Your customers
- Home buyers and gift buyers
- Interior designers, hotels and offices
- Temples and devotees
- Galleries and emporia
- Online buyers
- Corporate gift buyers
- Overseas buyers through exporters
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MatruOS for a folk and Tanjore painting studio
Set up the way a folk and Tanjore painting studio runs: selling paintings and painted products (sarees, stoles, boxes, wall plates); commissions for homes, temples, hotels and offices; corporate gifting; workshops and classes. 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 folk and Tanjore painting studio deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Commission clients keep calling for updates and some cancel when they hear nothing. Works on consignment with galleries and emporia are lost track of and paid late.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 7 routines, 1 workflow, 3 registers and 6 licences for a folk and Tanjore painting studio, 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.
- materials and gold foil
- artist or studio
- own shop, gallery, emporium, online or designer
- buyer
Your suppliers
- Handmade paper and canvas sellers
- Plywood, chalk powder and gum sellers
- Gold-foil makers (22-carat and imitation)
- Jaipur stone sellers
- Natural and poster colour sellers
- Frame makers
Credit and cash
Commissions take a 30-50% advance and the rest on delivery; galleries and emporia pay 30-90 days or on consignment; online marketplaces settle in 7-15 days; materials bought for cash
Gold foil and large commissions tie up cash for weeks; sales bunch in the wedding and festival season and at big fairs
Your screens use your words
CustomerClientOrderCommissionItemPaintingInvoiceBillproductWork
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a folk and Tanjore painting studio
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Folk and Tanjore painting studio", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a folk and Tanjore painting studioRoutines, 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 folk and Tanjore painting studio
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.
Lists commissions due an update with their stage and date and drafts the photo message to each client
Asks you before sending
Drafts online listings with the form's history, subject, size, materials and price for each new work
Asks you before sending
Matches consignment stock with sales reported, ages unpaid sales and checks foil and material cost against each commission's price
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
9:00 amDay's painting work in daylight
- 1Assign each painter their works and stage
- 2Check yesterday's stages before moving on
Every week
TueSend stage photos to commission clients
- 1Photograph each commission at its current stage
- 2Send the photo and expected date to the client
FriList new works online and on social media
- 1Photograph finished works square-on in daylight
- 2Write the story of the form and subject with size and price
Every month
5thGallery, emporium and online settlement check
- 1Match consignment stock with works sold
- 2Chase unpaid sales past 60 days
25thGold foil and materials count
- 1Count foil books left and compare with works issued
- 2Buy foil before price rises if commissions are booked
Every year
JunAward entries and GI and scheme renewals
- 1Prepare entries for state and national handicraft awards
- 2Renew GI authorised-user and Pehchan card details
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.
Commission to delivery
- 1Brief and price agreed
- 2Advance received
- 3Sketch approved by clientNeeds approval
- 4Board and relief done
- 5Foil and painting done
- 6Faces finished and signed
- 7Framed and delivered
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.
Commission book
Works and consignment stock
Gold foil and materials book
Thanjavur painting stages
The relief and foil last for generations without cracking
Framing and shipping a work
Works reach buyers undamaged with proof of authenticity
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Madhubani painting on handmade paper (A3) | 9701 | 5% |
| Pattachitra on cloth (large) | 9701 | 5% |
| Phad or Cherial scroll | 9701 | 5% |
| Warli or Gond canvas (2x3 ft) | 9701 | 5% |
| Thanjavur painting 15x12 inch with 22 ct foil and frame | 9701 | 5% |
| Thanjavur painting 36x24 inch commission | 9701 | 5% |
| Mysore painting (medium) | 9701 | 5% |
| Hand-painted stole or saree | 5007 | 5% |
| Painting workshop (per participant) | 999293 | 18% |
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- GST registrationIf it applies
- Shops and Establishments registrationIf it applies
- Import Export Code (IEC)If it applies
- Export council membership (RCMC)If 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.
Master artistDraws, designs, finishes faces and fine work, prices, meets clients.
PainterPrepares boards, fills colour, sets stones, lays foil.
Studio managerTakes commissions, keeps stock and consignments, lists online, ships.
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 folk and Tanjore painting studio?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Folk and Tanjore painting studio". 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 folk and Tanjore painting studio 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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