One system, not seven
The request, the dispatch, the weight, the invoice line — one record the whole way through. No re-keying between a scheduling app, a spreadsheet and the accountant.
New
Tally 1.37 — customer pages, a requests board & a calm inbox
The physical economy still runs on paper. We're changing that.
Batsford Systems builds the system of record for businesses that move, weigh and file things for a living — dispatch boards, weight tickets, container logs, permit reports. Software that respects the people who run the yard.
Delivery sheetNo. 2291
Customer
Northside Demolition LLC
14 Harbor Rd · site 2 of 2
| Container | Material | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 30YD #1184 | Mixed C&D | Weighed |
| 20YD #0962 | Concrete | Pickup Tue |
| 30YD — | Mixed C&D | Open slot |
Weigh ticketNo. 04417
- Date
- 2026‑09‑15 07:42
- Vehicle
- Roll‑off 12
- Container
- 30YD #1184
- Material
- Mixed C&D
Gross62,140 lb
Tare28,300 lb
Net
33,840 lb
Customer reply · Northside
"Swap Tuesday works — gate's open from 6"
"Swap Tuesday works — gate's open from 6"
95
releases shipped since July 2026
5
apps working from one system of record
1.37
current Tally release, out 14 Sept
Jan2027
go‑live at our founding customer
What we build
Operational software for industries the tech world skipped.
Waste and recycling, haulage, aggregates, scrap — sectors that run on schedules, scales and carbon-copy forms, and were left with clipboards and a decade-old ERP nobody likes. We build the tool that replaces both.
Built for the cab, not the office
Drivers are in dead zones half the day. Every tap is saved on the phone first and sent second — stamped with the time it happened, safe to retry.
Designed around a real operation
Gross tons versus short tons, demo loads, direct-to-landfill, New York's seller-record rules — the rules of the trade are in the software because it was built beside the people who run a yard.
The filing writes itself
When every material is entered against a regulated category, the annual DEC reports come straight out of the day-to-day records — no year-end reconciliation scramble.
Work can wait
An inbox that groups what matters, working hours that hold the rest until morning, and a driver problem that still comes straight through. Software you can spend a whole day in.
The data stays with the business
Runs on hardware the business owns, in a SQL Server it controls. Backups capture schema and data together, so one snapshot can stand a fresh system back up.
Progress
Eight weeks, 95 releases, and a launch date.
Tally is being built for Contento's container & recycling business in New York, our founding customer. Crew training starts in October and the yard goes live in January 2027. Here's where things stand.
Shipped Ahead
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July 2026
Tally ships its first release
Dispatch board, container lifecycle, loads and weighing, the billing worksheet — the core of the yard in one desktop app, updating itself from each release.
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August 2026
A new name, and the scrap counter
The Batsford Systems identity across every screen. Buying scrap over the scale with New York's seller records built in, photo ID copies on a two-year clock, gross-ton accounting, and both annual DEC filings.
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Early September
Assets, Tally Fleet and a polish pass
Machines tracked as they're trucked between sites. Vehicle compliance with document photos and renewal reminders. An interface with real depth, and a web address for every screen.
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Mid September
Customers get their own door in
A customer portal on the company's own domain: deliveries, containers on rent and pickup requests, with invites sent from inside Tally. At the counter, a licence barcode now fills in the seller record from a live camera.
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14 September 2026 Latest
Tally 1.37 — one home per customer, and a calmer day
- A page for every customer, with a shared timeline
- Team notes that customers never see
- A requests board — New to Done, drag to move
- One inbox for requests, replies and driver problems
- Work Can Wait: working hours and a morning summary
- Per-load pricing when a pickup changes material
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October 2026
Crew training begins
The office and drivers start learning Tally on their own workflows, with features still landing through the autumn.
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December 2026
Feature freeze & go-live rehearsals
A month of nothing new — refresher sessions for the crew and full dry runs of the switch-over.
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January 2027
Go-live
The yard moves off paper and onto Tally.
Products
One system of record. A door in for everyone who touches the work.
The office, the driver, the customer, the fleet manager and the owner each get a view built for them — all reading and writing the same records, so nobody is working from a copy.
Tv1.37
Yard operations
Tally
The desktop app that runs a container and recycling business from the first phone call to the prepped invoice.
- Dispatch board — timeline & lanes
- Customer pages & requests board
- Weighing, scrap & loads
- Billing worksheet & statements
- DEC annual reports
R
For drivers
My Run
A driver's day on their phone — stops in order, confirm pickups from the cab, works with no signal.
P0.2
For customers
Customer Portal
Customers see their deliveries and containers on rent, ask for a pickup or swap, and follow it to done.
F
For the fleet manager
Tally Fleet
Registration, inspection, insurance and title for every truck, with the documents attached and reminders before anything lapses.
A
For the owner
Tally Analytics
Read-only business analytics — revenue, scrap margins, dispatch efficiency and the container fleet.
Name
Jordan Batsford
Age
22
Role
Founder & engineer
Company
Batsford Systems
Founder
Sit with an operator, learn the trade properly, and build the system of record they should have had all along.
Jordan Batsford started Batsford Systems at 22, after building what became Tally alongside a working container and recycling business — learning how a delivery sheet, a scale ticket and a permit report actually move through a yard.
The pattern turned out to be everywhere: a capable operation held together by a whiteboard, a stack of duplicate forms and one person who knows how the software really works. The off-the-shelf options were either a toy or an enterprise suite priced and shaped for a company ten times the size.
So the company does one thing, and does it closely. Jordan still writes the code and still does the site visits.
— Jordan Batsford, Batsford Systems
Get in touch
Run an operation that lives on paperwork?
Tell us how the work flows through your yard today. If it's a fit, we'll walk you through Tally shaped around the way you work — not a canned demo.
Independent & founder-led · Tally goes live with our founding customer in January 2027