Opening
Leaf comes in
The gate clerk weighs each smallholder's delivery, notes a quality grade, and posts it to that supplier's running leaf-ledger.
Coming soon Local businesses by country
Knows a smallholder's leaf delivery from the gate to the auction lot
For a bought-leaf tea factory that buys green leaf from smallholders, processes it through withering, rolling, fermenting and drying, and sells the made tea through a broker at auction, where the price is only known after the sale.
Bought-leaf tea factory · from$29a month, per shopWhat is included
A working day
A day in a bought-leaf tea factory
Morning
Processing moves on
The tea maker moves each batch from withering to rolling to firing as it's ready, watching quality at every stage.
Afternoon
Grading and bagging
The sorter/grader supervisor grades the day's made tea into named grades and bags it by lot, ready for dispatch.
Evening
Paying suppliers
The accountant runs the smallholder payment list for the week and prepares the next lot for dispatch to the broker.
Weekly
The auction closes the lot
An auction sale note comes back from the broker; it's posted against the lot's leaf-and-processing cost to close its margin.
What goes wrong today
The problems it takes away
No lot-by-lot margin
The made tea's real margin is a factory-wide guess today, not a number tied to the one lot that earned it.
A paper leaf-ledger
A smallholder's running balance lives in a paper book, so a dispute over what's owed takes an afternoon to sort out.
Cess and commission by hand
The Tea Board cess and the broker's commission are worked out by hand from the auction sale note, lot by lot.
No view of the best supplier
Which smallholder's leaf earns the best price at auction is impossible to see without digging through old gate slips and sale notes.
What it does
Everything a bought-leaf tea factory runs on
Parts marked Coming soon are on the way; founding shops get them first, at no extra charge.
Weigh at the gate
Live demoOur retail demo already weighs an item and prices it by the gram; a gate weighbridge that weighs a whole delivery the same way is the next step for this trade.
A running leaf-ledger
AvailableThe accounts already track vendor bills as open items; the same engine can hold a smallholder's running leaf balance, settled weekly or fortnightly.
The withering-to-drying chain
Coming soonPlanned: a batch that moves through withering, rolling, fermenting, firing and grading as one tracked production chain, not a paper log.
A lot sold on consignment
Coming soonPlanned: a lot dispatched to a broker with no price agreed yet, closed out only when the auction sale note comes back.
A cess rate you set yourself
AvailableThe tax engine lets you enter any country's rates and codes without them being hard-coded, so a cess like the Tea Board's can be set up as a rate.
A receipt slip by WhatsApp
Live demoA WhatsApp button pre-fills the leaf-receipt slip message for a smallholder; someone still presses send.
More than one factory
AvailableStock is tracked by location in the product, for a company running more than one bought-leaf factory.
A mixed staff roster
Coming soonEach pay period already posts as one balanced accounting entry; a full pay run for a mix of monthly staff and daily-wage factory workers is still being built.
Who uses it
Each person sees their own day
Leaf-collection clerk
To weigh and grade a delivery fast, and post it to the right supplier's balance without a paper slip going missing.
Tea maker
To see every batch's stage at a glance and get the made-tea yield right.
Accountant/office manager
The week's smallholder payments and the broker's auction sale note reconciled without re-keying anything.
Owner
To see, at a glance, which suppliers' leaf actually earns the best price at auction.
Behind the counter
The whole business, not only the till
The screens for your trade sit on a full set of books. These parts come with it.
Accounts
Double-entry books, statements, period close.
Money
Cash, bank, cheques and reconciliation.
Purchasing
Orders, supplier bills and what you owe.
Stock
What you hold, where, and what it cost.
Sales documents
Quotations, orders, invoices, delivery notes.
Tax
Tax on every line, by your country's rules.
Staff and pay
One staff register, attendance, pay runs.
Fixed assets
Machines and vehicles, and their wear.
Reports
The numbers an owner asks for each morning.
Branches
More than one shop, one set of books.
On the counter
The hardware a bought-leaf tea factory needs
Bought together with the software: one delivery, one bill, set up to work.
The price
What a bought-leaf tea factory pays
Bought-leaf tea factory · Cloud
$29
per shop, per month
or $696 once, for 3 years
- The till, stock and purchases
- Real accounts built in
- First till included
- A year costs ten months
- Pay once for 3 years and the last year is free
Pre-order
Bought-leaf tea factory · Cloud + LAN hub
$45
per shop, per month
- Everything in Cloud
- Keeps every till selling when the internet drops
- Tablets and kitchen screens on the hub at no extra charge
- Pre-order: pay the Cloud price until the hub ships, then move up free
Introductory price. Local taxes are added where they apply. A second shop costs the same as the first. Prices for countries without their own page, in USD, as of 28 Sep 2026.
Founding shops
The first 50 shops in each country get free setup and data import with a yearly plan, and today's price locked for two years.
Claim a placeThis trade does not have its own price line yet. The price shown is our retail line, and we confirm it when we quote.
Straight answers
Bought-leaf tea factories ask
Does it replace our paper gate-weighment book?
Planned: a gate-weighment screen that posts straight to a supplier's leaf-ledger. Today this is a design, not a shipped feature.
Can it show what one lot actually earned at auction?
Planned: holding a lot's leaf-and-processing cost against its own auction sale note, so a real per-lot margin appears, not a factory-wide guess.
Does it work if the factory's internet drops?
Planned: a small on-site relay hub designed to keep recording weighments and sales through an outage. It hasn't shipped yet.
Does it calculate the Tea Board cess for us?
The tax engine lets you set any country's rates without them being hard-coded. A Sri Lankan cess rule would need to be entered as a rate; we don't calculate it for you today.
Can the weekly supplier payment list go out by WhatsApp?
A WhatsApp button pre-fills the message; a person still has to press send.
See it run a bought-leaf tea factory.
Twenty minutes on a call. We show your day on the screen, with your words and your stock.