Your customers
- Village traders and haat buyers (growers)
- Exporters and food, pharma, varnish and electrical users (processors)
- Other processors (seedlac)
Farming and dairy · Makers and factories
MatruOS for a lac grower and shellac maker
Set up the way a lac grower and shellac maker runs: grower: sale of sticklac and broodlac. Processor: seedlac, shellac, button lac and refined grades to exporters and industry; by-products (lac dye water, molamma refuse). Routines, workflows, registers, licences and an AI team that knows the work are ready when you sign up.
Ready when you sign up
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What this solves
What a lac grower and shellac maker deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Grower sells sticklac at the haat at the trader's price with no idea of shellac rates. Brood not kept or tied late, so the next crop shrinks.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 8 routines, 1 workflow, 3 registers and 8 licences for a lac grower and shellac maker, 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.
- host tree grower
- haat trader
- seedlac unit
- shellac factory
- exporter or industrial user
Your suppliers
- Own host trees
- Broodlac from neighbours or ICAR-NISA and forest department farms
- Sticklac traders (processor)
- Fuel, soda, water (processor)
Credit and cash
Haat buyers pay cash; processors pay traders cash or in 7 days; exporters pay processors 15-60 days; export buyers by advance or LC
Grower gets cash twice a year at harvest; processor must stock sticklac at harvest (Jun-Jul and Oct-Feb) and process through the year, which ties up months of working capital
Your screens use your words
CustomerBuyerOrderLotItemLacInvoiceLac billSupplierTraderproductLac
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a lac grower and shellac maker
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Lac grower and shellac maker", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a lac grower and shellac makerRoutines, 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 lac grower and shellac maker
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.
Keeps each tree group's crop and inoculation dates, reminds to keep brood and inoculate on time, and logs weather damage notes
Works it out and shows you
Computes recovery per lot and per trader and a fair sticklac buying rate from the shellac price and recovery
Works it out and shows you
Drafts invoices, packing lists and certificate requests for each shipment, tracks buyer dues and export incentives
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 amCrush, wash and melt the day's lots
- 1Crush and sieve sticklac; wash in vats with soda water until clear
- 2Dry seedlac in shade; weigh out
- 3Melt seedlac and make shellac at the bhatta or machine; weigh out
6:00 pmClose lots and work out recovery
- 1Record kg in and out per lot; compute recovery %
- 2Flag lots with recovery below the norm
Every week
SunWatch the lac crop on trees
- 1Check branches for crawler settlement, predators and fungus
- 2Note damage after fog, hail or heavy rain
WedBuy sticklac at the weekly haat
- 1Check moisture, sticks and dirt in each bag; take a sample
- 2Pay by the rate set from shellac price and expected recovery
Every month
5thMonthly sales, export papers and dues
- 1List shipments and buyer dues
- 2Prepare invoices, packing lists and certificates for export orders
- 3File GST returns and claim export refunds
Every year
AprPrune host trees for next year
- 1Prune palas and ber in rotation so shoots are ready for inoculation
- 2Renew processor licences and export registrations
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.
Shellac export order
- 1Buyer spec and price agreed
- 2Lot produced and tested
- 3Owner approves dispatchNeeds approval
- 4Shipped with papers
- 5Payment received
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.
Host trees and crops
Lac buying and process lots
Sales and export orders
Lac cultivation on host trees
A full crop and enough brood for the next one
Seedlac and shellac quality
Grades that buyers accept at full price
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sticklac (kusmi) | 1301 | 5% |
| Sticklac (rangeeni) | 1301 | 5% |
| Broodlac | 1301 | 5% |
| Seedlac | 1301 | 5% |
| Shellac (hand-made) | 1301 | 5% |
| Shellac (machine-made flakes) | 1301 | 5% |
| Dewaxed bleached lac | 1301 | 5% |
| Button lac | 1301 | 5% |
| Lac refuse (molamma and kiri) | 1301 | 5% |
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- GST registrationIf it applies
- Import Export Code (IEC)If it applies
- Pollution consent (CTO)If it applies
- Factory licenceIf it applies
- Forest department licence (sawmill or timber)If it applies
- Export council membership (RCMC)If it applies
- FSSAI food 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.
GrowerPrunes host trees, inoculates broodlac, guards the crop, harvests and sells sticklac.
Processor ownerBuys sticklac, decides grades, sells to exporters and users, handles export papers.
Process supervisorRuns crushing, washing and melting, weighs in and out, keeps lot records.
Bhatta and washing workersWash seedlac in vats, melt and stretch shellac, pack.
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 lac grower and shellac maker?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Lac grower and shellac maker". 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 lac grower and shellac maker 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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