Wholesale Handler
BlueCart is built for the meat distributor, not just the food supplier
BlueCart runs a dedicated page for wholesale meat distributors, and catch weight is its headline: the distributor updates the weight to what was actually measured, and the invoice bills that instead of the estimate. Around it sit per-client catalogues and SKUs, route planning with a driver app, inventory and procurement, a sales rep ordering app, and a marketplace where restaurants already searching for suppliers can find one. For a distributor running vans, buying stock against purchase orders and wanting to be discovered by new buyers, that surface is wider than an order desk and the wider surface is the point.
A butcher whose problem is that twenty trade accounts phone, text and email their orders in buys that whole surface too, and pays for it out of order value.
The published rates are a percentage of order value
BlueCart has no pricing page. Its supplier products are quoted after a demo, and the only rates that have ever appeared in public are two marketplace listing tiers: a $10 a month tier taking 5% of transactions with card fees absorbed, and a $200 a month tier taking 1% with card fees charged separately. Those rates carry through from third-party listings rather than from BlueCart, which is the first thing to confirm in a quote.
A percentage bills on what you sell, not on what you keep. Run it across a month of orders:
Wholesale Handler is the same flat fee at every one of those volumes.
The 5% tier passes the flat fee before a butcher has taken $2,000 of orders in a month, which is one decent week supplying a handful of restaurants. The 1% tier starts above $109 and stays above it at every volume, because its monthly fee alone is higher. The two BlueCart tiers cross each other at $4,750 a month.
Meat moves at a high ticket value, so a percentage lands on a large number before any of it is yours, and it grows on a good month rather than when the software does more work. Why is wholesale software so expensive covers why order-value billing is common in this category.
The contract term is not published either
The public record disagrees with itself here. The marketplace listing tier is advertised with "no contracts". Capterra reviewers describe a two-year binding term, one of them reporting that a written cancellation left them billed for the remainder. Those can both be true of different products, and nothing published settles it.
Four things to get in writing before signing anything:
- Flat fee, percentage, or both, and whether the percentage is gross or net of delivery and tax.
- Whether card processing is inside that percentage or charged on top.
- The term length, the notice period, and whether notice stops the billing or only the renewal.
- What your customer list and order history export as on the way out.
Catch weight settles on the weight recorded at picking
Wholesale Handler holds three pricing modes per product. A per-unit product is a flat price for a piece, box or case. A catch-weight product is ordered by count against a typical weight, then re-priced from the weight recorded at picking, so the invoice reads the actual amount sent. A by-weight product lets the customer order an exact weight at a per-kg or per-lb rate. An order with unweighed catch-weight lines can't be invoiced, which stops an estimate reaching a customer as a bill.
A flat fee does not move with the season
The flat monthly fee is the whole bill: no per-user charge, no per-order fee and no commission on order value. A quiet week and a Thanksgiving week cost the same. Customers get their own sign-in, their own prices and their own order history, which is the wholesale customer portal half of the job. Cutoffs, delivery days, minimum spend and a delivery charge are set per order profile and assigned per customer, and standing orders regenerate on a weekly to four-weekly cadence.
There is a working demo that needs no signup and no card, stocked with products, customers, orders and invoices, and a toggle that switches between the wholesaler's view and a customer's view over the same data. Flat-fee wholesale ordering software covers what a single price does and does not buy.
What Wholesale Handler does not do
Five things on BlueCart's meat page have no equivalent here.
- Route planning, driver management and a driver app. Deliveries produce a packing slip, not a route.
- Inventory and procurement. Optional stock quantities per product exist; purchase orders against suppliers do not.
- A sales rep ordering app. Customers order for themselves, or the merchant places an order on their behalf.
- Payment processing. Wholesale Handler tracks payments rather than taking them: customers declare a payment, the merchant confirms or disputes it, and the money moves however it already does. That is also why there is nothing to take a cut of.
- A marketplace. New buyers are not found for you. The accounts you already have are the accounts that get a portal.
