How to post openings, answer requests and get cut sheets

This manual is for processors with a claimed TallyTill page. Your account is on the free Stand plan: $0, no card and no expiry. TallyTill moves no money here. Farmers pay you directly.

Post an opening

An opening tells farmers you have a processing week free.

1. Open Open weeks in your menu.
2. Press Post an opening.
3. Choose the species.
4. Enter the head count. This stays private.
5. Pick the week on the calendar.
6. Press Post opening.

When you post, we email every farmer with a matching alert nearby. The email links to your page, where they can request the week.

• The next open week per species is the date shown publicly. Press Change to edit it.
• Press Mark filled when a week is full. Further alert clicks can no longer request it.
• You cannot post a second opening for the same species and date.

Right after you post, a Share this opening window opens. It has a ready-made card and post text, buttons for the main networks, and Copy link.

Answer a request

Farmers send requests for a week. You find them under Requests, in the Booking requests tab. You also get an email with a link.

You have three answers:

1. Yes. You can take them that week. You can add a short note.
2. Offer another week. A side panel opens. Pick a date on the calendar, add an optional note, and press Send offer.
3. No. We ask you to confirm first.

Each answer emails the farmer with your phone number. A request is not a booking. Nothing is booked in TallyTill, so confirm the date with the farmer by phone. Answered requests move to the Handled tab.

Messages from visitors

If your page has an email address for messages, visitors can use Email the processor. Each sender confirms their own email address first. Messages arrive in the Messages tab of Requests, and may also be emailed to your page address. Press Reply by email to answer from your own email, or Mark handled when you are done. Your email address is never shown on the page.

Choose what buyers see on the cut sheet

Every processor uses one standard cut sheet layout and PDF. You choose the content.

1. Open Cut sheets, then Cut sheet options.
2. The tabs show the species you process. A species you do not process shows as not offered.
3. Switch standard options on or off for each species.
4. Add your own add-ons, with your price.
5. Press Save options.
6. Press Preview as a buyer to see the form.

Defaults follow the Niche Meat Processor Assistance Network model sheets. Some rules always stay on, such as one short-loin choice and one rib choice. Sheets already submitted keep the options they were filled in with.

Get cut sheets

Buyers fill in their sheets through their farm. You see every sheet in Cut sheets, and each one also arrives by email as a PDF. Buyers can change a sheet until its lock date, and each change sends you an updated PDF marked "revised".

1. Open Cut sheets.
2. Sheets are grouped by processing week and species.
3. Each row shows the owner, the portion, the farm, the date submitted and a status. Rows marked Not yet show sheets still to come.
4. Press PDF on a row for one sheet, or Download week as PDFs to get the whole week.