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Stop rekeying orders. Start shipping faster.

GrainFly Intake reads inbound customer orders — from email, text, or voicemail — and pushes them directly into your ERP. No more manual entry. No more after-hours backlogs. No more keying errors causing mis-ships.

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GrainFly Intake — Order Queue
INBOUND ORDERS 3 processing
MT
Mike Testa — Ridgeline Builders LLC
Purchase Order PO-2026-0602 — plywood, OSB, pine boards
⚡ Extracting order data…
CustomerRidgeline Builders LLC
Item 13/4×4×8 T&G LP350 — 80 EA 72%
Item 27/16×4×8 OSB — 60 EA 95%
DeliverJun 12 · 1187 Elmwood Dr, Massillon OH
Processing
DW
Dave Weston — Weston Framing Co.
need 200 2x6x16 and 50 sheets 7/16 osb thursday
→ ERP ✓
RC
Voicemail — R&C Roofing Supply
40sq cambridge charcoal + 2 squares starter strip
Queued
BL
SMS — Blevins Lumber & Supply
80 sheets 1/2 cdx plywood + 20 sheets 3/4 cdx asap
→ ERP ✓

Your CSRs are data entry clerks

Over 60% of contractor orders still arrive via email, text, or phone. Every one of them requires a CSR to read, interpret, and re-key the order into your ERP — by hand, one line at a time.

3–5 hours per CSR, per day

That's half a workday spent on data entry rather than serving customers, solving problems, or supporting sales.

2–4% keying error rate

Misread quantities, wrong SKUs, transposed item numbers — each error is a potential mis-ship, return, and damaged relationship.

After-hours orders sit until morning

Contractors submit orders at night and on weekends. With manual entry, nothing happens until Monday morning — putting you behind before the day starts.

From inbox to ERP in seconds

GrainFly Intake sits between your inbound order channels and your ERP — automatically handling the translation so your team doesn't have to.

01

Order arrives on any channel

GrainFly Intake monitors your inbound order channels and accepts any format — plain text, PDF, or voice message.

Email inbox ✓ Monitored
Text / SMS ✓ Monitored
Voicemail (transcribed) ✓ Monitored
PDF order forms ✓ Parsed
02

AI extracts the order details

A language model pipeline reads the raw message and extracts structured order data — customer identity, line items, quantities, SKUs or product descriptions, requested delivery date, and job site address. Even informal, typo-ridden messages are parsed accurately.

From: mtesta@ridgelinebuilders.com
"PO-2026-0602 — 80 sheets 3/4 t&g lp350, 60 sheets 7/16 osb, 40 sheets 1/2 cdx, 20 sheets 3/4 cdx. ship to job site 1187 elmwood dr massillon june 12"
↓ AI extraction
EXTRACTED ORDER DATA
CustomerRidgeline Builders LLC
Item 13/4×4×8 T&G LP350 — 80 EA — 72%
Item 27/16×4×8 OSB — 60 EA — 95%
Item 31/2×4×8 CDX Plywood — 40 EA — 85%
DeliverJun 12 · 1187 Elmwood Dr, Massillon OH
03

Products matched to your catalog

Extracted product descriptions are fuzzy-matched against your inventory catalog to resolve SKU ambiguities. Confidence scores flag uncertain matches for human review before submission — so nothing gets pushed to the ERP with a question mark.

CATALOG MATCH
"3/4 t&g lp350"SKU 35599 ✓
"7/16 osb"SKU 86518 ✓
"1/2 cdx plywood"SKU 67630 ✓
"1x6x8 pine board"⚠ Not in catalog
1 item flagged for CSR review — 3 items auto-confirmed
04

Sales order pushed to your ERP

Validated orders are pushed to your ERP via API as complete sales orders — customer, line items, pricing, and delivery instructions. An optional confirmation email is sent to the customer automatically. The whole process takes seconds, not hours.

POST /api/v2/sales-orders 201 Created
{ "customer_id": "RBL-0061", "po_number": "PO-2026-0602", "order_lines": [ { "sku": "35599", "qty": 80, "uom": "EA" }, { "sku": "86518", "qty": 60, "uom": "EA" }, { "sku": "67630", "qty": 40, "uom": "EA" } ], "delivery": { "date": "2026-06-12", "address": "1187 Elmwood Dr, Massillon OH" } }
SO-2026-04821 created · confirmation sent · 0:00:08 elapsed

Built for how distributors actually work

Multi-format order parsing

Plain text email, HTML, PDF attachments, SMS, and voice transcripts — all parsed by the same pipeline. No format is too messy.

24/7 order processing

Orders submitted after hours, on weekends, or during peak season are processed automatically — no backlog waiting Monday morning.

Human review for exceptions

Low-confidence matches and ambiguous orders are routed to a CSR dashboard for one-click correction before ERP submission. Nothing gets pushed without a confidence threshold.

Automatic order confirmation

Customers receive an acknowledgment email the moment their order hits the ERP — order number, items, and estimated fulfillment date included.

Full audit trail

Every order processed by Intake is logged — raw message, extracted data, confidence scores, CSR overrides, and ERP submission result. Complete visibility at every step.

No rip-and-replace

Intake integrates via your ERP's existing API. Your system stays exactly as it is — we just eliminate the manual step in the middle.

Works with your business system

GrainFly Intake integrates with the leading business systems used in building products distribution — cloud and on-premise.

Building products ERPs
Distribution management systems
Cloud & on-premise platforms

Not sure if we support your system? Get in touch — we evaluate new integrations on a case-by-case basis.

Ready to stop rekeying orders?

Tell us about your operation and we'll walk you through exactly how Intake would work for your team.

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