Any time, day or night in summer
A freezing cycle starts
Water and salt go into the tanks for a freezing cycle that runs for hours, not minutes.
Coming soon Manufacturing & Process
Ice factory software that shows cost per block
Track a freezing cycle from water in to graded ice out, and see electricity cost against how much you actually made.
Ice factory · from$29a month, per shopWhat is included
A working day
A day in an ice factory
After the cycle
Blocks are pulled and graded
Blocks are pulled from the tanks and graded whole or broken; a cracked block still sells, at its own price.
All day
Cash sale at the counter
A walk-in buyer from the fish or produce market pays cash for a block or a broken quantity.
Month end
The owner checks the electricity bill
The owner compares the electricity bill against how many blocks the plant actually produced.
Season to season
Capacity follows demand
Cycles run round the clock in summer and taper off through winter.
What goes wrong today
The problems it takes away
Electricity is the biggest cost, and the hardest to see
Electricity dominates this business's cost, but it's rarely compared against how much ice was actually produced.
A freezing cycle isn't an instant sale
Ice takes hours to freeze; treating it like an instant retail transaction hides how much is really in progress.
A cracked block, wasted
A block that cracks on de-molding still has value broken or crushed, but it's easy to write off instead of selling it at its own price.
A summer peak, a winter trough
Demand swings hard between an intense summer and a quiet winter, and planning capacity around that is mostly guesswork.
What it does
Everything an ice factory runs on
Parts marked Coming soon are on the way; founding shops get them first, at no extra charge.
A freezing cycle, tracked as it happens
Coming soonA cycle in progress will become its own stock state, hours long, not an instant sale.
Electricity cost against production volume
Coming soonA cost-per-block figure will show, so a summer peak's efficiency and a winter month's are both visible.
Whole and broken blocks, priced separately
Coming soonA cracked block will sell at its own price, on its own stock line, instead of being written off.
An itemised receipt for every cash sale
AvailableEvery sale prints a real receipt from the same accounting record, not a separate receipt table.
Real books behind a cash-heavy business
AvailableEvery sale is a full double-entry journal entry, so an overwhelmingly cash business still has real, checkable books.
A short credit line for the rare commercial account
AvailableA cold-chain or export buyer can still be given a short account with open invoices and ageing, alongside the daily cash till.
Who uses it
Each person sees their own day
Plant operator
To start a freezing cycle and record blocks pulled, whole or broken.
Sales / counter
To sell blocks for cash to a walk-in buyer, quickly.
Owner
To see electricity cost against production volume, and the whole-versus-broken sale mix.
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.
Stock
What you hold, where, and what it cost.
Reports
The numbers an owner asks for each morning.
On the counter
The hardware an ice factory needs
Bought together with the software: one delivery, one bill, set up to work.
The price
What an ice factory pays
Ice 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
Ice 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
Ice factories ask
Can it show me cost per block?
Not yet. It's planned: electricity cost compared against production volume, so a cost-per-block figure is visible.
Can I sell a cracked block instead of writing it off?
Not yet. Whole and broken ice will be separate, sellable stock lines, each at its own price.
Is a freezing cycle treated as an instant sale?
No, it's planned as its own stock state, since a cycle runs for hours before there's anything to sell.
Can I give one commercial buyer a short credit line while everyone else pays cash?
Yes. A commercial account can be given its own open invoices and ageing, alongside a cash till for everyone else.
Does it keep working if the internet drops?
Not yet. A small on-site relay hub will keep a till selling through an internet outage, useful here, since this is a fast, walk-in, cash counter.
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Twenty minutes on a call. We show your day on the screen, with your words and your stock.