Your customers
- Activated carbon plants
- Charcoal exporters and traders
- Firewood and charcoal depots
- Dhabas, tandoor and barbecue restaurants
- Ironing stalls, blacksmiths and goldsmiths
- Briquette makers (fines)
Fuel, energy and recycling · Makers and factories
MatruOS for a charcoal kiln
Set up the way a charcoal kiln runs: selling charcoal by the tonne to activated-carbon plants and exporters (shell charcoal) and by the bag to depots, hotels, dhabas, ironing stalls and smiths (wood charcoal); fines and dust to briquette makers. 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 charcoal kiln deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Yield falls in some pits and the owner only finds out at month end. Activated-carbon plants cut the rate after their lab test and pay late.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 8 routines, 1 workflow, 3 registers and 7 licences for a charcoal kiln, 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.
- Coconut or prosopis
- shell or wood collector
- charcoal kiln
- activated carbon plant, exporter or depot
- user
Your suppliers
- Copra makers, coconut traders and desiccated-coconut units (shell)
- Prosopis cutters and farm wood sellers
- Forest depots (auction wood)
- Bag, rope and transport suppliers
Credit and cash
Shells and wood bought in cash or on 7-day credit from regular suppliers; activated-carbon plants pay 15-45 days after lab test; local bag sales are cash
Raw material bought in the dry season and stocked; a pit or mound cycle takes 3-14 days; buyers pay after testing, so 1-2 months of working capital
Your screens use your words
CustomerBuyerOrderLotItemCharcoalInvoiceBillproductCharcoal gradeSupplierShell supplier
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a charcoal kiln
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Charcoal kiln", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a charcoal kilnRoutines, 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 charcoal kiln
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 yield per batch and per pit, flags pits under normal and links low yield to wet raw material lots
Works it out and shows you
Lists stock by grade with lab results and drafts rate requests to regular buyers
Asks you before sending
Lists buyer dues after lab test and supplier balances, and drafts payment 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
6:00 amFiring and smoke-colour round
- 1Check each burning pit or mound; smoke turning from white to thin blue means carbonisation is ending
- 2Seal vents of finished pits and start quench or cooling
- 3Note batches to open today
8:00 amWeigh shell and wood arrivals
- 1Weigh each load and judge dryness
- 2Wood loads only with a valid transit pass
6:00 pmEvening kiln watch
- 1Patch cracks in mound earth or pit covers to stop air leaks
- 2Water ready near every burning pit
Every week
SatWeekly yield check by pit
- 1Charcoal out against input for each closed batch
- 2Find pits under normal yield (shell about 30%, wood about 20%)
TueOffer lots to activated-carbon plants and depots
- 1List stock by grade with last lab results
- 2Ask 2-3 buyers for rates; book trucks
Every month
5thMonthly buyer dues and supplier payments
- 1Buyer payments pending after lab test
- 2Shell and wood suppliers' balances settled
Every year
MarYearly consent and pass renewal
- 1SPCB consent to operate renewal and stack monitoring report
- 2Forest registration or saw-mill/charcoal permit renewal where the state requires it
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.
Charcoal lot sale to an activated-carbon plant
- 1Sample sent and rate agreedNeeds approval
- 2Screened and bagged
- 3Weighed and dispatched with bill
- 4Buyer lab result and payment
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.
Pit or kiln batch book
Shell and wood inward
Sales and dispatch
Pit and mound carbonisation
Get high yield and good fixed carbon with less smoke
Raw material acceptance
Keep yield up and stay legal on wood
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Coconut shell charcoal (activation grade) | 44020010 | 5% |
| Coconut shell charcoal (export grade 3-8 mm) | 44020010 | 5% |
| Shell charcoal fines and dust | 44020010 | 5% |
| Wood charcoal (prosopis) lump | 44029090 | 5% |
| Wood charcoal in 25 kg bags (hotel grade) | 44029090 | 5% |
| Barbecue charcoal (graded 5 kg pack) | 44029090 | 5% |
- Pollution consent (CTO)
- Forest department licence (sawmill or timber)
- GST registration
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- Trade licenceIf it applies
- Factory licenceIf it applies
- Weighing scale stamping
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 shell and wood, sells to activated-carbon plants and depots, handles the SPCB and forest office.
Kiln masterFires, watches and closes pits and mounds by smoke colour, decides when to quench.
LoaderFills pits, removes charcoal, screens and bags it.
ClerkWeighs inward and outward and keeps the batch book and transit passes.
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 charcoal kiln?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Charcoal kiln". 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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