Nobody knows the real cost per kilo
Purchase price, freight, ice, labour and yield loss never meet in one number, so pricing is guesswork.
FinStack by Takamul Software
From the boat to the balance sheet — one system.
FinStack connects purchasing, landings, processing, inventory, sales and accounting so you always know your true cost per kilo and your real profit, today — not next month.
The problem
You already have the data. You just can't trust it.
Most seafood and food factories run on disconnected tools: a weighing sheet at the landing bay, a WhatsApp thread for approvals, one spreadsheet for supplier balances, another for stock, and an accountant rebuilding all of it at month-end.
Benefits by buyer
Every role gets the answer it needs
Owners, finance, operations — and any factory that buys raw material, transforms it and sells the output.
Feature catalogue
Ten connected modules, one record of the truth
Purchase orders, weigh tickets, lot traceability, processing yields, multi-currency accounting, payroll and loans — in a single connected platform.
Time saved
Where the hours actually go back.
Estimates based on typical manual workflows in a mid-sized factory of roughly 40 to 120 staff. Treat them as a model to test against your own numbers, not a guarantee.
| Daily task | Typical manual way | With FinStack | Estimated saving |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raise and approve a purchase order | Write it, email it, chase the approval, re-type it — 20 to 30 min | Raise it, rules route the approval, receipt links itself — 3 to 5 min | ~20 min per order |
| Record a landing | Paper weigh sheet, then evening data entry — 45 to 60 min | Tickets captured at the bay on a phone, lot created instantly — 10 min | ~40 min per landing |
| Price a supplier invoice | Match against orders and receipts by hand — 25 min | Matched against the order and receipt automatically — 5 min | ~20 min per invoice |
| Chase an approval | Phone calls and follow-ups — 15 min spread over a day | Notification with one-click approve — under 1 min | ~14 min per approval |
| Build a customer statement | Assemble from invoices, payments and credit notes — 30 to 45 min | Generated instantly and shareable by link — 1 min | ~35 min per statement |
| Reconcile stock | Compare sheets against a physical count — half a day, weekly | Live lot-level balances, count only to confirm — 1 hour | ~3 hours per week |
| Run payroll | Collect attendance, calculate, check, post — 1 to 2 days per period | Batch run, review, approve, posts itself — 2 to 3 hours | ~1 day per period |
| Close the month | Re-key and reconcile across systems — 5 to 10 working days | Statements already live, review and adjust — 1 to 2 days | ~5 days per month |
| Produce a management report | Export, paste, chart, format — 2 to 4 hours | Open the dashboard, or receive it by scheduled email — 0 min | ~3 hours per report |
- Cut administrative data entry by an estimated 50 to 70 percent.
- Shorten month-end close from weeks to days.
- Move from monthly to daily cost visibility.
- Reduce operations-versus-finance disputes to near zero.
Estimated typical results. Actual outcomes depend on volume, team size and adoption.
Measurable results
Numbers you can hold us to.
Modelled estimates for a seafood or food factory of roughly 40 to 120 staff processing daily landings, derived from the task timings above — not from a single customer.
~30 hours
returned to your team every week
Across procurement, receiving, invoicing and reporting.
80% faster
month-end close
From 5 to 10 working days down to 1 to 2 days of review.
50 to 70%
less administrative data entry
Each fact is captured once and reused everywhere.
Under 60 seconds
to produce a customer statement
Assembled live and shareable by secure link.
Seconds, not hours
to trace a lot end to end
Landing to grade to processing run to dispatch, both directions.
~90% faster
payroll run
From 1 to 2 days per period to 2 to 3 hours, posted automatically.
Minutes, not days
approval turnaround
Rules route each request with one-click approve.
~3 hours weekly
saved on stock reconciliation
Live lot-level balances mean the count confirms rather than reconstructs.
| Business outcome | Manual baseline | With FinStack | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to close the month | 5 to 10 working days | 1 to 2 days | ~80% faster |
| Time to know true cost per kilo | End of month, if at all | Same day, per lot and per run | Monthly to daily |
| Invoice matching disputes | Frequent, resolved by re-checking paper | Order, receipt and invoice matched automatically | Near zero |
| Time to answer "where did this fish come from?" | Hours of file searching | Seconds, with the full chain shown | Hours to seconds |
| Stock accuracy between counts | Estimated from sheets, drifts through the week | Live, lot level, adjustments logged | Estimate to live |
| Receivables visibility | A sheet someone updates weekly | Live ageing buckets, per customer | Weekly to live |
| Approval turnaround | Same-day at best, often longer | Minutes | Days to minutes |
| Management reporting effort | 2 to 4 hours per report, manually built | Dashboard, or delivered by scheduled email | ~3 hours to zero |
| Admin data entry volume | Every fact re-typed 2 to 4 times | Captured once | 50 to 70% reduction |
Metrics the system measures for you
You don't have to take our word for the numbers. The system reports them.
- Processing yield percentage — per run, species and grade, against target
- Cost per kilo — landed, processed and fully loaded, per lot
- Purchase price variance — ordered against invoiced, per vendor
- Vendor health score — monthly delivery reliability and quality
- Inventory ageing — fresh, aging and critical, by landing date
- Receivable and payable ageing — live buckets with matching statements
- Approval cycle time — how long each request waits, and with whom
- Yield and weight variance — expected against received, flagged at the bay
Estimated typical results, modelled on standard manual workflows. Actual outcomes depend on volume, team size and adoption.
Return on investment
The maths, with our assumptions visible.
A worked example. Substitute your own numbers — every assumption is listed so you can check it.
Assumptions
- 6 staff spend significant time on operational admin
- Each saves 1.5 hours per working day
- 22 working days per month
This is an illustrative model, not a quotation or a promise of results.
Why FinStack
Built for factories that buy, transform and sell
How FinStack compares with the three alternatives most factories weigh up.
Security and trust
Your data, properly protected.
Permissions, isolation and a complete history behind every number.
Rollout and support
Live in weeks, not years.
A six-step rollout that ends with you trusting the numbers before you switch.
Discovery
We walk your process end to end — landing bay to ledger — and map it to the system.
Setup
Your factories, users, roles, species and grades, items, chart of accounts and opening balances are configured.
Data migration
Vendors, customers, stock and balances are brought across from your existing files.
Training
Role-based sessions in Arabic or English — operations staff learn only their screens.
Parallel run
Run alongside your current method for one cycle until you trust the numbers.
Go live and support
Ongoing support from the Takamul Software team after go-live, in Arabic and English.
FinStack pricing
Packaging for fish processing plants, aquaculture farms and seafood exporters.
All plans include: real-time sync, bilingual Arabic/English UI, audit logs, role-based access and PWA mobile access. Annual billing saves two months.
Questions
FinStack — common questions
Languages, multi-factory, multi-currency, migration and approvals — answered for factory teams in Oman and the GCC.
Stop reconciling. Start deciding.
See FinStack running against your own process. A short, honest walkthrough — no obligation.
FinStack by Takamul Software — from the boat to the balance sheet.