Your customers
- Walk-in families
- Children and youth (kites and colours)
- Housing societies and RWAs (bulk crackers and decorations)
- Offices and shops (Diwali decoration and gift boxes)
- Temples, pandals and garba organisers
Weddings and events · Shops and showrooms
MatruOS for a seasonal festival trader
Set up the way a seasonal festival trader runs: retail margin on seasonal goods sold in 2-6 week windows: crackers 25-40% on cost (sold at 50-80% off printed MRP), kites and manja 30-50%, rakhis 40-100%, colours and decorations 30-60%; plus bulk orders from housing societies, offices and corporate gift boxes. 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 seasonal festival trader deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Buying is guessed every year, so popular items run out by day two and slow items pile up. Licence application missed or filed late, and the stall cannot open in Diwali week.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 9 routines, 2 workflows, 4 registers and 8 licences for a seasonal festival trader, 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.
- maker (Sivakasi, Khambhat, Hathras, potters)
- distributor or bazaar wholesaler
- seasonal stall
- household
Your suppliers
- Sivakasi cracker manufacturers, distributors and city wholesalers
- Rakhi wholesalers (Sadar Bazar, Burrabazar, Mumbai)
- Kite makers and kite markets (Khambhat, Nadiad, Raipur Darwaza)
- Manja makers
- Gulal and colour makers
- Local potters for diyas
- Light, lantern and decoration wholesalers
- Shed, tent and electricity hire
Credit and cash
Buys crackers against advance or cash on delivery, no returns; kites, rakhis and decorations cash or 7-15 days from regular wholesalers, sometimes sale-or-return on lanterns and lights; sells cash and UPI, societies and offices pay on delivery or within 15-30 days.
Cash locked in stock 4-8 weeks before each festival and recovered in the last 3-5 days before it; leftover crackers sold back at a loss, kites and rakhis carried a year; owner often borrows from family or a moneylender for the Diwali buy
Your screens use your words
OrderBillInvoiceBillSupplierWholesalerproductItem
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a seasonal festival trader
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Seasonal festival trader", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a seasonal festival traderRoutines, 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 seasonal festival trader
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.
Lists fast and slow sellers since yesterday, drafts the reorder for the wholesaler and suggests combos for slow items
Asks you before sending
Prepares the night tally of cash and UPI against the day's sales, flags shortages, and shows the festival's running total against stock bought
Works it out and shows you
Reminds the owner of unpaid society and office orders and wholesaler balances due this week, with drafted reminder messages
Asks you before sending
Prepares a buying budget for each festival from last year's sales and leftover by item and the selling days the calendar gives
Works it out and shows you
Reminds the owner to book cracker stock and file the temporary licence, fire and police papers before the district's cut-off, with the document checklist
Works it out and shows you
Values leftover stock, suggests what to return, discount or store, and works out the festival's profit
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 amOpen the stall and safety check
- 1Set out display; keep cracker stock inside the shed, not on the road
- 2Two extinguishers in place and charged
- 3Sand buckets full
- 4No-smoking board up; no lamp, agarbatti or stove near the stall
2:00 pmCheck fast and slow sellers and reorder (peak days)
- 1Count stock of the top 20 items against yesterday
- 2Order fast sellers from the wholesaler for evening delivery
- 3Move slow items to the front or start a combo offer
10:30 pmCount the galla and close
- 1Count cash and match with the UPI statement
- 2Note expenses paid from the galla and cash taken home
- 3Cover stock, switch off the temporary connection, hand over to the watchman
Every week
Mon 11:00 amSettle wholesalers and collect society dues
- 1Pay wholesaler balances due this week
- 2Call societies and offices with delivered but unpaid orders
- 3Return unsold sale-or-return lanterns and lights before the cut-off
Every month
10thMonthly GST return (if registered)
- 1Total the month's sales by GST rate: crackers 18%, kites 5%, diyas nil
- 2File GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B, or the casual taxable person returns for the stall period
Every year
JunPlan the year's festivals and buying budget
- 1List next year's festival dates and how many days of selling each gives
- 2Read last year's sales and leftover by item and festival
- 3Set a buying budget per festival and plan the cash needed
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.
Set up a licensed Diwali cracker stall
- 1Site fixed and owner NOC taken
- 2Licence application filed
- 3Fire and police inspection
- 4Licence issuedNeeds approval
- 5Stock received and QR checked
- 6Stall opens
- 7Leftover returned and licence closed
Society or office bulk order
- 1Quote sent
- 2Advance received
- 3Packed and delivered
- 4Balance collected
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.
Festival purchase book
Daily galla book
Leftover stock
Society and office orders
Temporary cracker stall safety
Keep the licence and avoid fires in a crowded market
Banned manja and unsafe colours
Avoid seizure, fines and injuries to people and birds
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sparklers box (green) | 3604 | 18% |
| Flower pot (anar) box | 3604 | 18% |
| Ground spinner (chakri) box | 3604 | 18% |
| Cracker garland 1000 shots (ladi) | 3604 | 18% |
| Assorted green cracker gift box | 3604 | 18% |
| Rakhi (thread and bead) | 9505 | 0% |
| Paper kite (patang) | 9503 | 5% |
| Cotton manja on spool 1000 m | 5204 | 5% |
| Wooden firki (spool) | 4421 | 5% |
| Herbal gulal | 3204 | 18% |
| Pichkari (water gun) | 9503 | 5% |
| Earthen diya | 6912 | 0% |
- Trade licence
- PAN
- GST registrationIf it applies
- PESO licence (fuel, gas or explosives)If it applies
- Fire NOCIf it applies
- Police licenceIf it applies
- Shops and Establishments registrationIf it applies
- Udyam (MSME) 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.
OwnerPlans each festival's buying, books cracker stock, applies for licences, fixes prices and discounts, counts cash.
Counter helperServes customers, packs, takes UPI, keeps display full.
Stock boyBrings stock from the godown or wholesaler, counts cartons, keeps the shed tidy and safe.
Night watchmanGuards the stall at night without sleeping inside or lighting anything.
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 seasonal festival trader?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Seasonal festival trader". 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 shops and showrooms in weddings and events
Run a seasonal festival trader 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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