Your customers
- Plywood and veneer units
- Sawmills and timber depots
- Pulp and paper mills (contract)
- Lakkar mandi commission agents
- Fuel wood buyers (brick kilns and boilers)
Farming and dairy · Makers and factories
MatruOS for a farm timber grower and contractor
Set up the way a farm timber grower and contractor runs: grower: sale of standing trees at 5-8 years (poplar, eucalyptus, melia) or 15-25 years (teak), plus intercrops; contractor: margin between the standing price paid to the farmer and the mandi or mill price, less felling, loading, freight and agent's commission; tops and branches sold as fuel wood. 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 farm timber grower and contractor deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Farmers cannot judge a fair price and contractors over-promise and then cut the rate when the mandi falls. Advances spread over many farms with no clear running balance.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 8 routines, 1 workflow, 3 registers and 3 licences for a farm timber grower and 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.
- Clonal nursery
- farmer
- contractor
- lakkar mandi agent or mill gate
- plywood, veneer, sawmill or pulp mill
Your suppliers
- Clonal nurseries (ETPs and clones)
- Farmers (standing trees, for contractors)
- Felling gang mates
- Truck owners
Credit and cash
Contractor pays farmer 20-40% advance at the deal and the balance as logs are sold, often within 1-4 weeks; mandi agent pays the contractor on the day or within a week; mills pay agents cash or 7-30 days; pulp mill buy-back pays 15-30 days after weighment
Contractor's money is tied in advances to 10-30 farmers at a time and in wages paid daily or weekly to gangs; cash comes back only as trucks are sold; a price crash mid-season leaves advances on trees worth less than agreed
Your screens use your words
CustomerMillOrderTruckItemLogInvoiceAgent billSupplierFarmerproductTimber
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a farm timber grower and 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 "Farm timber grower and contractor", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a farm timber grower and 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 a farm timber grower and 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.
Puts this morning's rates by grade and mandi next to last week's and the deal rates of open farms, and flags farms where the deal rate is above today's mandi rate
Works it out and shows you
Keeps each farm's running account (estimate, quintals sold, advance, balance due), works out weekly gang wages, and lists agent dues over 15 days
Asks you before paying
Lists farms due for felling with their NTMS status, which need agency verification, and which species need a transit pass in that state
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 amStart the felling gang
- 1Check the farm's NOC or self-declaration is in hand before the first cut
- 2Fell away from wires and the road; cross-cut to the mill's log lengths
- 3Stack logs by girth class beside the field road
9:00 amCheck the day's mandi rates before loading
- 1Get the morning rate for sawlog, veneer and billets from two agents or mills
- 2Decide which grades to send to which mandi or mill
7:00 pmEnter today's trucks and agent bills
- 1Enter each truck with weighbridge slip, grade, rate and agent deductions
- 2Match the net weight on the agent bill with the weighbridge slip
- 3Note quintals cut so far against the estimate for each farm
Every week
SunWeekly gang wages and farmer balances
- 1Pay gang wages from gang days at the agreed per-quintal rate
- 2Work out each farmer's balance from quintals sold and the deal rate
- 3List agent payments still pending
Every month
1stMonth close of deals, advances and dues
- 1Advances out per farm against estimated value at today's rate
- 2Agent and mill dues over 15 days
- 3Margin per farm closed this month
Every year
AprYear review of rates and planting
- 1Quintals handled, margin per quintal and bad deals of the season
- 2Count young plantations in the area by age to judge prices 5 years out
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.
Standing trees to mill payment
- 1Farm walked and weight estimated
- 2Deal fixed and advance paid
- 3Felling NOC or verification doneNeeds approval
- 4Felled and graded
- 5Trucks weighed and sold
- 6Farmer balance paid
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.
Farm deals (standing trees)
Truck sales
Gang days and wages
Felling and cross-cutting
Fell safely and cut logs to the lengths that fetch the best rate
Weighment and agent bill check
Get paid for every quintal sent
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Poplar logs (sawlog and veneer grade) | 44039990 | 18% |
| Poplar billets (small girth) | 44039990 | 18% |
| Eucalyptus logs | 44039990 | 18% |
| Eucalyptus pulpwood (debarked billets) | 47079000 | 18% |
| Melia dubia logs | 44039990 | 18% |
| Farm teak logs | 44034900 | 18% |
| Fuel wood (tops and branches) | 44011100 | 5% |
- Forest department licence (sawmill or timber)If it applies
- GST registration
- 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.
ContractorWalks fields and estimates weight, fixes deals and advances, books trucks, attends the mandi auction, settles with farmers.
MunshiKeeps deal book and truck slips, pays gang wages, follows up agent payments.
Gang mateLeads the felling gang, cross-cuts and grades logs, loads trucks.
Tree growerPlants and tends trees, gets the felling registration and NOC, agrees the deal.
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 farm timber grower and contractor?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Farm timber grower and 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.
Farming and dairy
Other makers and factories in farming and dairy
Run a farm timber grower and 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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