Recycling and scrap CRM: from supplier to buyer two-way tracking on one dashboard
Recycling software, program and CRM on one platform: Recycling inventory and sales tracking software, customer management software and sales automation with WhatsApp.
The first message of the morning is “what's copper going for today?”, at noon a scrap collector pulls in with a truck, and in the evening a foundry asks about the next bale shipment — this business flows both ways. Record the supplier who brings you scrap and the factory that buys it on the same panel; answer price questions in seconds with a template, attach the weighbridge ticket to the card, and keep track of your regular suppliers before you lose them. AI-powered tracking software for recycling businesses.
Which CRM software should be used for Recycling? ÖzgürKod is a CRM for Recycling businesses: Suppliers bringing scrap and buyers in one record; quick templates for daily price questions, weighbridge ticket attachments, a segment for regular suppliers. Setup takes minutes; try it free for 7 days.
Problems recyclers face every day
A price asked fifty times a day, purchasing and sales running in two separate ledgers, weighbridge tickets lost in folders.
Price questions eat up working hours
Copper, aluminum, DKP, paper — prices change every day and everyone asks one by one. The person on the phone spends the day answering “how much today?” messages; a scrap collector who gets a late reply turns the load around to another facility while it's still on the road.
Suppliers and buyers in two separate ledgers
Scrap collectors who bring material are in one ledger, factories that buy bales in another; and the same company can both bring material and buy it. Who brought what, what was sold to whom, what the balances are — the two ledgers never add up.
Weighbridge tickets get lost in folders
Every weighing's ticket goes into a folder, and some stay with the truck driver. When a weighing dispute comes up with a supplier at the end of the month, the ticket is hunted for; a ticket that can't be found closes the argument against the facility.
Regular suppliers quietly go to a competitor
The scrap dealer who used to bring in material every week hasn't shown up for three weeks, and nobody notices. That a rival facility is paying twenty kuruş (Turkish cents) more is only discovered after the supplier is gone for good. That tonnage has dropped only becomes clear from the month-end weighbridge totals.
Buyer accounts and due dates untracked
Payment for bales shipped to factories is on terms; which shipment has been paid for and which is still open — it gets written in a ledger. Receipts are on phones, figures are in people's heads; month-end accounting reconciliation takes hours.
Shipment planning runs on phone calls
Which buyer gets how many tons of bales on which day, which vehicle is on which route — the plan is on the foreman's phone. Missing bales are only noticed when the vehicle arrives at the gate; when the buyer's factory misses its deadline, they cut the price at the next tender.
What does ÖzgürKod do for recycling facilities?
Records for both sides of the trade, from scrap purchases to bale sales.
Two-way flow from scrap purchasing to sales on one panel
- Handle daily price questions with a quick-reply template: update the template in the morning and send it all day with one tap; outside business hours, let the chatbot give the first reply
- Tag suppliers and buyers to tell them apart on the same panel; keep the two-way activity of companies that both bring and buy material on a single card
- Attach weighbridge tickets, delivery notes and document photos to order and task cards; find the document in seconds when there's a weighing dispute
- Segment your regular suppliers; see those whose drop-off frequency is falling in the loyalty report, and send price announcements with targeted campaigns
- Track sales to buyer factories with separate operational and payment statuses; follow due dates and partial payments, and let AI detect the receipt
- Plan shipments on the task board: vehicle, tonnage, buyer and date on the checklist; keep material stock updated in the catalog with its movements
“How much today?” messages coming into WhatsApp and Telegram get a reply with the current template; new suppliers and buyers are recorded with a source tag.
The type and tonnage of incoming material are entered on the supplier card; the weighbridge ticket photo is added to the card and the payment is recorded.
Material types are tracked in the catalog with stock movements; sorting and baling jobs are assigned to the team on the task board.
Quotes are sent to buyer factories for bale and material lots; tonnage and price are tracked in the quote flow.
The agreed lot turns into an order record; operational status and the due-date plan progress separately, and invoice information is entered.
Equipment, tonnage and delivery day are planned on a task card; the delivery note and weighbridge documents are attached to the card, and the buyer is notified in the same conversation.
Deferred payments are tracked and AI detects the payment receipt; price announcements to regular suppliers go out as targeted campaigns, closing the loop.
Not from a personal phone, but from the business line
Don't let Customer messages get lost on employees' phones; the line belongs to the business, the history belongs to the CRM.
In minutes with a QR code, or with the official WhatsApp Cloud API. You can keep using the WhatsApp Business app on your phone and connect the same number to the CRM at the same time (coexistence).
The chatbot answers common questions and collects customer information; a member of your team takes over the conversation whenever you want.
Send an announcement or reminder to the customer group you choose with a Meta-approved template; see how many people it reached and how many read it.
Auto-reply to a “price?” comment on your post and send the details by DM; the person who commented also lands in the inbox.
Don't track everything yourself; let it tell you what matters
It reads messages, surfaces who is waiting for a reply and what's at risk, and starts your day with a summary.
Know who to get back to first
- Message analysis: urgency, satisfaction, buying intent and risk; complaints and urgent requests are separated.
- Awaiting reply: unanswered conversations and messages requesting an appointment in one list.
- Today's tasks: a short morning summary showing who you need to follow up with that day.
- Ask a question: type questions like “How many new customer came in this month?” and get answers from your data.
AI features run on accounts with AI analysis turned on; when it's off, messages, appointments and follow-ups run on rules.
Messages, order, payment collection and your team — in one account
When a customer writes, their history, open quote and balance are on the same card. You don't need to make your team install a second app.
Customer cardMessages, appointments, quotes, payments and notes on one card; even if the team member changes, the history stays with the business.
Team and permissionsAssign records to team members; if you want, each person sees only their own customers.
Track it from ad to customerLeads from Meta ad forms land in the record together with their source.
Full power on your phoneThe panel is mobile-friendly; reply to a message, reschedule an appointment, add a note from your phone.
The tools you need in one place
Click any one to explore it in detail.
Unified inbox
WhatsApp, Instagram DMs and comments, Messenger, Telegram, TikTok and web chat on one screen.
Appointments and reminders
An online booking page, WhatsApp reminders, and a calendar that updates with “Coming / Cancel / Another time” replies.
Lead Pool and sales process
Track leads by temperature and stage, so you never miss a record whose follow-up date has passed.
Quotes and deals
Prepare an itemized quote in minutes, send it as a PDF, and track its status.
Payments and payment collection
Deposit, partial payment and balance; see who owes how much on their card.
Team task tracking
Assign work to a person, slot it into their free time, and catch overdue work with a notification.
Chatbot
24/7 answers to common questions, information collection and handover to your team.
WhatsApp campaigns
Bulk messages to the group you choose with an approved template; delivered and read tracking.
Metrics and reports
New leads, response times, won and lost records on a single dashboard.
Product and service catalog
Enter your services and prices once; use them in quotes and in chat.
Wherever your Customer write from
Messages from every channel land in the same inbox; the conversation is assigned to one of your team members and merges into the customer card.
- WhatsAppCloud API or QR
- InstagramDMs and comments
- MessengerYour Facebook page
- TelegramYour Telegram bot
- TikTokDM
- Web chatThe widget on your site
- Meta ad formsWith the ad source
Connect Telegram with your own bot token, Instagram and Messenger with your Meta account, and WhatsApp with a QR code or via the Cloud API. Unified inbox →
What should you look for when choosing a CRM for Recycling?
Before you decide, evaluate your candidates against these 5 criteria.
5 criteria
- A module ready for your industry. Instead of adapting a generic CRM for months Recycling choose a system that is ready on day one for your workflow (record fields, tags, reminder templates).
- WhatsApp and Instagram integration. In Turkey customer most communication comes through WhatsApp and Instagram; a CRM that does not offer a unified inbox through the official API leaves half the work outside.
- Automatic reminders and follow-up. Appointment, payment and repeat reminders should live in the system, not in memory; every missed reminder is lost revenue.
- Turkish-language support and TL pricing. Dollar-based foreign tools carry exchange rate risk and an English-only support barrier; TL pricing and Turkish-language setup support make total cost predictable.
- Free trial and cancellation without commitment. Try it with your own data before you decide: choose a solution that requires no credit card, offers at least a 7-day free trial and can be canceled whenever you want.
Recycling program, software or CRM?
Most business owners search for the solution they need as “Recycling program,” “Recycling software,” “Recycling inventory and sales tracking software” or “Recycling customer management software.” “CRM” is the international name for this solution, and the need is the same: keep customer information in one place, never miss a request, and bring order to your work.
As a Recycling automation, ÖzgürKod gathers customer messages from WhatsApp, Instagram and the web in one panel and handles quote and payment collection tracking on the same screen. We also cover industry-independent selection criteria in our CRM software selection guide.
Method comparison for Recycling
Notebook/Excel, a general-purpose CRM and ÖzgürKod side by side.
| Criteria | Notebook / Excel | General (foreign) CRM | ÖzgürKod |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mesajlar | Scattered across phones | Mostly an extra module or extra fee | WhatsApp, Instagram and web in one inbox |
| Reminders and follow-up | Left to memory | Needs setup and integration | Follow-up date, notification and tasks ready |
| Customer history | Between notebook, phone and email | Yes, with generic fields | On one card: messages, quote, payments, notes |
| Teamwork | It’s unclear who is handling what | Extra cost per user | Assignment, tasks and record-based permissions |
| Language and pricing | — | Usually $ pricing, English support | TL pricing, local support in Turkish |
| Starter | Invisible cost in time | Long setup, exchange rate risk | 7-day free trial |
Starts at 2.500 ₺ / month
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An unanswered price question is the first step toward an order going to a competitor.
If your average sale is ₺4,000: the monthly cost of your subscription is not even a single sale.
Frequently asked questions
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What does CRM do for a recycling and scrap business?
This business flows both ways: on one side, scrap dealers and factories bringing in material; on the other, facilities buying bales and material. CRM keeps both sides on a single panel; who brought what, what was sold to whom, whose balance is open — it is all on record. Daily price questions get answered in seconds with a quick template, weighbridge receipts sit as files on the relevant card, and a drop in a regular supplier’s activity is spotted early in the engagement report. The era of books that don’t reconcile comes to an end.
How do I record companies that both bring in and buy material?
Every company sits on a single card, tagged “supplier”, “buyer”, or both. Both the scrap a company brings in and the processed material it buys appear chronologically in the same card’s history; conversations, weighbridge receipts and payments come together in one place. Thanks to segments, campaigns and price announcements go to the right group, and in reports you can filter the purchasing and selling sides separately. No more keeping two separate books and merging the accounts at month-end.
How do I keep up with dozens of price questions a day?
With quick reply templates: you write the day’s current prices into the template once and reply to every “how much today?” message all day with a single tap. Outside working hours, the chatbot gives the first response and records the request; it hands serious tonnage conversations over to a person. AI classifies messages, so the scrap dealer who will bring in two tons of copper doesn’t get lost among the curious price-shoppers. You can also send the price announcement to the regular supplier segment as a bulk campaign; you always start the send yourself.
Does it integrate automatically with the weighbridge, or pull weighing data itself?
No. ÖzgürKod has no direct integration with weighbridge software or weighing systems; weighing data is not transferred automatically. The honest solution: you upload a photo of the weighbridge receipt as a file to the relevant supply or shipment card and enter the tonnage into the record by hand. Receipts, delivery notes and document images can be found in seconds when searched on the card, so you are never left without proof in a weighing dispute. Documents stay organized, but no weighbridge automation is promised.
How do I track my regular suppliers without losing them?
You segment those who bring in material regularly; since every delivery is recorded on the supplier’s card, frequency and tonnage history are visible. The engagement report highlights suppliers whose deliveries are becoming less frequent, so you notice a scrap dealer who hasn’t come by in three weeks before a competitor takes them for good. You open tasks for a call or visit, and send price updates and campaign announcements to this segment with a Meta-approved WhatsApp template. The relationship rests on records, not chance.
Is ÖzgürKod an ERP or a facility/production planning software?
No. ÖzgürKod is the customer-sales-order layer; it does not do line optimization, waste processing planning, license and regulation tracking or accounting, and it does not replace production planning. Its scope: supplier and buyer communication, price responses, supply and sales records, shipment tasks, document attachments and payment collection tracking. Material stock in the catalog is for commercial visibility; it does not try to replace your facility’s operations systems.
Recycling software and CRM the same thing? Which one is ÖzgürKod?
In practice they describe the same need. Businesses usually search for "Recycling software", "Recycling software", "Recycling inventory and sales tracking software“ or “customer management software”; “CRM” is this solution is the international name. ÖzgürKod delivers all of these names on one platform: customer communication, appointments, quotes and orders, payment collection and reporting are all in one place. So whatever term you search with, the solution you reach is the same; you don’t need to set up separate software.
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