Most yards run on a weighbridge printout, a spreadsheet of prices, a drawer of ID photocopies, and a bookkeeper stitching it together on Monday. AltScrap replaces that chain with one record per purchase — captured at the counter, priced from your own list, paid through your own accounts, and reportable the moment an auditor asks.
The software follows the material, not an abstract workflow. Each stage hands the next one everything it needs, so nothing gets re-keyed and nothing goes missing between the scale and the bank.
Look up a returning seller by phone, or capture a new one with photo ID on the spot. Pre-registered sellers are already in the system before they reach the counter.
Choose the item, enter the weight, apply deductions for contamination. The price comes from your own catalogue at that store, for that seller’s tier — not from memory.
PayID, bank transfer, manual transfer or cheque, recorded against the transaction. Supplier purchases generate the RCTI rather than waiting on the supplier to invoice you.
Transactions, payouts and supplier bills sync to MYOB or Xero. The compliance register is already written — nobody assembles it after the fact.
Prices differ between sites, staff move between them, and head office needs one view across the lot. That is the default assumption here, not an enterprise upgrade.
Publish a company price list, then override any item at any store when the local market moves. Staff at the counter never type a price.
A counter operator sees their own site. A manager sees several. Access follows the person, not a shared login taped to the monitor.
Sales Summary and Item Breakdown roll up across stores or filter down to one, over today, this week, this month, or any custom range.
Yard management software runs the operational side of a scrap or recycling yard: identifying the seller, recording what was bought at what weight and grade, applying the right price, paying the seller, and keeping the compliance record that dealer legislation requires. It sits where a POS, a price list, a compliance folder and a payment run would otherwise be four separate systems.
No. Weights are entered at the counter alongside the item, grade and any deductions, so AltScrap works with whatever weighing equipment you already have — floor scales, platform scales or a weighbridge ticket.
Yes. You publish a company-wide catalogue, then override individual item prices per store. Pricing tiers layer on top of that, so a regular commercial supplier and a walk-in seller can be paid different rates for the same item at the same site.
Setting up a company, adding a store with its hours and address, loading a materials list with prices, and inviting counter staff is same-day work. The branded customer portal goes live on your subdomain as soon as the store is added.
No — it feeds it. Purchases, payouts and supplier bills sync through to MYOB or Xero, so the yard keeps operating in AltScrap and your accountant keeps working where they already work.
Point-of-sale software for scrap metal and recycling counters. Identify the seller, capture photo ID, weigh and grade the material, apply your prices, and pay by PayID or bank transfer from one device.
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 onGive your yard a public front door: your own subdomain and branding, store locations with opening hours, a live list of accepted materials, and pre-registration so sellers arrive ready.
Read onBring a normal day — your busiest counter hour, your messiest supplier, your current price list — and we will walk it through the product rather than a demo dataset.
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