Wholesale · Distribution · Manufacturing
What you hold, what you sold, and what you are still owed.
Most distributors run on a billing package, three spreadsheets and a WhatsApp group. Crateline replaces all of it with one system — and never lets a quantity or a balance be typed over.
14 days, no card. Built for UAE VAT, Saudi VAT and Indian GST from day one.
Tax handled as configuration, not as a code change
See the sources →AE
VAT 5%
United Arab Emirates
E-invoicing from Jan 2027
SA
VAT 15%
Saudi Arabia
ZATCA Phase 2, by wave
IN
GST
India
E-invoicing above ₹5 crore
US
Sales tax
United States
Rates by state and county
The problem was never billing. It is that nothing agrees.
Stock
Numbers nobody trusts
The system says 400 cartons. The godown has 340. Somebody edited a quantity to push a sale through, and now every reorder decision is a guess dressed up as a report.
Price
Rates that live in one person’s head
Distributors get one rate, retail another, that one difficult account a third. When the person who knows is on leave, margin walks quietly out of the door.
Money
Ageing you cannot see
You know roughly who owes you. Roughly is how a distributor ends up funding a customer’s business for ninety days without ever deciding to.
Three systems that were never reconciled, held together by one person who remembers. That person is the single point of failure in most distribution businesses we meet.
The console
One database. Every location. No nightly sync.
The back office, the warehouse floor and your customers all write to the same system at the same moment. There is no overnight job to fail, and no branch file to merge on Monday morning.
Everything it does →
One order, one trail, one set of numbers
Nothing in Crateline is overwritten. Every movement of stock and every line of money is appended, in the same transaction as the paperwork that caused it — which is precisely why the warehouse, the tax register and the ledger cannot drift apart.
- 01 Quotation priced by rule
- 02 Sales order credit checked
- 03 Pick list FEFO batches
- 04 Dispatch partial loads
- 05 Tax invoice VAT / GST
- 06 Receipt knocked off
One append-only ledger
Stock movements and double-entry lines are written, never overwritten — so the warehouse, the tax register and the money owed cannot drift apart.
Built for the people who actually put the data in — not just the ones who read the report.
Pickers, drivers and customers use Crateline for nothing. You pay for your back office only, because charging for the warehouse is how a rollout quietly dies.
How pricing worksThe system
Four parts, and they share one set of books
They are not modules you buy separately. They are four points on one line, and a movement at any of them is visible at the other three before you have finished typing.
01 · GOODS ARRIVE
Stock & warehouse
Batches, expiry and serials across every location. Stock is a ledger of movements, not a number someone can type over.
Read more →02 · AN ORDER IS PLACED
Sales & pricing
Quotation to dispatch, priced by rule rather than memory, with credit checked before the goods leave the yard.
Read more →03 · THE INVOICE IS RAISED
Invoicing & money
Compliant invoices, receipts knocked off against them, and an aged view of exactly who owes you what.
Read more →04 · THEY REORDER
Buyer app
Your customers order from their phone at their own prices, and it lands on your desk as a draft order.
Read more →See it against your own stock list
Bring a real item file and a real customer list. Half an hour, no slides — we load your data and you decide whether the numbers look like your business.
14 days · no card · export your data any time
