Your customers
- Thekedars (contractors) of lock makers
- Lock makers and assemblers directly (small units)
- Hardware makers for builders' fittings
Metals and engineering · Makers and factories
MatruOS for a lock parts home job work business
Set up the way a lock parts home job work business runs: piece rate for one operation (lever pressing, key cutting, spring winding, body pressing, drilling, buffing and polishing), paid per dozen, per hundred or per kg of parts returned. 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 lock parts home job work business deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Counts and rejects are disputed at weekly pay and the household has no record. Part of the pay is held back week after week and nobody knows the running total.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 8 routines, 1 workflow, 2 registers and 3 licences for a lock parts home job work business, 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.
- brass and iron sheet and wire traders
- lock maker
- thekedar
- home job worker
- thekedar
- plating and assembly
- lock maker
- dealer
Your suppliers
- Thekedar (raw parts, wire and blanks supplied free)
- Local hardware shop (files, drill bits, buffing wheels, polish bars, emery)
- Power press and motor repairers
Credit and cash
Paid weekly in cash or UPI by the thekedar, often with part held back; tools and consumables bought cash; advances (peshgi) taken from thekedar before festivals and cut from later pay
No money in materials (owned by the maker); cash goes to electricity, consumables and own labour; pay comes 7-14 days after the work is returned
Your screens use your words
CustomerThekedarOrderMaal (lot)ItemPartInvoiceParchiproductOperationJobLot
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a lock parts home job work business
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Lock parts home job work", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a lock parts home job work businessRoutines, 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 lock parts home job work business
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.
Reads the parchi photo or a voice note and writes the lot into the lot book with thekedar, operation, count and rate
Works it out and shows you
Totals the week's returned dozens by thekedar and rate, subtracts advances, shows held-back amounts and prepares a WhatsApp statement to send
Asks you before sending
Prepares a monthly and yearly earnings statement and a rate history per operation for loans and rate talks
Asks you before sending
Reminds about PM Vishwakarma, e-Shram and Udyam steps and drafts the documents list for each
Asks you before signing
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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
9:00 amTake the day's lot from the thekedar
- 1Count or weigh the raw parts in front of the thekedar
- 2Note operation, model, count and rate in the lot book
- 3Photo of the thekedar's parchi
10:00 amDo the operation and sort into dozens
- 1Set the die or jig and check the first piece against the sample
- 2Keep rejects and filings separate from good parts
- 3Tie finished parts in dozens
6:30 pmReturn the finished lot and get the count signed
- 1Count good parts returned
- 2Count rejects the thekedar pulls out and ask why
- 3Get the count written on the parchi and photograph it
Every week
MonRestock files, bits, buffing wheels and polish
- 1Check worn files and buffing wheels
- 2Buy only what this week's lots need
Sat 5:00 pmWeekly pay settlement with the thekedar
- 1Total dozens returned this week per thekedar and rate
- 2Match the thekedar's figure and the advance cut
- 3Note cash or UPI received and amount held back
Every month
1stMonthly earnings statement and rate check
- 1Total earnings, held-back amounts and advances by thekedar
- 2Compare this month's rate per dozen with last year's
- 3Keep the statement for a loan or scheme application
Every year
AprYearly scheme and registration check
- 1Check PM Vishwakarma (locksmith) registration, toolkit voucher and loan tranche
- 2Renew e-Shram and Udyam details
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.
Lot in to weekly pay
- 1Lot received and counted
- 2Operation done
- 3Returned and count signed
- 4Thekedar accepts countNeeds approval
- 5Paid in weekly settlement
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.
Lot book (maal aaya, maal gaya)
Weekly pay and advance
First piece and reject check
Avoid a whole lot being rejected for a wrong setting
Count handover and proof
Get paid for every piece returned
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lever pressing and finishing (per dozen sets) | 998898 | 18% |
| Key cutting and filing (per dozen keys) | 998898 | 18% |
| Spring winding (per hundred springs) | 998898 | 18% |
| Lock body pressing on power press (per hundred) | 998898 | 18% |
| Shackle bending and drilling (per dozen) | 998898 | 18% |
| Buffing and polishing of padlocks (per dozen) | 998898 | 18% |
| Lock fitting and assembly (per dozen) | 998898 | 18% |
| Brass and iron scrap returned or sold (filings and offcuts) | 7404 | 18% |
- Udyam (MSME) registrationIf it applies
- GST registrationIf it applies
- Shops and Establishments registrationIf 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.
Head of householdTakes lots from the thekedar and agrees the rate, counts parts in and out, collects weekly pay, buys tools and consumables.
Family workerPresses, files, winds, cuts keys, buffs and polishes, sorts finished parts into dozens.
Hired karigar (small)Runs the power press or buffing motor on piece rate.
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 lock parts home job work business?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Lock parts home job work". 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
Other makers and factories in metals and engineering
Run a lock parts home job work business 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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