Produce Pro tracks every lot. Somebody still types them in.
Produce Pro handles procurement, lot traceability, consignment and price-after-sale the way perishables actually work. Reading the supplier's PDF was never part of that. Harold reads it, checks it against your rules, and hands over clean data.
Why perishables businesses run Produce Pro
Produce Pro serves midsize to large perishable growers, distributors and wholesalers across produce, meat, seafood and floral — segments where a generic ERP falls over within a week.
Any unit of measure, any volume
Buying in one unit and selling in another is normal in perishables and catastrophic in software that wasn't designed for it. Produce Pro treats it as the default case.
Real purchasing arrangements
Price-after-sale, consignment and direct shipment are distinguished properly rather than forced into a standard PO model that misstates your margin.
Traceability for recall readiness
Detailed lot histories that support recalls and compliance — the capability you never think about until the morning you need it in an hour.
An integrated suite, not a stack
Core ERP, mobile apps and warehouse management designed to talk to each other in real time, rather than three products and an interface budget.
Document management isn't document extraction
Produce Pro offers document management that scans, stores and retrieves items like invoices and credit slips, so you can pull them up for verification or a dispute. That is genuinely useful — and it is filing, not reading. The image gets stored. The numbers on it still get typed by a person.
In perishables that typing is unusually painful, because the values you need are rarely in tidy columns. Pack configuration, net weight and grade sit inside description text, and the format shifts between growers, between commodities and sometimes between lines on the same document.
That is precisely the problem Harold was built for: pulling several distinct values out of one messy text field, reliably, after being shown where they live.
Adding a layer beats swapping a platform
A perishables ERP migration is one of the harder ones. Lot history, cost layers, consignment positions and grower balances all have to survive the move intact, and every one of them is something a regulator or an auditor may ask you to reproduce. Taking that risk to solve inbound data entry is disproportionate.
The cheaper path is to leave the system of record alone and improve what reaches it. Better data going in makes every downstream report in Produce Pro more accurate — without a migration, a retraining programme or a consultant.
Produce Pro carries on doing what it does. Harold handles the part it was never asked to do.
How Harold works with Produce Pro
Train once per sender
Upload sample documents from a grower or supplier and highlight where each value sits — pack, weight, grade, lot, price basis — including inside description text. Harold learns that layout for good.
Your rules catch the errors
Totals recalculated, weights and extensions checked, commodity and GL codes matched to your own reference data, exceptions flagged for review before anything is imported.
Output in your import format
Define the columns your Produce Pro configuration expects and Harold produces exactly that file, validated, every time.
Why perishables distributors choose Harold
Built for variable-weight paperwork
Extracting pack quantity and unit weight from a single description line, then computing total weight from them, is Harold's core capability rather than an edge case it tolerates.
Reading, not just storing
Scanning an invoice into an archive still leaves the keying to be done. Harold turns the document into validated, coded data.
Nothing changes in Produce Pro
No module purchase, no upgrade, no implementation. Harold produces files alongside your existing setup.
Free to start, no paywall
Full features, no credit card. Test it on your most awkward grower documents before spending anything.
Common questions
How does Harold get data into Produce Pro?
Harold produces a validated file mapped to the columns your Produce Pro configuration expects for import. Integration options vary by site and version, so it's worth confirming the available path with your Produce Pro contact.
We already have document management. Isn't that the same thing?
No. Document management scans and stores the image so you can retrieve it later. Harold reads the values off the document, validates them and outputs structured data. One solves retrieval, the other solves data entry.
Can it cope with different formats from different growers?
Yes. Harold is trained per sender, so each grower's layout is learned separately and inconsistencies between them don't matter.
What about values buried inside a description field?
That's the specific problem Harold was built around. You highlight where a value sits on example rows and Harold learns to find it, even when the position and unit vary line to line.
Keep Produce Pro. Lose the data entry.
Start free, no credit card required. Train Harold on one supplier and see the output before you spend anything.
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