Run the day
The whole trading day, on one screen.
From coolroom light at 6:30 to drawer count at 17:30, Opsider follows the day you already run. Same rhythm, same jobs, far fewer pieces of paper riding around in your top pocket.
6:30 · Morning Brief
Walk in to a day that sorted itself overnight.
While you slept, the ledger read itself and wrote you a short list: what's expiring, what's running short, what generated itself, who owes you. So 6:30 is decisions, not detective work.
Four lists, and every line ends in a button.
- Expiring stock. One click marks it down, and the price snaps back to full by itself after the use-by. No sticky note on the register, no finding July's special in September.
- Days of cover. Anything running short shows up with a draft PO already addressed to its supplier. Approve it with your first coffee.
- Standing orders. The regulars generated themselves overnight. You review, you don't type.
- Who to chase. The accounts worth a statement today, with the statement one click away.
All day · The board
Six plain stages. Honest counts.
Submitted, Accepted, Packed, Out for delivery, Invoiced, Paid. No workflow builder, no mystery columns. Tick a run's worth of orders and advance them together, and the counts are honest because they come straight off the ledger: 14 in Accepted means 14.
Most of the overnight cards drafted themselves while you slept.
7:00 · Pick
The chef's actual words ride to the trolley.
A pick list that keeps the chef's exact wording is the difference between "cut thick for braising pls" and a phone call at 7am. The words travel from the original message to the coolroom, and everything that happens to the line gets written down.
Picked by a person, on the record.
- Notes travel word for word. Nobody transcribes, nobody paraphrases, nobody guesses what "the usual size" meant.
- Substitutions announce themselves. Swap the trout for salmon and the customer is emailed automatically, before the van leaves, not as a surprise on the invoice.
- Attribution with timing. Who picked it and how long it took, on every list. Handy on the good mornings, more handy on the others.
7:20 · The bench
One number per product, not nine dockets.
The bench doesn't care who ordered what. It cares that today is 62 kilos of brisket. The cut list totals the day per product, and trims long chef messages down to the part the knife needs.
Printed once, cut once.
- Totalled for the saw. Brisket, 62 kg across 9 orders, is one line and one job, not nine dockets held up to the light.
- Only the cutting note. Three paragraphs about the weekend arrive at the bench as four words: cut thick for braising. The rest stays on the order.
8:40 · Weigh and pack
The customer pays for what's in the box.
An order says 5 kg. A leg of lamb has opinions. The bench scale writes the packed weight straight onto the line and the invoice reprices itself to the gram before it sends.
Ordered 5, packed 4.82, invoiced 4.82.
- The scale does the typing. Packed weight lands on the line as it's weighed, not from memory at the end of the shift.
- Repriced before it sends. The invoice charges the actual packed weight at that customer's price, to the cent.
- No Friday credit notes. Nobody spends the afternoon correcting invoices for meat that never existed.
9:05 · The vans
Load the vans in the order the map likes.
Drag orders onto runs, or let the zones do it: suburbs put each stop on the right van before anyone touches the board. Run sheets print with arrive, depart, temperature and signature columns, and the office knows where every box is without ringing a driver.
A run board you can argue with.
- Drag and drop. Move a stop up the run and everything below it renumbers. The map is a suggestion; you drive the streets.
- Zones auto-assign. New orders land on the right run by suburb, on their own.
- Run sheets worth filing. Arrive, depart, temperature, signature. A paper trail that is actually a trail.
Zones assign the stops; drag any of them to overrule the map.
The driver's whole day sits in the cradle.
Stops in order, a navigate button each, and proof of delivery that takes seconds at the door instead of minutes back at the depot.
- Probe at the door. 3.1 °C goes into the cold chain record with a timestamp, not onto a clipboard that lives in the glovebox.
- Sign on glass. Photo and signature attach to the delivery itself, not to a pile on the passenger seat.
- The QR knows the drop. The QR on the invoice opens that exact delivery: who signed, when, and at what temperature.
11:20 · The dock
The truck backs in. The paperwork keeps up.
Buying is the same loop as selling, run backwards. The Morning Brief drafts the purchase order, the truck arrives against it, and the paperwork stays stapled to the stock it belongs to.
Receive against the PO, and the rest follows.
- Receiving creates lots. Every intake becomes a lot as it crosses the dock, which is where traceability starts. No extra step, no catch-up data entry.
- The invoice meets its PO. Supplier invoices attach with their documents, and PO-vs-invoice reconciliation flags the quiet 40 cents a kilo nobody mentioned on the phone.
- Payables age in plain sight. What you owe sits beside what you're owed, so Friday's payment run takes minutes.
17:30 · Close
Count the drawer. Lock the door.
The drawer count meets the Z-report, the card settlements match themselves, and anything odd is a line on a screen tonight, not a mystery at month end.
The day signs itself off.
- Counted against expected. Side by side, to the cent, while whoever's on close still remembers the day.
- Z-report, printed and kept. Filed on the ledger with the takings it describes.
- Tomorrow already started. While you drive home, tomorrow's Morning Brief is building itself from today's ledger. See you at 6:30.
Walk the whole day in twenty minutes.
Twenty minutes, your own numbers, no obligation.