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Light Industrial
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Operations software for light industry

Snap the paperwork. Skip the data entry.

For the manufacturers, wholesalers and trade suppliers who are done keying every supplier document into two systems. Snap it, check it, and your stock and books stay current.

Order to shelf

From the order you place to the stock on your shelf. One clear view.

( What it does )

Light Industrial keeps your buying, receiving and stock in one place. It starts the moment paperwork comes in. Snap a quote, invoice or delivery note and the system reads every line, matches it to your stock and suppliers, and updates your counts. You check what it flags; you never retype.

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However your suppliers send it, whether a PDF, an email, or a photo of a handwritten sheet, it lands as clean line items, matched and ready to receive. No new system for them. No retyping for you.

Steel workshop with overhead crane moving beams

Capture

Photo / PDF / email
Warehouse stock aisle with racking and boxes

Match & stock

Stock / suppliers
The daily grind

Where the day gets lost.

You've outgrown spreadsheets, but a full ERP is overkill. So the business runs on email, spreadsheets and a disconnected accounting package, and the admin piles up. Three places it costs you every week.

Worker cutting steel
Manual re-entry

Typed by hand, twice.

Someone keys every quote and invoice into stock and accounts by hand. It's slow, and wrong often enough to matter.

Warehouse stock aisle
Mismatched counts

The shelf and the system disagree.

The system says one thing, the shelf says another. Nobody fully trusts the on-hand number when it matters.

Welder working on steel
Month-end

Days lost matching paper.

Delivery notes to orders to invoices, by hand, to catch what was missed. Every single month.

Working behind the scenes

A smart ops assistant that watches the numbers so you don't have to.

Four things the platform handles in the background, keeping your data clean, your stock right and your books in sync.

Clean, matched data from supplier paperwork

Clean data

Matched to your world

Every quote, invoice and delivery note comes in as clean line items, matched to the suppliers and stock you already have. No duplicates. Anything new is proposed for you to approve.

Matched records No duplicates One-tap confirm
Stock counted in the units you use

Your units

Counted the way you use it

Suppliers ship in boxes; you count in units. It converts on arrival and handles partial deliveries, so stock always reads the way it really sits on the shelf.

Boxes to units Partial receipts Accurate counts
AI watching the numbers across the operation

The numbers

AI that watches the numbers

In the background, it learns your patterns and flags what looks off: a price jump, an odd quantity, or stock that's stopped moving. You catch it before it costs you.

Price-jump alerts Anomaly flags Slow-mover watch
Accounting kept in sync

Your books

In sync with your accounts

Your accounting stays your accounting. Customers, invoices and transactions sync with Xero, QuickBooks and Sage, so nothing gets entered twice and your bookkeeper keeps working where they already do.

Xero QuickBooks Sage

How it works

Snap it. We read it. Your stock updates.

The whole loop runs on the documents your suppliers already send. Snap a quote or delivery note and the system takes it from there, reading, matching and keeping your stock current. Tap any step to see what happens.

The full order-to-stock loop

From purchase order to updated stock counts, running on the paperwork your suppliers already send. AI reads the documents at steps 02 and 04.

Who it's for

Built for the people who run the floor.

Manufacturers, fabricators, wholesalers and trade suppliers doing 50 to 500 transactions a month, businesses that have outgrown spreadsheets but don't need a full ERP. If you wear five hats and can't lose half your day to data entry, it's built for you.

Manufacturers

Production that only runs when parts land on time and the counts can be trusted.

Fabricators

Steel and metal shops turning a supplier quote into a job without the retyping.

Wholesalers

High volumes of stock in and out, matched to suppliers without hand-keying.

Trade suppliers

Counter and contract sales that depend on live, accurate on-hand numbers.

Questions + next step

A few answers before you send your first invoice.

The practical things, answered plainly, then a simple way to see it on your own documents.

PDFs, emailed invoices, scanned pages, and photos taken on a phone in the yard. If a supplier can send it, we can usually read it.
Anything unclear is flagged for a quick confirm rather than guessed. You stay in control.
Yes. It syncs customers, invoices and transactions with Xero, QuickBooks and Sage, so nothing's entered twice, and your bookkeeper keeps working where they already do.
No. Captured details are matched to your existing records; anything new is proposed for you to approve, never silently created.
Get in touch, or book a 15-minute demo. We'll walk you through it and see if it's a fit. No signup, no pressure.

Light Industrial is built to slot into how you already work. No new system for your suppliers, and no rip-and-replace for your accounts.

See it for yourself

See it on your own paperwork. Book a quick walkthrough.

Nothing sells it like seeing it run on the kind of paperwork you deal with every day. Book a short call and we'll walk you through it. No setup, no commitment.

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