Your customers
- Fabrication and welding shops
- Factories and maintenance departments
- Construction and structural contractors
- Auto garages and AC mechanics
- Hospitals for medical oxygen (where licensed)
Metals and engineering · Traders and distributors
MatruOS for a welding electrodes and gas supplier
Set up the way a welding electrodes and gas supplier runs: gas refills charged per cubic metre or per cylinder, cylinder rent per day or month, deposits, margin on electrodes, wires, accessories and machines, machine repair. 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 welding electrodes and gas supplier deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Cylinders stay with parties for months without rent and some never come back. Rounds are planned on memory, so empties are missed and vehicles run half empty.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 10 routines, 1 workflow, 3 registers and 10 licences for a welding electrodes and gas supplier, 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.
- gas plant and electrode maker
- welding supplier
- fabricator or factory
- user
Your suppliers
- Industrial gas refilling plants
- Electrode and wire makers and distributors
- Regulator and torch makers
- Welding machine makers
- Cylinder makers and testing stations
Credit and cash
Plants and electrode makers give 15-30 days; small fabricators pay cash or weekly; factories 30-60 days; cylinder deposit taken up front (often ₹5,000-10,000 per cylinder, est.)
Cylinder fleet is the big fixed investment (₹8,000-15,000 per cylinder, est.); daily refill cash to the plant; deposits held against cylinders out
Your screens use your words
CustomerPartyItemCylinderInvoiceBillproductGasJobRound
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a welding electrodes and gas supplier
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Welding electrodes and gas supplier", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a welding electrodes and gas supplierRoutines, 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 welding electrodes and gas supplier
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.
Groups refill calls and due empties by area, assigns cylinder numbers to load, and drafts the driver's round sheet
Works it out and shows you
Computes days held and rent per party, lists cylinders over 30 days and drafts rent bills and return requests
Asks you before sending
Reminds which cylinders fall due for hydro testing in the next 60 days and blocks overdue ones from the round sheet
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 amEmpties to plant and fulls back
- 1Count empties sent to the plant by gas and number
- 2Check fulls back for seal and test date
8:30 amPlan the cylinder round
- 1List refill calls and empties to pick up by area
- 2Load full cylinders by number on the vehicle
10:30 amDeliver fulls and collect empties
- 1Write cylinder numbers out and in at each party
- 2Collect payment or note credit
7:00 pmEvening cylinder and cash tally
- 1Count full and empty cylinders in the yard by gas
- 2Match with the cylinder khata
Every week
SatWeekly cylinder rent and long-held cylinders
- 1List cylinders with parties over 30 days
- 2Bill rent; ask for return or deposit top-up
MonElectrode storage check
- 1Electrode boxes on racks off the floor in a dry room
- 2Low-hydrogen opened packs in the holding oven
Every month
1stCylinders due for hydro test
- 1List cylinders whose test date falls in the next 60 days
- 2Send them to the testing station; do not fill overdue ones
8thParty dues and GST
- 1Statements to parties past 30 days
- 2GSTR-1 and 3B
Every year
MarYearly PESO licence and fire check
- 1Renew PESO storage licence; check stock limits
- 2Refill fire extinguishers; update emergency plan
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.
New party and cylinder deposit
- 1Party details and GSTIN taken
- 2Deposit and credit approvedNeeds approval
- 3Deposit receipt issued
- 4Cylinders delivered by number
- 5Deposit refunded on return
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.
Cylinder in-out (cylinder khata)
Cylinder master and test dates
Electrode and accessory sales
Cylinder handling and storage
No fire, explosion or wrong-gas mix-up
Electrode storage and drying
Sell electrodes that weld without porosity or cracks
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxygen gas refill (7 cubic metre cylinder) | 2804 | 18% |
| Dissolved acetylene refill | 2901 | 18% |
| Argon gas refill | 2804 | 18% |
| CO2 gas refill | 2811 | 18% |
| Cylinder rent | 997319 | 18% |
| Welding electrodes E6013 (2.5 to 4 mm) | 8311 | 18% |
| Low-hydrogen electrodes E7018 | 8311 | 18% |
| Stainless steel electrodes | 8311 | 18% |
| MIG wire ER70S-6 (15 kg spool) | 8311 | 18% |
| Gas regulator (oxygen or argon) | 8481 | 18% |
| Welding and cutting torch set | 8468 | 18% |
| Inverter welding machine (ARC 200 A) | 8515 | 18% |
- GST registration
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- Shops and Establishments registration
- PESO licence (fuel, gas or explosives)
- Fire NOCIf it applies
- Trade licenceIf it applies
- Wholesale drug licence (Forms 20B/21B)If it applies
- PF registration (EPFO)If it applies
- ESI registration (ESIC)If it applies
- Vehicle permitIf 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.
OwnerDeals with gas plant and makers, sets refill and rent rates, takes deposits, approves credit.
Counter salesmanSells electrodes and accessories, advises grades, writes cylinder movements.
Delivery driverCylinder rounds, collects empties and payments, gets challans signed.
Store keeperCylinder yard, segregates full and empty, checks valves and test dates, keeps electrodes dry.
AccountantBills refills and rent, deposits, GST, dues.
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 welding electrodes and gas supplier?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Welding electrodes and gas supplier". 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 traders and distributors in metals and engineering
Run a welding electrodes and gas supplier 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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