Your customers
- Distributors and super-stockists
- Rural wholesalers
- Cash-and-carry wholesale mandis
- Brands (contract manufacturing)
- Exporters to Africa and the Gulf
Food and grocery · Makers and factories
MatruOS for a toffee and candy maker
Set up the way a toffee and candy maker runs: boiled sweets, toffees, eclairs, lollipops and jelly candies sold in jars, pouches and strips to distributors and rural wholesalers, and contract manufacturing for brands. 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 toffee and candy maker deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Sugar and film prices rise but the Rs 1 price point is fixed. Film waste and scrap from wrapper jams go unmeasured.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 10 routines, 2 workflows, 3 registers and 11 licences for a toffee and candy 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.
- Sugar and glucose
- toffee maker
- distributor or wholesaler
- kirana and pan shop
- consumer
Your suppliers
- Sugar mills and wholesalers
- Liquid glucose makers (starch plants)
- Milk powder and vegetable fat suppliers
- Flavour and colour houses
- Wrapper film converters
- PET jar makers
- Carton makers
Credit and cash
Sugar 7-15 days or advance; glucose 15-30 days; film and jars 30 days; distributors 7-30 days with schemes; brands 30-45 days
Raw material 2-3 weeks of stock; finished goods 1-2 weeks; distributor credit 2-4 weeks
Your screens use your words
CustomerDistributorItemSKUInvoiceBill
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a toffee and candy 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 "Toffee and candy maker", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a toffee and candy 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 toffee and candy 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 good kg, scrap and film per 1,000 pieces by shift and machine, and flags batches cooked off-temperature or wrapped in high humidity
Works it out and shows you
Computes cost per piece and margin at each price point, suggests piece weight or count changes, and lists labels that must change with it
Asks you before sending
Ages distributor dues net of schemes and returns, links returns to batches, and drafts reminders
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
7:00 amFirst cooks and line start
- 1Weigh sugar and glucose by recipe; dissolve fully before boiling
- 2Cook to the target temperature for the product
- 3Add acid, flavour and colour on the slab; weigh colour per batch
- 4Record batch in the cooking log
8:00 amWrapping room humidity and film check
- 1Room humidity under 50%; dehumidifier on
- 2Film roll matches the product and the printed MRP
- 3Note film used and waste at shift end
4:00 pmDistributor dispatches
- 1Pack orders oldest batch first; bill and e-way bill
- 2Record schemes given per bill
7:00 pmShift output, scrap and film waste
- 1Good kg, rejects and scrap by batch
- 2Film used per 1,000 pieces
- 3Scrap re-melted only the same day and within the limit
Every week
MonPiece costing and price-point check
- 1Cost per piece from current sugar, glucose, film and jar prices
- 2Margin at the fixed Rs 1 or Rs 2 price; decide piece weight or count per jar changes
- 3Update the declared net quantity and count on labels if changed
FriDistributor dues, schemes and returns
- 1Age each distributor's dues
- 2Returns by batch and reason (sticky, broken, short)
- 3Reminders for dues past 30 days
Every month
10thGST, PF and ESI, and lab test
- 1GST returns; PF and ESI by the 15th
- 2One product per month tested for colours and heavy metals at an NABL lab
Every year
JunPlastic EPR annual return and licence renewals
- 1File the plastic packaging EPR annual return on the CPCB portal by 30 June
- 2FSSAI licence, factory licence and LMPC current
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.
Batch to packed jar
- 1Cooked and coloured
- 2Formed and cooled
- 3Wrapped
- 4Counted and jarred
- 5Quality passedNeeds approval
Distributor order to payment
- 1Order with schemeNeeds approval
- 2Billed and dispatched
- 3Received by distributor
- 4Returns settled
- 5Paid
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.
Cooking batch log
Wrapping room log
Distributor ledger
Cooking and colour dosing
Make candy that does not grain or go sticky, with colours within the law
Wrapping, packing and labelling
Keep sweets dry and jars legally labelled
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boiled sweets jar (200 pcs) | 17049090 | 5% |
| Milk toffee jar (200 pcs) | 17049090 | 5% |
| Centre-filled eclairs jar (100 pcs) | 17049090 | 5% |
| Lollipops jar (50 pcs) | 17049090 | 5% |
| Imli (tamarind) candy pouch (100 pcs) | 17049090 | 5% |
| Jelly candies pouch | 17049090 | 5% |
| Candy strip card (Rs 1 x 24) | 17049090 | 5% |
| Loose boiled sweets (bulk) | 17049090 | 5% |
| Contract manufacturing (brand's candy) | 998817 | 5% |
- FSSAI food licence
- GST registration
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- Factory licence
- EPR registration for plastic packaging
- Packaged commodities registration (Legal Metrology)
- Weighing scale stamping
- Pollution consent (CTO)If it applies
- TrademarkIf it applies
- PF registration (EPFO)
- ESI registration (ESIC)
Your people
The people who run it, each with their own login
Each person sees the screens and reminders for the work they do.
OwnerDistributors and brands, sugar buying, pricing and piece weight, cash.
Cook masterBatch recipes, cooking temperature, flavour and colour dosing.
Line operatorBatch roller, rope sizer, die-former, cooling.
Wrapping machine operatorTwist and pillow wrappers, film changes, jams.
Packing workersCount into jars and pouches, label, carton.
AccountantBills, distributor ledger, GST, EPR returns.
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 toffee and candy maker?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Toffee and candy 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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