Your customers
- Walk-in and phone passengers
- Travel agents
- Online booking apps
- Charter parties
- Parcel senders
Transport and logistics · Services
MatruOS for a private bus operator
Set up the way a private bus operator runs: seat fares on scheduled overnight routes, plus charter hire for weddings, pilgrim tours and company outings, and parcel booking in the dickey. 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 private bus operator deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Seats sold twice across office, agents and apps. Diesel and road spend on trip sheets never reconciled.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 10 routines, 2 workflows, 4 registers and 11 licences for a private bus operator, 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.
Your suppliers
- Diesel pumps on credit
- Bus financiers
- Body builders
- Tyre and spare-parts dealers
- Booking app
- Toll (FASTag)
- Drivers and cleaners
Credit and cash
Passengers pay in advance; agents settle weekly; booking apps pay out weekly or fortnightly after commission and 1% TCS; diesel on 7-15 day pump credit; EMIs monthly
Quarterly permit and road tax and the bus EMI are paid before the season's fares come in; app payouts lag 7-15 days
Your screens use your words
CustomerPassengerOrderBookingItemSeatInvoiceTicketemployeeDriverSupplierAgent
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a private bus operator
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Private bus operator", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a private bus operatorRoutines, 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 private bus operator
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.
Merges bookings from office, agents and booking apps into one chart per bus, flags double-sold berths and sends the boarding list to the crew
Asks you before sending
Works out km per litre per bus and per driver pair, flags trips with unusual diesel, toll or road spend
Works it out and shows you
Matches seats sold by each agent and app with their statements, checks commission and TCS, lists short payments to chase
Asks you before sending
Drafts next week's fare per route and day from past occupancy, holidays and festivals
Asks you before sending
Lists permits, road tax, fitness, insurance and fire-system service due in the next 45 days per bus
Asks you before paying
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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 amArrival and trip sheet
- 1Closing km, diesel litres and slip photo
- 2Toll, bhatta and any repair spent on the road
- 3Bus handed for cleaning and mechanic check
6:30 pmClose the seat chart and send it to the crew
- 1Pull bookings from office, agents and apps into one chart per bus
- 2Release unsold app quota for walk-ins; mark blocked seats
- 3Send passenger list with boarding points and phones to the cleaner
7:30 pmPre-departure bus check
- 1Tyres, lights, wipers, brakes, horn
- 2Fire detection panel healthy and extinguisher pressure in green
- 3Emergency exits and hatches open freely; hammers in place
- 4Both drivers present and fit; no alcohol
- 5Opening km
8:30 pmBoard passengers at the pickup points
- 1Tick each passenger against the chart; call no-shows once
- 2Parcel and luggage tags matched to the dickey list
- 3Head count before leaving the last point
Every week
MonWeekly agent and booking app settlement
- 1Match each agent's and app's seats with the charts
- 2Check commission rate and 1% TCS on app statements
- 3Chase short or late payouts
ThuSet next week's fares by day and route
- 1Look at last weeks' occupancy per route and day
- 2Raise fares for weekends, holidays and festivals; drop on thin days
Every month
5thMonthly bus-wise profit, salaries and GST
- 1Revenue, diesel, toll, commission, bhatta and repairs per bus
- 2Driver and cleaner salaries
- 3GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B; AC fares at 5%
Every year
MarAnnual fitness, insurance and safety audit
- 1Fitness test booked; AIS-052 and AIS-119 points checked
- 2Insurance renewed; fire system serviced
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.
Charter booking to settlement
- 1Enquiry and route km
- 2Quote approvedNeeds approval
- 3Advance received and bus assigned
- 4Trip run with km and toll
- 5Final bill and balance collected
New bus on the road
- 1Chassis bought and body built
- 2Registration and fitness
- 3Permit and tax paidNeeds approval
- 4Added to booking apps and charts
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.
Seat chart and booking
Trip sheet
Bus papers and safety kit
Agent and app settlement
Night run safety
Every overnight trip runs safe and legal
Cancellation and refund
Refunds follow the published policy and the same rule for every channel
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AC sleeper berth fare | 996422 | 5% |
| Non-AC seater fare | 996422 | 0% |
| AC seater fare | 996422 | 5% |
| Bus charter with driver (per km) | 996601 | 5% |
| Parcel booking in the dickey | 996511 | 5% |
| Cancellation charge | 996422 | 5% |
- Vehicle permit
- Vehicle fitness certificate
- Insurance policy
- GST registration
- PAN
- TAN (tax deduction account number)
- Shops and Establishments registration
- Udyam (MSME) registrationIf it applies
- PF registration (EPFO)If it applies
- ESI registration (ESIC)If 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.
OwnerRoutes and fares, permits and tax, buys buses, deals with apps and agents.
Booking clerkSells seats, closes the chart, answers passengers, handles cancellations.
DriverDrives in pairs, checks the bus, keeps the trip sheet, fills diesel.
Cleaner-conductorBoards passengers against the chart, loads luggage and parcels, cleans the bus.
MechanicDaily check at the depot, repairs, tyres.
AccountantDiesel and toll accounts, agent and app settlements, GST, salaries.
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 private bus operator?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Private bus operator". 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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Run a private bus operator on one system Set up for your trade when you sign up.
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