Instead of Hectre
Stop renting Hectre. Own the record of every bin you pack.
We shape it around how your orchards and packhouse actually work, bring your Hectre bin and fruit quality results across, and keep it running for you through harvest.
Hectre publishes no prices: every page ends in a request for a demo.
- check_circleYour data in a database you own
- check_circleOpen source, no lock-in
- check_circleBuilt and run by Enterprise DNA
What the Hectre quote covers
A demo call, a quote, and a set of separate apps for one harvest
Hectre does not put a price on its website. What it sells is split in two: apps for the orchard crew and scanning tools for fruit quality. Strip away the screens and both halves write the same kind of record: a bin, from a block, picked on a day, with a size and a grade.
No price until you have sat through a demo
Every page ends in a request for a demo. You cannot budget for next season, or compare it with anything else, until a salesperson has scoped your operation and sent a quote.
One product family for the orchard, another for the shed
Harvest, timesheets, payroll, analytics and quality control sit on one side; fruit sizing and colour grading sit on the other.
Cameras in the packhouse as an option
Colour grading can run on a commercial camera installed at your door to read fruit as it arrives. That is equipment on site, alongside the software itself.
Size and grade answers on their dashboard
Results land in the vendor's dashboard, searchable by room and lot. To join them to the grower who owns the fruit, the pallets it went into and what the buyer paid, you download the results as a file and load them somewhere else.
Bin tickets without the money that follows them
Bin ticketing and crediting track fruit from the row to the bin. The step a packhouse is judged on, turning sale proceeds into each grower's return less charges, is not among the products on its site.
Seasons of measurements held in someone else's app
Every scanned lot and every bin record lives inside the vendor's system. The longer you use it, the more of your own history sits in their app.
What your packhouse runs on instead
From the bin ticket to the grower's cheque, in one set of records
The bin
Every bin arrives knowing where it came from
A delivery is logged against its grower, block and pick date, with the spray diary and the orchard's certification checked before anyone grades it.
- check Fruit picked inside a spray withholding period is put on hold at the door, with the date it clears
- check A delivery with no spray diary cannot be graded until the diary is on file
- check Bins left ungraded for more than three days come up on their own, before condition slips
- check A block whose GAP certificate has lapsed is flagged the moment its bins arrive
The lot
Size and grade results tied to the fruit they describe
Keep measuring with the phone or camera you already trust. The results stop being a dashboard and become part of the lot, the pallet and the grower's statement.
- check Bring in sizing results from the file your scanning tool downloads, matched to each lot
- check Ask which grower's class 1 share is falling this week, and get a straight answer from your own numbers
- check Each grading run builds its pallets, so a size or grade problem traces back to the block in one question
- check Compare this season's packouts by block with last season's
The room
The cool room and the truck, on the same record
Pallets move from grading into rooms and out on consignments, and every step keeps its trace.
- check Temperature readings per room, with a printable register for the export programme's audit
- check A room running out of its band shows up with how many pallets are sitting in it
- check An export consignment cannot leave without its MPI assurance reference
- check The manifest for each truck lists every pallet back to its orchard block
The return
Grower pools and returns, worked out while the fruit is still selling
Packed trays go into a pool for each crop and variety, sales land in the pool, and each grower's share is shown after packing charges and levies.
- check A running view of every grower's gross, charges and net per tray, all season
- check A pool will not close while any dispatched fruit still has no sale recorded
- check Branded return statements per grower per pool, drafted for a person to send with the payment run
- check All of it in plain records you own, under an MIT licence, with nothing to hand back if you move on
Make it yours
Design your own Hectre replacement
Everything starts from the open-source base. Then it gets your name, the parts you run, your rules and your data from Hectre. Try it here, and we build the real one.
2. What it runs
3. Make it fit
4. Your colour
Answered from your own database
Good morning. Here is what needs you today.
We build it from the open-source base, bring your Hectre data across and run it for you.
Switching
How to switch from Hectre
A move usually involves exporting the records Hectre makes available, mapping them to your packhouse fields, checking a test import, then running both systems before you stop using Hectre.
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Export your Hectre records
Start with the records you want in Packhouse for Claude Code, such as growers, blocks, deliveries and grading results. Hectre’s help centre shows how to download sizing results as a CSV from its dashboard. For other records, export what your account allows, usually CSV or Excel, and check with Hectre if you are unsure what is available. Choose how much history to bring across.
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Load a test import
Have the records mapped to the fields in your new packhouse, then check a test run before anything is saved. The import can work with plain CSV, but Hectre’s columns may not match the new records directly. If Enterprise DNA is setting up your system, they handle this mapping. If you are doing it yourself, you can ask Claude Code to map the files.
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Review the import flags
Check what the import identifies before you rely on the new records. For example, an imported block with an expired GAP certificate or a delivery with no spray diary is flagged. Confirm the details against Hectre and your own records, then correct missing or mismatched information. Treat this review as part of the move, not just a check that the files loaded.
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Run both systems together
Keep Hectre running while you use the new records for a short period. Compare the growers, blocks, deliveries and results you use in day-to-day packhouse work, and check that the new system gives you the records you need. Your current tools can keep running until you are happy with the new records. Do this before harvest rather than in the middle of it.
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Switch off Hectre records
Once you have checked the imported records and are comfortable using the new packhouse, stop using Hectre for the records you have moved. Keep a copy of the exports you used for the import. Packhouse for Claude Code does not replace Hectre’s fruit sizing from photos, so keep your sizing tool if you still need it and bring its results into your own records.
Where the real effort goes
The real work is usually matching Hectre’s columns to your own fields and rules, then deciding how much history to bring across. The more records and seasons you want to include, the more there is to check. Enterprise DNA handles the mapping and test run when you have them install and run the system. If you do it yourself, you can ask Claude Code to map the files.
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Rather talk it through? Book a call arrow_forwardTwo ways to run it
Do it yourself, or have us do it
Open source
Do it yourself
Free
- 1 Clone the repo from GitHub
- 2 Run npm run demo and open the folder in Claude Code or a similar tool
- 3 Type /attention to see what needs a decision
- 4 Download your Hectre results as CSV and ask Claude Code to map the columns on import
Omni by Enterprise DNA
Have Enterprise DNA build and run it
One setup fee, then a monthly retainer
- check We bring across your bin, block and fruit quality history from Hectre and check it as it lands
- check We set it up for your crops, your size bands, your grade rules and how you pay growers
- check We connect it to the scanning tools and payroll you keep, and add a phone screen for the crew if you want one
- check It runs inside Omni, our managed Command Centre, with the rest of your business
Questions
Instead of Hectre, answered
Does this replace Hectre's fruit sizing from photos? expand_more
No, and it does not pretend to. Measuring fruit from a photo is a job for a scanning tool, and you can keep the one you have. What changes is where the answers live: size and grade results come into your own database, attached to the lot, the grower and the pallet, instead of staying in a separate dashboard.
Can we get our history out of Hectre? expand_more
Hectre's help centre shows sizing results downloading as a CSV file from its dashboard. Those files have their own columns, so matching them to your records is part of what Enterprise DNA does when we set it up, or you can ask Claude Code to map them in the free version. We check every file with a test run before anything is saved.
What about our pickers, timesheets and payroll? expand_more
The free version is a packhouse system: bins, lots, rooms, consignments and grower returns. It does not run payroll. If your crew's hours and piece rates already flow into a payroll system you trust, keep that, and Enterprise DNA can connect it to your records when we build your version.
Our team works in the orchard on phones. Does this work there? expand_more
The free version is run by asking questions on a laptop, not by tapping through an app in the rows. If your crew needs a phone screen for bin tickets, Enterprise DNA builds one into your version, writing straight into the same database you own.
How long does switching take? expand_more
A test run on sample data takes about a minute. Bringing your growers, blocks and past results across depends on how much history you have, and we do it before harvest rather than in the middle of it. Your current tools keep running until you are happy with the new records.
Measure your fruit with anything. Keep the record yourself
30 minutes with Sam. Bring what Hectre has quoted you and what you actually use it for. We will show you what your own version would hold, what it would connect to, and how your history comes across. If it fits, we build it and run it. If not, the free version is yours to keep.
Packhouse for Claude Code is free and open source, published by Enterprise DNA.
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