For butchers who sell to the trade
Pubs, restaurants, cafés, hotels, care homes, schools and caterers. Whether that's a handful of accounts beside the counter or a wholesale unit running several vans, BlockWorks runs the trade side.
Retail butchers with trade customers
The counter pays the bills. The trade side runs on the shop phone, a notepad and WhatsApps you read at closing time.
- Trade orders in one inbox instead of three phones and a notepad
- Your trade customers order on their phone at their own prices, if they want to
- A prep sheet for the morning, so the trade cutting fits round the counter
- Invoices at the weight on the scales, emailed and into Xero or Sage 50
An evening order, by the morning
A pub texts its order at ten at night. In the morning it's waiting as a draft at the pub's prices. You confirm it, cut it alongside the counter orders, and the invoice goes out at the real weight with nobody typing it twice.
Usually fits: Essentials, or Full back office if you deliver.
Catering butchers
Portion-controlled steaks, every kitchen with its own spec, early drops and weights that never come out the same twice.
- Sold by the piece, invoiced by the kilo, with the estimate replaced by the real weight at packing
- Each kitchen's standing cutting notes on every order: "trim to 5mm fat", "bone in"
- Rounds built around each kitchen's delivery window, with tracking links for the chef
- Margin on every line, so a price agreed in a hurry doesn't lose you money
40 rump steaks, priced right first time
A hotel orders 40 × 8oz rump by the piece. The order carries an estimate, the packer weighs each pack, and the invoice goes final at the real weight. No credit note the next day, and no phone call about the price.
Usually fits: Full back office.
Wholesale butchers
A lot of orders, several vans, carcases broken down into cuts, audits to pass and margins under pressure.
- One prep sheet across every order for the day, by category or by round
- Rounds by postcode for each van, with drivers' phones that work with no signal
- Lot traceability from Goods In to the customer, and a beef register for inspections
- Profit per customer after delivery costs, so you know which accounts pay their way
- Stock by lot, cutting yields, purchasing and daily food safety records New
A supplier rings about a batch
Type the lot number. You see every order, customer and date it went to, and the lots it was mixed into, as a spreadsheet to ring round. It takes seconds, not an afternoon with the delivery notes.
Usually fits: Full back office, or Complete.
Probably not for you yet if
- You only sell over the counter. BlockWorks is built for trade orders.
- You need several shops or depots on one account. That isn't built yet.
Not sure which fits?
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