Scrap Software & Second Hand Dealer Compliance Blog

In my humble scrap opinion, while the legislators of Michigan's new HOUSE BILL 4593 are commended for even caring enough to get involved in scrap metal theft, their efforts in Michigan have proven once again to favor the mega scrap yards and penalize the small operators while not stopping or slowing down metal theft at all. 

The new Michigan scrap metal laws are presenting themselves as quite a challenge for all sizes of recycling centers throughout the state.

Read more about Michigan's new law

The toughest part of the new law is that scrap dealers cannot pay more than $25 in cash on the spot unless; 

A. The seller can redeem their scrap ticket using a atm type card or encrypted receipt at a ATM machine located on premise.

(Not quite sure how this is different from handing the cash to the customer, it forces the scrap yard to spend $15,000-$30,000, but does not stop theft, nor does it stop the seller from getting instant cash, it only penalizes the smaller operations who cannot afford to buy an ATM machine. In my opinion a very poorly written bill, again.)

Use your Android smart phone and tablet to gather compliance images, customer info and material weights.

• Capture images for Drivers Licenses
• Capture images for scrap customers (vendors)
• Capture fingerprints
• Capture electronic signatures
• Capture images of each piece or load of scrap metal (time/date weight stamped on image)
• Capture image of cashier and customer at time of payout

All of this can be completed in less than 1 minute using the Weigh & Pay app. 

Getting your scrap metal business into state compliance these days is very difficult unless you have specialized software and hardware working together to meet your state and local scrap metal laws.

Since 2011, PopScrap.com Inc., has been providing thousands of scrappers from all over the world the easiest to use and most affordable solution on the globe.

Security and realibility are what we are known for first, secondly, people love us for our first of class customer support tools, thridly, they stay because overall cost of implementation and annual maintenance costs are the lowest in the industry.

When looking for a software provider a scrap comapny should call around and get several quotes, you will see that PopScrap offers darn near every feature for 50% less cost and offers 100% more visibility for your business through our online BOSS software product.

NO SERVERS, NO SQL LICENSING, NO IT COMPANIES, NO NETWORKING, NO EXPENSIVE INSTALL AND TRAINING COSTS.

No matter the country, no matter the currency, no matter the language PopScrap is prepard to meet your international compliance needs at the 2014 ISRI Convnetion & Exposition in Las Vegas Nevada, April 6-10 2014 BOOTH 315.

Since 2011 PopScrap has proven its international dominance in the scrap recycling software arena, with hallmark customers in Austraila, New Zealand, Guatemala, Mexico, Canada and throughout the US.

Growing an international customer base while growing the #1 Could based software suite in the inudstry takes a world class team of designers, programmers, developers and management, proving once again that PopScrap is ready to storm the metal market in 2014.

PopScrap.com Inc. is growing globally at an expotential rate. No matter where your scrap users are located PopScrap is the only internationally based software provider that offers instant downloads, instantly connecting locations in the cloud with real-tim scrap data while collecting a plethera of local images to meet the compliance demands of local regulators.  

For the first time in the scrap industry a true "ground-breaking-game-changing" product has arrived and has been matured by the use and feedback of over 500+ daily worldwide users.  

Amazingly PopScrap has been able to keep the upfront cost at 50% less than its competitors who cannot and do not offer the technology advancements of PopScrap.  

PopScrap is responding to that demand by creating and designing our apps to meet their very specific language and currency needs.

PopScrap has launched:

• PopScrap-MX
• PopScrap-AU.NZ
• PopScrap-USA
• PopScrap-Serbia

New versions are on the way, including PopScrap-EU (European Union), PopScrap EA (EuroAsia) and PopScrap-UK.

This new PopScrap feature takes the electronic signature pad to a whole new level.

By using a 7" or 10" tablet, your customers can now pre-check out and reduce the time spent at the cashier booth.

This new feature will speed up your ticket line by getting a customer image, getting a signature, allowing the customer to read and sign the disclaimer before getting to the cashier booth to get paid out., all on a $70 tablet , a savings of $500!

Only PopScrap cares about the upfront cost of getting you started, while other software companies are raising the prices, PopScrap is lowing them and helping to reduce long term costs with new features using new hardware technology like this Customer Facing App.

Mobile Compliance Software Solutions

The power of PopScrap is creating fully compliant tickets using your Android phone or tablet. 

Best Suited for: Bottle Depots Centers, CZ-CRV Buyers, HI-5 Buyers, Core Buyers, Precious Metals Buyers, Scrap Metal Buyer, E-Waste Buyer

Use your Android Smartphone or Tablet to:

Getting into compliance in the scrap metal industry is getting tougher and more expensive every day as new compliance laws are being passed by law makers who fail to understand the weight and burden they are placing on the smaller mom and pop operations that are the backbone of America's scrap metal industry.

Many scrap metal dealers have closed their doors over new scrap metal laws. Several dealers have reported that the requirements have stalled their flow of scrap metals cutting the flow of scrap metal in half as many of their customers don't have the required documents to sell scrap metal.