Your customers
- Overseas importers and retail chains
- Buying houses and agents
- Online marketplaces abroad
- Indian hotel suppliers and corporate gift buyers
Metals and engineering · Traders and distributors
MatruOS for a brassware handicraft exporter
Set up the way a brassware handicraft exporter runs: FOB margin on each design over stage-wise cost; export incentives (RoDTEP, duty drawback); domestic sales to hotels and corporate gifting. 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 brassware handicraft exporter deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Costing misses a stage (lacquer, packing, testing) and the design loses money. Metal and pieces spread across 30-100 karkhanas, losses never reconciled.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 9 routines, 1 workflow, 3 registers and 9 licences for a brassware handicraft exporter, 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.
- Chain owner: metal traders
- karkhanas (casting, spinning, decoration, finishing)
- exporter
- importer or chain abroad
Your suppliers
- Casting karkhanas
- Spinning and soldering units
- Engraving and meenakari karigars
- Finishing units
- Metal sheet and scrap traders
- Carton makers
- Testing labs
- Inspection agencies
- Freight forwarders
Credit and cash
Buyers pay LC at sight or 60-90 days open account with charge-backs; karkhanas paid 30-90 days; metal traders cash or 15 days; packing 30 days
Metal and sampling paid upfront; packing credit loan against the PO; realisation 60-120 days after shipment; IGST refund and RoDTEP 1-3 months after
Your screens use your words
CustomerBuyerOrderPurchase orderItemDesignInvoiceExport invoiceproductDesignemployeeMerchandiser
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a brassware handicraft exporter
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Brassware handicraft exporter", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a brassware handicraft exporterRoutines, 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 brassware handicraft exporter
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 the daily board of pieces by stage and karkhana per PO against vessel cut-off and drafts chase messages to late karkhanas
Asks you before sending
Keeps metal and piece balances per karkhana from challans, works ghat against agreed limits and lists lots out for over 30 days
Works it out and shows you
Lists shipping bills with RoDTEP, drawback or IGST refund pending, buyer payments overdue, and drafts follow-ups
Asks you before sending
Fills a stage-wise cost for each new sample from karkhana rates and today's metal price and shows margin at the planned FOB before quoting
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
10:00 amDaily order stage board and karkhana chase
- 1For each PO, pieces at each stage and karkhana against ex-factory date
- 2Visit or call karkhanas whose lots are late
- 3Flag POs at risk of missing vessel cut-off
3:00 pmPacking hall QC
- 1AQL check on finished pieces before packing
- 2Carton drop test on first carton of a new design
Every week
MonWeekly karkhana metal and piece balance
- 1Metal sent vs castings and scrap back per karkhana; ghat against limit
- 2Lots out for more than 30 days listed
SatWeekly karkhana payment plan
- 1Bills due and peak-season priority karkhanas
- 2Approve payment list
Every month
7thExport incentives and realisation
- 1Shipping bills with RoDTEP and drawback not yet credited
- 2IGST refund or LUT status; e-BRC for realised shipments
- 3Buyer payments due and overdue
Every year
MarRCMC, LUT and social audit renewals
- 1File LUT for the new year before 1 April
- 2RCMC (EPCH) validity; social audit (SEDEX or BSCI) dates for big buyers
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.
Sample to shipment
- 1Buyer brief and sample made
- 2Costing approvedNeeds approval
- 3PO received
- 4Metal and lots sent to karkhanas
- 5Lots back and packed
- 6Tests and inspection passedNeeds approval
- 7Shipped
- 8Payment realised
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.
Design costing sheet
Karkhana challan register
Export order file
Pre-shipment QC and packing
Pass the buyer's inspection first time
Buyer compliance tests
No shipment held for a missing test
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Brass decorative article (statuette or figurine) | 8306 | 5% |
| Metal photo frame | 8306 | 5% |
| Metal candle holder and lantern | 9405 | 18% |
| Brass or copper bowl and vase | 7418 | 5% |
| Iron and aluminium planter | 7326 | 18% |
| Stainless and copper barware and tableware | 7323 | 5% |
| Aluminium serveware (hotelware) | 7615 | 5% |
| Wall decor and metal wall art | 8306 | 5% |
- GST registration
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- Import Export Code (IEC)
- Export council membership (RCMC)
- GST Letter of Undertaking (LUT) for exports
- Factory licenceIf it applies
- PF registration (EPFO)If it applies
- ESI registration (ESIC)If it applies
- Pollution consent (CTO)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.
OwnerMeets buyers and attends fairs, approves costings, signs POs and contracts, finances.
Designer and sample room in-chargeMakes samples from buyer briefs, keeps sample record.
MerchandiserSplits POs across karkhanas, chases lots daily, QC at karkhanas.
QC and packing supervisorFinal inspection, packing, carton marking, CBM.
Export documentation executiveInvoice, packing list, shipping bill, LUT, RoDTEP, bank realisation.
AccountantKarkhana payments, GST refunds, buyer receivables.
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 brassware handicraft exporter?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Brassware handicraft exporter". 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.
Metals and engineering
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Run a brassware handicraft exporter 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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