Your customers
- Salt traders and refiners (crude)
- Distributors and kirana (packed salt)
- Chlor-alkali, soda ash and dyes makers (industrial salt)
- Government schemes (double-fortified salt)
- Exporters
Mining and quarrying · Makers and factories
MatruOS for a salt pan and iodising unit
Set up the way a salt pan and iodising unit runs: crude salt per tonne from the pans; refined iodised salt in pouches and bags; industrial salt to chemical plants; bittern and gypsum by-products. 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 salt pan and iodising unit deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Agariya advances and truck liftings are in a trader's diary; families never see their balance. Low-iodine batches reach the market and bring FSSAI cases.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 9 routines, 1 workflow, 3 registers and 9 licences for a salt pan and iodising unit, 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.
- brine
- salt pan
- trader
- refinery and iodising unit
- distributor
- retail; or salt works
- industry
Your suppliers
- Agariya families and salt works (crude)
- Potassium iodate and anti-caking agent dealers
- Pouch and bag makers
- Diesel and solar pump dealers
- Truck and rail transport
Credit and cash
Traders advance agariyas before the season and lift salt at a set rate; refiners pay crude salt in 7-15 days; distributors buy on 15-30 days; industry on 30-60 days
Agariyas live on the trader's advance from Oct to May; refiners stock crude salt after the season and sell all year
Your screens use your words
CustomerBuyerItemSaltInvoiceBillSupplierAgariyaproductSalt
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a salt pan and iodising unit
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Salt pan and iodising unit", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a salt pan and iodising unitRoutines, 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 salt pan and iodising unit
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 each agariya's advance, tonnes lifted and balance, shows diesel per tonne and the heaps still unlifted
Asks you before sending
Reminds the technician to test each batch, flags any batch under 30 ppm and holds it from release
Works it out and shows you
Ages distributor dues and drafts reminders
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
6:30 amBrine density round and pan transfer
- 1Read brine density in each pan with the hydrometer
- 2Move brine to the crystalliser at about 25 °Bé
- 3Drain bittern when the pan passes 29 °Bé
8:00 amRake, heap and lift salt
- 1Rake ready pans and heap the salt
- 2Weigh each truck lifted and note against the agariya's advance
10:00 amIodise and test every batch
- 1Dose potassium iodate per tonne by the set rate
- 2Iodine at the factory
- 3Moisture of refined salt
- 4Record batch on the pack
Every week
Mon, ThuDistributor dispatch and dues
- 1Plan trucks against distributor orders
- 2List dues over 30 days and send reminders
SunPump and pan bund maintenance
- 1Check pump, pipes and solar panels
- 2Repair pan bunds and channels
Every month
10thMonthly salt production return
- 1Total salt made and despatched last month
- 2Send the return to the Salt Commissioner's office
Every year
AprSalt Commissioner registration and licences
- 1Renew Salt Commissioner registration and FSSAI licence
- 2EPR plastic return for pouches
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.
Pan salt to packed iodised salt
- 1Salt raked and lifted
- 2Weighed and paid against advance
- 3Washed and refined
- 4Iodised and tested
- 5Batch releasedNeeds approval
- 6Packed and dispatched
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.
Pan and brine log
Salt lifting and advance
Iodising batch and test
Iodised salt release
Every pack carries enough iodine and meets FSSAI
Clean pan salt
White salt with low magnesium and grit
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Crude salt (pan salt) | 25010090 | 0% |
| Industrial salt | 25010090 | 0% |
| Iodised salt (1 kg pouch) | 25010020 | 0% |
| Refined free-flow iodised salt (1 kg) | 25010020 | 0% |
| Double fortified salt (iron and iodine, 1 kg) | 25010020 | 0% |
| Iodised salt bag (50 kg) | 25010020 | 0% |
| Bittern or magnesium chloride | 2827 | 18% |
| Salt-works gypsum | 2520 | 5% |
- FSSAI food licence
- Weighing scale stamping
- GST registrationIf it applies
- Udyam (MSME) registrationIf it applies
- Factory licenceIf it applies
- Pollution consent (CTO)If it applies
- BIS licence (ISI mark)If it applies
- EPR registration for plastic packagingIf it applies
- Mining lease or quarry 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.
Agariya (salt farmer)Makes pans, pumps brine, moves brine between pans, rakes and heaps salt.
Salt trader or works ownerGives advances, lifts salt, sells to refiners and industry.
Refinery ownerBuys crude salt, sells packed salt, distributors and tenders.
Plant supervisorWashing, refining, iodising and packing lines.
Iodine lab technicianIodine titration or test kit per batch, moisture, NaCl purity.
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 salt pan and iodising unit?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Salt pan and iodising unit". 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.
Mining and quarrying
Other makers and factories in mining and quarrying
Run a salt pan and iodising unit 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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