Butchery: Yield, Cut Value and What the Chiller Costs

A butchery buys by carcass weight and sells by cut. Everything that matters in the business lives in the difference, and a till alone cannot see it.

What the app is built around

Weight, at every stage. Purchased, broken down by cut, sold, and discarded — which is what makes yield measurable for your supplier and your handling rather than borrowed from a general figure.

What it helps you see

• Your actual yield, and therefore your true cost per saleable kilo
• Value by cut, so premium and ordinary cuts are priced on their own merits
• Waste and markdowns, tracked rather than absorbed
• Supplier comparison — two suppliers at the same price can yield differently
• Stock on hand, which in this trade is perishable

Where it changes a decision

Which supplier to use. A slightly cheaper carcass that yields less is the more expensive one, and that comparison is impossible without recorded yield.

What it is not

It does not manage food safety compliance. It records the weights and the losses that tell you whether the shop is making money.

Price and fit

Butchery is $20 a month, and on Knomart you pay only for the apps you install.

It suits a butchery buying whole or part carcasses, where margin feels thinner than it should and nobody can say exactly why.

Butcheries running a busy counter often add Daily Takings at $6 a month so the till and the weights reconcile at close. Apps are priced one by one, so a shop that needs both pays $26 and a shop that needs one pays for one.