How to request a processing week and send cut sheets

This guide is for farms. You find an open week, send a request, and then your share buyers tell the processor how they want their meat cut.

A request is not a booking

When you request a week, you ask the processor to hold it. The processor answers, and the two of you confirm by phone. Nothing is booked in TallyTill, and no money moves.

The processor can answer in three ways:

• Yes. They can take your animals that week.
• No. They cannot.
• Offer another week. They suggest a different date.

Always call to confirm before you plan around a date. The ⓘ button beside "Next open week" explains it.

Request a week

You need a free TallyTill account.

1. Find a processor in the finder.
2. Press Request a week. Sign in first if asked. You come back to the same place.
3. Choose the species.
4. Enter the number of head.
5. Pick a week on the calendar. Only open weeks can be picked.
6. Add a note for the processor if you like.
7. Press Send request.

Your name, phone and email come from your farm account. If the processor has not claimed its page, we email the request to the address we found and show you the processor's phone number.

Read the answer

Open Your requests in your account. Each request shows its answer and the processor's phone number. You also get an email.

• Press Withdraw to cancel. We ask you first, and we tell the processor.
• If the processor offers another week, call to agree on it.

Send cut sheets

A cut sheet tells the processor how each buyer wants their animal cut. Your share buyers fill theirs in themselves.

Buyers need no TallyTill account. They open the member sign-in link from your farm.

1. Sell the shares as you do today.
2. Send your buyers your farm's member sign-in link.
3. Each buyer opens the link and finds their reservation.
4. The buyer fills in the cut sheet.

What the buyer sees:

• Only the species and options this processor offers.
• Choices that cannot be combined are blocked. For example, short loin and rib are single choices, with a line that says why.
• The processor's own add-ons, with their price. Add-on prices are paid to the processor.
• Save and finish later, which keeps a draft. Nothing saves on its own.
• Submit cut sheet, when every choice is made.

If a required choice is missing, the form names it at the top and shows the error on that field.

After the buyer submits

1. The page shows the buyer's choices and when the sheet will go to the processor.
2. The buyer can still change the sheet until the lock date. Each change sends the processor an updated PDF marked "revised".
3. We send the final version for the buyer, so there is nothing more to do.

There is one sheet per reservation. Several buyers sharing one animal on one sheet is not available yet.

Good to know

• The cut sheet layout is the same for every processor. The options on it come from each processor's setup.
• Hanging weight is the carcass weight before cutting. Most processors charge cut and wrap per pound of it.
• Prices on a processor's page are their own. You pay the processor directly.