Your customers
- Trawler and gillnetter owners
- Purse seine (ring seine) units
- Traditional craft owners
- Fisheries co-operatives (scheme nets)
- Smaller net shops in nearby harbours
Farming and dairy · Services
MatruOS for a net maker and ship chandler
Set up the way a net maker and ship chandler runs: sale of rigged nets and netting by the kg, rope, floats, sinkers and hardware; rigging and mending charges; provisions and stores to boats before each trip. 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 net maker and ship chandler deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Boat credit in a notebook; the owner cannot see which boats are slipping until season end. Misses taking his cut on the auction morning and the boat's money goes elsewhere.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 9 routines, 2 workflows, 4 registers and 4 licences for a net maker and ship chandler, 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.
- net mill and wholesalers
- net shop and chandler
- boat owner
- catch
- auctioneer pays boat
- boat clears chandler
Your suppliers
- Net mills (nylon and HDPE netting, twine)
- Rope makers
- Float, sinker and hardware wholesalers
- Provision wholesalers (rice, dal, oil)
- Master riggers and menders
Credit and cash
Mills give 30-60 days or want advance before the ban; boats take on khata and pay a share of each trip's auction or settle at season end; trips cleared within 7-15 days by good boats, 3-6 months by weak ones
Stock bought before the ban (Apr-May on the west coast) on mill credit; rigging rush during the ban; the credit given in Jun-Jul is recovered from Aug-Dec catches; cash is tight in May-July
Your screens use your words
CustomerBoatOrderRigging orderItemNetInvoiceBoat billSupplierMillproductNetting
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a net maker and ship chandler
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Net maker and ship chandler", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a net maker and ship chandlerRoutines, 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 net maker and ship chandler
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.
Each morning lists boats that landed with their dues and agreed share; each month builds each boat's statement with ageing and drafts a WhatsApp reminder in the owner's language
Asks you before sending
Totals days and pieces per rigger for the week, nets out advances and prepares the pay list
Asks you before paying
Forecasts netting, rope and float needs by spec for the coming weeks and the ban; drafts purchase orders to mills
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
5:30 amLoad provisions and stores for departing boats
- 1Take each departing boat's list from the tandel (skipper) by phone or WhatsApp
- 2Pack rice, dal, oil, gas cylinder, water cans and spares; write each item on the boat khata
- 3Get the tandel's signature or a photo of the loaded list
8:00 amCollect boat dues at the auction
- 1See which boats landed and their auction value with the auctioneer
- 2Take the agreed cut against each boat's khata from the auctioneer or the boat owner
- 3Mark the receipt on the khata the same morning
9:00 amPlan the rigging floor for the day
- 1List orders due this week by promised date
- 2Allot riggers per net; issue netting from stock by kg
- 3Measure the cod-end mesh on every trawl net before it leaves
Every week
SatPay riggers and menders for the week
- 1Count days or pieces per worker from the rigging orders
- 2Deduct advances and pay by cash or UPI
MonCheck netting stock and reorder from the mill
- 1Compare netting, rope and float balances with open orders
- 2Order twine and netting by denier and mesh before it runs short
Every month
1stSend each boat its khata statement
- 1Total each boat's balance and how old it is
- 2Send the statement to the boat owner; flag boats with dues over 90 days
- 3Stop fresh credit to boats over the limit until they pay
Every year
MarSeason-end settlement and write-off review
- 1Settle every boat's season account; agree carry-forward
- 2List dues unpaid over a year; decide recovery or write-off
- 3File GST annual return and reconcile mill purchases
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.
Net rigging order
- 1Boat gives net pattern and mesh
- 2Netting issued from stock
- 3Rigged and mesh measured
- 4Delivered and billed to khata
Credit line for a boat
- 1Boat owner asks for credit with auctione
- 2Owner sets the limitNeeds approval
- 3Recovery from auction agreed
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.
Boat khata
Rigging orders
Netting and hardware stock
Rigger wages
Mesh size and rigging check
Deliver nets that fish well and keep the boat clear of mesh-size fines
Boat credit and recovery
Give boats the stores they need without losing money at season end
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nylon (PA) netting | 5608 | 5% |
| HDPE trawl netting | 5608 | 5% |
| Rigged trawl net (complete) | 5608 | 5% |
| Gillnet piece (rigged) | 5608 | 5% |
| Polypropylene rope | 5607 | 5% |
| Plastic floats | 3926 | 5% |
| Lead sinkers | 7806 | 18% |
| Fish hooks | 9507 | 5% |
| Net rigging charge | 998898 | 5% |
| Net mending charge | 998898 | 5% |
| Trip provisions (rice and dry stores) | 1006 | 0% |
- GST registration
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- Shops and Establishments registration
- Trade licence
Your people
The people who run it, each with their own login
Each person sees the screens and reminders for the work they do.
OwnerBuys netting from mills, gives and recovers boat credit, prices rigging, deals with auctioneers.
Master riggerCuts panels to the boat's pattern, sets mesh and hanging ratio, leads the rigging gang.
Riggers and mendersJoin panels, fix floats and sinkers, mend torn nets on the quay.
Counter and khata writerWrites boat khata, loads trip provisions, keeps stock book.
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 net maker and ship chandler?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Net maker and ship chandler". 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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