Your customers
- Raddi balers and paper mill dealers
- Plastic recyclers and granule makers
- Ferrous scrap processors and induction furnace dealers
- Non-ferrous metal dealers
- Registered battery and e-waste recyclers
Fuel, energy and recycling · Traders and distributors
MatruOS for a scrap dealer or kabadi yard
Set up the way a scrap dealer or kabadi yard runs: spread between buying price from pheriwalas, homes, shops and offices and selling price to raddi balers, plastic recyclers, ferrous processors and metal dealers; sorting and baling add value. 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 scrap dealer or kabadi yard deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Rates move daily and the seth buys high or sells low by phone guesswork. Cash paid out does not match the bahi at night.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 8 routines, 1 workflow, 3 registers and 9 licences for a scrap dealer or kabadi yard, 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.
- Home or shop
- pheriwala
- kabadi yard
- baler, processor or recycler
- paper mill, steel mill, plastic recycler
Your suppliers
- Pheriwalas (door-to-door hawkers)
- Households
- Shops, offices and small factories
- Construction and demolition sites
Credit and cash
Pays pheriwalas cash daily, with small advances to regulars; sells to wholesalers for cash or 7-15 days; processors and mills pay 15-45 days
Needs Rs 1-5 lakh cash in hand every day for buying; stock turns in 3-10 days; metal prices move daily so holding stock is a gamble
Your screens use your words
CustomerBuyerOrderTruck loadItemGradeInvoiceBillSupplierPheriwalaproductScrap
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a scrap dealer or kabadi yard
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Scrap dealer / kabadi yard", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a scrap dealer or kabadi yardRoutines, 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 scrap dealer or kabadi yard
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.
Suggests today's buying rate per grade from the latest selling rates and target margin, and drafts the rate message for pheriwalas
Asks you before sending
Totals the day's buying by grade and cash paid, flags gaps, and keeps a running RCM working for metal bought from unregistered sellers
Works it out and shows you
Estimates stock by grade, suggests which grades to load for which buyer, and tracks each buyer's weight difference
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
9:00 amMorning buying rate board
- 1Check buyers' rates for iron, paper, plastic and metals
- 2Write today's buying rates on the board and tell pheriwalas
1:00 pmAfternoon and evening buying at the kanta
- 1Scale zero checked before weighing
- 2Weigh each grade separately and write in kharid bahi
- 3Pay cash and adjust advances
8:00 pmDay close of cash and stock
- 1Cash paid out against kharid bahi total
- 2Kg bought today by grade
Every week
Tue, FriTruck loading and sale
- 1Grades ready to sell and best buyer rate
- 2Weigh truck at weighbridge; bill and e-way bill if registered
- 3Match buyer's weight and payment
SunWeekly sorting and baling day
- 1Bale cardboard and PET; count bales
- 2Batteries and e-waste kept separate and covered
Every month
10thMonthly GST, RCM and TDS check
- 1RCM on metal scrap bought from unregistered pheriwalas worked out
- 2TDS deducted by buyers matched with their returns
- 3Pheriwala advances over Rs 5,000 reviewed
Every year
JanScale stamping and licence renewal
- 1Platform scale verified and stamped by legal metrology
- 2Trade licence and police registration renewed where required
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.
Office or factory scrap lot
- 1Site visit and grade estimate
- 2Rate agreed with clientNeeds approval
- 3Tempo collects and weighs at site
- 4Payment and weight slip to client
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.
Daily buying (kharid bahi)
Truck sales (bikri bahi)
Pheriwala advance khata
Weighing and buying at the kanta
Fair weight and no stolen goods
Batteries and e-waste handling
No acid or toxic leak and legal disposal
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Iron scrap, heavy (HMS) | 7204 | 18% |
| Iron scrap, light (tin and sheet) | 7204 | 18% |
| Newspaper raddi | 4707 | 5% |
| Cardboard (gatta), baled | 4707 | 5% |
| Books, copies and mixed paper | 4707 | 5% |
| PET bottles, baled | 3915 | 18% |
| Hard plastic (HD and PP) | 3915 | 18% |
| Copper scrap | 7404 | 18% |
| Brass scrap | 7404 | 18% |
| Aluminium scrap | 7602 | 18% |
| Used lead-acid batteries | 8549 | 18% |
| E-waste, mixed (to authorised recycler) | 8549 | 18% |
- GST registration
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- Trade licence
- Weighing scale stamping
- Shops and Establishments registrationIf it applies
- Police licenceIf it applies
- Pollution consent (CTO)If it applies
- EPR registration for plastic packagingIf it applies
- TAN (tax deduction account number)
Your people
The people who run it, each with their own login
Each person sees the screens and reminders for the work they do.
SethFixes daily buying rates, pays cash, sells truck loads, keeps buyers and police relations.
Kanta munshiWeighs every lot, writes kharid bahi, pays pheriwalas.
SorterSorts by grade, removes dirt and mixed items, bales cardboard and PET.
Driver-loaderCollects bulk lots by tempo, loads trucks.
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 scrap dealer or kabadi yard?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Scrap dealer / kabadi yard". 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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