Your customers
- Domestic tourists and honeymooners
- Foreign tourists
- Travel agents and tour operators
- Booking platforms
- Corporate groups
Hotels, restaurants and travel · Services
MatruOS for a houseboat and shikara operator
Set up the way a houseboat and shikara operator runs: overnight and day-cruise packages (boat, meals and crew), shikara rides by the hour, add-ons such as village canoe rides and candle-light dinners; Srinagar: room nights on moored houseboats. 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 houseboat and shikara operator deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Agent commissions and advances are not reconciled and balances leak. Port licence, classification or insurance lapses and the boat is stopped at the jetty.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 8 routines, 1 workflow, 3 registers and 7 licences for a houseboat and shikara operator, 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.
- Boat owner
- (agent, platform)
- tourist
Your suppliers
- Diesel and LPG
- Food (fish, vegetables, rice)
- Boat carpenters, coir and bamboo thatchers
- Engine mechanics
- Linen and laundry
- Insurance companies
- Sewage pump-out at the STP
Credit and cash
Guests pay 25-50% advance, balance on boarding; agents pay after the trip or monthly, net of 15-25% commission; crew paid monthly with a per-trip bata; repair yards want cash
Six to seven months of earnings carry the year; boat purchase or rebuild (Rs 25-80 lakh) on loans; refit in the monsoon
Your screens use your words
CustomerGuestOrderBookingItemBoatInvoiceBillSupplierVendorproductPackage
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a houseboat and shikara operator
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Houseboat and shikara operator", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a houseboat and shikara operatorRoutines, 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 houseboat and shikara operator
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.
Builds tomorrow's boat and crew plan with guest names, meal preferences and pick-up times, flags double bookings and foreign guests needing Form C, and sends the plan to crew and agents
Asks you before sending
Prepares each agent's monthly statement of bookings, advances, commission and balance due
Asks you before sending
Reminds 90, 30 and 7 days before each boat's port licence, survey, classification, insurance and pollution certificate expire
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
9:30 amSafety and cleanliness check before boarding
- 1Life jackets for every guest, plus lifebuoys, on board
- 2Fire extinguishers charged and two in the kitchen
- 3Engine, bilge and fuel stored away from the kitchen
- 4Rooms, linen and toilets clean
12:00 pmGuest boarding and cruise
- 1Check guest IDs against the booking; note foreign guests for Form C
- 2Safety briefing: life jackets, no swimming, no drinking on the open deck edge
- 3Cruise the approved route; anchor at the allowed point by 17:30
6:00 pmNext day's bookings, crew and food plan
- 1Confirm tomorrow's guests, boats, meal preferences and pick-up times
- 2Send guest list and boat details to agents and crew
Every week
Mon, ThuSewage pump-out and waste disposal
- 1Pump out the holding tank at the shore STP and keep the slip
- 2Hand plastic and kitchen waste to the shore collection point
Every month
5thAgent and platform settlement
- 1Match each agent's bookings, advances and commission
- 2Send statements and collect balances
1stCrew salary and trip bata
- 1Pay salary plus per-trip bata from the trip log
Every year
AugPort licence, survey, classification and insurance renewals
- 1Annual port survey and licence renewal for each boat
- 2Renew insurance, pollution certificate and FSSAI; apply for reclassification 3 months before expiry
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.
Booking to check-out
- 1Enquiry and package quoted
- 2Advance received and boat allotted
- 3Boat checked and guests boarded
- 4Cruise and anchoring done
- 5Balance paid and feedback takenNeeds approval
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.
Boats
Bookings and charters
Trip log
Passenger safety on the water
No drowning, fire or capsize
Keep sewage and waste out of the lake
Keep the pollution certificate and the lake clean
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Overnight houseboat package, 1 bedroom (all meals) | 996311 | 18% |
| Overnight houseboat package, 2 bedroom | 996311 | 18% |
| Day cruise, 11:00 to 17:00, with lunch | 998555 | 18% |
| Srinagar houseboat room night, with breakfast | 996311 | 5% |
| Shikara ride, per hour | 996425 | 18% |
| Village canoe ride | 998555 | 18% |
| Extra meal (Kerala thali or Kashmiri wazwan plate) | 996331 | 5% |
| Candle-light dinner on deck | 996331 | 5% |
- GST registration
- FSSAI food licence
- Tourism approvalIf it applies
- Pollution consent (CTO)
- Insurance policy
- Fire NOCIf it applies
- Police licenceIf 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.
OwnerSells to agents and platforms, sets rates, pays crew, keeps licences, plans refits.
Booking clerkTakes enquiries, confirms bookings, collects advances, guest list.
Driver (serang)Drives the boat, keeps the safety gear, follows the route and anchoring time, logs diesel.
CookBuys fish and vegetables, cooks all meals, keeps the kitchen clean.
Deckhand or shikarawalaRowing or mooring, cleaning, serving, helping guests on and off.
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 houseboat and shikara operator?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Houseboat and shikara operator". 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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Run a houseboat and shikara operator on one system Set up for your trade when you sign up.
Describe your business once. MatruOS sets up your apps, brings in your data and puts Muni and the AI team to work, with your approval on every step that matters. 7-day free trial, no card needed.
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