The Complete ERP Platform for Steel & Metals

TMT bars, coils, pipes, structures — steel moves in tonnes, on credit, at rates that change every morning. Trade Node gives steel and metal traders one system to publish rates, book orders, control credit, and dispatch from the yard without a single WhatsApp follow-up.

• Daily rate publishing
• Weight-tolerance billing
• Yard-to-gate dispatch control

The problems this trade lives with

• Rates change daily, disputes follow: Morning bhav goes out on WhatsApp, dealers book at yesterday's rate, and every invoice becomes a negotiation. Rate disputes eat margin that was thin to begin with.
• Credit exposure hides in notebooks: Lakhs in outstanding spread across dozens of dealers, tracked in Tally entries and memory. By the time over-exposure is visible, the material has already left the yard.
• Section weights and tolerance maths: Billing on actual weighbridge weight versus standard section weight — with tolerance bands — is manual arithmetic on every single dispatch, and every mistake costs money.
• Dispatch chaos at the yard gate: Lorries queue while staff match sauda registers, loading slips, and e-way bills by phone. A wrong loading or a missing document stalls the vehicle and the payment behind it.

How Trade Node runs it

• Publish the day's rates once, to everyone: Update your price list each morning and every approved dealer sees the same live rate in their portal. Orders book against the published rate — timestamped, so there is nothing left to argue about.
• Credit limits that actually stop dispatches: Set a limit per dealer. When outstanding plus fresh bookings cross it, new orders hold automatically until payment clears — before the lorry loads, not after.
• Weight-based billing without the spreadsheet: Invoices generate from dispatched quantities with GST applied correctly, linked to the exact order and vehicle, so weighbridge-to-invoice reconciliation stops being a nightly job.
• A dispatch trail from yard to gate: Every vehicle, every loading, every e-way bill attached to the order it belongs to. Your team and your buyer watch the same status — no calls, no "kahan pahuncha" messages.
• Tally stays your books, Trade Node runs the trade: Bi-directional sync keeps your accountant in Tally while operations move to a live platform. No double entry, no month-end surprises.

Why one platform

• Built for tonnage, not shopping carts: Generic e-commerce tools think in pieces and fixed prices. Trade Node thinks in tonnes, section weights, daily rates, and credit cycles — the way metal trade actually works.
• One platform, the whole operation: Rate publishing, ordering, credit, dispatch, billing, and collections are one connected flow. When the rate changes, the order, invoice, and ledger already know.
• Your dealers need zero training: Dealers see rates, place orders, and track their vehicles from a clean portal on their phone. If they can use WhatsApp, they can use Trade Node.

Modules for this trade

• Trade: Publish the morning bhav for TMT, angles, channels, and coils once — every approved dealer sees it instantly, with rate history preserved against every order.
• Trade: Dealers book tonnage against the published rate from their phone. Every sauda gets a timestamp, a rate, and a status — from booking to gate-out.
• Finance: Live outstanding per dealer with credit-limit enforcement. Over-limit bookings hold automatically before material leaves the yard.
• Operations: Vehicle-wise loading records tied to orders, with weighbridge quantities flowing straight into billing.
• Operations: Generate and attach e-way bills at dispatch so no lorry waits at the gate for paperwork.
• Integrations: Two-way Tally sync — your accountant keeps their books, your operation stops living inside them.

Frequently asked questions

Can I publish different steel rates to different dealers?

Yes. Trade Node supports party-wise pricing, so you can publish a base rate and maintain negotiated rates for specific dealers. Every order records the exact rate it was booked at.

How does Trade Node handle weight-based billing for steel?

Orders are booked in tonnes, dispatches record actual loaded quantities, and invoices are generated from dispatched weight with GST applied — so weighbridge-to-invoice differences are handled in the system, not on paper.

Does it work with my existing Tally setup?

Yes. Trade Node syncs with Tally bi-directionally, so your existing accounting continues unchanged while daily operations — rates, orders, dispatches, collections — move to the platform.

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