Locker plant software for the fall rush
Your customers fill out your cut sheet on their phone, priced the way you charge. You record the tag number and hanging weight, the bill works itself out, and the pickup notice goes out under your name.
$20/month or $200/year. Setup included. Beef, pork, lamb and goat.
Fewer phone calls, no stack of sheets
A locker plant's busy months are when paper costs the most: sheets handed in half done, "normal thickness" to decode, and arithmetic at the counter. Here's what changes.
- Sheets that come in complete
- A customer can't submit until every question has an answer, so nobody's half beef waits on a callback.
- Every order on one screen
- Invited, submitted, hanging, ready, picked up. Sort the fall rush by status instead of by the pile on the counter.
- Tag numbers and aging days
- Boxes only your shop fills in, added when your sheet is set up. They print on the cutting-room copy and the customer never sees them.
- Weigh once, bill once
- Enter the hanging weight and every per-pound charge on the order re-prices, including each buyer's share of a split animal.
- Halves and quarters
- Two halves, four quarters, or a half and two quarters, each buyer with their own sheet, deposit and bill.
- Pickup notices from your name
- Send the bill and the ready-for-pickup email from your shop's address. Replies come straight to you.
The owner's animal, the owner's instructions
In custom-exempt processing the cut sheet is the order: the animal's owner says how it's cut, and it all goes back to them. Cut Sheet Helper keeps that order, and who it belongs to, attached to the animal from drop-off to pickup.
- ✓ The cut sheet is the owner's own instructions, kept with the order and printed for the cutting room.
- ✓ The tag number travels with the order onto every copy, so the right packages go back to the right owner.
- ✓ Custom and inspected work can run on separate sheets, each with its own questions and prices.
- ✓ Halves and quarters stay linked to one animal, with each owner named on their share.
What it doesn't do yet
If you need any of these, a broader plant system may suit you better. Our comparison of processor software lists the ones that do.
- Deer and wild game
- Online sheets cover beef, pork, lamb and goat. There's a free printable deer cut sheet for the counter.
- Kill-date scheduling
- Customers can say when they'd like their order, but there's no booking calendar.
- Labels, scales and inventory
- It doesn't print package labels, read a scale or track freezer inventory.
Questions
- Is there software for custom-exempt meat processors?
- Yes. Cut Sheet Helper is cut sheet software for custom-exempt and inspected processors that cut animals to the owner's instructions. Owners fill out the shop's cut sheet on their phone, and the shop records weights, deposits and bills.
- What is locker plant software?
- Locker plant software is what a small processing plant uses to take customers' cut orders and track each animal from drop-off to pickup. Cut Sheet Helper covers the cut sheet, pricing, hanging weights, deposits, bills and pickup notices.
- Can I keep custom and inspected orders separate?
- Yes. Custom and inspected work can each have their own cut sheet with their own prices, and every order shows which sheet it came from.
- Can I record tag numbers on each order?
- Yes. Each sheet can carry boxes only the shop fills in, like tag number and aging days, set up along with the sheet. They print on the butcher's copy and are never shown to the customer.
- What does locker plant software cost?
- Cut Sheet Helper is $20 a month or $200 a year, with setup included and no contract. Broader plant software with scheduling, scales and labels typically runs $175 to $500 or more a month.