Gold was the rehearsal. Silver is the show.
Every jeweller has now made peace with HUID on gold. The six-character code, the BIS Care app, the tagged stock — it is routine. What fewer shops have noticed is that silver is next. On 1 September 2025, the Bureau of Indian Standards began HUID-based hallmarking for silver jewellery and artefacts, on a voluntary basis, under a revised standard, IS 2112:2025. Voluntary is the operative word today. But anyone who lived through the gold rollout knows what "voluntary, for now" usually turns into.
If you sell silver alongside gold — payal and bichhiya, silverware and pooja articles, gifting and coin — this matters to you directly. When silver hallmarking becomes mandatory, and the signals from BIS suggest it is a question of when and not if, every hallmarked silver piece will carry a unique HUID that a customer can verify, and your billing and stock will have to reference it exactly the way they now do for gold. The shops that get ready during the voluntary window will glide through the mandate. The ones that wait will scramble.
What actually changed with IS 2112:2025
The revised standard moves silver onto the same HUID model as gold: a unique six-character identity per hallmarked piece, laser-marked and linked to a digital record you and the customer can verify in the BIS Care app. It formally recognises seven purity grades for silver — 800, 835, 925, 958, 970, 990 and 999 — with 958 and 999 newly added in the revision. That is a more precise vocabulary than the loose "pure silver" many shops still bill under. There is one practical wrinkle worth planning around: silver testing is currently supported by roughly 230 recognised Assaying and Hallmarking Centres across about 87 districts — thinner coverage than gold enjoys, which is exactly why moving early is an advantage rather than a chore.
- A defined purity grade on every silver SKU — 800 through 999 — instead of a vague "pure silver".
- A HUID captured for each hallmarked piece and carried through onto the invoice.
- Stock tagged so a silver payal, a silver idol and a silverware set are distinct, weight-priced lines.
- Hallmarking status tracked so an un-hallmarked piece is not accidentally sold as hallmarked.
- Old and unmarked silver stock identified now, while hallmarking is still voluntary and the queues are short.
The voluntary window is not a reason to wait. It is the one chance you get to be ready before the rule, instead of after it.
The window you have right now
Think back to the gold mandate. The shops that treated the run-up as optional found themselves, on the deadline, standing in queues at hallmarking centres with months of stock and no time. Silver has fewer centres per district than gold did, so a late rush could be sharper. The voluntary phase is a genuine gift: time to hallmark the silver already in your showcase, to clean up purity records piece by piece, and to make sure your billing can print a silver HUID before anyone forces you to. Used well, the mandate — whenever it lands — becomes a formality.
To be clear about what does not change: hallmarking is a stock-and-standards matter, not a tax one. Silver, silverware and their making charges attract GST exactly as they did before, and hallmarking does not add a levy. What it adds is auditability — a piece whose purity and identity are on record, in a system, against a bill. Auditable stock sitting next to clean GST is precisely the combination that keeps a survey or an assessment short and uneventful.
Where "we will deal with it later" bites
Waiting has a cost even before the mandate arrives. Un-hallmarked silver stock ages while the rules tighten around it. Purity disputes with customers get harder to settle when your own records say "silver" and nothing more. A buyer who scans a HUID that does not match your bill is a trust problem you created for yourself. And the worst version is the simplest: a mandate date arrives, and your billing software cannot print a silver HUID, so every sale becomes a workaround. None of this is dramatic on any single day. It is just steady, avoidable friction — the kind that compounds.
How BizRevolt gets a shop silver-ready
BizRevolt's jewellery workspace treats silver as a first-class citizen, not an afterthought. Purity grades from 800 to 999 are built in, a HUID can be captured per hallmarked piece and printed onto the invoice, and the point of sale is weight-priced with the rate of the day, for silver just as for gold. Stock tags keep ornaments, artefacts and utensils as distinct lines, so a payal and an idol are never lumped together, and un-hallmarked or old silver stock is easy to surface while there is still time to act. Because it is the same system that already runs your gold counter, being silver-ready is a setting, not a second software.
It is priced for a real shop, not an enterprise: 1,499 rupees a month for the Counter plan, 3,999 for Growth, and 7,999 for a multi-branch Chain setup — a flat subscription, not a per-terminal licence that charges you more for growing. Marg and Tally will keep doing the pure book-keeping they are good at, and we are glad to sit alongside them; what we do is close the hallmark-aware, weight-first stock gap that becomes non-negotiable the day silver goes mandatory.
If you sell silver and have not thought about HUID yet, now — while it is voluntary — is the cheapest time you will ever have to get ready. Message the founder on WhatsApp, or call +91 91 0657 4865, and we will walk you through it, usually within about fifteen minutes during the working day.
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