Recycling Software That Accounts for Every Tonne — From the Weighbridge to the Buyer.
SynchPlus ONE is recycling and materials-recovery software for scrap metal, e-waste, paper and plastics operations. Capture material at the weighbridge by grade, price it, run it through processing jobs with a live mass-balance, and dispatch it to buyers — with the Second-Hand Goods register, cashless settlement and VAT264 in order. Purchases, sales and stock reconcile on one material ledger, and it runs on-site even where connectivity is poor.
Why the Tonnes Never Quite Tie Up
Most recyclers run four disconnected records: a weighbridge book, a grading spreadsheet, an accounts package and a dispatch diary. Each one is right on its own. Together they never agree.
Shrinkage You Can’t Locate
You bought 400 tonnes and sold 360. Is the gap moisture, contamination, processing loss, miscounts or theft? Without a mass-balance per job, the answer is a guess and the loss is absorbed into the month.
Grading Disputes With No Evidence
A supplier argues the grade, or a mill downgrades your load. If grading isn’t photographed and tied to the ticket, it’s your word against theirs — and the margin goes with the argument.
Compliance Lives on Paper
The Second-Hand Goods register, seller IDs, holding periods and VAT264 declarations are filed by hand. Inspection day becomes a scramble, and personal information sits in a drawer with no access control.
Collections Run Blind
Your trucks collect from clients and drop-off points, but routes, fuel, maintenance and what each run actually delivered to the bridge live somewhere else — if anywhere.
Everything a Recycling Yard Needs, on One Record
SynchPlus ONE puts intake, grading, processing, dispatch and the money on one record, so what you bought, made and sold reconciles by mass — not by guesswork.
Weighbridge & Bulk Intake
Gross, tare and net captured and graded by material. Draft tickets are reviewed before posting to stock. Supplier, vehicle and source recorded on every load. Automatic ingestion from the bridge is available as an add-on.
Grades & Pricing
A per-grade catalogue — ferrous, non-ferrous, plastics, paper, e-waste categories and more. Dated buy and sell prices per grade and unit of measure. Quality and contamination captured at grading, with photo-bound grading for disputes.
Processing Jobs & Mass-Balance
A processing job card turns inputs into outputs for any process — sort, bale, shred, separate, dismantle. Yield, loss and recovery are tracked by mass, and inputs reconcile against outputs on every job.
Bulk Stock & Ledger
Live balances and movements per grade and bin, valued on weighted-average cost (WAC). Full stock ledger and audit trail, with lot-level provenance so regulated stock traces back to its source.
Purchases, Settlement & VAT264
Supplier purchase invoices raised against intake. Bulk-receipt import for high-volume buying. Cashless EFT settlement with proof of payment, and VAT264 declarations captured on buys from non-vendors.
Dispatch & Carriers
Outbound loads to mills and buyers by grade, with carrier assignment and load documents. Waste and transport compliance flags travel with the load, and every load is weighed out and reconciled to stock.
Second-Hand Goods Register
SHGA register on every regulated acquisition. Seller ID captured and POPIA-encrypted, section 23 holding period enforced (config-driven), suspicious-transaction and inspection logs, and a one-click audited SAPS Annexure B export.
Wet Stock
Liquids and oils held in bulk tanks are managed alongside dry grades: tank levels, receipts and issues, reconciled against bulk balances.
Collection & Haulage Fleet
Skip, collection and tipper trucks on one register with fuel, tyres, maintenance and cost-per-km. Route planning for collections and outbound haulage, with collections landing straight at the weighbridge.
Weigh In → Grade & Buy → Process → Dispatch
Every load is captured once and accounted for end-to-end — no re-keying, no reconciliation gap between the bridge, the floor and the accounts.
Weigh In
Gross, tare and net by grade. Supplier, vehicle and source recorded at the bridge, with gate movement logged if you run the gate add-on.
Grade & Buy
Grade and photograph the load, apply the dated price, raise the purchase invoice, settle by EFT and post to bulk stock.
Process
A job card converts inputs into outputs — baled, shredded or separated fractions — with a live mass-balance and yield.
Dispatch & Sell
Weighed out to buyers with compliance documents attached. Stock reconciles, and margin per grade is calculated from real cost.
Built for E-Waste Collection, Sorting and Downstream Traceability
E-waste recyclers carry a heavier chain-of-custody burden than a general scrap yard. The same material spine handles it — and for device-level ITAD work, see our dedicated e-waste & ITAD software page: serial-level intake, chain of custody and P&L per job.
Collections from many points. Whether material comes from corporate clients, drop-off points or your own collection rounds, each collection is planned, routed and lands at the weighbridge against the right customer — so you know who it came from and what it weighed.
Provenance at lot level. Each intake becomes a traceable lot. When a processor, a client or an inspector asks where a fraction came from, you trace it back to its source intake rather than reconstructing it from paperwork.
Sorting and separation as jobs. Dismantling a load of IT equipment into metals, plastics, boards and residue is a processing job: inputs in, outputs by fraction, and the mass-balance tells you whether everything is accounted for.
Compliance on the outbound load. Waste and transport compliance flags travel with every dispatch to a downstream processor, and your collection vehicles, driver documents and inspections are tracked on the same platform. Client-specific certificates and report formats are configured during your pilot.
Running a traditional scrap metal yard where the Second-Hand Goods register is the main concern? Our scrap yard management software page covers SHGA compliance and SAPS inspections in depth.
Automate the Weighbridge, the Gate and Collections
Opt-in modules that plug into the same platform — no second system, no second login.
Weighbridge Automation Add-on
Auto-ingest weighbridge tickets straight into bulk stock with no re-keying, so tonnage posts itself for review. See our weighbridge software page.
Gate & ATG Movement Add-on
Log every vehicle and person in and out of the yard — timestamps, registration and images in the movement record, with boom and access automation optional. See gate access control.
Collection Route Planning Add-on
Plan skip and collection runs on a map, optimise the route, and have every collection land at the weighbridge against the right customer.
Open integration module. If it has an API or a feed — a weighbridge indicator, an analyser, an accounting package — we build an adapter and map it into the platform. It runs as a satellite service, so it works on-premise too.
A Recycler Usually Needs Three Systems. This Is One.
Here is what changes when the bridge, the floor and the accounts share one record.
| Capability | Typical Yard Today | Generic ERP / Accounting | SynchPlus ONE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weighbridge → stock | Book + manual capture | Manual journal | Tickets post to bulk stock |
| Mass-balance (in = out + yield) | Month-end spreadsheet | Not built for it | Live per processing job |
| Grading & pricing | Ad hoc, no photos | Item price lists only | Per grade with photo evidence |
| Purchases & supplier settlement | Separate accounts package | Yes, but not tied to tickets | Built into intake, EFT + proof |
| Second-Hand Goods register | Paper or not kept | Not included | SHGA + SAPS Annexure B, audited |
| Collection fleet & route planning | Separate or none | Not included | Same platform, cost-per-km |
| Works offline on-site | Paper only | Usually cloud-only | Full on-premise deployment |
| Role-based access | None | Fixed roles | Fully dynamic — any role, any permission |
Runs in Your Yard — Even Off the Grid
Runs in any country — on your servers or our cloud. Choose the model that suits your connectivity, IT team and data rules. You can start in one model and move later; the platform is the same.
On-Premise · Fully Offline
Runs entirely on your own hardware with local storage and an on-site database. Built for sites with poor or no connectivity, or where data must stay on-site. Every feature works when the internet doesn’t.
On-Premise · Your Network
Standardised on your existing infrastructure (Ubuntu Linux or Windows Server with MySQL), managed by your IT team behind your firewall.
Cloud · Fully Managed
Hosted and maintained by us. Multi-site operators get head-office visibility across every site, with each customer’s data kept isolated in its own schema.
Transparent, Per-Asset Pricing
Unlimited users, onboarding included. Recyclers typically start with the Compliance tier; weighbridge automation, gate and collection route planning are scoped per site.
Recycling Software FAQ
Common questions from scrap metal, e-waste and materials-recovery operators.
Recycling software replaces the weighbridge book, grading spreadsheet, separate accounts package and dispatch diary that most recyclers run. SynchPlus ONE covers weighbridge intake by grade, per-grade buy and sell pricing, processing job cards with a live mass-balance, bulk stock on weighted-average cost, supplier purchases and settlement, outbound dispatch to mills and buyers, the Second-Hand Goods register and your collection fleet — on one material ledger.
Yes, for the operational core of an e-waste business: logging collections from drop-off points and clients, weighing material in by category, tracing each lot back to its source, running sort and separation as processing jobs with inputs reconciled against outputs, and dispatching recovered fractions to downstream processors with transport compliance flags. Your collection fleet, licences and inspections sit on the same platform. Specific certificate or reporting formats you need are configured during your pilot.
Every processing job card records its inputs and outputs by mass. SynchPlus ONE reconciles tonnes in against tonnes out plus yield loss, so yield, loss and contamination are quantified per job and shrinkage is flagged instead of absorbed. Processing cost is folded into recovery, giving you a per-grade buy-to-sell margin rather than a month-end estimate.
Yes. Every regulated scrap acquisition goes through the built-in Second-Hand Goods register with seller ID captured and POPIA-encrypted, the section 23 holding period enforced (configurable), and a one-click, audited SAPS Annexure B export. For purchases from sellers who are not VAT vendors, SynchPlus ONE captures the VAT264 declaration alongside the purchase so your notional input tax claim is supported. For a deep dive on the register itself, see our scrap yard management page.
Yes. Supplier settlement can be cashless — EFT with proof of payment attached to the purchase — so every rand paid ties back to an intake ticket, a grade and a seller. Cash settlement can still be recorded where you need it.
Weighbridge tickets (gross, tare and net by grade) are captured as draft tickets and reviewed before they post to bulk stock. Automatic ingestion straight from the bridge indicator is available as the Weighbridge Automation add-on, scoped to your scale during the pilot.
Yes. SynchPlus ONE can be deployed fully on-premise on Ubuntu Linux or Windows Server with local storage, so every feature works with poor or no connectivity. Multi-yard groups can also run in our managed cloud with head-office visibility across sites.
Related Solutions & Modules
Recycling runs on the same SynchPlus ONE platform as our other yard and fleet solutions — one login, one bill, no extra dashboards.
Scrap Yard Management
SHGA register, SAPS Annexure B and cash control for scrap dealers
Explore solution →Weighbridge Software
Automatic weight capture, ticketing and unattended weighing
Explore solution →Waste Collection
Skip hire and refuse collection fleets on one platform
Explore solution →Vehicle Dismantling
ELV intake, depollution, parts and scrap traced to the VIN
Explore solution →Fleet Management
Fuel, tyres, inspections and true cost-per-km for collection trucks
Explore module →Warehouse Management
Bulk stock, bins and stock ledger
Explore module →See It Run on Your Yard
Book a 45-minute demo and we’ll show the weighbridge ticket, grading, mass-balance and SHG register live on your workflow. Then run a pilot on your own data: we wire up your weighbridge, grade a few loads, run a processing job and dispatch to a buyer — tonnes and money reconciled end-to-end.