Product
From scan to action in one short morning list
Freshto turns expiry control into a routine that takes minutes: the service decides what to check today, staff confirm the earliest date on the shelf, and your rule decides whether to mark down or remove.
The core loop
Scan → nearest date → action by rule
Scan
Scan the barcode with the phone camera or the handheld scanner, or search by name, SKU or barcode.
Nearest date
Enter the earliest expiry date you see on the shelf and the quantity with that date. Best-before or production date, Freshto handles both.
Action by rule
Freshto shows the markdown step or flags the product as expired. Mark down, remove, or confirm the new date; printing the sticker on the spot is planned. Each result is logged with time and employee.
How the list is built
Nothing arbitrary. The list comes from your dates and your rules.
Trust is the hard part of expiry control. Staff will only follow a list they understand. So the Freshto list has no black box: it is built every night from the dates your team entered and the thresholds your chain set.
Nightly generation
Every night Freshto compares the nearest date of every product in every store with today’s date and your markdown thresholds, and builds the list per store and category.
Only what crosses a threshold
A product appears when it reaches a markdown step or its date, not before. Long shelf-life products are scheduled automatically and show up months later, when it matters.
No re-entry per delivery
The nearest date is entered once. New deliveries do not change it until staff find an earlier date on the shelf, so there is no double work at goods receipt.
Store calendars
Closed days are taken into account; checks that would fall on a day off are moved forward. Staff can also pull tomorrow’s list before a weekend.
One task, one employee
A task is picked up by the first employee who starts it, so the manager always knows who did what and when.
Custom scan any time
Replenishing a shelf and see a worse date than the one on record? Scan it outside the list and the schedule updates.
What is inside
Everything a store needs for expiry control, nothing it does not
Markdown rules by category
Thresholds in days before expiry, several discount steps per category or product, central rules with exceptions per store.
- Planned
Sticker printing
A markdown sticker with the new price, barcode and sell-by date, printed on a Bluetooth label printer right on the floor. Planned for the new app.
Offline first
Tasks and results are stored on the device and sent once the connection is back, so nothing is lost in the cold room. Automatic background sync is planned.
Weighed goods
Weighed-goods barcodes are recognised by prefix masks, so the label on the pack is enough to find the product.
Best-before or production date
For products that print only a production date, Freshto adds the shelf life from your assortment and calculates the expiry date.
Not found on the shelf
Staff mark a product as not found. It stays visible to the manager and is reported per store.
Web dashboard and reports
Task completion per store and employee, unfulfilled tasks, worst dates per store, products not found, store ranking, products under control.
Supplier signals
Deliveries that arrive with little shelf life left are flagged per SKU. In the pilot, 394 SKUs were reported to suppliers.
Excel in, API out
Start with an Excel assortment file validated on upload. Connect your ERP by API later for automatic updates and exports.
Web dashboard
The head office sees every store. Every store sees its own day.
Managers follow tasks and unfulfilled checks per employee. The head office compares stores, manages rules and exports data to Excel, BI or the ERP.
- Task completion by store and employee
- Worst dates and products not found, per store
- Rules managed centrally, exceptions per store
- Export to Excel, API for BI and ERP
Illustrative product interface. Numbers shown are from the pilot or examples.
Devices
Runs on the hardware you already have
Android smartphones
Camera barcode scanning. Any recent phone works. iOS comes with the new app.
Handheld terminals (PDA)
Rugged Android terminals with Zebra or Honeywell scanners, trigger button included.
Bluetooth label printers
Portable printers for markdown stickers on the shop floor (planned).
Browser
The dashboard works in any modern browser, no installation.
See it on your own assortment
Request early access for your store, or book a demo for your chain.