Your customers
- Neighbours and housing-society families
- Office workers and students (tiffin)
- Birthday and party hosts
- Small offices (bulk and festive hampers)
- Food-app customers
- Cafes buying desserts
Food and grocery · Makers and factories
MatruOS for a home baker or home chef
Set up the way a home baker or home chef runs: custom cakes by the kilo, dessert boxes, cookies and festive hampers made to order; for home chefs, daily tiffins on monthly subscription, party food by the plate and app orders. 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 home baker or home chef deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Orders, dates, designs and messages are lost in long WhatsApp chats, so a cake is missed or made wrong. Balances and tiffin dues are left unpaid because asking feels awkward.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 9 routines, 2 workflows, 3 registers and 6 licences for a home baker or home chef, 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.
- Ingredient shop or market
- home baker or home chef
- household or office customer (direct or through a food-delivery app)
Your suppliers
- Bakery ingredient shop
- Kirana and wholesale market
- Local dairy (butter and cream)
- Vegetable vendor
- Packaging shop (cake boxes and boards)
- Cake decoration supplier
Credit and cash
Buys cash or UPI from shops; customers pay 50% advance on cakes and the balance on delivery; tiffin subscriptions paid at the start of the month; small offices pay 7-15 days; food apps settle weekly
Very short: ingredients bought 1-2 days before the order with the advance; app payouts arrive weekly; the cash at risk is unpaid balances and month-end tiffin dues
Your screens use your words
ItemBakeInvoiceBillemployeeHelperSupplierShop
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a home baker or home chef
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Home baker / home chef", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a home baker or home chefRoutines, 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 home baker or home chef
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.
Lays out today's handovers by time and tomorrow's bakes, lists what to confirm with each customer, and builds the shopping list from the recipes needed
Asks you before sending
Matches payments to orders and tiffin plans, lists unpaid balances, and drafts polite reminders
Asks you before sending
Drafts next week's tiffin menu and a weekday special post with prices for WhatsApp and Instagram
Asks you before sending
Works out cost per kg of each cake and per tiffin from current ingredient prices and shows where the price no longer covers cost
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
6:30 amCook and pack the day's tiffins
- 1Count today's tiffins after skips and add-ons
- 2Cook the menu of the day; dal and sabzi boiled through
- 3Pack by 11:30 with name labels; hot food sealed hot
- 4Hand over to the delivery person by 12:00
7:00 amMorning order board for today and tomorrow
- 1List today's handovers by time and tomorrow's bakes from the order book and chats
- 2Confirm design, weight, eggless or not and the message with each customer
- 3Ingredients short for the next two days added to the shopping list
- 4Balance due on each order noted for the handover
4:00 pmBake sponges and finish cakes
- 1Bake tomorrow's sponges; oven at 160-180°C
- 2Cool fully, wrap and chill overnight
- 3Finish today's cakes and chill at least 1 hour before handover
- 4Photo of each finished cake for the customer and the portfolio
9:00 pmEvening collections and balances
- 1Match today's UPI and cash against delivered orders
- 2Send a polite reminder for unpaid balances and tiffin dues
- 3Note app orders for the weekly payout check
Every week
SatPlan next week's menu and post it
- 1Tiffin menu for the week, with festival and fasting days
- 2Bake of the week and weekend specials
- 3Post on WhatsApp status, broadcast list and Instagram
MonWeekly ingredient and packaging shopping
- 1Check butter, cream, chocolate and flour stock and dates
- 2Buy boxes, boards and labels for the week's orders
- 3Write every bill in the purchase notebook
Every month
28thMonth-end costing and price check
- 1Add up ingredient, packaging, gas, electricity and delivery costs
- 2Cost per kg of each cake and per tiffin against the price charged
- 3Raise prices where cost has risen (butter, cocoa, nuts)
- 4Renew tiffin subscriptions for next month
Every year
MarFSSAI registration renewal and annual return
- 1Check the FSSAI registration expiry date and renew on FoSCoS before it lapses
- 2If turnover crossed Rs 12 lakh, move up to a state licence
- 3Check whether turnover is near the GST threshold
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.
Cake order from enquiry to handover
- 1Enquiry and design agreed
- 2Advance received
- 3Baked and finished
- 4Delivered or picked up
- 5Balance collected
New tiffin customer
- 1Trial meal sent
- 2Plan chosen and month paid
- 3Added to the delivery route
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.
Order book
Tiffin subscription sheet
Kitchen purchase notebook
Home kitchen hygiene for selling food
Keep home-made food safe and meet the FSSAI basic hygiene rules for small food businesses
Cake finishing, labelling and handover
The right cake reaches the customer whole, cold and at the weight paid for
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Fresh cream cake | 190590 | 5% |
| Theme or fondant cake | 190590 | 5% |
| Eggless brownies (box of 6) | 190590 | 5% |
| Cupcakes (box of 6) | 190590 | 5% |
| Cookies (250 g jar) | 190531 | 5% |
| Dessert jar (cheesecake or tiramisu) | 190590 | 5% |
| Whole wheat or sourdough bread loaf | 190590 | 0% |
| Festive hamper (cookies and treats) | 190590 | 5% |
| Tiffin meal (dal, sabzi, roti, rice) | 996331 | 5% |
| Monthly tiffin subscription (lunch, 26 days) | 996331 | 5% |
| Party food order | 996334 | 5% |
- FSSAI food licence
- GST registrationIf it applies
- Udyam (MSME) registrationIf it applies
- Trade licenceIf it applies
- Shops and Establishments registrationIf 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.
Home baker or chef (owner)Takes orders on WhatsApp and Instagram, quotes and takes advance, bakes and decorates, cooks, prices, buys ingredients, posts photos.
Kitchen helperWashes and preps, packs tiffins and boxes, cleans the kitchen, minds the oven.
Delivery personDelivers tiffins on the daily route, takes cakes upright with the box chilled, collects balances.
Family member (accounts)Keeps the UPI and cash book, chases balances, handles app payouts.
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 home baker or home chef?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Home baker / home chef". 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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