Almost every tailoring shop gives advances, and almost none of them write the advance in the same place as the wage. It is remembered, or it is on a slip in the drawer, and on the last day of the month two people are remembering different numbers in front of everyone else.
The argument is never really about the money. It is about the fact that only one person had the record, and that person is the one who benefits from being right. Once an advance is recorded against the person the moment it is handed over, wage day stops being a negotiation and becomes arithmetic.
The same applies to a half day taken for a hospital visit, an hour off for a school function, and the day someone came in on a holiday because a delivery was due. All of it is remembered warmly in the week it happens and disputed a month later.
None of this is about distrusting the people who work for you. It is the opposite: a written record protects the karigar who genuinely worked those two extra Sundays as much as it protects the owner. On keeping good people, the karigar management guide covers the rest, and wages themselves are handled in tailor payroll software.