Your customers
- Tourists at own counter
- Shops
- Bakeries and bus-stand stalls
- Distributors and modern trade
- Online buyers
- School meal (PM POSHAN) and ICDS contractors
Food and grocery · Makers and factories
MatruOS for a chikki maker
Set up the way a chikki maker runs: chikki and groundnut candy sold at own tourist counters, to shops and bakeries in other towns, through distributors, online, and on government nutrition contracts. 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 chikki maker deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
One bad groundnut lot can fail a contract test or make customers ill. Groundnut and jaggery prices swing; batch cost per kg unknown.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 10 routines, 2 workflows, 3 registers and 8 licences for a chikki 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.
- Groundnut and jaggery growers
- traders
- chikki maker
- counter, shop, distributor or government
- consumer
Your suppliers
- Groundnut traders
- Jaggery traders
- Sugar and liquid glucose suppliers
- Dry-fruit and sesame traders
- Pouch and box makers
Credit and cash
Groundnut and jaggery cash or 7 days; shops and distributors 15-30 days; government contracts 60-120 days after bill; counter and online prepaid
Raw material weekly; counter cash daily; distributor money in 2-4 weeks; government bills tie up money for 2-4 months
Your screens use your words
CustomerPartyItemChikkiInvoiceBillSupplierTrader
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a chikki 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 "Chikki maker", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a chikki 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 chikki 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.
Works out output per kg of nuts and cost per kg per item each day, flags low-yield batches, and suggests rate changes when input prices move
Works it out and shows you
Keeps each nut lot's tests and links them to batches, warns when a lot has no test or is near 3 months old, and suggests next week's buying
Works it out and shows you
Ages bills by party, tracks government bills by stage, and drafts reminders and department follow-ups
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
6:30 amSort, roast and deskin groundnut
- 1Hand-sort: remove shrivelled, discoloured and mouldy kernels
- 2Roast evenly; rub off skins; split
- 3Note which nut lot is used in the batch book
8:30 amCook syrup, mix, roll and cut
- 1Cook jaggery (and glucose where used) to hard crack
- 2Mix nuts in quickly and spread on the greased slab
- 3Roll to even thickness; cut warm
- 4Record nuts, jaggery and output kg
2:00 pmPack and label the day's chikki
- 1Pack as soon as cool in sealed pouches or flow-wrap
- 2Label with batch, packing date, best before and FSSAI number
8:00 pmCounter close and yield check
- 1Counter cash and UPI
- 2Output kg against nuts and jaggery used
Every week
MonWeekly groundnut and jaggery buying
- 1Stock of nuts and jaggery against next week's orders
- 2Buy only lots that pass moisture and visual checks; test big lots for aflatoxin
- 3Store nuts in a dry, cool room off the floor
Every month
1stBills and government contract payments
- 1List shop and distributor bills past due
- 2Track government contract bills by stage (submitted, verified, sanctioned, paid)
- 3Send reminders and follow up with the department
10thGST returns
- 1GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B; e-invoices for contract bills where required
Every year
MarRenew FSSAI licence and GI user registration
- 1FSSAI licence renewed and annual return filed
- 2GI authorised user registration current (Kovilpatti)
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.
Government nutrition contract supply
- 1Tender or order received
- 2Rate and terms approvedNeeds approval
- 3Lots tested and produced
- 4Delivered with lab report
- 5Bill verified by department
- 6Payment received
Groundnut lot to batch
- 1Lot sampled
- 2Tested (moisture, aflatoxin)
- 3AcceptedNeeds approval
- 4Used in batches
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.
Groundnut lots
Batch book
Bills and contract payments
Groundnut safety (aflatoxin)
Keep aflatoxin and mould out of every chikki
Crisp chikki and safe packing
Keep chikki crisp until its best-before date
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Groundnut chikki (jaggery) | 17049090 | 5% |
| Kadalai mittai (pack of 20 pieces) | 17049090 | 5% |
| Til chikki | 17049090 | 5% |
| Dry-fruit chikki | 17049090 | 5% |
| Crushed groundnut chikki | 17049090 | 5% |
| Chocolate and rose chikki | 17049090 | 5% |
| Fudge | 17049090 | 5% |
| Chikki bars for school meal contracts (25 g) | 17049090 | 5% |
- FSSAI food licence
- GST registration
- Trade licence
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- Weighing scale stamping
- Shops and Establishments registrationIf it applies
- GeM seller registrationIf it applies
- EPR registration for plastic packagingIf 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.
OwnerBuys groundnut and jaggery, contracts and tenders, shops and distributors, counter.
Head karigarJudges syrup, mixing and rolling thickness, quality.
Roasting and cutting workersRoast and deskin nuts, spread, roll and cut.
PackerPack against moisture, label, seal.
Counter staffSell to tourists, weigh and bill, online orders.
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 chikki maker?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Chikki 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.
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