Processing

Food Processing Software

Efficient manufacturing and distribution for food processors

Acctivate with Clarity has the features you need, whether you’re looking for regulatory and compliance reports, manufacturer chargeback capabilities, recipe management tools, or inventory lot traceability.

Create Great Recipes

Calculate recipe cost estimates during product development.  Your software lets you create different versions of a recipe, tracking runs, ingredients and production costs as you go.

Track allergen information, lot controlled inventory, and quality control points with ease.

Add-on modules let you create printable and digital recipes, generate FDA compliant nutritional facts panels, and access a robust database of food ingredients.

Quick Quotes

The quoting, ordering and invoicing modules let you design custom quotes for large jobs and easily generate orders and invoices for your customers. Create work orders from a set of customer orders ,and the system will automatically multiply your recipes up or down to produce the exact quantities needed for those orders — perfect for producers who have a different volume each day.

 

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Feed Your Distribution Channel

If you ship all your product to large distributors or Fulfillment By Amazon, you can simply key transfer the inventory and keep your accounting simple.

Or, if you protect your margins by handling distribution yourself, Electronic Data Interchange keeps inventory up-to-date.  Crystal Systems Core can use your current Warehouse Management System, or we can send orders to Third Party Logistics providers.

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Manufacture with Precision

If you are a manufacturer, you likely already know the importance of having accurate product counts in your facilities. This can include not only individual ingredients used in your  product recipes but also the individual container parts and shipping materials needed to complete them. With optional scanner support and barcode generation to simplify your batch production, you can streamline your manufacturing processes while accurately maintaining your inventory counts.

Handle production using both process manufacturing (recipes) and discrete manufacturing (parts). You can design a completely custom and flexible process that matches your unique production requirements.

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Sell Online Efficiently

Add a connection to your existing E-commerce shopping cart or drop in a new off-the-shelf cart from Shopify, Magento, WooCommerce and others.

For a larger reach, combine or replace your shopping cart with connections to Amazon and  Ebay.

Acctivate with Clarity connects your product images and orders with almost any web store.

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Maximize Your Production

A work order-driven production module makes it easy to customize your production flow to your needs. From consistent, daily production-to-production needs that are driven by your daily customer orders, QuickBooks with Acctivate makes food processing operations easier.

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Meat and seafood

Meat and Seafood

Handle perishable foods safely and quickly

Managing a meat processing operation is complex. Whether you’re looking for warehouse and freezer management, multiple units of measure, lot traceability, regulatory and compliance reports, or simply real-time data for your accounting team, QuickBooks with Acctivate provides essential tools to manage your manufacturing operation easily, efficiently, and profitably.

Track Every Detail

Provides your meat and poultry operation total lot traceability— including forward and backward traceability—for your by-products and finished products alike.

Whether you need full lot tracking, the ability to track catch weight, by-product costing, or all of the above, QuickBooks with Activate manages all of that and more.

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Trace Lots Forwards and Backwards

Meat and Seafood software provides forward and backward lot traceability from raw ingredients to finished goods, providing the tools necessary to meet audit trail and regulatory requirements, as well as prepare for recalls.

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On-time Distribution

Our Food Distribution Software solution allows you to penetrate new markets and improve your service for existing customers. Also, make informed buying and selling decisions and save money.  Acctivate increases efficiency and productivity, regardless of the size and scope of your distribution channel.

Manage multiple warehouses, shipping information, and additional food distribution requirements you need to profitably distribute baked goods, meat, frozen food, produce, seafood, and more.  Or, send all your production to a Third Party Logistics (3PL) shipper and send them orders by Electronic Data Interchange.

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Supply Chain Visibility

Meat, seafood or poultry manufacturing operations are complex. With Acctivate, you have visibility across the supply chain with control of orders, warehouses, compliance and traceability.  Manage your meat or poultry operation easily, efficiently, and profitably.

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Bakery

Bakery Software

Make quality products efficiently, while keeping operating costs low.

An effective bakery management system tackles your company challenges in one integrated system, meeting your inventory, processing, distribution, and accounting needs. In a fast paced industry, solutions that improve efficiency and everyday operations are the gold standard for bakery success. Regardless of the size of your operation, or the number of your locations, Acctivate bakery software tackles your industry needs with ease.

Provide Accurate Recipes and Instructions

Stop wondering how previous batches were made or struggling to keep your multiple recipes organized. Bakery production software provides recipe and formula version control, including processing instructions to help you stay on top of your procedures.

Track allergen information, and quality control points with ease.

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Know Your Production Costs

Calculate recipe cost estimates during product development with smart ingredient pricing. Tracking runs, ingredients and production costs as you go.

Add-on modules let you generate FDA compliant nutritional facts panels, and access a robust database of food ingredients.

Satisfy Customers

Increase the long-term value of your customers with Customer Relationship Management and quality Order Processing.

Organizing your associates' habits and needs, providing effortless communication histories, and efficiently managing orders will help you focus on the real value you deliver to your customers.

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Manage Promotions and Chargebacks

Give your sales team options to set promotional pricing.  You’ll easily manage manufacturer chargebacks for promotions, discounts, spoilage, turnover, advertising, and administrative fees with bakery software.

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Trace Lots Forwards and Backwards

Bakery Software provides forward and backward lot traceability from raw ingredients to finished goods, providing the tools necessary to meet audit trail and regulatory requirements, as well as prepare for recalls.

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On-time Distribution

Our Food Distribution Software solution allows you to penetrate new markets and improve your service for existing customers. Also, make informed buying and selling decisions and save money.  Acctivate increases efficiency and productivity, regardless of the size and scope of your distribution channel.

Manage multiple warehouses, shipping information, and additional food distribution requirements you need to profitably distribute baked goods, meat, frozen food, produce, seafood, and more.  Or, send all your production to a Third Party Logistics (3PL) shipper and send them orders by Electronic Data Interchange.

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Software and services for Dietary Supplement brands.

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About Us

Manufacturing, eCommerce and Distribution
Solutions for Quickbooks

Crystal Systems provides software, rapid installation and skilled consulting for QuickBooks with Acctivate.

Our customers create and supply Natural Products such as food and beverages, dietary supplements, cosmetics.  Also, we have customers in many other sales, manufacturing and distribution sectors.

Create products, operate efficiently and build trust with Crystal Systems

What we do

Crystal Systems delivers software and services for the natural food, dietary supplement and personal care industries, and many other industries too.

We help small and midsize companies who want an excellent inventory system at an affordable price.  First, the wildly popular Quickbooks accounting system is extended with Acctivate manufacturing and distribution.  Then we add leading eCommerce systems such as Shopify, Magento and WooCommerce, and finish with our own plugins for supply chain efficiency and FDA compliance.

In addition to software systems, the network of Crystal consultants provides specialized product development, quality assurance and regulatory compliance consultants.

 

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Complete systems configured to accelerate your business

Crystal will configure a complete solution, with QuickBooks based Enterprise Resource Planning.

Grow with Acctivate

Companies pick Acctivate to expand their QuickBooks systems into high-performance order processing, warehousing and manufacturing. Crystal Systems completes the solution with our Clarity plugins.

Meet our team

Our team provides decades of experience managing operations and technology for giants in the Natural Products industry.  Now we bring Small and Midsize Businesses the skills we perfected at companies like Nutraceutical Corporation and GNC.

Our Natural Products Experts group began operations in 2012.  We handle computer systems, formulations, regulatory compliance, international operations,  and other hard-to-find skills.

Crystal Systems was founded in 2018.  Our headquarters is in Park City, Utah.

 

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Henry Wythe

President
Henry is a former Natural Products industry Chief Information Officer, most notably as part of the start-up team that grew Nutraceutical through the acquisition of supplement, food and personal care companies. Henry has also been an executive at software development and system integration companies.
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Ravi Kumar

Software Development
Ravi works towards building innovative market-shaping solutions over domains such as Healthcare, Logistcs and Digital Security. His company, SyngyMaxim, combines current technologies with industry expertise to design winning solutions that unlock lasting value.
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Susan Ulery

Regulatory Consulting
Susan brings over 20 years of legal and manufacturing expertise in natural products. With Assure Consulting, she continuously monitors the changing regulatory environment to help companies develop leading edge products, support labelling and marketing claims, and negotiate with suppliers.
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Haiden Turner

QuickBooks & Acctivate
Consulting
Haiden has been recognized as one of the country's top 100 Advanced Certified ProAdvisors for both QuickBooks Desktop and Online. In addition to accounting and business process expertise, Haiden manages the QuickBooks platform for mergers, acquisitions and divestitures.
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James Neu

Natural Products
Consulting
James has run sales, manufacturing, import/export, quality assurance, customer service and other business units for many Natural Products companies. James manages Natural Products Experts, a group of independent consultants.
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Kendeyl Johansen

Web Content
Manager
Kendeyl is a Natural Products whiz and a tech-nerd with a behavioral Science and Health B.S. She brings our industry an award-winning background as a journalist with hundreds of published articles. She has a burning desire to boost happiness and well-being.
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ABOUT US

Crystal Systems delivers software and services for the natural food, dietary supplement and personal care industries, and many other industries

Park City, UT 84098

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Crystal Systems is headquartered in scenic Park City, Utah, home of many nutraceutical pioneers.

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