Your customers
- Sankha retail shops and jewellers
- Brides and married women directly
- Durga Puja fairs
- Garment and handicraft buyers (buttons)
- Buyers in Assam Tripura and Bangladesh
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MatruOS for a shankha and shell button maker
Set up the way a shankha and shell button maker runs: sale of shankha bangles by pair (plain, carved, broad and gold-capped) and of shell buttons by gross; job work for sankha shops. 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 shankha and shell button maker deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Costly shells cut without knowing pairs per shell; breakage not tracked. Weekly wages and shop dues kept in the head.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 8 routines, 1 workflow, 3 registers and 5 licences for a shankha and shell button maker, 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.
- Conch fishery or importer
- Kolkata or Chennai wholesaler
- shankhari workshop
- sankha shop
- customer
Your suppliers
- Conch wholesalers in Kolkata and Chennai (Rameswaram Thoothukudi and Sri Lanka shells)
- Mussel shell collectors (buttons)
- Goldsmiths for gold capping
- Grinding wheel and blade sellers
Credit and cash
Shells bought cash from wholesalers or advanced by the mahajan against output; shops pay weekly or on delivery; retail cash or UPI
Shell is the main cash outlay (₹550-4,000 a shell) and must be bought ahead of Durga Puja and the wedding season; payment from shops comes weekly
Your screens use your words
ItemPairInvoiceBillSupplierShell wholesalerproductShankha
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a shankha and shell button maker
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Shankha and shell button maker", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a shankha and shell button makerRoutines, 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 shankha and shell button maker
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 pairs per shell and breakage for each lot and artisan and flags lots well below 4 pairs a shell
Works it out and shows you
Drafts weekly wages per artisan and the list of shop dues to collect on delivery day
Asks you before paying
Estimates shells and hands needed for Durga Puja and weddings from last year's orders and advance bookings
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
7:00 amSoak, clean and sun-dry the day's shells
- 1Drill or hole the inner shell and soak in water
- 2Lay soaked shells in the sun
- 3Count shells taken from stock
9:00 amCutting and slicing
- 1Mark each shell for 4-5 rings or one broad pair
- 2Split, grind smooth and slice rings
- 3Wear mask and wet the wheel to keep dust down
5:30 pmCarving, polishing and day's output count
- 1Carve to the order design and polish
- 2Count pairs cut, carved and broken per artisan
Every week
SatWeekly wages and shop deliveries
- 1Pay artisans by pairs or days from the output book
- 2Deliver pairs to shops and collect last week's money
Every month
5thMonthly shell buying trip or order
- 1Count shell stock by size against orders in hand
- 2Buy with a bill or source slip only; reject protected shells
Every year
DecCraft fairs and scheme registration
- 1Apply for craft fairs and the artisan card or PM Vishwakarma
- 2Count stock and shell left at year end
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.
Bride or shop order
- 1Size and design chosen
- 2Advance takenNeeds approval
- 3Cut from matching shell
- 4Carved polished and paired
- 5Delivered and paid
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.
Shell stock book
Artisan output book
Shop and bride orders
Legal shell source
Buy only shells that can be legally traded
Shell dust safety
Protect lungs and eyes from fine shell dust
Pair matching and grading
Sell only matched, crack-free pairs
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Plain shankha bangles | 9601 | 5% |
| Carved shankha bangles | 9601 | 5% |
| Broad cargo shankha bangles | 9601 | 5% |
| Gold-capped shankha bangles | 7113 | 3% |
| Shankha with pola and loha set | 9601 | 5% |
| Blowing conch (shankh) | 9601 | 5% |
| Mother-of-pearl shell buttons | 9606 | 5% |
| Shankha cutting job work | 998892 | 5% |
| Shell powder and offcuts | 0508 | 0% |
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- GST registrationIf it applies
- Shops and Establishments registrationIf it applies
- Trade licenceIf it applies
- Forest department licence (sawmill or timber)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.
Master shankhari (owner)Buys shells, decides the cut for each shell, takes orders from shops and brides, sells.
CutterRemoves the tip, splits and slices shells into bangle rings on the machine.
CarverGrinds, files and carves motifs with chisels and small machines, polishes.
Family helperSoaks and sun-dries shells, sorts pairs by size, packs.
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 shankha and shell button maker?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Shankha and shell button maker". 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.
Jewellery and diamonds
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Run a shankha and shell button maker 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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