Your customers
- Spinning mills through cotton brokers
- Cotton traders and exporters
- Cottonseed oil mills and cattle-feed traders
- CCI and traders (job ginning)
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MatruOS for a cotton ginning and pressing business
Set up the way a cotton ginning and pressing business runs: trading margin on kapas converted to lint bales, cottonseed and gin waste (parity), plus job ginning and pressing charges per bale for CCI and traders. Routines, workflows, registers, licences and an AI team that knows the work are ready when you sign up.
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What this solves
What a cotton ginning and pressing business deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Kapas is bought at a rate the lint and seed cannot cover and the owner sees the loss only at season end. Outturn falls from moisture, trash or worn rollers and nobody notices for days.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 9 routines, 2 workflows, 4 registers and 12 licences for a cotton ginning and pressing business, 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.
- farmer
- adatiya (APMC)
- ginner
- broker
- spinning mill; seed
- oil mill
Your suppliers
- Farmers and adatiyas at the APMC (kapas)
- Village traders
- Bale wrap, strap and spares suppliers
- Gin and press repair workshops (Rajkot, Ahmedabad)
Credit and cash
Pays adatiyas and farmers 0-15 days (farmer sale by bank under APMC rules); mills pay 15-45 days; seed buyers 0-15 days; CCI pays job charges after reconciliation
Bank cash credit against kapas and bale stock (margin 25%); peak borrowing Nov-Jan; season-end settlement of broker contracts and claims Apr-May; idle Jun-Sep with only fixed costs
Your screens use your words
CustomerMillOrderContractItemBaleInvoiceBale billSupplierAdatiyaproductLint
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a cotton ginning and pressing business
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Cotton ginning and pressing", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a cotton ginning and pressing businessRoutines, 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 cotton ginning and pressing business
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.
Recomputes parity each morning from last week's outturn, pressing cost, candy and seed rates, and shows the highest kapas bid that still makes money plus the drawing power left on the cash credit
Works it out and shows you
Works out outturn per lot, per gin line and per adatiya, flags a drop of more than half a point, and suggests a roller change or a tighter moisture check
Works it out and shows you
Lists contracts due for lifting, ages mill payments, matches each claim to the bale's weight slip and HVI report, and drafts the reply and reminder for the owner
Asks you before sending
Totals days per worker and gang, nets advances given through the mukadam, and prepares the weekly pay list and season-end settlement
Asks you before paying
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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
7:00 amGin and press in two shifts
- 1Allot lots to gin lines; one lot at a time per line so lots do not mix
- 2Check roller groove and gap at shift start
- 3Press bales and record pressing numbers against the lot
8:00 amWork out today's parity and buying limit
- 1Take today's candy rate from brokers and cottonseed rate from oil mills
- 2Use last week's outturn and pressing cost to work out the most the gin can pay for a quintal of kapas
- 3Set the buyer's top bid and quantity for the day
10:00 amBuy kapas at the APMC yard and the gate
- 1Bid heap by heap within the day's limit; note adatiya, heap and rate
- 2Check moisture of each lot with the meter
- 3Send lorries to the factory weighbridge with the purchase slip
7:00 pmClose the day's outturn and stock
- 1Kapas ginned, lint kg and seed kg per lot
- 2Outturn of the day
- 3Bales in godown and kapas heaps left
Every week
Mon, ThuLift bales against contracts and chase mill payments
- 1List contracts due for lifting this week and bales ready
- 2Send HVI reports and bale lists to brokers
- 3Call mills whose payment is past 30 days
SunPay the labour gangs and settle advances
- 1Days per worker by shift from the gate register
- 2Deduct advances given through the mukadam; pay by bank or cash with signatures
Every month
7thBank stock statement and GST returns
- 1Value kapas, bales and seed at cost or market for the bank's drawing power
- 2File GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B; pay reverse charge on kapas bought from farmers
- 3Send the stock statement to the bank
Every year
Apr, MayClose the season and settle accounts
- 1Settle every broker contract and open claim
- 2Season outturn, cost per candy and profit per bale
- 3Renew factory licence, consent and APMC licence for next season
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.
Kapas to bale sale
- 1Broker brings mill enquiry with spec
- 2Rate and lifting period fixedNeeds approval
- 3Bales picked by lot and HVI sent
- 4Loaded with invoice and e-way bill
- 5Mill receives and confirms weight
- 6Payment or claim settledNeeds approval
Kapas lot purchase
- 1Bid won at the yard
- 2Weighed in and moisture cut agreed
- 3Payment to adatiya approvedNeeds approval
- 4Paid by bank
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.
Kapas purchase
Pressing register
Bale contracts
Season labour and advances
Kapas receiving and moisture check
Pay a fair price for what will actually come out as lint
Bale pressing and marking
Ship bales that pass the mill's weight and identity checks
Lint fire safety
Prevent and contain lint and kapas fires
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cotton lint bale (about 170 kg) | 5201 | 5% |
| Cotton lint bale (organic or BCI lot) | 5201 | 5% |
| Cottonseed | 1207 | 5% |
| Gin motes and cotton waste | 5202 | 5% |
| Kapas trash and husk (fuel) | 1404 | 5% |
| Job ginning and pressing charge | 998821 | 5% |
- GST registration
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- Factory licence
- Pollution consent (CTO)
- APMC mandi licence
- Weighing scale stamping
- Fire NOC
- PF registration (EPFO)
- ESI registration (ESIC)
- Contract labour licenceIf it applies
- BIS licence (ISI mark)If it applies
- Insurance policy
Your people
The people who run it, each with their own login
Each person sees the screens and reminders for the work they do.
OwnerSets daily parity and buying limit, sells bales through brokers, manages bank cash credit, approves claims.
Kapas buyerBids at the APMC yard, checks moisture and trash, books lorries.
Ginning supervisorRuns gins in two shifts, changes rollers, records outturn per lot.
Press operatorPresses bales, marks pressing numbers, wraps and straps.
Lab personDraws lot samples, runs or sends HVI tests, keeps test reports.
MunimWrites purchase pattis, bale bills, e-way bills, wages and advances.
MukadamBrings and manages the migrant labour gang, handles their advances.
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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 cotton ginning and pressing business?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Cotton ginning and pressing". 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.
Clothing and textiles
Other makers and factories in clothing and textiles
Run a cotton ginning and pressing business 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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