office in Peshawar?
No. Our only office is the registered office in E-11/2, Islamabad, and we have no staff or address in Peshawar. Most of the work runs on calls, shared documents and a test version of the system you can try at any time. Because the M-1 puts Peshawar about two hours away, we can come to you for a workshop or a go-live when being in the room genuinely helps. Contracts are Pakistani and invoices are in rupees.
We trade goods through Torkham. Can one system track consignments, agents and payments?
Yes. We model each consignment from purchase to delivery, with the transporter, clearing agent and buyer attached, the documents stored against it, and payments recorded in the currency they were actually made in. You can see what is in transit, what is held and what is owed. We do not advise on customs or tax; the system keeps the records your agent and accountant need, in a form they can check.
We manufacture in the Hayatabad Industrial Estate. Can you build batch and expiry tracking?
Yes. For pharmaceutical and food producers that means recording raw material lots against each production batch, tracking finished goods by batch and expiry through warehouses and distributors, and finding every carton from a batch quickly if it has to be recalled. Pharmaceutical manufacturers also keep records for DRAP inspections, and we build to the requirements your quality team sets rather than interpreting the regulations ourselves.
I work in the Gulf and my family runs the business here. Can I follow it from abroad?
Yes, and it is worth designing for properly. We build phone dashboards for daily sales, cash and stock, approval steps for purchases or discounts above a limit you set, and an audit trail of every change. Gulf time is one or two hours behind Pakistan, so daily summaries can arrive as your own working day ends. Everyone gets their own login, which keeps responsibilities within the family clear.
Our customers message us in Pashto and Roman Urdu. Can an ordering or support system cope?
Yes, if it is built around the messages people actually send. Orders arrive in Pashto script, Roman Urdu, Urdu and English, often mixed, and plenty of customers simply send a voice note. We gather anonymised examples from your real conversations before designing anything, so the system is tested on that mix. Where automation would be guessing, the message goes to a person, which matters more than answering everything automatically.
Have a project in Peshawar?
Tell us what you are building or fixing. We work with Peshawar clients from our Islamabad office, in the same timezone and the same currency, and the engineer who reads this is the one who would run the delivery.
- 01A senior engineer reads it. Not a form queue, and not an account manager.
- 02We reply either with questions or with a straight answer that we are not the right fit.
- 03If it looks like a fit, a technical call with the person who would actually run the delivery.
- 04Then scope, effort and risk in writing, before anyone signs anything.