Your customers
- Flex and signage printers
- Sign board fabricators
- Advertising agencies
- Event decorators
- Screen and digital print shops
Printing, packaging and media · Traders and distributors
MatruOS for a flex and signage media supplier
Set up the way a flex and signage media supplier runs: margin on flex, vinyl, boards and ink; roll cutting; printer heads and spares; machine sales commission and service. 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 flex and signage media supplier deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Fast widths run out the week before elections and festivals. Hundreds of small printers' dues tracked in a diary.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 8 routines, 1 workflow, 3 registers and 7 licences for a flex and signage media 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.
- Media maker or importer (China, domestic)
- regional distributor
- media supplier
- flex printer
Your suppliers
- Media importers and makers
- Ink importers
- ACP and acrylic makers
- Printer machine dealers
- Transporters
Credit and cash
Importers mostly advance or 15-30 days; printers 15-45 days, small shops weekly; new printers cash
Imported stock is paid upfront or on short credit while printers pay in 15-45 days. Pre-election stocking ties up the most cash just before the slowest collections.
Your screens use your words
CustomerPrinterItemRollInvoiceBillproductMediaSupplierImporter
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a flex and signage media 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 "Flex and signage media supplier", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a flex and signage media 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 flex and signage media 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.
Captures each order by width, gsm and length, checks the printer's credit limit and stock, and flags orders to hold
Works it out and shows you
Shows weeks of cover per item and width, adds the election and festival calendar, and drafts the importer order
Asks you before sending
Ages printer dues, drafts reminders and the stop-supply list for printers past 45 days
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
10:30 amMorning orders and roll cutting
- 1Take orders by width, gsm and length
- 2Check credit limit before dispatch
- 3Cut lengths measured twice
1:00 pmDelivery runs to printers
- 1Deliver by route; signed challan
- 2Collect cash, UPI or cheque due
8:00 pmDay close and roll count
- 1Collections vs bills
- 2Count fast widths (5 ft and 10 ft frontlit)
Every week
Tue 12:00 pmWeekly stock and import order
- 1Weeks of cover per item
- 2Order from importers; check new container rates
Sat 5:00 pmPrinter dues follow-up
- 1Printers past due date; stop list for over 45 days
- 2Reminders and collection route for Monday
Every month
10thGST and importer payments
- 1GSTR-1; purchase match
- 2Importer dues cleared on time
Every year
MarYear-end stock and damaged rolls
- 1Count all rolls; write off damaged or yellowed media
- 2Balance confirmations from printers
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.
Order to collection
- 1Order taken
- 2Credit approvedNeeds approval
- 3Cut and packed
- 4Delivered
- 5Paid
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.
Roll and sheet stock
Printer ledger
Order book
Media storage and handling
Keep media printable and settle complaints fairly
Printer credit and billing
Limit bad debts among many small printers
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Frontlit flex roll (280-340 gsm, 3-10 ft) | 3921 | 18% |
| Star flex roll (premium, 340-440 gsm) | 3921 | 18% |
| Backlit flex roll (440 gsm) | 3921 | 18% |
| Self-adhesive vinyl roll | 3919 | 18% |
| One-way vision film | 3919 | 18% |
| Sunboard (PVC foam) sheet 8x4 ft, 5 mm | 3921 | 18% |
| ACP sheet 8x4 ft, 3 mm | 7606 | 18% |
| Acrylic sheet 8x4 ft, 3 mm | 3920 | 18% |
| Eco-solvent ink (1 litre) | 3215 | 18% |
| Solvent ink (5 litre) | 3215 | 18% |
| Printer head | 8443 | 18% |
| LED module for glow signs (pack of 20) | 8539 | 18% |
- GST registration
- Shops and Establishments registration
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- Trade licenceIf it applies
- Import Export Code (IEC)If it applies
- PF registration (EPFO)If it applies
- ESI registration (ESIC)If 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.
OwnerBuys from importers, sets rates, credit, deals with machine dealers.
Billing clerkOrders, bills, e-way bills, ledger.
Godown boyCuts rolls, packs, loads, stock entries.
Delivery boyDelivers rolls by tempo or bike, collects payments.
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 flex and signage media supplier?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Flex and signage media 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.
Printing, packaging and media
Other traders and distributors in printing, packaging and media
Run a flex and signage media 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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