Dues and morning digest
Money and mornings, on rails.
Two of the least glamorous jobs in a chamber are chasing fees and telling the senior what is on today. Tarikh handles both: a per-case ledger of fees and payments, and a 7 am email that puts the day's hearings in the senior's inbox before the first cup of tea.
Dues
Who owes what, without the spreadsheet.
Every case carries its own ledger. The chamber's totals fall out of it automatically.
A fee ledger on every case
Record what was charged and what was collected against each case, and Tarikh shows the outstanding balance per client and the total due across the chamber. Payments are dated and attributed, so a dispute about who paid what in March is settled by looking, not by remembering.
- Charged, collected and outstanding per case
- Total due across the chamber at a glance
- Each payment dated and attributed to the member who recorded it
- Balances export with the case PDF and the CSV
- ৳45,000CR-2419/24Karim Rahman
- ৳12,000WP-318/25Aktar Hossain
- ৳8,500FM-42/24Salma Begum
Morning digest
Read the day with your tea.
The senior should not have to open an app to know what the chamber is doing today.
A 7 am email to every senior
At 7 am Bangladesh time, Sunday to Thursday, every senior receives an email listing the day's hearings: parties, case number, court and step. Fridays and Saturdays are skipped. One link opens the dashboard for the details.
- Sent at 7:00 am Asia/Dhaka, Sunday to Thursday
- Parties, case number, court and step for each hearing
- Skips Friday and Saturday automatically
- Opens the dashboard in one tap
Under the hood
Boring on purpose.
Fee tracking and scheduling only work when they are exactly right. Here is what exactly right means.
Simple ledger, not accounting software
Two columns per case, charged and collected, and a balance. No invoices, no tax codes. It answers the one question the chamber asks: how much does this client still owe?
The digest goes to seniors only
Juniors and the muhuri live in the app all day. The senior reads email. The digest is written for the reader who glances at it once and puts the phone down.
Bangladesh time, end to end
Every date in Tarikh is computed in Asia/Dhaka. A tarikh entered at 11:30 pm stays on that date, the digest fires at 7 am BST and the weekend is Friday and Saturday, not Saturday and Sunday.
Consistent across devices
A phone set to a foreign timezone, a laptop set to UTC and the server all agree on which day a hearing is on, because the app decides, not the device.
Why timezones matter
A wrong day is a missed hearing.
Most software stores time in UTC and shows it in whatever timezone the device happens to be in. For a chamber that is dangerous. Bangladesh is six hours ahead of UTC, so a tarikh saved late in the evening can appear on the previous day, and a morning reminder scheduled for seven can arrive at one in the afternoon when the clocks are read differently on the server.
Tarikh fixes the timezone to Asia/Dhaka at the application level. Dates are stored as calendar dates, not timestamps, so a hearing on the eighteenth is on the eighteenth regardless of where the phone was bought or what the laptop's clock says. The digest scheduler runs on Bangladesh time and knows that the working week is Sunday to Thursday.
The dues ledger benefits from the same discipline. Each payment carries the date it was recorded, in Bangladesh time, and the name of the member who recorded it. When the case is exported as a PDF for the client or the chamber's accountant, the ledger goes with it, alongside the hearings and notes, in the same order every time.
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