Your customers
- Fair and exhibition buyers
- State emporia and ODOP outlets
- Corporate gifting buyers
- Exporters and home decor importers
- Online marketplaces
- GeM buyers (government offices)
Clothing and textiles · Makers and factories
MatruOS for a grass and natural-fibre craft maker
Set up the way a grass and natural-fibre craft maker runs: selling baskets, boxes, trays, coasters, planters, lamps, bags, wall plates and gift hampers; corporate and festival gifting orders; export orders through exporters. 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 grass and natural-fibre craft maker deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Piece counts and grass issued to dozens of women kept on paper. Corporate orders run late because nobody sees which order is behind.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 7 routines, 1 workflow, 3 registers and 6 licences for a grass and natural-fibre craft 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.
- grass or shell collector
- dyer and artisan (coil, plait, weave, carve)
- SHG or lead artisan
- fair, emporium, gifting buyer or exporter
Your suppliers
- Grass cutters and farmers
- Forest or village common land (permission for some grasses)
- Dye and colour sellers
- Needles and thread sellers
- Packing material sellers
- Coconut shell from oil mills and temples
Credit and cash
Fairs and online are cash or weekly settlement; emporia 30-90 days or consignment; corporate orders take a 30-50% advance with the balance 15-45 days after delivery; exporters pay 30-60 days
Grass bought once a year in the cutting season ties up money; corporate orders bunch before Diwali
Your screens use your words
CustomerBuyerItemPieceInvoiceBillproductDesign
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a grass and natural-fibre craft 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 "Grass and natural-fibre craft maker", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a grass and natural-fibre craft 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 grass and natural-fibre craft 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.
Totals each artisan's good pieces at piece rates, nets material shortfalls and prepares the weekly pay list
Asks you before paying
Compares pieces made with each order's due date, flags orders behind and suggests which artisans and dye lots to move
Works it out and shows you
Ages unpaid bills and consignment stock by buyer and drafts statements and reminders
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
10:00 amIssue grass and set the day's designs
- 1Issue dyed grass by design and quantity
- 2Note kg issued against each artisan
4:30 pmCheck and count pieces received
- 1Check coil tightness, shape and colour match
- 2Count good and rejected pieces
Every week
SatWeekly artisan payment
- 1Total pieces by artisan at piece rates
- 2Pay by bank transfer or cash with signature
MonOrder status and delivery plan
- 1Compare pieces made with each order's quantity and date
- 2Move artisans to orders that are behind
Every month
8thEmporium, exporter and GeM dues
- 1List unpaid bills and consignment stock
- 2Send statements and reminders
Every year
AugDiwali corporate gifting push
- 1Send gift hamper samples and price lists to corporate buyers
- 2Book packing material for the 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.
Corporate or export order
- 1Sample made and sent
- 2Buyer approves sample and priceNeeds approval
- 3Advance received
- 4Grass dyed and issued
- 5Pieces made and checked
- 6Packed and delivered with bill
- 7Payment received
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.
Artisan material and piece ledger
Order book
Dye lot book
Piece quality check
Pieces match the approved sample so orders are not rejected
Grass dyeing and storage
Even colour lots and no fungus in stored grass
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Moonj coiled basket (medium) | 4602 | 5% |
| Moonj or sikki lidded box (small) | 4602 | 5% |
| Sikki grass figure or wall plate | 4602 | 5% |
| Golden grass tray or bag | 4602 | 5% |
| Willow wicker basket | 4602 | 5% |
| Banana fibre bag | 4602 | 5% |
| Palm leaf kottan basket | 4602 | 5% |
| Coconut shell bowl or lamp | 9602 | 5% |
| Coaster set (6) | 4602 | 5% |
| Festival gift hamper basket (packed) | 4602 | 5% |
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- GST registrationIf it applies
- Import Export Code (IEC)If it applies
- Export council membership (RCMC)If it applies
- GeM seller registrationIf it applies
- Forest department licence (sawmill or timber)If 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.
Lead artisanTakes orders, designs, issues grass, checks pieces, deals with buyers.
ArtisanCoils, plaits, weaves or carves pieces at home or the centre.
DyerBoils and dyes grass in lots, dries it.
SHG accountantKeeps ledgers, pays artisans, bills, GeM and fair paperwork.
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 grass and natural-fibre craft maker?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Grass and natural-fibre craft 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.
Clothing and textiles
Other makers and factories in clothing and textiles
Run a grass and natural-fibre craft 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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