Your customers
- Overseas startups and agencies
- Overseas small businesses
- Indian startups and agencies
Professional and business services · Services
MatruOS for a freelancer who exports services
Set up the way a freelancer who exports services runs: hourly and fixed-price work for foreign clients via marketplaces or direct contracts; monthly retainers; occasional Indian clients billed with GST. 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 freelancer who exports services deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Hours on proposals that never get a reply. Direct clients pay late or vanish after delivery.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 7 routines, 1 workflow, 3 registers and 6 licences for a freelancer who exports services, 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.
- Overseas client
- marketplace or direct contract
- freelancer in India
Your suppliers
- Freelance marketplaces
- Cross-border payment services
- Software and design tool subscriptions
- Sub-contractors
- Coworking spaces
- Chartered accountant
Credit and cash
Marketplace hourly work paid weekly after a review period; fixed price paid from escrow on approval; direct clients pay 15-30 days after invoice, often late; Indian clients deduct TDS
Income lumpy by project; tax is due once (15 March) under the presumptive scheme, so cash for tax must be set aside from each receipt; laptops and tools bought from savings
Your screens use your words
CustomerClientOrderContractItemMilestone or hoursquoteProposal
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a freelancer who exports services
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Freelancer exporting services", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a freelancer who exports servicesRoutines, 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 freelancer who exports services
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.
Drafts a tailored proposal for each saved job from the freelancer's past work, and lists proposals to follow up
Asks you before sending
Lists unbilled hours and milestones, drafts invoices and polite reminders for overdue ones, and shows fees lost per client
Asks you before sending
Matches receipts to invoices, lists missing e-FIRAs, shows the year's receipts against the Rs 20 lakh GST and Rs 75 lakh presumptive limits, and suggests the tax to set aside
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
12:00 pmSend proposals and follow up leads
- 1Send 3-5 tailored proposals to fresh jobs that match the profile
- 2Follow up proposals with no reply after 3 days
- 3Log each proposal and its result
8:00 pmClient calls and delivery for overseas time zones
- 1Daily update or call with each active client
- 2Log hours worked against each contract
- 3Write down any new ask with its price before starting
Every week
Mon 11:00 amWeekly hours, invoices and receipts
- 1Check last week's hours were billed on the platform
- 2Send invoices to direct clients for finished milestones
- 3Chase anything overdue more than 7 days
Every month
5thMatch receipts, save e-FIRA and set aside tax
- 1Match each bank credit to its invoice; download the e-FIRA
- 2Move about 15-20% of receipts to a tax savings account
- 3If GST registered, send export invoices for GSTR-1 by the 11th (or the 13th quarterly)
Every year
MarAdvance tax payment (presumptive scheme, once by 15 March)
- 1Total receipts for the year; tax on 50% under the presumptive scheme
- 2Pay advance tax by 15 March
- 3File the next year's LUT before 1 April if GST registered
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.
Contract from proposal to money in the bank
- 1Proposal accepted
- 2Contract or escrow funded
- 3Work delivered
- 4Client approves milestoneNeeds approval
- 5Money withdrawn and e-FIRA saved
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.
Clients and contracts
Invoices, receipts and e-FIRA
Proposals
Export invoice and receipt proof
Keep foreign receipts provable as exports for GST and income tax
Scope, escrow and payment protection
Never work unpaid
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Software development for foreign client | 998314 | 0% |
| Website or app project for foreign client | 998314 | 0% |
| Logo and brand design for foreign client | 998391 | 0% |
| Content writing for foreign client | 998399 | 0% |
| Video editing for foreign client | 999613 | 0% |
| Monthly retainer (foreign client) | 998314 | 0% |
| Project for Indian client | 998314 | 18% |
- PAN
- GST registrationIf it applies
- GST Letter of Undertaking (LUT) for exportsIf it applies
- Professional tax registrationIf it applies
- Udyam (MSME) registrationIf it applies
- Shops and Establishments 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.
FreelancerFinds work, delivers, invoices, client calls, keeps tax papers.
Sub-contractorTakes overflow work, delivers to the freelancer's brief.
CA or tax practitionerGST returns and LUT, ITR, advance tax computation.
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 freelancer who exports services?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Freelancer exporting services". 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.
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