Your customers
- Households (booked and walk-in)
- Ganesh mandals and puja committees
- Idol dealers and city stall holders
- Housing societies
- NRI and overseas buyers (Kumartuli)
Weddings and events · Makers and factories
MatruOS for a clay idol workshop
Set up the way a clay idol workshop runs: booked and stock idols for Ganesh Chaturthi, Durga Puja, Navratri, Saraswati and Vishwakarma puja; mandal and pandal commissions for tall idols; supply to idol dealers and city stalls; small off-season idols and eco-idol workshops. 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 clay idol workshop deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Bookings and advances sit in a diary and disputes break out at pick-up over price and height. Idols left unsold after the festival because heights were guessed.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 9 routines, 2 workflows, 3 registers and 5 licences for a clay idol workshop, 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.
- Clay and materials
- murtikar
- household, mandal or dealer
- festival
- visarjan
Your suppliers
- Shadu clay traders (Bhavnagar, Gujarat)
- River clay (Ganga mati, entel mati) diggers and boatmen
- Bamboo and straw sellers
- Paint and colour shops (water-based)
- Jari, jewellery and cloth decoration sellers
- Seasonal karigars
- Tempo and truck owners
Credit and cash
Households pay Rs 500-2,000 token or 30-50% at booking and the balance at pick-up; mandals pay in two or three parts (booking, frame done, delivery); dealers take stock on 50% advance with the balance after the festival; clay and paint are bought cash or on short credit from regular traders
Cash goes out from March (clay, rent, karigar advances); most money comes in during the last 10 days before the festival; a wet August or a stock glut wipes out the margin. Many workshops borrow from clay traders or moneylenders against the season
Your screens use your words
CustomerBhakt or mandalOrderBookingItemMurtiInvoiceBooking receiptproductMurtiSupplierMati supplier
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a clay idol workshop
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Clay idol workshop", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a clay idol workshopRoutines, 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 clay idol workshop
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.
Keeps each booking's price, advance and balance, flags bookings with no pick-up date or a very low advance, and drafts pick-up reminders with the balance two days before
Asks you before sending
Works out each karigar's weekly pay from days, night shifts and advances, and prepares the pay list
Asks you before paying
Compares stock by height and material with bookings and last year's walk-in sales, and suggests how many of each height to start or stop
Works it out and shows you
Reminds the murtikar before booking season to check the city's PoP, height and immersion orders, and lists which open stock needs PoP marking
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
6:30 amClay soaking and kneading
- 1Soak the day's shadu or river clay overnight and knead out stones and roots
- 2Mix jute fibre or husk into clay for large idols
- 3Cover kneaded clay with wet sacking so it does not crust
8:00 amDrying shed crack and moisture round
- 1Walk the racks and count new cracks; fill hairline cracks with slip the same day
- 2Shed tarpaulin and side curtains tight against rain
- 3Move idols that dried enough to the priming rack
9:00 pmDaily bookings and advances close
- 1Enter every booking and advance taken today with height and material
- 2Match cash and UPI received with the booking book
- 3Flag bookings that still lack a pick-up date
Every week
SunWeekly karigar wages and advances
- 1Total days and night shifts per karigar from the hazri
- 2Deduct advances given for travel and family
- 3Pay and get thumb or signature
MonStock against bookings and last year's sales
- 1Count idols by height and stage against open bookings
- 2Compare open stock with last year's walk-in sales for each height
- 3Decide how many more of each height to start this week
Every month
1stMonth-start clay and paint purchase
- 1Order shadu clay truck or river clay boat loads for the month
- 2Buy water-based colours; reject lead or chromium-based paints
Every year
MarCity immersion and PoP rule check before season
- 1Read the city corporation and pollution board orders on PoP, height caps and artificial ponds
- 2Decide clay versus PoP mix and the marking for PoP idols
- 3Tell mandals the height and immersion rules before they book
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.
Mandal idol commission to pick-up
- 1Height and drawing agreed
- 2Committee approves designNeeds approval
- 3First part paid
- 4Frame and clay done
- 5Second part paid
- 6Painted and decorated
- 7Balance paid and idol handed over
Dealer stock supply
- 1Dealer order by height
- 2Advance receivedNeeds approval
- 3Idols packed and loaded
- 4Balance after festival
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.
Murti booking book
Idol stock and drying shed
Karigar attendance and advances
Clay idol drying and finish
Deliver idols that do not crack, fall or bleed colour
PoP idols kept apart and marked
Stay within court orders and city rules on PoP
Pick-up and handover
Hand the right idol to the right person and collect the balance
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Household Ganesh idol, clay 1 ft | 6913 | 0% |
| Household Ganesh idol, clay 2 ft | 6913 | 0% |
| Mandal Ganesh idol, clay 5-8 ft | 6913 | 0% |
| Durga idol set with Lakshmi, Saraswati, Kartik, Ganesh (ek-chala, 8-10 ft) | 6913 | 0% |
| Small Saraswati or Vishwakarma idol, clay | 6913 | 0% |
| PoP Ganesh idol 2 ft (marked, not for river immersion) | 6809 | 18% |
| Eco seed-clay Ganesh idol (home immersion) | 6913 | 0% |
| Idol decoration and jewellery set (sold with idol) | 7117 | 3% |
- GST registrationIf it applies
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- Trade licenceIf it applies
- Pollution consent (CTO)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.
Master murtikarTakes bookings, sets designs and heights, does face and eye work, deals with mandals and dealers.
KarigarBuilds frames, presses moulds, lays clay, sands and primes, paints.
HelperKneads clay, binds straw, carries idols to drying racks, loads tempos.
Family accounts keeperWrites the booking book, collects advances and balances, pays karigars weekly.
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 clay idol workshop?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Clay idol workshop". 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.
Weddings and events
Other makers and factories in weddings and events
Run a clay idol workshop 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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