Print a load’s record before completing it
The office can now print the record while a purchase load is still open. It shows the weights and prices saved so far, with any unpriced metal marked, so the customer can take their paper before the office finishes its checks.
Printing does not complete the load or record a payment. A Xero bill still waits until the load is completed and the yard’s sending settings allow it.
Send completed loads to Xero as bills
After the owner connects Xero and sets up the bill details, completed purchase loads can become bills in the yard’s Xero. The owner chooses whether to send on completion or after a button press, and whether bills arrive as drafts, awaiting approval or approved.
The load shows when a bill needs attention, including a customer that needs matching. Sending a bill does not pay it: the yard still makes the payment outside ScrapLog.
ID copies and payment records kept in another app
If your yard keeps ID copies or payment records in another app, the owner can now name that app in Settings, so staff know where to look. Naming the app does not connect the two.
The owner can also choose whether each load asks for an ID-check tick.
Loads now go to Defra’s live service
Live Digital Waste Tracking sending was switched on for permitted sites set up with their Defra API code — the code their organisation gets when it registers with Defra. With the usual setting, completing a load makes its record ready to send.
The Defra page distinguishes accepted records from anything still waiting or needing attention.
The gate photographs the ID, and the office checks it
Where your gate checks a seller’s ID, it can now photograph it there and then. “Photograph their ID” offers “Driving licence”, one photo of the front, or “Passport or other photo ID”, followed by a letter with their address. No dates are typed at the gate, and the gate never shows the photo back. The photo needs a signal; without one the load still goes to the office, and the screen says so.
The office opens the photo and enters the document details. A photo taken at the gate does not count as checked ID until the office checks it, and until then no payment can be recorded on that load.
The gate’s total adds up only what it can
The bar at the bottom of the gate screen lists each metal on its own row, with its weight, any deduction and its money. It shows a total only when every metal on the load has a price. Until then it says “No total yet” and names the metals the office still has to price, where before it showed a part-sum.
The gate’s list of the day’s loads gives the count alone. It no longer adds every metal of the day into one kilo figure.
The office on a phone
Tapping a waiting load opens it on its own screen, with “Back to the loads waiting” to return. On the payments screen a seller’s name gets its own line, where before it was cut down to one letter.
A metal’s note says what the metal is
The note under a metal, which the gate sees when it weighs that metal, used to open with “Published figures, not this yard’s (Aug 2026)”. That label is gone, and the note now just says what the metal is. The words are the yard’s own: they are changed on the price list, and the printed metal book now includes them.
The cable and cylinder cards keep their label, because what they show is a figure.
The yard’s address, filled in with one press
Where the yard’s address is already on file in one place and the other box is empty, the owner can fill it with one press: “Use the site’s address” for the invoice address, or “Use the address on your paper” for the waste paperwork. Saving is still pressed by hand, and the two addresses stay separate afterwards.
Two-step sign-in for the office
Signing in to the office can now ask for a six-digit code from a phone as well as the password. A yard set up from 16 September has it on for the owner from the first sign-in; a yard from before that is asked, not made to. The owner switches it on or off for office staff.
If somebody loses their phone, the owner takes their two-step off from the people screen — never their own. The gate is not affected: a yardman still unlocks the gate with a PIN on a tablet the owner enrolled.
Fixes from walking a new yard from empty to a paid load
We tested a new yard from setup through to a completed load and a recorded payment. Saving a gate PIN now updates the person’s row straight away. Applying the suggested waste descriptions to the metal list also takes less time.
Pasting a price board with headings like BRASS or ALI made duplicate families instead of matching the ones already there, so the screen now asks which family each heading means. A metal it could not match offered only “a new metal”; it now offers the whole catalogue. The office had just filed a licence and the line under the load still read “no ID on file”. And the “use your PIN instead” link on the office sign-in was too small to tap on a phone.
Passwords, and a person’s sign-in email
The owner can set a new password for anyone at the yard, which signs them out everywhere. The owner can change a person’s sign-in email, and their own.
A forgotten-password email route was also built. At the 23 September check, email delivery for yard users was not switched on; the owner could set a new password from the office instead. This corrects the original entry, which said the email was being sent.
Taking a tablet off the gate stops it that moment
When the owner takes a tablet off the list, whoever is unlocked on it is stopped at the next press, and the tablet says so in words. Before, a session already open on it stayed open.
Your regular sellers come across in one paste or one file
Name, address, postcode and vehicle registration, one person per row — pasted from a sheet or chosen as a file. Every row is checked against your whole register, including people taken off it. Anybody already on the list is named and skipped, a near match is asked about, and if any row is refused nothing is saved.
ID documents do not come through the file. The office adds each person’s ID separately, and nobody imported can have a payment recorded until their ID is on file.
Your whole price list goes in with one paste
Paste your board as you have it — the metal names and the prices — and each line is matched to the catalogue. A price that looks wrong is queried before it goes in, and it is all or nothing: if one line fails, nothing changes.
A night’s backup was restored and matched
An overnight backup was restored into a separate system. The number of records in each part of the restored database matched the source. This tested that the backup could be restored; it was a comparison of record counts, not every record’s contents.
Hazardous loads: the broker, and the treatment
A load that came through a broker can carry the broker’s details on the ticket, after the carrier. A hazardous line can carry its treatment code, or a weighed split between two.
Whole cars on the load
Where a yard buys whole vehicles, the gate can add the car’s registration, vehicle identification number (VIN), make and model to the load. These details are optional and the office sees them on the record. The price still comes from the metal and weight entered for the car; the vehicle details do not price it.
When Defra’s service is down
The office can declare an outage on the waste screen — Defra’s own notice that the service is unavailable, or a failure at your end — and the Defra records made during it are held rather than sent and failed. There is a tick for “I told the Environment Agency”, with how. When the service is back, each held record shows the date it is due by.
The app records the outage. Telling the regulator is still a person’s act, and the screen says so.
The ICO registration is in the app
The app’s own privacy page carries the ICO registration as a link to the public register, with the date it runs out — the same number that is in the footer of this site.
The Defra record is made by the ticket itself
For a permitted site with Digital Waste Tracking switched on and its Defra code entered, a load received from the gate creates a waiting Defra record. Creating that record does not wait for the load to be priced or paid. The yard must still supply the waste details the record needs.
Sending and deadline checks were built and tested on Defra’s test service. The office screen shows accepted records, records waiting to send and anything needing attention. A missing detail or a refusal still needs the yard to act.
Sending to Defra’s live service was switched on later, on 1 October 2026 — see that entry. (Corrected 23 September 2026: this entry used to say the record is sent.)
If you hold an exemption, nothing is created and nothing is sent.
Your own words for a metal show up where you need them
When you write your own description for a grade, it now appears at the gate and on the price list — not just in the box where you typed it.
The colours you can put on a metal were washed out and hard to tell apart. They are now eight clear ones, including a red.
Fixes from a morning going round the app on a phone
The PIN pad was drawing six dots for a four-digit PIN. It draws four.
The screens now say “phone or tablet” instead of assuming everyone has a tablet.
The menu on an iPhone was see-through and hard to read against the page behind it. It is a solid screen now.
A security check before anything went live
The whole app was gone through against a published checklist rather than against our own opinion of what matters.
Five things needed fixing and all five were fixed, including a component that was out of date and a set of protections the site was not switching on.
A new yard starts with its metals already described for Defra
When a yard is set up, 52 of its 55 starting metals already carry the description Defra needs, so nobody starts from a blank list.
(Corrected 23 September 2026: this entry used to say the metals come coded. They come described; the waste code on each is still confirmed in the settings.)
Only your own devices can work the gate
The owner enrols a tablet or phone with a code that expires in fifteen minutes. A PIN typed on a device you did not enrol does not reach your yard.
You can enter your own Defra code and carrier registration
Both go in yourself, on the waste paperwork screen.
The Defra code is not displayed again in settings or included in the record of changes.
The privacy notice became a real page
Every kind of information the app holds, why it holds it, who else touches it and how long it is kept.
Where something is not built yet, the notice says so in public rather than implying it is.
Something you need that is not here
Tell us what you need to do at your yard. You can talk it through with somebody who knows the trade and the app. We cannot promise a particular feature or date; released changes are recorded here.