Your customers
- Temples and trusts
- Puja article retailers
- Wholesalers in Aligarh and Delhi
- NRIs and online buyers
- Exporters
- Interior designers
Metals and engineering · Makers and factories
MatruOS for a bronze idol and puja-article maker
Set up the way a bronze idol and puja-article maker runs: sale of icons by height or weight with a craft premium; puja articles (diyas, bells, kalash, thalis) by piece or kg; temple commissions; repair and re-polishing. 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 bronze idol and puja-article maker deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Copper and tin rise between order and delivery and the margin goes. Festival stock runs out or the wrong items are made.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 8 routines, 1 workflow, 3 registers and 5 licences for a bronze idol and puja-article 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.
- Metal trader
- sthapati or idol workshop
- temple, shop, online buyer or exporter
Your suppliers
- Copper
- Brass and tin traders
- Beeswax and resin sellers
- Local clay
- Charcoal and gas suppliers
- Chasing tool makers
Credit and cash
Custom orders 30-50% advance, balance on delivery; shops and wholesalers 30 days; metal bought cash
Metal paid in cash upfront; advances fund big icons; festival stock built 2-3 months before Navratri and Diwali
Your screens use your words
CustomerDevotee or buyerItemMurtiInvoiceBillproductMurtiemployeeKarigar
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a bronze idol and puja-article 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 "Bronze idol and puja-article maker", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a bronze idol and puja-article 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 bronze idol and puja-article 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.
Lists orders due, wax models awaiting approval and balances to collect, and drafts the customer messages with GI number on the bill
Asks you before sending
Compares today's metal rate with each open quote and drafts a price-change note for the customer's approval when validity has passed
Asks you before sending
Builds a festival make-list from last year's sales and current stock, and a catalogue with height, weight and price for online sharing
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 amWax modelling
- 1Model by thalam proportions for the deity and height
- 2Photo of finished wax model to the customer for approval
9:00 amChasing and polishing
- 1Remove clay, cut sprues, chase details to the model
- 2Weigh finished piece and record
3:00 pmInvestment, dewax and pour
- 1Three clay coats, each dried; mould dried 3-7 days
- 2Dewax and heat mould; melt and pour the metal mix
6:00 pmOrder book, advances and balances
- 1New orders with advance; orders ready for delivery; balance reminders
Every week
MonMetal price check on open orders
- 1Copper and tin rate today against the rate on each open quote
- 2Orders past quote validity with metal up more than 5% flagged
Every month
2ndMonthly sales, metal used and stock
- 1Metal bought vs used vs in stock; sales and advances
Every year
AprGI authorised user and craft award check
- 1GI authorised-user certificate valid; print number on bills
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.
Custom idol order
- 1Order with deity and height
- 2Quote with metal basis and advance taken
- 3Wax model made
- 4Customer approves wax model photoNeeds approval
- 5Cast
- 6Chased and finished
- 7Weighed and balance billed
- 8Delivered
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.
Idol order book
Metal stock and melt record
Ready stock and festival items
Lost-wax casting of icons
Sound casting true to the wax model
Metal-linked quote
Protect margin when copper and tin move
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Panchaloha or bronze icon (Swamimalai style) | 8306 | 5% |
| Brass idol (cast and polished) | 8306 | 5% |
| Temple bell (bronze) | 8306 | 5% |
| Brass diya and deepam | 7418 | 5% |
| Brass puja thali set | 7418 | 5% |
| Brass or copper kalash and lota | 7418 | 5% |
| Kuthu vilakku (standing lamp) | 7418 | 5% |
| Idol re-polish and repair | 998729 | 18% |
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- GST registrationIf it applies
- TrademarkIf it applies
- Import Export Code (IEC)If it applies
- Trade 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.
Sthapati (master craftsman)Makes wax models by iconographic proportions, takes orders, final chasing and eye-opening detail, sets price.
CasterClay investment, dewaxing, melting and pouring.
Finisher (chaser and polisher)Chasing, engraving, filing, polishing, patina.
Shop and order personShows stock, takes advances, packs and ships, online listings.
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 bronze idol and puja-article maker?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Bronze idol and puja-article 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.
Metals and engineering
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