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MatruOS for a toddy shop and neera unit

Set up the way a toddy shop and neera unit runs: toddy sold by the bottle or litre in the shop; food from the kitchen (often half or more of the takings); neera, palm jaggery and palm sugar for neera units. Routines, workflows, registers, licences and an AI team that knows the work are ready when you sign up.

Food and groceryReady when you sign up

  • 8routines on a timetable
  • 2workflows with approvals
  • 3SOPs and checks
  • 3registers of your own
  • 3jobs for your AI team
  • 8licences tracked

7-day free trial, no card needed.

What this solves

What a toddy shop and neera unit deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it

01Today

Daily receipt, sale and destruction registers by hand; a gap means trouble with excise. Tapper payments, advances and welfare fund contributions disputed.

02In MatruOS

MatruOS sets up 8 routines, 2 workflows, 3 registers and 8 licences for a toddy shop and neera unit, with an AI team that reads your own records and prepares the work.

03What 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.

  1. Palm owner and tapper
  2. licensed shop
  3. customer; neera: farmer collective
  4. processing unit
  5. kiosk or shop

Your customers

  • Walk-in drinkers
  • Families and tourists at toddy shop restaurants
  • Neera buyers at kiosks and shops
  • Sweet makers and health stores (palm jaggery)

Your suppliers

  • Tappers and tappers' co-operatives
  • Palm owners (tree rent)
  • Fish
  • Meat and vegetable sellers
  • Coconut producer companies (neera)
  • Pot and container suppliers

Credit and cash

Tappers paid daily or weekly per litre; palm owners paid tree rent per palm per season; customers pay cash or UPI; rental to excise in instalments

Annual shop rental and licence fee are the big upfront costs; daily takings pay tappers; welfare fund contributions monthly

Your screens use your words

  • ItemBottle
  • InvoiceBill
  • productToddy
  • SupplierTapper

How it works

How MatruOS is set up for a toddy shop and neera unit

Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.

  1. Describe the business in one lineFor example "Toddy shop and neera unit", typed when you sign up.
  2. Recognised as a toddy shop and neera unitRoutines, workflows, registers, items, licences and the AI team for this trade are set up for you.
  3. 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.
  4. 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 toddy shop and neera unit

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.

Accountant

Drafts the day's receipt and sale register from entries, works out litres destroyed, and flags days where sales and receipts do not tally

Reads toddy receipt and sale register and daily takings

Asks you before signing

Accountant

Totals each tapper's litres, deducts advances, works out the welfare fund contribution and prepares the weekly pay sheet

Reads toddy receipt register and tapper payments and welfare fund

Asks you before paying

Accountant

Shows monthly takings, costs and profit per shop, and before the annual auction works out the highest rental the shop can carry

Reads daily takings, toddy receipt register and tapper ledger

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 day4

  • 7:00 amKitchen buying and prepCook · 2 steps
    1. 1Buy fish and meat for the day by expected crowd
    2. 2Prepare curries; keep cooked food covered and hot
  • 8:30 amMorning toddy receipt and measuringShop manager (salesman) · 3 steps
    1. 1Receive each tapper's toddy with the transit permit
    2. 2Measure litres and enter by tapper and palm numbers
    3. 3Smell and taste check; refuse toddy that is off or doubtful
  • 4:00 pmNoon and evening toddy receiptShop manager (salesman) · 2 steps
    1. 1Receive the second tapping; measure and enter
    2. 2Check stock against expected evening sales
  • 9:00 pmClosing, unsold toddy destroyed and register closedShop manager (salesman) · 3 steps
    1. 1Measure unsold toddy and destroy it as the rules require
    2. 2Close the receipt and sale register
    3. 3Count cash and UPI; note food and toddy sales

Every week1

  • SatWeekly tapper payments and welfare fundLicensee · 3 steps
    1. 1Total each tapper's litres for the week
    2. 2Deduct advances; work out welfare fund contribution
    3. 3Pay by UPI or cash and get signatures

Every month1

  • 5thMonthly takings vs rental and costsLicensee · 2 steps
    1. 1Toddy and food sales, tapper and kitchen costs, rental instalment
    2. 2Pay the welfare fund contribution for the month

Every year1

  • MarAnnual shop auction or allotment and licence renewalLicensee · 3 steps
    1. 1Study last year's takings per shop before bidding
    2. 2Bid or apply for the shop group for the excise year from 1 April
    3. 3Renew FSSAI and health licences for the kitchen

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.

Excise sample to lab result

  1. 1Sample drawn and sealed in front of the Excise preventive officer (government)
  2. 2Sent to the chemical examiner's labExcise preventive officer (government)
  3. 3Result receivedLicenseeNeeds approval
  4. 4Filed or appealedLicensee

Tapper weekly pay

  1. 1Litres totalledShop manager (salesman)
  2. 2Licensee approves amountLicenseeNeeds approval
  3. 3Paid and signedLicensee

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.

  • Toddy receipt and sale register

    Date · Tapper · Palm numbers · Session · Litres received · Transit permit number · Litres sold · Litres destroyed at closing

  • Tapper payments and welfare fund

    Tapper · Phone · Week ending · Litres supplied · Rate per litre · Amount · Advance deducted · Welfare fund contribution

  • Daily takings and kitchen

    Date · Toddy sales · Food sales · Cash · UPI · Fish and meat bought · Other kitchen spend

  • Toddy purity and handling

    Sell only pure, same-day toddy from permitted palms

    4 steps with checks

  • Kitchen hygiene

    Safe food from the shop kitchen

    3 steps with checks

  • Neera collection and cold chain

    Neera stays unfermented until it is sold or processed

    3 steps with checks

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.

ItemHSNGST
Coconut toddy (bottle, about 750 ml) · bottle220600000%
Palm toddy (litre) · litre220600000%
Kappa and fish curry plate · plate9963315%
Duck or beef roast plate · plate9963315%
Karimeen fry · plate9963315%
Neera 200 ml (chilled, pasteurised) · bottle220299905%
Palm jaggery (karupatti) · kg170199900%
Palm sugar (crystal) · kg170199900%
  • Liquor licenceState excise department
  • FSSAI food licenceFSSAI (Food Safety and Standards Authority of India)
  • Health or eating-house licenceMunicipal health department
  • Trade licenceMunicipal corporation or panchayat
  • Shops and Establishments registrationState labour department (Shops and Establishments Act)If it applies
  • GST registrationGST department (GSTN)If it applies
  • Co-operative society registrationRegistrar of Co-operative SocietiesIf it applies
  • PF registration (EPFO)EPFO (Employees' Provident Fund Organisation)If 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.

LicenseeBids for the shop group, pays rental and fees, deals with excise, hires staff.
Shop manager (salesman)Receives and measures toddy, keeps the register, sells, closing destruction.
TapperClimbs and taps palms 2-3 times a day, delivers toddy under permit.
CookPrepares the day's curries and fry.
Excise preventive officer (government)Inspects, takes samples, checks registers and permits.

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 toddy shop and neera unit?

Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Toddy shop and neera unit". 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.

Run a toddy shop and neera unit 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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