Your customers
- Handicraft exporters
- Domestic wholesalers and showrooms
- State emporia
- Online buyers
- Hotels and interior designers
Gifts, home and everyday services · Makers and factories
MatruOS for a handicraft workshop
Set up the way a handicraft workshop runs: carved boxes, trays, panels, screens, small furniture and decor sold by piece to exporters, domestic traders, showrooms and online. Routines, workflows, registers, licences and an AI team that knows the work are ready when you sign up.
Ready when you sign up
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What this solves
What a handicraft workshop deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Timber cracks and fungus after delivery from poor seasoning. Timber legality papers scattered; exporters lose EU and US buyers.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 8 routines, 1 workflow, 3 registers and 7 licences for a handicraft workshop, 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.
- Timber depot
- seasoning
- carpenter
- carver
- finisher
- exporter or trader
- buyer
Your suppliers
- Timber depots (sheesham and mango)
- Brass, bone and resin inlay suppliers
- Polish, hardware and sandpaper shops
- Seasoning kiln operators
- Fumigation and packing agents
Credit and cash
Timber in cash or 15-30 days; exporters pay 30-60 days after QC, sometimes 20-30% advance on large POs; domestic traders 30-90 days
Timber bought and seasoned months before orders; wages weekly; exporter money 60-120 days after timber is bought; Christmas orders need the most working capital in May-August
Your screens use your words
CustomerExporterOrderPOItemPieceInvoiceBillproductDesignSupplierTimber depot
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a handicraft workshop
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Handicraft workshop", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a handicraft workshopRoutines, 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 handicraft workshop
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 each timber lot's bill, transit pass and moisture readings linked to the POs that used it; flags wet lots and missing papers; prepares the VRIKSH chain-of-custody pack
Asks you before sending
Prepares the Saturday wage list by worker and job with advances cut, and a UPI payment list
Asks you before paying
Ages exporter dues, drafts reminders, and works out cost per piece of each design to compare with the PO rate
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
8:30 amTimber moisture check before cutting
- 1Read moisture of the lot to be cut today
- 2Note the timber lot number on the job card for the PO
9:00 amCutting, carving and finishing
- 1Carpenters cut and assemble blanks for the day's PO
- 2Carvers carve to the approved sample; compare with the sample photo
- 3Finishers sand, inlay and polish
6:30 pmCount pieces by PO and stage
- 1Pieces carved, polished and packed per PO
- 2Pieces per worker for the wage sheet
Every week
SatSaturday piece wages
- 1Total pieces per worker by job and rate
- 2Deduct advances and pay by cash or UPI
Every month
1stExporter dues and delivery dates
- 1List POs delivered and not paid; age them
- 2List POs at risk of missing the delivery date
Every year
Feb, SepIHGF fair samples and VRIKSH renewal
- 1Make new samples for the exporters' IHGF Delhi fair
- 2Renew VRIKSH chain-of-custody certificate and check timber records
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.
Exporter PO to payment
- 1Design and target price received
- 2Sample made and approvedNeeds approval
- 3PO with rate and date
- 4Timber lot issued and seasoned
- 5Carved and finished
- 6Exporter QC passed
- 7Paid
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.
Timber lots and seasoning
Orders and pieces
Carver and carpenter piece wages
Timber seasoning and legality
No cracks after shipment and a clean timber trail
Export finish and packing
Pass the exporter's QC and the buyer's rules
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Carved wooden box | 4420 | 5% |
| Carved serving tray | 4419 | 5% |
| Carved wall panel | 4420 | 5% |
| Jaali screen (folding) | 4420 | 5% |
| Brass-inlay jewellery box | 4420 | 5% |
| Carved side table | 9403 | 18% |
| Wooden figurine and decor | 4420 | 5% |
| Carving job work for exporter | 998831 | 5% |
- GST registration
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- Import Export Code (IEC)If it applies
- Forest department licence (sawmill or timber)If it applies
- Factory licenceIf it applies
- PF registration (EPFO)If it applies
- ESI registration (ESIC)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.
OwnerTakes orders and rates from exporters, buys timber, keeps VRIKSH papers, pays wages.
Carpenters (barhai)Cut blanks, join and assemble.
Carvers (nakkash)Carve designs, jaali work.
FinishersInlay, sanding, polish, packing.
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 handicraft workshop?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Handicraft workshop". 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.
Gifts, home and everyday services
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Run a handicraft workshop on one system Set up for your trade when you sign up.
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