Your customers
- Single-screen cinemas
- Small and regional multiplexes
- Sub-distributors in districts
- Touring and seasonal cinemas
Printing, packaging and media · Traders and distributors
MatruOS for a film distributor
Set up the way a film distributor runs: distributor's share of net box-office from each cinema; commission on films handled for producers (around 6-25%); overflow share after MG recovery; regional rights resale to sub-distributors. 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 film distributor deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Daily collection reports from dozens of cinemas compiled by hand. Single screens settle late or under-report.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 7 routines, 1 workflow, 3 registers and 7 licences for a film distributor, 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.
- Producer
- national or territory distributor (MG or commission)
- sub-distributor
- cinema (exhibitor)
- audience
Your suppliers
- Producers and national distributors (rights)
- Digital cinema service providers (VPF and delivery)
- Poster and publicity printers
- Local media
Credit and cash
MG paid to producer in instalments before release; exhibitors settle weekly or fortnightly, sometimes later at single screens; publicity vendors 15-30 days
Large MG cash goes out months before release. Collections come back weekly over 2-6 weeks. A run of flops or slow exhibitor settlements can sink the office. Finance often comes from private lenders against film rights.
Your screens use your words
CustomerExhibitorOrderBookingItemFilmInvoiceShare billproductFilm printSupplierProducer
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a film distributor
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Film distributor", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a film distributorRoutines, 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 film distributor
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.
Compiles daily collections by film and cinema, computes net and share, and flags missing reports and outliers against occupancy checks
Works it out and shows you
Ranks cinemas by occupancy and share per show for each film and suggests keeps, cuts and next Friday's screens
Works it out and shows you
Prepares weekly share bills at the agreed week's percentage, lists overdue settlements and shows MG recovery per film
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
10:00 amDaily collection reports by cinema
- 1Enter yesterday's shows, gross and net per cinema
- 2Flag cinemas with missing or odd reports
6:00 pmSurprise occupancy checks
- 1Count audience at one show per visited cinema
- 2Compare with the cinema's report
- 3Photo of posters and standees displayed
Every week
Thu 11:00 amThursday programming and screen decisions
- 1Keep, cut shows or pull each film by cinema from occupancy
- 2Confirm next Friday's release screens and terms
Tue 12:00 pmWeekly share bills and settlement follow-up
- 1Share bill per cinema for last week at the agreed week's %
- 2Overdue settlements listed by cinema and age
Every month
5thMonthly MG recovery and producer statement
- 1Share received vs MG, VPF, publicity and commission per film
- 2Overflow due to producer, if any
- 3GST return and TDS
Every year
MarAnnual rights and lender review
- 1Rights expiring; re-release and satellite or OTT residual possibilities
- 2Close producer accounts; settle lender dues
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.
Film acquisition to release
- 1Trailer and terms reviewed
- 2Deal and MG approvedNeeds approval
- 3Screens and terms booked
- 4Publicity and digital delivery set
- 5Released and first-week settled
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.
Film rights register
Bookings and daily collections
Exhibitor ledger
Collection checking and settlement
Get the true share from every cinema on time
Rights deal checks
Buy clean rights at a price the circuit can repay
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Distributor share, week 1 (on net collections) | 999614 | 18% |
| Distributor share, week 2 | 999614 | 18% |
| Distributor share, week 3 | 999614 | 18% |
| Distributor share, week 4 onward | 999614 | 18% |
| Fixed hire from single screen (small film) | 999614 | 18% |
| Sub-distribution rights (district bundle) | 999614 | 18% |
| Distribution commission (commission films) | 999614 | 18% |
- GST registration
- PAN
- TAN (tax deduction account number)
- Shops and Establishments registration
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- TrademarkIf 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.
ProprietorBuys rights and negotiates MG, decides screens, deals with producers and lenders.
Booking managerBooks screens and shows with exhibitors, fixes terms per cinema.
Collection clerkEnters daily collection reports, prepares share bills, follows up settlements.
Screen representativeVisits cinemas, checks occupancy and posters, collects reports and cheques.
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 film distributor?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Film distributor". 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.
Printing, packaging and media
Other traders and distributors in printing, packaging and media
Run a film distributor 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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