Your customers
- Exporters
- Thekedars
- Local brassware and gift shops
- Fair and online buyers
Metals and engineering · Makers and factories
MatruOS for a nakkash and meenakar
Set up the way a nakkash and meenakar runs: piece rate per design for engraving, enamelling or inlay on others' pieces; direct sale of own decorated pieces at fairs and online. 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 nakkash and meenakar deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Paid late and below the rate agreed for the lot. No idea of PM Vishwakarma toolkit and credit or the artisan card.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 7 routines, 1 workflow, 3 registers and 2 licences for a nakkash and meenakar, 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.
- Exporter
- thekedar
- home karigar (decoration)
- finishing
- exporter
Your suppliers
- Thekedar or exporter (pieces)
- Chisel and tool makers
- Enamel colour and lacquer sellers
- Lac and pitch sellers
Credit and cash
Paid weekly to monthly by thekedar; exporters 30-60 days; direct buyers advance or COD
Colours and kiln fuel bought in cash; pay comes weekly at best; festival advances from thekedar tie the karigar to him
Your screens use your words
CustomerParty (thekedar or exporter)OrderLotItemDesignInvoicePiece billproductPieceemployeeKarigar
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a nakkash and meenakar
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Nakkash and meenakar", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a nakkash and meenakarRoutines, 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 nakkash and meenakar
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 a dated photo catalogue of the karigar's designs with size and price, and drafts a WhatsApp or marketplace listing for direct-sale pieces
Asks you before sending
Works out pieces delivered at agreed rate against money received per thekedar and drafts a polite balance request
Asks you before sending
Checks eligibility and dates for PM Vishwakarma, artisan card and fair stalls, and lists the papers needed
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
8:00 amMorning bench work
- 1Set pieces in lac; mark design from the sample
- 2First piece compared with sample before doing the lot
2:00 pmEnamel filling and firing
- 1Fill colours cell by cell; dry before firing
- 2Fire each coat; check no pits or cracks
7:00 pmEvening count and photo of finished pieces
- 1Count pieces done per design; photo of a finished piece
- 2Enter pieces out when the thekedar picks up
Every week
FriWeekly pay check with the thekedar
- 1Pieces delivered this week times agreed rate; minus rejects
- 2Compare with money received; ask balance
Every month
5thMonthly cost per piece check
- 1Colours, kiln fuel and lac used against pieces done
- 2Earning per hour by design; designs paid too low marked
Every year
AprYearly scheme and card renewal
- 1Artisan card and PM Vishwakarma status; toolkit and loan instalment check
- 2Apply for training, credit or fair stall if eligible
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 pay received
- 1Pieces and sample received
- 2Rate agreed on sampleNeeds approval
- 3Decorated
- 4Returned and counted
- 5Thekedar QC passesNeeds approval
- 6Paid
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.
Pieces in and out (kachi parchi)
Own design catalogue
Payments received
Decoration matches the sample
No rejection at the exporter's QC
Enamel firing
Colours bright without pits or cracking
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hand engraving (nakkashi) job work | 998898 | 5% |
| Enamelling (hot meena) job work | 998898 | 5% |
| Cold enamel (lacquer colour) filling job work | 998898 | 5% |
| Wire or shell inlay job work | 998898 | 5% |
| Repousse (chasing) job work | 998898 | 5% |
| Engraved brass plate or tray (own sale) | 8306 | 5% |
| Meenakari brass vase or box (own sale) | 8306 | 5% |
| Bidri box or vase (own sale) | 8306 | 5% |
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- GST 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.
Master karigarTakes lots from the thekedar, draws and cuts the design, agrees rates, collects pay.
Family helperCleans pieces, sets them in lac, fills colour, counts.
MeenakarMixes and fills enamel, fires in kiln, levels and polishes.
Thekedar (contractor)Brings lots and samples, checks pieces, pays the karigar.
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 nakkash and meenakar?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Nakkash and meenakar". 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 nakkash and meenakar 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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