Your customers
- Builders and developers
- Showroom, hospital and hotel owners
- Architects and interior firms (as sub-contractor)
- Industrial buildings
- Government buildings through main contractors
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MatruOS for an ACP and façade contractor
Set up the way an ACP and façade contractor runs: supply and fixing contracts for ACP cladding, structural glazing, curtain walls, spider glazing, louvers and skylights, billed per sq ft or sq m of measured area; maintenance contracts for silicone and glass replacement. 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 an ACP and façade contractor deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Running bills wait weeks for joint measurement and certification. Retention money is forgotten after the defect period.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 8 routines, 1 workflow, 3 registers and 10 licences for an ACP and façade contractor, 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.
- ACP and glass makers
- façade contractor
- builder or main contractor
- building owner
Your suppliers
- ACP sheet makers and dealers
- Aluminium extrusion dealers
- Glass processors (toughened and DGU)
- Structural silicone and sealant suppliers
- Fasteners, anchors and brackets suppliers
- Scaffold and gondola rental
- Transporters
Credit and cash
Mobilisation advance 10-30%; running bills paid in 15-45 days less 5-10% retention; retention released after the 12-month defect liability; ACP and glass suppliers want advance or 15-30 days
Material is 55-70% of the contract and is paid for before fixing; running bills are certified 1-2 weeks after measurement and paid 2-6 weeks later; retention sits 12-15 months
Your screens use your words
CustomerClientOrderWork orderItemElevation itemInvoiceRunning billproductSystem
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for an ACP and façade contractor
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "ACP and façade contractor", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as an ACP and façade contractorRoutines, 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 an ACP and façade contractor
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.
Summarises area fixed by elevation, compares material received and used, lists shortages for the next 3 days, and drafts the client progress note with photos
Asks you before sending
Builds the running bill from signed measurements, with previous bills, retention, TDS and GST, and lists certified bills not yet paid
Asks you before sending
Lists retentions whose defect period has ended and unpaid certified bills, and drafts the release letters
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
8:30 amMorning toolbox talk and height-safety check
- 1Count fixers and check each harness and lanyard
- 2Lifeline anchored and gondola or scaffold tagged safe
- 3Wind speed check; stop gondola work above the maker's limit
11:00 amStructural silicone pour and cure check
- 1Surfaces cleaned with solvent two-cloth method and primed
- 2Butterfly and snap test on the two-part mix
- 3Units not moved before the cure time
5:30 pmDaily progress and material at site
- 1Area fixed today by elevation and item
- 2Photos of progress for the client group
- 3Material short for the next 3 days
Every week
Sat 5:00 pmWeekly fixer labour payment
- 1Attendance and area fixed per gang
- 2Pay advances and weekly wages; owner approves
Every month
1stFortnightly measurement and running bill
- 1Joint measurement with client engineer; get signature
- 2Prepare running bill with retention and TDS
- 3Submit and note the certification date
20thMonthly dues and retention review
- 1List running bills certified but unpaid and days since
- 2List retentions whose defect period has ended
- 3Write to clients for release with handover documents
Every year
AprYearly insurance and labour registrations
- 1Renew contractor's all-risk and workmen's compensation policies
- 2Register workers under BOCW board where the state requires
- 3Renew contract labour licence for sites over the threshold
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.
Façade job from quote to retention release
- 1Survey and quotation
- 2Work order and advance receivedNeeds approval
- 3Shop drawings approved by architectNeeds approval
- 4Material ordered and received
- 5Frames and panels fixed
- 6Water test and handover
- 7Final bill paid and retention released
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.
Work order and measurement book
Glass and ACP order tracker
Daily site and height-safety log
Work at height on façades
Zero falls and no dropped objects
Structural glazing and cladding quality
No leaks, no falling panels, no fire risk from the wrong core
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ACP cladding supply and fixing (4 mm FR) on aluminium frame | 995479 | 18% |
| ACP cladding supply and fixing (4 mm PE) on GI frame | 995479 | 18% |
| Structural glazing with 8 mm toughened glass | 995479 | 18% |
| Structural glazing with DGU (24 mm) | 995479 | 18% |
| Spider glazing with 12 mm toughened glass | 995479 | 18% |
| Aluminium louvers | 995479 | 18% |
| Labour-only ACP fixing | 995479 | 18% |
| Silicone re-sealing and glass replacement service | 995479 | 18% |
- GST registration
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- Shops and Establishments registration
- PF registration (EPFO)
- ESI registration (ESIC)
- Insurance policy
- Contract labour licenceIf it applies
- Government contractor registrationIf it applies
- Professional tax registrationIf it applies
- Trade licenceIf 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.
Owner (contractor)Quotes and negotiates, signs work orders, buys ACP and glass, chases running bills and retention.
Site engineerMeasures site, makes shop drawings, plans fixing, certifies measurements with the client.
Fixing foremanLeads the fixer gang, marks lines, fixes frames and panels, applies silicone.
Workshop supervisorCuts and routs ACP, folds trays, cuts sections, packs for site.
Safety supervisorChecks harness, lifelines, scaffold and gondola, runs toolbox talk.
AccountantRunning bill records, supplier payments, TDS and GST, retention list, labour payroll.
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 an ACP and façade contractor?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "ACP and façade contractor". 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.
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Run an ACP and façade contractor 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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