Your customers
- Tanneries in Kanpur, Unnao, Ambur, Vaniyambadi, Ranipet and Kolkata
- Hide brokers and commission agents
- Large hide merchants in tannery towns
Clothing and textiles · Traders and distributors
MatruOS for a raw hide and skin merchant
Set up the way a raw hide and skin merchant runs: buying raw goat and sheep skins and buffalo and cow hides, curing them with salt, grading and selling to tanneries by the piece or kg. 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 raw hide and skin merchant deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Skins arrive late or are salted late and putrefy, losing the whole piece. Bakrid flood needs cash, salt and labour all at once and leads to distress sales.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 9 routines, 1 workflow, 3 registers and 5 licences for a raw hide and skin merchant, 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.
- Abattoir or meat shop
- collector
- hide merchant (salting and grading)
- tannery
Your suppliers
- Mutton shops and goat and sheep abattoirs
- Municipal and private buffalo abattoirs
- Skin collectors (pheriwalas)
- Bakrid collections (households, madrasas, trusts)
- Salt suppliers
Credit and cash
Collectors paid cash daily or against advances; abattoir hides often on contract with advance; tanneries pay 15-60 days, some on bills discounted by brokers
Cash goes out every morning while tannery money comes in 2-8 weeks; Bakrid needs several weeks of cash in three days, usually from informal loans
Your screens use your words
CustomerTanneryOrderLotItemSkinInvoiceBillSupplierCollectorproductGrade
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a raw hide and skin merchant
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Raw hide and skin merchant", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a raw hide and skin merchantRoutines, 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 raw hide and skin merchant
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.
Watches time received and time salted for each lot and alerts when a lot is not salted within 4 hours; ranks collectors by late or damaged skins
Works it out and shows you
Shows each tannery's dues and days outstanding, links graded lot photos to bills for disputes, and drafts reminders
Asks you before sending
Estimates Bakrid skins, cash, salt, workers and space needed, and drafts the plan with expected tannery rates
Works it out and shows you
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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 amMorning skin intake and count
- 1Count and weigh skins from each collector and abattoir
- 2Write the time received against each lot
- 3Pay or note due to each collector
10:00 amSame-day salting of every skin
- 1Trim loose flesh and fat and spread flesh side up
- 2Salt at no less than 35-40% of green weight
- 3Hours from receipt to salt
3:00 pmGrading cured piles
- 1Open piles salted 7-14 days ago
- 2Shake off salt and grade by size and defects
- 3Photograph a sample of each grade for the buyer
Every week
SatTannery dues and exposure
- 1List each tannery's unpaid bills and days outstanding
- 2Check news of closure orders in the tannery cluster
- 3Decide whether to send the next lot on credit
MonStock in salt and its value
- 1Total pieces and kg in salt by kind and age
- 2Value at this week's tannery rates
Every month
1stMonthly putrefaction and reject review
- 1Total skins lost to putrefaction and rejects by collector
- 2Talk to collectors whose skins arrive late
Every year
MarTrade licence and godown permissions
- 1Renew the municipal trade licence for the hide godown
- 2Check state rules on hide transport and any pollution board consent for the salting yard
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.
Skin from collector to tannery payment
- 1Received, counted and weighed
- 2Salted and piled
- 3Cured and graded
- 4Rate and lot agreed with tanneryNeeds approval
- 5Loaded with bill
- 6Paid
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.
Daily skin purchase book
Salting pile and grading register
Tannery sales and dues
Wet-salt curing
Stop putrefaction so that the skin keeps its grain and area
Grading cured skins
Grade honestly so the tannery pays the agreed rate without disputes
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Wet-salted goat skin (medium) | 4103 | 5% |
| Wet-salted goat skin (Bakrid lot) | 4103 | 5% |
| Wet-salted sheep skin | 4102 | 5% |
| Wet-salted buffalo hide | 4101 | 5% |
| Wet-salted cow hide | 4101 | 5% |
| Rejected and damaged skins (for glue and gelatine) | 4115 | 5% |
| Hide trimmings and fleshings | 0511 | 5% |
- GST registration
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- Trade licence
- Pollution consent (CTO)If it applies
- Shops and Establishments registrationIf 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.
Merchant (owner)Fixes buying rates with collectors and abattoirs, sells to tanneries, arranges cash for Bakrid, collects dues.
MunshiCounts and weighs skins in, writes the purchase book, pays collectors, keeps pile records.
Salting and grading workerFleshes, salts and piles skins, shakes and grades cured skins, loads trucks.
CollectorBuys skins at meat shops and abattoirs early morning and brings them to the godown.
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 raw hide and skin merchant?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Raw hide and skin merchant". 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 traders and distributors in clothing and textiles
Run a raw hide and skin merchant 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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