Butcher Core keeps your kill schedule, cut sheets, customers and farmers in a single portal — every record from drop-off to pickup, live for your whole crew on any device on the floor.
Built on the kill floor, not in a boardroom — proven daily at a working packing house.
| Mon · Jul 7 | Kauffman Farm | Beef | Confirmed |
| Tue · Jul 8 | R. Yoder | Pork | Call |
| Wed · Jul 9 | Miller Cattle | Beef | Confirmed |
| Thu · Jul 10 | Hillside Lamb | Lamb | Call |
One portal for every part of the shop
A whiteboard schedule, a drawer of paper cut sheets, and a phone that never stops ringing — one busy Saturday and it all falls apart. Butcher Core puts the whole operation in one place, so nothing gets lost between the scale and the pickup counter.
Book every animal in with the farmer, species, head count, deposit and pickup date. See the whole week — or a single day — and know exactly what's coming to the floor.
Kill schedulingDigital cut sheets for beef, pork, lamb, goat and deer — with your own cuts, thicknesses and package sizes. No more chasing an illegible order across the plant.
Cut sheetsTwo-way texting straight from the portal — send "your beef is ready" and answer questions from a shared team inbox, without handing out anybody's cell number.
Customer textingFrom the animal coming in to the invoice paid at the counter — Butcher Core covers scheduling, the cutting floor, billing, counter sales and reporting in one portal. Jump to any piece below.
Book animals in, track confirmations and deposits, and view the whole week or a single day at a tap.
ExploreCustomizable digital cut sheets per species, with a live status pipeline from taken to paid.
ExploreThe cutting-floor screen — a whole day's kills and sheets in one scroll, with final weights recorded as you go.
ExploreMark your real cut days and cap the head per species, so a day can't get overbooked out from under you.
ExplorePull up a customer's past sheets in seconds and text them a photo to confirm before you cut.
ExplorePer-pound rate cards, sales tax, and invoices that build themselves from the cut sheet — draft to paid.
ExploreRing up a walk-in that never had a cut sheet — own lines, same invoice run, same reports.
ExploreAnimals butchered, revenue, collected vs. outstanding, by animal, month and top farmer — any date range.
ExploreReach customers from a shared inbox on your shop's own number — order-ready alerts, replies and photos.
ExploreA tidy record of who brings animals and who buys meat, with history and contact info on one screen.
ExploreRun one shop or many, each walled off with its own name, logo, staff and secure logins.
ExploreMost folks want it "the same as last time." Butcher Core keeps every cut sheet a customer has ever ordered — type their name and the whole history is right there. Reuse it as-is, tweak it, and text them a picture of the sheet to confirm before you make a single cut.
| 2025 · Beef | Steer · Half | Reuse |
| 2024 · Beef | Steer · Half | Reuse |
| 2023 · Pork | Whole hog | Reuse |
Watch a real intake: the shop texts a photo of last year's cut sheet, the customer replies with one tweak, and the order updates itself. No phone tag, no paper.
Pull up the customer's previous cut sheet and send it as a photo — one tap, right from their record.
The customer just texts back "looks good" — or asks for a change, like ground 90/10 and a couple more roasts.
Apply the change, mark it confirmed, and the order's locked in for Thursday — no re-writing, no callback.
Start from proven beef and pork templates, then tune the fields for each species you handle. Add cuts, dropdowns, package sizes and special instructions. The order follows the animal from the rail to wrapping.
| Ribeye | Steaks · 2 per pack | 1¼" |
| T‑bone | Steaks · 2 per pack | 1" |
| Chuck | Roast | 3 lb |
| Ground | 1 lb packages | 85/15 |
The floor doesn't want to click through menus with cold, wet hands. Butcher View lays out every kill for the day in one scroll — boxed by farmer, each customer's sheet underneath, tag and hanging weight right there. Write down what actually came off the saw next to what the customer ordered, and it saves itself as you type.
Book every animal in with the farmer, species, head count, deposit and pickup date. Confirm dates, flag who still needs a call, and mark deposits paid — all in one view.
| Mon Jul 7 | Kauffman Farm | Beef | 2 hd | Confirmed |
| Tue Jul 8 | R. Yoder | Pork | 4 hd | Call |
| Wed Jul 9 | Miller Cattle | Beef | 1 hd | Confirmed |
| Thu Jul 10 | Hillside Lamb | Lamb | 6 hd | Call |
| Fri Jul 11 | Troyer Bros. | Beef | 3 hd | Confirmed |
Mark which upcoming dates are actual cut days, and set how many head of each species you can handle on one. When a day is at its limit, you see it before you promise a farmer a slot you don't have — not after the trailer's already backing in.
A kill isn't one number — it's individual animals. Butcher Core tracks each head separately, so the tag, hanging weight and cut sheet all live together.
Label each head as it comes off the rail so the right meat goes to the right customer, every time.
Record the weight per animal — the basis for yield, pricing and the customer conversation.
A head is marked complete once it has a weight and an attached cut sheet — no half-finished jobs slipping by.
Set your per-pound and flat rates once. When a cut sheet picks "hot dogs" or "vacuum seal," Butcher Core drops the matching line onto the invoice automatically — priced off the finished hanging weight. Add sales tax, finalize, and the amounts are locked. No adding-machine tape, no math on the back of the sheet.
Not every dollar comes off a cut sheet. Somebody walks in for a case of bacon, a box of summer sausage, a bundle of ground — ring it up right there. A counter sale gets its own invoice with its own typed lines, takes the next number in the same run as your processing invoices, and lands in the same reports.
Every kill and every invoice rolls up into plain-English reports. See how many animals you butchered, what you billed, what you've actually collected, and where it came from — by animal, by month, by farmer — for any date range you pick. No spreadsheet exports, no guessing at year-end.
A tidy record of who brings animals in and who buys the meat — with contact info, history and their orders on one screen. Farmers link to their kills; customers link to their cut sheets.
| Dale Wenger | (330) 555‑0148 | 3 orders |
| Marie Schmidt | (330) 555‑0192 | 1 order |
| John Byler | (330) 555‑0170 | Paid |
| Ruth Hostetler | (330) 555‑0133 | 2 orders |
Customers text your shop's own number and your whole team answers from one shared inbox. Send "your order's ready," confirm a kill date, or fire off deposit reminders — no personal cell numbers, no missed messages.
An unknown number lands in the inbox — create the customer and connect the thread without leaving the conversation, or link it to somebody you already have.
Leave a note on the thread for the next person on shift. It sits with the conversation and never gets sent to the customer.
Handled it? Drop the thread off the active inbox until later. Any reply from the customer wakes it straight back up.
Book a new kill entry or open a new cut sheet for that customer right from the conversation — the details carry over.
If a customer texts STOP, sending is disabled on that thread and the inbox tells you why — you can still keep internal notes.
Delivery status comes back from the carrier. A text that didn't land is flagged with a Retry button, not lost.
Butcher Core is multi-tenant from the ground up. Every shop is its own space with its own name, logo, staff and data — no one sees another company's records.
Each company gets its own name and logo across the portal, and its own animals and cut-sheet fields.
Nothing is readable or writable without a staff login. Row-level security enforces separation in the database itself.
Admin, Office Manager and a read-only Viewer. Admins own settings and the money view; office staff run the day; a Viewer can look without touching a thing.
Edits sync instantly across the office and the floor — no refresh, no stale copy of the truth.
Desk browser, the tablet by the scale, or a phone — touch drag-and-drop included on iPad and iPhone.
Import your existing customers, farmers, cut sheets and kills from CSV, with header auto-mapping.
Download a full backup of the shop as JSON, or pull CSVs of cut sheets, kills, customers, farmers and cut days.
Set the shop's time zone once and dates, cut days and after-hours replies all line up with the clock on your wall.
Choose how many idle days before a login is signed out — tight for the office tablet, longer for the owner's laptop.
Fonts, icons and libraries are served from the app itself, so a blocked domain or spotty shop connection can't break the portal mid-shift.
It's a web portal — open a link and sign in. No servers to babysit, backups handled for you.
Beyond the big features, the little things are what get a shop to actually use it every day.
Hit ⌘K from any screen — customers, farmers, orders and kills, all in one search.
One box finds any customer, farmer, order or kill across the whole portal — no clicking through menus.
Set your business name and logo once — it shows in the sidebar, on the dashboard, and on printed & texted cut sheets.
Design each species' form — add fields, dropdowns, free-text and choose-any chips, with a live preview.
Relabel, recolor, reorder and hide the kill and order stages — or add your own — to match how your shop actually moves a job.
Write the pre-typed texts once. They fill in that customer's animal and sign off with the first name of whoever's logged in.
Pick what shows on the kill sheet and in what order, so the printout matches the one your crew already reads.
Beyond the five built in — add an animal with its own portion labels and fractions, and design its cut sheet from scratch.
Set a default sheet per species so a new order starts prefilled with your house standard instead of a blank form.
The same record follows the animal through the whole plant — no re-keying, no lost paper, no guessing.
Schedule the animal with the farmer, species and deposit.
The customer's cut sheet is filled in and saved to the job.
Each head is tagged and weighed, sheet attached to the carcass.
Butcher View runs the day — final weights and storage go down as you work.
The customer gets a text on your shop's number and comes in.
The invoice tallies from the sheet; mark it paid — it lands in reports.
See Butcher Core running with your own species, cuts and workflow. A quick demo, no pressure — just the fastest look at what one portal can do for your plant.
