Today
Purchases written on paper or in a spreadsheet
With Scrapflow
One record per purchase: supplier, material, weights, price and ticket number, kept together.
Built for South African scrap yards
Know what comes in, what goes out and what your yard has on hand.
Scrapflow records purchases, material prices, stock and sales in one place, so a ticket, the weight it carries and the payment against it stay together. Built by DS Digital in South Africa.
7-day free trial · no card required Direct South African support Two-factor sign-in required
Illustrative interface
Owner dashboard · example figures
- Recorded purchases
- R 48 250
- Net weight in
- 6 400 kg
- Outstanding payables
- R 12 000
- Estimated stock value
- R 96 800
Purchase ticket
Weight & price
Manual weights · rate snapshot
Stock movement
Material · grade · balance
Payment entry
Part or full · outstanding shown
Illustration of the product's own layout. The figures are examples typed into a design, not a customer's records and not a claim about results.
The daily friction
Yard work is simple. Keeping the record of it is not.
These are the situations Scrapflow is designed around. We make no claim about how much time or money any particular yard saves — that depends on the yard.
Today
A ticket you cannot trace to its payment record
With Scrapflow
Each purchase carries its own payment entries, so a supplier's ticket and what was paid sit side by side.
Today
Stock movements nobody can account for
With Scrapflow
Every completed purchase and sale writes a stock movement with the balance after it.
Today
Hours spent reconciling discrepancies
With Scrapflow
Reversals are recorded as reversals, with the original kept, and the dashboard shows what still needs attention.
Today
An owner who has to phone the yard for a number
With Scrapflow
A dashboard built from your recorded tickets, with a period filter and links to the records behind each figure.
How it works
Five steps from a new workspace to a clear day's record.
Every completed ticket updates stock, supplier/customer balances and your owner dashboard in the same step.
- Set up your yard
- Record a load
- Confirm the purchase
- Update inventory
- Record a sale
- Review the dashboard
The chain the product enforces: a confirmed purchase or sale writes its own stock movement, and nothing moves twice.
- 1
Set up the company and yard
Your company details, the yard that tickets are recorded against, and the staff who may use it.
- 2
Configure materials, grades and prices
The materials you buy and sell, the grades you price separately, and effective-dated buying and selling rates.
- 3
Record suppliers, weights and purchases
Weights are typed in at the scale house, the price is snapshotted onto the ticket, and stock-in is written in the same step.
- 4
Track stock and sell
Grade-aware balances and movement history, plus customer sales that link ticket, price and stock-out.
- 5
Review what is outstanding
The owner dashboard shows recorded trading, stock, outstanding payables and receivables, and what needs review.
Who does what
Four jobs, four different sets of screens.
Permissions are enforced on the server, not hidden in the interface. A person sees the yards they were given and nothing else — no yard selected means no yard, never all of them.
Owner or manager
Sees recorded purchases and sales, stock and outstanding balances, sets the plan, invites staff, opens a yard, and exports the company's data. Every figure links back to the record behind it.
Weighbridge operator
Weighs a load twice where two-pass weighing is in use, records gross, tare, deduction and its reason, and prints the ticket. Weights are typed in by hand — no scale is connected.
Purchasing clerk
Creates the supplier, splits a ticket across grades where needed, records the agreed rate, and records what was paid. A rate is snapshotted onto the ticket, so a later price change cannot rewrite history.
Inventory employee
Counts stock and records the difference, which someone else approves, and records processing batches: what went in, what came out, what was thrown away. A batch cannot be approved by the person who submitted it.
Capabilities & scope
What Scrapflow handles today — and what stays out of scope.
Every capability below states plainly whether it runs out of the box, is an optional quoted/provisional module, or is deliberately not built.
Live in Scrapflow
Yards, materials and prices
Company and yard details, materials with grades, and effective-dated buying and selling prices per kilogram or per tonne, with optional yard-specific price overrides.
Live in Scrapflow
Purchases, weighing and SAPS register
Single-pass and two-pass truck weighing, authorised deductions with reasons, controlled-metal cash lock, Second-Hand Goods Act seller declarations and printable SAPS registers.
Live in Scrapflow
Inventory and grading
Balances per material and grade derived from completed movements, full append-only ledger history, two-person physical stock counts and audit trail.
Live in Scrapflow
Sales, statements and mill outturn
Customer sales with snapshotted rates, part payments, running supplier & customer statements, and mill outturn variance reconciliation.
Live in Scrapflow
Owner dashboard
Recorded purchases and sales, stock and moving-weighted-average provisional stock value, outstanding payables and receivables, overridden prices and stock variances.
Live in Scrapflow
15 roles, 2FA security and export
15 purpose-built yard roles with customisable role policies, mandatory two-factor sign-in, step-up verification for sensitive actions, and full JSON/CSV exports.
Live in Scrapflow
Multi-yard operations
Add extra yards as your group grows (R1 100/mo first extra yard, R850/mo thereafter, +4 staff logins per extra yard), with separate stock, tickets and optional yard price lists.
Live in Scrapflow
Processing, sorting and baling
Record stripping, shearing and baling batches: inputs leave stock, outputs enter stock, waste and processing costs allocate cleanly, and a second authorised person approves.
Provisional / quoted option
Stock value and margin
Weighted-average stock value and gross margin are calculated provisionally inside the product to support operational visibility alongside your bookkeeper's statutory accounts.
Live in Scrapflow
Suppliers, customers and ticket photos
Searchable supplier and customer records, inline counter onboarding, WhatsApp ticket sharing, and scale/vehicle photo evidence attached directly to tickets.
Provisional / quoted option
Hardware scale bridge (optional once-off)
Weights work out of the box by manual entry on every plan; optional HTTP scale-bridge setup is quoted and installed once-off per indicator.
Not built
Offline operation
Not implemented. Scrapflow is a live cloud web application and needs an active internet connection; there is no offline queue.
Why a yard chooses it
Focused on the yard, not on everything else.
We are not going to tell you we are the best or the cheapest — we have not measured that against anyone else. This is what Scrapflow is, honestly.
A scrap-yard workflow, not a generic ERP
Purchases, grades, weights, stock and sales are the model, so the screens match how a yard works.
Prices that survive a rate change
Effective-dated buying and selling rates per material and grade; a completed ticket keeps the rate it was recorded with.
Written in South Africa
Built and supported by DS Digital, with a direct phone and email — not a ticket queue in another timezone.
Traceable by design
Every completed purchase and sale writes its stock movement and its audit entry, and reversals keep the original.
Set up by you
Company details, materials, prices and team invitations are self-service, with a checklist that tracks real progress.
No invented numbers
The dashboard shows recorded figures and labels estimates as estimates. There is no profit claim, because stock costing is not implemented.
Interactive Live Demo
Drive a full two-yard South African scrap operation right in your browser.
Open your own private Kliprivier Scrap Metals sandbox seeded with copper, brass, aluminium, cable and HMS stock across two yards, an open truck on the weighbridge, SAPS declarations, processing batches and all 6 add-ons unlocked.
Switch live between all 15 staff roles to see how Scrapflow separates scale, cash office, stock pile, compliance and owner controls — and when you exit or reset, 100% of your demo activity is wiped automatically. Need custom advice for your yard? Contact DS Digital for more information anytime.
What is inside the interactive Scrapflow demo
- Isolated per visitor: your private Kliprivier Scrap Metals sandbox cannot be seen or touched by any other visitor.
- Two seeded yards (Germiston Main Yard & Pretoria West Depot) with live copper, brass, aluminium, cable and HMS stock.
- All 6 add-ons unlocked inside the demo: Extra Yard, SAPS Register, Photo Evidence, Mill Outturn, WhatsApp Notices & Statements.
- One-click role switcher across all 15 staff roles so you can test exact permissions from Owner down to Weighbridge Operator and Cashier.
- Real billing, external emails and live payments stay blocked inside the demo sandbox.
- Automatic 100% wipe on reset or exit so no test data ever lingers.
Every visitor receives a private temporary workspace that self-destructs on exit or after 60 minutes.
Getting started
From your first workspace to your first completed ticket.
Launch the interactive demo or open a 7-day free trial in minutes, then follow the built-in yard setup checklist at your own pace.
- 1
Start your 7-day free trial (or launch the live interactive demo first to explore every workflow).
- 2
Confirm your company details and primary yard following the guided setup checklist.
- 3
Configure materials, grades and effective-dated buying and selling prices (or import them via CSV on Business).
- 4
Invite your staff, choosing each person's role and assigned yard — or explicit multi-yard access.
- 5
Record purchases and weighbridge tickets with snapshotted rates, SAPS declarations and stock-in movements.
- 6
Record customer sales, reconcile mill outturns, review the owner dashboard and export accounting or compliance records.
Fixed ZAR Pricing
Simple fixed plans for working scrap yards.
Start with a 7-day free trial (no card required), then activate anytime via Yoco online payment or EFT invoice from Settings → Billing. All amounts are in South African rand (ZAR). Setup fee: R0. VAT registration and treatment are not confirmed, so these figures do not state whether VAT is included or added. Ask for written confirmation before payment.
Starter
R 1 399/ month
7-day free trial · no card required · R0 setup · VAT treatment not confirmed
Annual prepay: R 13 990 for 12 months of service.
4 users · 1 yard
- 1 yard, 1 owner + 3 staff logins
- Multi-grade purchase tickets with printable counter slips
- Sales tickets, live stock ledger and stock counts
- Supplier and customer records and account history
- Moving-weighted-average stock valuation and gross margin
- Installable phone and desktop app (PWA)
- Live updates across the counter and the office screens
- Supplier and customer account statements
- Team invitations and role-based permissions
Business
Most popularR 2 750/ month
7-day free trial · no card required · R0 setup · VAT treatment not confirmed
Annual prepay: R 27 500 for 12 months of service.
11 users · 1 yard
- 1 yard, 1 owner + 10 staff logins
- Everything in Starter
- Two-pass truck weighbridge (weigh in, tip, weigh out)
- Processing, stripping and baling batches with yield, waste and cost allocation
- Guided CSV import of your existing materials and prices
- SAPS register and controlled-metal cash lock, included
- Ticket photo evidence, included
- Accounting journal, EFT batch and stock exports
- Custom staff roles and permissions
- Extra yards available at R1 100 for the first and R850 thereafter (+4 staff logins per extra yard)
- Supplier and customer account statements
- Team invitations and role-based permissions
Enterprise
Custom quotation
Scope, users and yards agreed in writing
- Custom quotation
- Scope and allowances agreed in writing
- Subject to feature availability
- Team invitations and role-based permissions
Optional monthly add-ons: Extra Yard R1 100/month (1st) and R850/month thereafter (+4 staff logins per extra yard) · SAPS Register R450/month on Starter (included in Business) · Mill Outturn R450/month · Ticket Photo Evidence R250/month on Starter (included in Business) · WhatsApp Notices R150/month · Account Statements Free on all plans.
Questions
Answered plainly, including the gaps.
Who is Scrapflow for?
South African scrap yards, buy-back centres and metal recyclers that buy material by weight, hold stock by material and grade, comply with SAPS Second-Hand Goods Act registers, and sell loads on to mills, foundries or exporters.
Can I test Scrapflow before signing up?
Yes. Click 'View the demo Scrapflow' to open your own private, interactive two-yard sandbox with all 15 roles and all 6 add-ons active. Everything you test wipes clean automatically when you exit.
How does the 7-day free trial work?
Start a 7-day trial on Starter (R1 399/month) or Business (R2 750/month) with R0 setup. After 7 days, if you have not activated a plan via Yoco or EFT invoice, the workspace pauses new writes while keeping all your records readable.
How do I set material prices across one or more yards?
Create materials and grades, then set effective-dated buying and selling rates per kg or per tonne. Completed tickets keep their snapshotted rate forever, and multi-yard companies can either share Company Default rates or set per-yard overrides.
Can I add extra yards and extra staff logins?
Yes. Every Extra Yard add-on (R1 100/month for your first extra yard, R850/month for each yard after that) unlocks another yard location plus 4 additional staff logins automatically.
Does it work without internet?
No. Scrapflow is a cloud web application (installable as a desktop/phone PWA) and requires an active internet connection so weights, payouts, stock and owner dashboards stay synchronised in real time.
Can I export my accounting, SAPS and company data?
Yes. Export Accounting Journal CSVs, SAPS Controlled-Metal Acquisitions & Disposals CSVs/print registers, Supplier & Customer Statements, and full MFA-protected JSON company backups.
How do I get more information or custom setup help?
Contact DS Digital directly on +27 068 624 1493 or dsdigitalia@gmail.com for more information, multi-yard onboarding or scale-bridge enquiries.
Talk to a person
Ask about your yard, not a sales script.
Tell us the materials you handle, how many people work in the office and whether you weigh on a single scale. We will tell you honestly whether Scrapflow fits today, and what it cannot do yet.
Self-service signup is open.
- Website
- www.dsdigitalia.com
- Phone
- +27 068 624 1493
- Product
- Scrapflow · a DS Digital product · South Africa