- You buy by the kilo and sell by the kilo, but between those two numbers sit cutting, trimming, bone and shrinkage. If nobody measures that, nobody knows what the margin really is.
Know what every carcass actually earned
The yield question
A butchery or pork centre is a margin business built on weight. You buy a carcass at one price per kilo and sell cuts at several others. Whether you made money depends entirely on yield - and yield is almost never measured, because on paper it cannot be.
What weight-based businesses face
Stock, shrinkage, cash and mixed trade.
[01]
Yield you cannot see
Bought 80kg, sold what? Without recording both sides, the difference between profit and loss is invisible.
[02]
Shrinkage and trimming
Some loss is legitimate and some is not. You cannot tell them apart without a baseline.
[03]
Cash-heavy trade
Butcheries take a lot of cash alongside M-Pesa. Reconciling both by hand at closing is slow and error-prone.
[04]
Retail alongside a kitchen
Many pork centres also cook and serve. That is two businesses sharing one stock.
How Orderly helps
- Stock recorded by weight, from purchase through to sale
- Yield visibility - what you bought against what you actually sold
- Waste and trimming logged, so unexplained loss stands out
- Cash and M-Pesa in one till, reconciled automatically
- Retail and kitchen sales tracked separately from shared stock
- eTIMS-ready receipts for customers who need them
Ruiru Pork Center runs on Orderly.
| If you are | Plan | Why |
|---|---|---|
| A single butchery | Orderly Growth | Till, M-Pesa, stock basics and daily reporting |
| Butchery plus kitchen | Orderly Pro | Weight-based stock, yield tracking and full costing |
Common questions
Yes, natively. M-Pesa payments match to orders automatically, so nobody has to read SMS messages to balance the till.
Yes, all in one till, with everything reconciled into a single report.
No. Many international systems make much of their money from card processing. Orderly does not touch your payments.
Usually because M-Pesa, cash and card are tracked in different places and reconciled by hand. Orderly brings them into one system so the drawer balances by itself.
Yes. Contactless and QR payment let guests settle without waiting for a waiter.
Customers can pre-load a wallet and pay in one tap next time, which suits offices, campuses and regulars. Available on Orderly Pro and above.