Your customers
- Sweet shops and halwais
- Bakeries and cake shops
- Ice-cream and kulfi makers
- Sharbat, squash and soft-drink makers
- Namkeen and confectionery units
- Dealers and kirana wholesalers
- Exporters
Food and grocery · Makers and factories
MatruOS for a food essence and colour blender
Set up the way a food essence and colour blender runs: margin on compounded essences, emulsions, powder flavours and colour blends; custom flavour development charged in the price. 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 food essence and colour blender deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
A complaint arrives and there is no batch record or retained sample to check. Batches drift from the reference because weighing is by memory.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 8 routines, 2 workflows, 3 registers and 10 licences for a food essence and colour blender, 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.
- aroma chemical and colour maker
- compounder
- dealer
- sweet shop, bakery, beverage maker
Your suppliers
- Aroma chemical importers and traders
- Essential oil and attar makers (Kannauj)
- Permitted colour manufacturers
- Solvent suppliers (propylene glycol, ethanol, glycerine)
- Bottle, cap and can suppliers
Credit and cash
Aroma chemicals and colours bought against advance or 15-30 days; dealers pay 30-60 days; industrial buyers 45-90 days; retail shops cash
Imported aroma chemicals bought in drums lock money for months; dealer credit is the main receivable; small daily cash sales
Your screens use your words
CustomerPartyItemFlavourInvoiceBill
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a food essence and colour blender
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Food essence and colour blender", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a food essence and colour blenderRoutines, 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 food essence and colour blender
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.
Checks each batch's specific gravity and refractive index against the product's range, notes the retained sample, and holds batches with no match or no record
Works it out and shows you
Lists orders to pack from released batches, ages dealer dues and drafts reminders and statements
Asks you before sending
Works out stock days for each aroma chemical, oil and colour from usage, flags lots near expiry, and drafts the reorder list with import lead time
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
9:30 amWeigh and blend the day's batches
- 1Pick formula card and raw material lots for each batch
- 2Weigh each ingredient and tick it off the card
- 3Mix and filter; set aside to mature
11:30 amPack and dispatch dealer orders
- 1Pick released batches only
- 2Label with batch, flavour type, colour declaration and best-before
- 3Pack and hand over to transport
3:00 pmBatch match and release
- 1Specific gravity within the product's range
- 2Smell on strip and taste in sugar water against the reference
- 3Keep a retained sample and release or rework
Every week
FriWeekly raw material stock and reorder
- 1Stock of key aroma chemicals, oils and colours
- 2Lots near expiry or oxidised (citrus oils)
- 3Reorder list with lead times for imports
Every month
5thMonthly dealer dues and statements
- 1Statements to dealers and industrial buyers
- 2Dues over 60 days and credit holds
Every year
AprAnnual licence and label review
- 1FSSAI licence renewal and annual return
- 2Check labels against any FSSAI additive amendment
- 3Pollution consent and fire NOC dates
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.
Custom flavour development
- 1Brief and target sample received
- 2Trials made
- 3Samples sent to customer
- 4Customer approvesNeeds approval
- 5Formula card locked
Dealer order to payment
- 1Order received
- 2Packed from released batches
- 3Dispatched and billed
- 4Paid
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.
Formula cards
Batch blending record
Dealer and customer orders
Batch blending and release
Every batch matches the reference and uses only permitted materials
Colour blend labelling and dose guide
Buyers can use colours within the legal limit
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vanilla essence (liquid) | 3302 | 18% |
| Pineapple essence (liquid) | 3302 | 18% |
| Rose and kewra essence | 3302 | 18% |
| Kesar-elaichi flavour | 3302 | 18% |
| Orange or mango emulsion for beverages | 3302 | 18% |
| Powder flavour (spray-dried) | 3302 | 18% |
| Synthetic food colour blend (powder) | 3204 | 18% |
| Natural colour (caramel, curcumin, annatto) | 3203 | 18% |
| Retail essence bottle (20 ml) | 3302 | 18% |
- GST registration
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- FSSAI food licence
- Packaged commodities registration (Legal Metrology)
- Pollution consent (CTO)
- Factory licenceIf it applies
- Fire NOCIf it applies
- Hazardous waste authorisationIf it applies
- Import Export Code (IEC)If it applies
- TrademarkIf 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.
OwnerKeeps the master formulas, buys aroma chemicals, handles key accounts and dealers.
Flavour chemistMatches samples, approves batches, writes formula versions, handles complaints.
BlenderWeighs to formula card, mixes, filters, fills drums and cans.
PackerFills and labels bottles and cans, packs cartons.
AccountantBills dealers, tracks dues, files GST.
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 food essence and colour blender?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Food essence and colour blender". 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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