Your customers
- Private car owners
- Insurance claim customers (cashless)
- Fleet and taxi operators
- Used car dealers (refurbishment)
- Car dealers (overflow body work)
Vehicles and garages · Services
MatruOS for a denting-painting body shop
Set up the way a denting-painting body shop runs: labour charges for denting, painting and fitting, plus margin on paint material and replacement parts; insurance claim jobs and cash jobs. 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 denting-painting body shop deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Estimates written by hand take an hour and miss panels; surveyor cuts them. Insurer payments stuck 45-90 days with nobody chasing.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 9 routines, 1 workflow, 3 registers and 9 licences for a denting-painting body shop, 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.
- Car owner and insurer
- body shop
- parts and paint suppliers
Your suppliers
- Automotive paint distributor and colour mixing bank
- Parts dealers
- Putty and abrasive suppliers
- Insurers (claim payments)
Credit and cash
Cash customers pay at delivery; insurers pay cashless claims 15-45 days after the final survey and invoice; fleets get 30 days. Paint distributors give 30-45 days
Paint and parts are bought before the insurer pays; a shop with mostly claim work carries 1-2 months of claim money. Cars waiting for surveyor approval occupy floor space.
Your screens use your words
OrderJob cardItemPanelInvoiceBillSupplierPaint dealer
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a denting-painting body shop
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Denting-painting body shop", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a denting-painting body shopRoutines, 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 denting-painting body shop
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 panel-by-panel estimate of parts and labour from the advisor's notes and the shop's own past rates for that model
Asks you before sending
Drafts a short status message for each customer with stage and expected delivery date
Asks you before sending
Lists pending surveys and unpaid insurer invoices by age and drafts follow-up emails to insurers and surveyors
Asks you before sending
Compares paint and putty used per panel with the estimate and flags jobs and painters over the norm
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
9:30 amMorning car intake and estimates
- 1Photograph all four sides and every damaged panel
- 2Open the job card; for claims, intimate the insurer and note the claim number
- 3Prepare the estimate panel by panel with parts and labour
10:00 amAllot cars to denters and the booth
- 1Move survey-approved cars into denting; keep unapproved cars parked
- 2Book booth slots for cars whose putty and primer are ready
2:00 pmSpray booth session
- 1Mix colour to the paint code and do a spray-out card against the car
- 2Spray basecoat and clear coat; bake as per paint maker's sheet
- 3Note paint used against the job
6:00 pmEvening delivery and customer updates
- 1Check finished cars against the job card and photos
- 2Collect depreciation, excess or cash bill; hand over
- 3Send status messages to customers whose cars are still in
Every week
Sun 10:00 amWeekly booth filter and cleaning
- 1Change booth floor and intake filters as per schedule
- 2Store thinner and paint drums in the fire-safe store
Tue, Fri 11:00 amInsurer survey and payment chase
- 1List cars waiting for first survey or final survey over 2 days
- 2List insurer invoices unpaid over 30 days and follow up
Every month
3rdMonthly paint use against jobs
- 1Total paint and putty bought against panels painted
- 2Find jobs where material went over the estimate
Every year
MarRenew pollution consent and fire NOC
- 1Check SPCB consent to operate and fire NOC validity; file renewal
- 2Hand over paint sludge and empty drums to the authorised vendor and keep the manifest
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.
Insurance claim job
- 1Car received and claim intimated
- 2Estimate sent
- 3Surveyor approvesNeeds approval
- 4Repaired and painted
- 5Final survey and invoice
- 6Customer pays share and takes car
- 7Insurer pays
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.
Body job cards
Insurance claim tracker
Paint and material issue
Paint match and finish check
The repaired panel matches the car and lasts
Claim file and depreciation check
Get the claim approved in full and tell the customer the right share
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Panel denting and painting (door, fender or bumper) | 998714 | 18% |
| Bonnet or boot lid painting | 998714 | 18% |
| Full body repaint, hatchback | 998714 | 18% |
| Full body repaint, SUV | 998714 | 18% |
| Scratch and minor dent touch-up | 998714 | 18% |
| Rubbing and polishing | 998714 | 18% |
| Replacement bumper or body part (fitted) | 8708 | 18% |
| Two-wheeler panel painting | 998714 | 18% |
- GST registration
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- Shops and Establishments registration
- Trade licence
- Fire NOC
- Pollution consent (CTO)
- Hazardous waste authorisationIf 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.
OwnerGives estimates, deals with surveyors and insurers, approves bills and discounts.
Service advisorReceives cars, photographs damage, opens job cards, updates customers.
DenterPulls, beats and welds panels, fits replacement parts.
PainterPutty, primer, colour matching, spraying and baking.
PolisherRubbing, polishing, washing before delivery.
Accounts clerkFiles claim documents, raises insurer invoices, tracks 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 denting-painting body shop?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Denting-painting body shop". 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 denting-painting body shop 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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