Your customers
- House owners
- Shopkeepers
- Small factories
- Builders and contractors
- Schools and offices
Construction and home · Makers and factories
MatruOS for a steel fabrication works
Set up the way a steel fabrication works runs: labour and margin built into a per-kg or per-sq-ft price for gates, grills, shutters, railings and sheds; job work for factories. 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 steel fabrication works deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Estimates by eye; steel weight and wastage under-counted so jobs lose money. Balances after fitting stuck for months or cut by haggling.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 9 routines, 2 workflows, 3 registers and 5 licences for a steel fabrication works, 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.
- Steel mill
- distributor
- stockist
- fabrication shop
- home, shop or factory
Your suppliers
- Steel stockists
- Hardware and electrode shops
- Paint dealers
- Shutter spring and pipe suppliers
- Roofing sheet dealers
Credit and cash
Homes and shops 30-50% advance, balance on fitting (often 1-3 months late); factories 30-60 days on PO; stockist gives 15-30 days to known fabricators
The advance buys the steel. Welders are paid weekly in cash. Balances arrive slowly after fitting.
Your screens use your words
CustomerPartyOrderJobInvoiceBillproductDesign
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a steel fabrication works
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Steel fabrication works", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a steel fabrication worksRoutines, 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 steel fabrication works
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.
Builds the estimate from measurements and design using section weight per metre and 5-8% wastage, shows margin, adds a 7-day validity and picks matching past-job photos for the WhatsApp quote
Asks you before sending
Shows jobs by stage and promised date with the site-fitting schedule; drafts daily updates to parties
Asks you before sending
Prepares the Saturday sheet of days, advances and net pay
Asks you before paying
Lists fitted jobs with balance and drafts polite reminders with fitting photos
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
8:00 amOpen shop and give out jobs
- 1Jobs due this week and their stage
- 2Steel and electrodes for today's jobs on hand
9:30 amMorning site visits for measurement or fitting
- 1Measure openings and take photos
- 2Show design photos and agree design
- 3Estimate by kg from section weights or by sq ft
10:00 amCutting, welding, grinding and painting
- 1Cut to the sketch and tack; check square
- 2Full welds ground smooth on visible faces
- 3Red oxide primer before enamel
7:00 pmEvening steel order and payments
- 1Order steel for tomorrow from stockist
- 2Note advances and balances received
- 3Send progress photos to parties
Every week
SatSaturday wages and advances
- 1Days per worker less advances
- 2Pay cash or UPI and note
MonBalance follow-up after fitting
- 1Fitted jobs with balance
- 2Reminder with fitting photo
Every month
5thMonthly stockist account
- 1Match stockist bills with steel purchase entries
- 2Steel used against estimate per job
Every year
SepVishwakarma Puja and machine upkeep
- 1Shop closed for puja; machines cleaned
- 2Welding cables, earthing and holders checked
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.
Enquiry to fitted job and final payment
- 1Site measured and design agreed
- 2Estimate accepted and advance paidNeeds approval
- 3Steel bought and fabricated
- 4Primed and painted
- 5Fitted at site
- 6Balance collected
Factory job on PO
- 1Drawing and quotation
- 2PO receivedNeeds approval
- 3Fabricated and painted
- 4Delivered or erected with invoice
- 5Paid in 30-60 days
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.
Job book (estimate and advance)
Steel purchase
Weekly wages and advances
Fabrication quality
Strong, square, rust-free work
Shop and site safety
No burns, eye injuries or falls
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 |
|---|---|---|
| MS gate (fabricated and painted) | 7308 | 18% |
| Window grill | 7308 | 18% |
| Staircase railing (MS) | 7308 | 18% |
| Rolling shutter (galvanised 18 gauge) | 7308 | 18% |
| Collapsible gate | 7308 | 18% |
| MS shed with roofing sheet | 7308 | 18% |
| Material handling trolley | 8716 | 18% |
| Fabrication job work (customer's steel) | 998873 | 18% |
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- Trade licence
- GST registrationIf it applies
- Shops and Establishments registrationIf it applies
- Factory 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 (mistri)Site visits and measurement, estimates, buys steel, collects advance and balance.
WelderCut, weld, grind and assemble to the sketch.
HelperCarry, grind, primer and paint, load.
Fitting teamInstall at site, grout or anchor, final touch-up.
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 steel fabrication works?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Steel fabrication works". 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 steel fabrication works 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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