Your customers
- Households
- Interior designers and contractors
- Hotels, restaurants and offices
- Furniture showrooms (job work)
- Housing societies and clubs (repairs)
Construction and home · Makers and factories
MatruOS for a sofa maker and upholsterer
Set up the way a sofa maker and upholsterer runs: made-to-order sofas, sofa-cum-beds, upholstered beds, dining and accent chairs and cushions; repair, re-foaming and re-covering of old furniture; job work for showrooms and interior designers. 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 sofa maker and upholsterer deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Promised dates and advances are in a diary; jobs get forgotten and customers shout. Quotes made by guess; fabric metres and foam cost eat the margin.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 7 routines, 1 workflow, 3 registers and 5 licences for a sofa maker and upholsterer, 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.
- timber, foam and fabric dealers
- sofa workshop
- household or showroom
Your suppliers
- Timber and plywood shop
- Foam dealer (cut sheets by density)
- Fabric and leatherette dealers
- Springs, webbing, legs and hardware dealers
- Fibre and cotton suppliers
Credit and cash
Households: 40-50% advance and balance on delivery; designers and showrooms: 15-45 days; suppliers: cash or weekly credit
Advance funds the materials; balance comes on delivery. Showroom job work is paid 30-45 days later. Cash is tight when many orders are half-made in festival months.
Your screens use your words
ItemPieceInvoiceBillproductDesign
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a sofa maker and upholsterer
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Sofa maker and upholsterer", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a sofa maker and upholstererRoutines, 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 sofa maker and upholsterer
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 jobs due in 3 days with their stage, flags jobs that will miss the date, and lists fabric and foam still to buy
Works it out and shows you
Drafts WhatsApp updates to customers with the finished-piece photo, delivery time and balance due
Asks you before sending
Compares each job's quote with materials and labour used and suggests a revised rate card
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
10:00 amMorning job plan and promised dates
- 1List jobs due in the next 3 days and their stage
- 2Give each karigar the day's jobs
- 3List fabric and foam to buy today
10:30 amFoam and fabric cutting and build
- 1Cut foam by the density written on the order
- 2Lay fabric to match pattern and pile direction before cutting
- 3Note fabric metres used against the order
6:30 pmEvening delivery and pick-up calls
- 1Call customers for tomorrow's delivery or pick-up
- 2Send photo of finished piece and balance due
- 3Confirm balance mode (cash or UPI)
Every week
Sat 7:00 pmSaturday karigar payment
- 1Total days and pieces per karigar
- 2Deduct advances and pay
Every month
2ndMonthly job profit check
- 1For each delivered job: quote vs fabric, foam, timber and labour
- 2Note designs or job types that lose money
- 3Revise rate card for re-covering and re-foaming
Every year
AprYearly shop licence and fire check
- 1Renew shop and trade licence
- 2Check extinguisher near foam and fabric stock
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.
Order to delivery and balance
- 1Measured and quoted
- 2Advance taken and fabric approvedNeeds approval
- 3Frame made or repaired
- 4Upholstered and finished
- 5Delivered and balance collected
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.
Order and advance diary
Fabric and foam purchase book
Karigar attendance and piece book
Measuring, quoting and condition note
No surprise costs and no argument at delivery
Sofa build quality
A sofa that does not sag, squeak or crease in the first years
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 3+1+1 sofa set (fabric) made to order | 9401 | 18% |
| L-shape sofa (fabric) | 9401 | 18% |
| Sofa-cum-bed | 9401 | 18% |
| Upholstered bed with headboard (queen) | 9403 | 18% |
| Dining chair upholstered | 9401 | 18% |
| Sofa re-covering labour | 998719 | 18% |
| Sofa re-foaming with new foam | 998719 | 18% |
| Frame and spring repair | 998719 | 18% |
| Cushion with cover (made to order) | 9404 | 18% |
| Pick-up and delivery | 9965 | 18% |
- Shops and Establishments registration
- Trade licence
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- GST registrationIf it applies
- Professional tax 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.
Owner (mistri)Meets customers, measures and quotes, takes advances, buys fabric and foam, checks finished work.
CarpenterMakes and repairs frames, fixes springs and webbing base.
UpholstererCuts foam and fabric, builds seats and backs, covers and stitches.
Helper and delivery boyPicks up and delivers furniture, fits legs and cushions, cleans the shop.
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 sofa maker and upholsterer?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Sofa maker and upholsterer". 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.
Construction and home
Other makers and factories in construction and home
Run a sofa maker and upholsterer 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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