Your customers
- Farmers and farm labourers
- Agri implement and hardware shops
- Haat buyers
- Households (tawas, knives)
- Craft buyers and exporters (Bastar and Shamli)
- Government and NGO tool kit schemes
Metals and engineering · Makers and factories
MatruOS for a lohar
Set up the way a lohar runs: new agricultural hand tools sold at the forge, haats and agri shops; repair, re-steeling and sharpening charges; cart and implement fittings; grain payments at harvest (jajmani in some villages); decorative iron craft in craft clusters. 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 lohar deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Repair credit given to many farmers is forgotten by harvest. Orders and repairs are kept in memory, so tools are mixed up or delayed.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 9 routines, 1 workflow, 2 registers and 3 licences for a lohar, 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.
- scrap steel and charcoal
- lohar
- farmer or haat or agri shop
Your suppliers
- Scrap dealers (leaf springs, rail, bar ends)
- Charcoal and coal sellers
- Wooden handle makers
- Grinding wheel and hardware shops
Credit and cash
Mostly cash or UPI; farmers settle repair credit at harvest, sometimes in grain; agri shops pay 15-30 days; scrap and charcoal bought cash
Very low working capital; cash every day in season; farmer credit collected after kharif and rabi harvests
Your screens use your words
CustomerKisan (customer)ItemTool (auzaar)InvoiceParchiproductToolJobRepair
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a lohar
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Lohar", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a loharRoutines, 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 lohar
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.
Writes each order or repair from a voice note into the job book with customer, village, tool, work and price, and lists what is ready today
Works it out and shows you
Suggests which tools and how many to make for the coming haats by season, with the cost per piece from scrap and fuel
Works it out and shows you
Lists dues by farmer and village before harvest, drafts polite reminders, and prepares an earnings statement for loans
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
7:00 amLight the forge and take the day's jobs
- 1Light the bhatti; check blower and tongs
- 2Write each tool brought in with customer, work and price
8:00 amForge, harden and temper
- 1Pick the right scrap for the tool (spring steel for blades)
- 2Harden the edge and temper by colour
5:30 pmHand over ready tools and collect
- 1Call customers whose tools are ready
- 2Note cash paid and amount due at harvest
Every week
WedWeekly haat stall
- 1Carry sickles, khurpis and spades by season
- 2Note pieces sold and orders taken
MonBuy scrap steel and fuel
- 1Buy leaf spring and rail scrap by kg; reject rusted thin scrap
- 2Buy charcoal or coal for the week
Every month
1stMonthly earnings and dues
- 1Total earnings, material spend and dues
- 2Keep the statement for PM Vishwakarma or Mudra loan
Every year
JulYearly scheme check
- 1Check PM Vishwakarma training, toolkit voucher and loan tranche status
- 2Apply for SFURTI or craft cluster support where it exists
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.
Tool repair to payment
- 1Tool received and price told
- 2Forged and hardened
- 3Ground and handle fitted
- 4Handed over
- 5Paid now or at harvest
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.
Order and repair book
Scrap and fuel purchase
Hardening and tempering the edge
An edge that cuts and does not chip or bend
Forge and grinder safety
Avoid burns, eye injuries and wheel bursts
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sickle (darati or hansiya) | 8201 | 0% |
| Spade and hoe (phawra or kudal) | 8201 | 0% |
| Khurpi (weeder) | 8201 | 0% |
| Axe (kulhadi) | 8201 | 0% |
| Ploughshare (phal) and harrow tines | 8432 | 5% |
| Chaff-cutter blade | 8436 | 5% |
| Iron tawa and kadai | 7323 | 5% |
| Tool repair and re-steeling | 998729 | 18% |
| Sharpening | 998729 | 18% |
| Bullock-cart wheel tyre and fittings | 998729 | 18% |
| Decorative wrought iron craft item | 7326 | 5% |
- Udyam (MSME) registrationIf it applies
- GST registrationIf 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.
Lohar (master smith)Selects steel, forges and shapes, hardens and tempers, prices work, sells at haats.
Helper (hathoda chalane wala)Works the blower, strikes with the sledge, grinds and fits handles.
Family memberKeeps the order book, collects dues, minds the stall at the haat.
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 lohar?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Lohar". 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 lohar 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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