Your customers
- Cosmetics and fancy wholesalers
- Parlours and mehendi artists
- Hair-colour and herbal brands
- Exporters and foreign importers
- Puja and general stores
Beauty and personal care · Makers and factories
MatruOS for a henna powder and cone maker
Set up the way a henna powder and cone maker runs: henna powder (bulk and retail packs), body-art quality powder, mehendi cones, henna-based hair colour packs, and leaf trade; exports. Routines, workflows, registers, licences and an AI team that knows the work are ready when you sign up.
Ready when you sign up
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What this solves
What a henna powder and cone maker deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Leaf bought by eye; sand and weak dye lots eat the margin. Old powder loses colour in the godown.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 9 routines, 2 workflows, 3 registers and 9 licences for a henna powder and cone maker, with an AI team that reads your own records and prepares the work.
What changes
The right person is reminded at the right time, approvals wait for whoever decides, and every licence has a renewal reminder. Anything that sends, pays, signs, files or deletes waits for a person's approval.
Where you sit
MatruOS starts from how your business earns
Who you sell to, who you buy from, how credit moves and where you sit in the chain decide how your screens, reminders and reports are set up.
- Henna farmer
- Sojat mandi agent
- powder mill
- cone maker, brand or exporter
- shop or parlour
- customer
Your suppliers
- Henna farmers and commission agents at the Sojat mandi
- Cellophane and cone material sellers
- Essential oil traders
- Pack printers
Credit and cash
Leaves bought at the mandi for cash or through the commission agent within a few days; wholesalers 15-45 days; exports advance or LC; cone makers sell cash to local shops
Big leaf buying in the post-harvest months needs cash; powder sold through the year; cone sales spike for festivals and weddings
Your screens use your words
CustomerPartyItemMehendiInvoiceBillproductGradeSupplierKisan or arhatiya
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a henna powder and cone maker
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Henna powder and cone maker", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a henna powder and cone makerRoutines, workflows, registers, items, licences and the AI team for this trade are set up for you.
- Bring your dataCustomers, items and balances come across from Zoho Books, Vyapar, Excel and others. For Tally, our team helps you move the data while Tally import is checked on the live app.
- Approve and runThe AI team prepares the routine work. A person approves anything that sends, pays, signs, files or deletes.
Your AI team
What the AI team does for a henna powder and cone maker
Each job goes to a member of your AI team. It reads your own records and prepares the work. Anything that sends, pays, signs, files or deletes waits for a person's approval.
Works out how much leaf to buy this season from orders and stock, tracks debris and colour per agent, and suggests a price ceiling
Works it out and shows you
Lists overdue parties and drafts reminders and statements
Asks you before sending
Lists powder batches by age and suggests which to sell or move to bulk first
Works it out and shows you
Plans cone dozens per party for each festival and drafts advance-booking messages to wholesalers and parlours
Asks you before sending
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How you run
Your routines, already on a timetable
Each routine has a time, a person and its steps with the checks that matter. MatruOS reminds the right person and keeps the record. Open one to see its steps.
Every day
8:00 amClean, grind and sift
- 1Winnow and remove stems, seeds and sand
- 2Grind and sift to the batch's mesh
- 3Debris removed from the lot (%)
9:30 amMix paste and fill cones
- 1Mix powder, water, sugar and essential oil; rest the paste
- 2Fill, twist and seal cones; date each carton
- 3Paste has no added chemical dye
10:00 amBuy leaf at the Sojat mandi (harvest months)
- 1Check lots for green colour, smell and sand by hand
- 2Bid and note boras, weight and rate
- 3Moisture by feel: leaves crisp, not damp
3:00 pmBatch quality check
- 1Sieve test and colour stain test on the palm or a cotton swatch
- 2Lawsone result from the lab for export and body-art batches
- 3Keep a 100 g sample of each batch
Every week
MonDispatch and party dues
- 1Plan the week's dispatches
- 2List parties past due and send reminders
Every month
1stPowder stock and age check
- 1List powder batches older than 9 months; dye fades with age and heat
- 2Move old stock to bulk or hair-colour use first
Every year
MarLicences, GI use and export registration
- 1Renew the mandi trader licence and check GI authorised-user status for Sojat Mehndi
- 2Update IEC and export buyer registrations
Workflows
Each stage goes to the person who handles it
Work passes stage by stage to the right person. Stages marked for approval wait for the person who decides.
Export or brand order
- 1Sample sent and approvedNeeds approval
- 2Batch made to mesh and lawsone spec
- 3Lab report and packing
- 4Dispatched
- 5Paid
Leaf lot from mandi to powder
- 1Bought at mandi
- 2Cleaned and debris weighed
- 3Ground into a batch
- 4Batch passedNeeds approval
Registers and SOPs
Your registers and standards
Registers hold the fields this trade records. SOPs carry the steps and checks, so work is done the same way every time.
Leaf purchase lots
Powder and cone batches
Orders and dues
Henna powder quality
Powder gives the colour the buyer expects and is clean
Safe mehendi cones
No cone burns or stains skin with chemical dye
Items and licences
Your first bill is right, and no licence lapses
Starter items arrive with unit, HSN and GST rate. The registrations this business usually needs are listed with a reminder before each one expires.
| Item | HSN | GST |
|---|---|---|
| Henna powder (bulk) | 1404 | 5% |
| Body-art quality henna powder (triple sifted) | 1404 | 5% |
| Henna powder retail pack (100 g) | 1404 | 5% |
| Mehendi cones | 1404 | 5% |
| Bridal or organic mehendi cones | 1404 | 5% |
| Henna hair colour pack (with herbs) | 3305 | 18% |
| Henna leaves (cleaned) | 1404 | 5% |
| Henna powder for export | 1404 | 0% |
- GST registration
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- APMC mandi licenceIf it applies
- Cosmetics manufacturing licenceIf it applies
- Packaged commodities registration (Legal Metrology)
- Import Export Code (IEC)If it applies
- Pollution consent (CTO)If it applies
- Factory licenceIf it applies
- TrademarkIf it applies
Your people
The people who run it, each with their own login
Each person sees the screens and reminders for the work they do.
OwnerBuys leaf at the mandi, sets grades and prices, deals with brands and exporters.
Mill operatorCleans, grinds and sifts leaf, keeps the pulveriser running.
Quality checkerChecks mesh, colour and lawsone, keeps samples.
Cone fillerMixes paste and fills, seals and packs cones (mostly women).
Packer and dispatchPacks bags and cartons, books transport.
Not covered yet
- Sending messages, bills and reminders on WhatsApp from MatruOS is not live yet. Today they go by link, QR code or email, and from your own phone in one tap.
- Live bank and UPI feeds are not connected yet. Upload a bank statement and MatruOS reads it into payments for you to confirm.
Questions people ask
How long does it take to set up MatruOS for a henna powder and cone maker?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Henna powder and cone maker". MatruOS picks this business type and sets up everything on this page in a few minutes. You then get a 7-day free trial, no card needed.
Do I have to type all of this in?
No. The routines, workflows, registers, items, licences and AI team on this page arrive already set up. You change what is different in your business, and bring your customers, items and balances from Zoho Books, Vyapar, Excel and others, with our team's help for Tally data.
Can I change the routines and workflows?
Yes. Every routine, workflow, register and SOP is yours to rename, retime, switch off or add to. MatruOS keeps the rest of the system in step with your changes.
What does the AI team do without asking me?
It runs routine checks and prepares drafts. Anything that sends, pays, signs, files or deletes waits for a person's approval. The one exception you can choose is payment reminders, which go out on their own once you have checked them and switched them on.
Beauty and personal care
Other makers and factories in beauty and personal care
Run a henna powder and cone maker on one system Set up for your trade when you sign up.
Describe your business once. MatruOS sets up your apps, brings in your data and puts Muni and the AI team to work, with your approval on every step that matters. 7-day free trial, no card needed.
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