Your customers
- Families for cremation
- Dhabas, tandoor and bhatti cooks
- Bakeries and halwais
- Dhobis (charcoal irons)
- Poor households
- Wedding caterers
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MatruOS for a firewood and coal depot
Set up the way a firewood and coal depot runs: sale of firewood by the quintal, crematorium wood sets, charcoal and coal by the kg, cow-dung cakes and wood briquettes. 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 firewood and coal depot deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Transit passes are missing when forest staff check. Monsoon damp ruins stock.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 9 routines, 1 workflow, 2 registers and 6 licences for a firewood and coal depot, 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.
- Forest or farm
- contractor or auction
- taal
- crematorium, dhaba or household
Your suppliers
- Forest corporation depots and auctions
- Farmers selling trees
- Tree-felling contractors
- Charcoal makers
- Coal traders
Credit and cash
Buys cash at auctions and from farmers; families pay cash; dhabas and bakeries monthly
Stock bought in bulk after winter felling and auctions; sold over months; dhaba credit of 30 days
Your screens use your words
OrderSaleItemWoodInvoiceParchiSupplierContractor
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a firewood and coal depot
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Firewood and coal depot", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a firewood and coal depotRoutines, 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 firewood and coal depot
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.
Keeps the day's sales by item and the credit book per customer from voice or parchi entries
Works it out and shows you
Prepares monthly statements for dhabas and bakeries and flags those two months behind
Asks you before sending
Lists lots without a pass on file or with passes near expiry, and estimates stock by type
Works it out and shows you
Before the monsoon, lists stock to cover first and suggests selling older and wetter lots
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
6:00 amOpen the taal and check stacks
- 1Check dry stock by type and set the day's rate
- 2Scale zeroed and stamp seal intact
7:00 amKeep cremation sets ready
- 1Keep 3-5 weighed cremation sets ready near the gate
- 2Night number on the board
9:00 amSaw, split and stack
- 1Split yesterday's logs to sale size
- 2Stack in criss-cross piles to dry; wet wood kept apart
8:00 pmDay sales and cash close
- 1Total quintals sold and cash and UPI received
- 2Write credit sales against each dhaba
Every week
MonWeekly transit pass and stock check
- 1Every log lot in the yard has its pass or bill on file
- 2Rough stock count by type
Every month
1stMonthly dhaba and bakery statements
- 1Send each credit customer the month's quantities and amount
- 2Stop credit for customers two months behind
Every year
FebForest auction season and scale stamping
- 1Register for forest corporation fuelwood auctions
- 2Scale stamped by Legal Metrology
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.
Log purchase to sale
- 1Lot bought with pass or bill
- 2Transported and unloaded
- 3Cut and stacked
- 4Sold by weight
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.
Log lots and transit passes
Sales and credit
Transit passes and legal wood
No seizure of stock or vehicle
Fair weighing
No weight disputes
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Firewood split (babool and mixed) | 4401 | 5% |
| Cremation wood set (about 7 quintals) | 4401 | 5% |
| Tandoor and bakery wood | 4401 | 5% |
| Charcoal | 4402 | 5% |
| Steam coal (loose) | 2701 | 18% |
| Cow-dung cakes (upla) | 3101 | 0% |
| Wood briquettes | 4401 | 5% |
| Sawdust | 4401 | 5% |
- Trade licence
- Weighing scale stamping
- Forest department licence (sawmill or timber)If it applies
- GST registrationIf it applies
- Fire NOCIf it applies
- Udyam (MSME) registrationIf 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.
OwnerBuys logs and charcoal, fixes rates, handles transit passes and credit.
WorkerSaws and splits wood, stacks, weighs, loads.
Night attendantServes cremation buyers after hours.
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 firewood and coal depot?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Firewood and coal depot". 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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