01
Stop walking the floor to find out
Know what's picking, what's weighing, what's out the door — without leaving your desk or chasing a foreman for an answer.
New Sage One & Xero ready
From scale to sale,
fully traceable.
Cleaver is the order-to-invoice system for biltong factories and bulk meat producers. It eliminates paperwork, stops finger errors, traces every batch for HACCP and HAS, and pushes invoices straight into your accounting system — automatically.
Screenshot of Cleaver's Order History screen showing live order statuses.
// The problem
The floor moves fast.
The paperwork doesn't.
Most biltong factories still run on paper. Order sheets get lost between picking and dispatch. Weights are written by hand, then re-keyed into accounts. By the time an invoice goes out, it has been touched five times — and any one of them could be wrong.
A single under-weighed pallet, a transposed digit on an invoice, or a batch you can't trace under audit — these aren't admin annoyances. They're margin, compliance, and customer trust, walking out the back door.
What Cleaver does
Built for the people
who run the floor.
Four things that change for your operations manager on the day Cleaver goes live — and stay changed.
02
Pass an audit on a Tuesday morning
Trace any batch back to its supplier in seconds. The audit log is generated as you work, not reconstructed the night before the inspector arrives.
03
Stop arguing about weights
Weights captured at the scale, not transcribed afterwards. No rounding, no margin disputes, no "the truck driver says it was less."
04
Finance stops being a re-typing service
Every invoice lands in Sage One or Xero with the right customer, weight, and product code — the moment dispatch signs off.
Features
Engineered for stainless steel,
not for slide decks.
01 — Visibility
A live floor view that updates the moment a scale fires.
One dashboard showing every order across every picking area. Status changes the moment a scale fires or a picker scans. No standing meetings to ask "where's that order?"
02 — Hardware
Industrial scale integration
Cleaver listens to your existing scales over serial or ethernet. The reading is captured the instant it stabilises, tagged to the open order line, and locked to the batch — no operator transcription.
03 — Sales
Order capture on the road
Reps place orders from a phone — customer pricing, product preferences and notes already loaded. The order arrives on the factory floor as picking, not as an email someone has to re-key.
04 — Commercial
Smart unit conversion
Customers order in cases or units. You weigh and bill in kilograms. Cleaver maintains the conversion table per customer per product and reconciles it at invoice — so what was ordered and what was billed agree, automatically.
05 — Compliance
Batch traceability & HACCP records
Every weighed unit carries its batch ID forward. Temperature checks, cleaning logs and supplier certificates are captured on a tablet at the moment they happen. Pull a recall report or an audit log in seconds — not the night before the inspector arrives.
06 — Finance
Sage One & Xero, in sync
When dispatch signs off, Cleaver pushes the invoice through your accounting system's API — line items, weights, customer reference, product code and tax handled. No CSV exports, no end-of-day batch jobs, no finance team re-typing what the floor already entered.
Plays nicely with the tools
you already run on
- Sage One
- Xero
- Industrial scales
- Mobile pickers
Built where it has to work
Made by Bitspace, in close partnership with South African meat producers.
Cleaver wasn't built in a co-working space. It was built on real factory floors — in cold rooms, next to scales, with the people who run the lines. Every screen exists because someone we work with said "this is the bit that breaks."
We're not trying to be the world's biggest food-tech platform. We're trying to be the system your operations manager actually trusts to close out the day.
Bitspace South African software, built for South African operations
Book a demo
See Cleaver
on your floor.
Thirty minutes. We'll show you a live operation, not a sales pitch — and you can decide whether it belongs next to your scale.