Your customers
- Hardware wholesalers
- Lock distributors
- Door hardware dealers
- Exporters
- Institutional and government buyers
- Online sellers
Metals and engineering · Makers and factories
MatruOS for a locks and hardware maker
Set up the way a locks and hardware maker runs: sale of padlocks, door and cupboard locks, mortise lock sets and builders' hardware under own or buyers' brands to wholesalers, distributors, exporters and institutions. 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 locks and hardware maker deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Metal and parts given to dozens of thekedars cannot be traced; shortfall and theft go unnoticed. Piece-rate payments through thekedars are disputed and unrecorded.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 8 routines, 2 workflows, 3 registers and 12 licences for a locks and hardware 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.
- sheet and castings
- thekedar and home job workers
- assembler-brand
- wholesaler
- hardware shop
- user
Your suppliers
- Brass and iron sheet traders
- Zinc die-casters
- Wire and spring makers
- Die makers
- Thekedars and home workers
- Plating job workers
- Box printers
Credit and cash
Metal bought cash; home workers paid weekly in cash or UPI through thekedars; part makers 15-45 days; wholesalers 60-120 days with Diwali advances from big buyers
Metal and weekly wages go out every week; wholesaler money comes 2-4 months later; Diwali advances fund the August-October build
Your screens use your words
CustomerWholesalerItemModelInvoiceBill
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a locks and hardware 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 "Locks and hardware maker", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a locks and hardware 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 locks and hardware 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.
Keeps the issue and return ledger by thekedar by weight and count, flags shortfall over the norm and lots out too long
Works it out and shows you
Builds the weekly piece-rate sheet by thekedar and operation from accepted pieces, deducts advances and prepares the UPI payment list
Asks you before paying
Ages dues state by state, logs deductions, drafts statements and reminders, checks box designs have the required label fields and drafts the Diwali model plan from last year
Asks you before sending
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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 amMorning metal and parts issue to thekedars
- 1Weigh metal or count parts for each thekedar
- 2Write the kachi parchi with weight, pieces expected and rate
- 3Note the return date
2:00 pmAssembly and key test
- 1Each lock opens with its own keys smoothly
- 2Other keys of the batch do not open it
- 3Shackle locks firmly and springs back
6:30 pmEvening parts return by count
- 1Count parts back from each thekedar
- 2Note rejects and shortfall against the parchi
- 3Weigh scrap returned
Every week
Wed 11:00 amWeekly plating lots out and back
- 1Lots sent for plating with count
- 2Lots back with rejects (peel, dull, spots)
Sat 4:00 pmWeekly piece-rate payment through thekedars
- 1Total accepted pieces by thekedar and operation
- 2Deduct advances and shortfall
- 3Owner approves; pay by cash or UPI and get thekedar's signature
Every month
7thMonthly wholesaler statements and collections
- 1Send statements state by state
- 2List dues over 90 days and breakage or return deductions
- 3Plan collection trips or agent calls
Every year
NovYearly price list and box label check after Diwali
- 1Revise price list for metal costs
- 2Check every box design for MRP, maker, month and quantity
- 3Renew packer registration and trademark watch
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.
Lock production through home job workers
- 1Metal and dies issued on parchi
- 2Parts made at home units
- 3Parts returned and counted
- 4Assembled and key-tested
- 5Plated polished and boxed
- 6Piece-rate payment approvedNeeds approval
Wholesaler order to collection
- 1Order by phone or salesman
- 2Credit approvedNeeds approval
- 3Dispatched by transport with LR
- 4Collected
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.
Thekedar issue and return (kachi parchi)
Weekly piece-rate sheet
Wholesaler order and dues book
Lock performance
Every lock opens only with its own keys and holds under pull
Thekedar issue and return reconciliation
Metal and parts given out come back as pieces and scrap within the agreed loss
Box labelling
Every box can be sold without a Legal Metrology fine
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 padlock 50 mm (6 levers) | 8301 | 18% |
| Brass padlock 65 mm (8 levers) | 8301 | 18% |
| Iron laminated padlock 40 mm | 8301 | 18% |
| Disc padlock (shutter) | 8301 | 18% |
| Mortise lock set with handles | 8301 | 18% |
| Cupboard and almirah lock | 8301 | 18% |
| Drawer lock | 8301 | 18% |
| Stainless steel butt hinge 4 inch | 8302 | 18% |
| Tower bolt 8 inch | 8302 | 18% |
| Aldrop 10 inch | 8302 | 18% |
| Door handle (pull) 6 inch | 8302 | 18% |
- GST registration
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- Packaged commodities registration (Legal Metrology)
- Trademark
- Factory licenceIf it applies
- PF registration (EPFO)If it applies
- ESI registration (ESIC)If it applies
- BIS licence (ISI mark)If it applies
- Pollution consent (CTO)If it applies
- GeM seller registrationIf it applies
- Import Export Code (IEC)If it applies
- Professional tax 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.
OwnerDesigns models and dies, buys metal, gives work to thekedars, sells to wholesalers, approves payments.
ThekedarTakes metal and parts to home units, brings back finished parts, pays home workers.
Assembly in-chargeSets levers to key combinations, assembles and tests locks, sends plating lots.
Packing and dispatch manBoxes with brand and MRP, dozen packing, books transport.
Munim (accountant)Kachi parchi book, piece-rate sheet, wholesaler ledger, GST.
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 locks and hardware maker?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Locks and hardware 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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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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