Software for sale barns.
Mule builds intake, lotting and settlement software for sale barns and livestock auctions: weigh-in tied to lot numbers, buyer and seller portals, and dashboards on sale-day throughput. Built to handle a sale day's real volume, not a generic checkout flow.
What we know about sale barns.
Sale day at a barn moves fast and generates a lot of paper in a short window: weigh tickets as cattle come off trucks, lot assignments, buyer numbers called out at the ring, and settlement sheets for every seller and buyer once the sale closes. A lot of that gets reconciled by hand overnight, matching weigh tickets to lots to buyer numbers to settlement amounts, which is exactly the kind of matching work that's easy to get right on any single lot and hard to get right across a whole sale day.
Sellers and buyers often can't see their own numbers until the settlement sheet is printed, which means the first time anyone can check the barn's math is after the sale is already done.
Why a sale barn picks Mule.
- 01Weigh-in captured at intake and tied directly to the lot number, not a ticket that gets matched up by hand later.
- 02Buyer and seller portals so both sides can see their own numbers without waiting on a printed settlement sheet.
- 03Dashboards on sale-day throughput and settlement, built from your own intake and sale records.
- 04Hauling coordination for outbound loads once cattle are sold, so the next handoff doesn't drop back to a phone call.
What sale barns usually need.
From sale barns.
Can intake be logged at the scale if the barn's connection drops on a busy sale day?
Yes. Intake and weigh-in are built to work offline at the scale, entries save locally and sync once the connection is back, so a busy sale day's volume doesn't get lost to a dropped connection.
Can you pull data straight from our scale head?
If your scale head can export its data, by file, serial connection or Bluetooth, we build the system to pull weights in directly and tie them to the lot, instead of a ticket someone re-types.
Our settlement process is a spreadsheet built fresh every sale. Can that be fixed?
Yes. We bring your existing intake and settlement structure into the new system as part of the build, so it persists from one sale to the next instead of getting rebuilt every time.
Who owns the sale and settlement data?
You do. It's your barn's data, your intake records, your settlement history. We build the system around your sale day and you keep the data.
How do you price something for a sale barn?
From your actual sale day: volume, how buyers and sellers are handled now, whether hauling coordination is part of it. There's no published price list; you describe your barn and get a real quote.