A scrap counter is not a retail checkout. You are buying, not selling; the price depends on grade and contamination; the person in front of you has to be identified and recorded. AltScrap’s counter app is built around that reality, and it runs on the tablet or phone your staff already hold.
Speed matters when there are four utes in the queue. So does never letting an unidentified purchase through. The counter flow is ordered so the compliance step happens once, up front, and everything after it is quick.
Search a returning seller by phone in a keystroke. For a new seller, capture the photo ID and their details once — every later purchase reuses it.
Pick the item from your catalogue, enter weight, apply deductions. The rate is drawn from the store’s price list and the seller’s tier, so nobody negotiates from memory.
Record the payout against the purchase — PayID, bank transfer, manual transfer or cheque — and hand over a receipt link the seller can open on their phone.
Counter software fails in predictable ways: it assumes clean hands, good signal, and one store. These are the assumptions we deliberately did not make.
ID capture, weight entry, pricing, payment and receipt all happen in the same app on the same device. No walking to the office to finish a purchase.
Rates come from the catalogue you control. Deductions are entered as deductions, so an unusual purchase shows up as an unusual purchase in the reports.
The compliance register, the seller history and the day’s takings are all a by-product of the counter flow — not a second job someone does at close.
A phone or tablet is enough — the counter app captures photo ID with the device camera and works on iOS and Android. You keep whatever scales or weighbridge you already use and enter the weight alongside the item.
The flow puts identification first: an existing seller is matched to their stored record, and a new seller is captured with photo ID before the purchase is completed. That is what makes the Compliance Register and ID Verification reports meaningful.
Each completed purchase produces a receipt at a shareable link the seller can open on their phone without an account or a login. Nothing needs to be printed unless you want it to be.
Yes. A purchase can contain multiple lines — each with its own item, weight and deductions — and pays out as one transaction with one receipt.
Run scrap yard operations on one system: counter purchases, weights and grades, supplier approvals, pricing by store and tier, payouts, and the compliance record behind every transaction.
Read onKeep the dealer record without the paperwork: photo ID capture at the counter, a seller history behind every purchase, and Compliance Register, ID Verification and Payment Compliance reports on demand.
Read onThe back office behind the yard: company and per-store pricing, pricing tiers, staff and store administration, payout runs, eight built-in reports with CSV export, and MYOB or Xero sync.
Read onThe fastest way to judge counter software is to see a real purchase completed end to end. That takes about ten minutes of a demo.
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