Receive Every Pound. Move It Fast. Prove Where It Went.
GoldFinch ERP gives food banks one Salesforce-native system for donation receiving, sorting, warehouse operations, agency ordering, and distribution reporting, so more good food reaches your community and less of it expires on the shelf.
Built on Salesforce. Engineered for food bank warehouses and partner networks.
Built for
THE PROBLEM
Your inventory arrives on its own terms.
Some of it is scheduled: purchased product, government commodity shipments, and recurring grocery rescue pickups. Much of it isn’t. Donated product shows up at the dock with no notice, no packing list, and sometimes no donor name. Gaylords of mixed product must be weighed, sorted, and turned into distributable stock before it spoils. Meanwhile, partner agencies, satellite pantries, and schools are ordering against what they think you have.
Spreadsheets and warehouse systems built for retail can’t handle both at once. You need to know what you received, what’s coming, what’s available, what’s reserved, and where every pound went, down to the donor and the lot.
CAPABILITIES
From the dock to the agency, in one system.
STAGE 1 OF 6
Receive Purchased and Donated Product
Scan-receive purchase orders, and turn surprise drop-offs into donation records on the spot.
Weigh and Track Unsorted Donations by the Gaylord
Receive mixed product as one gaylord, weighed in pounds and labeled for traceability.
STAGE 2 OF 6
Sort Donations and Measure Sort Yield
Unsorted product stays out of planning until one journal turns it into category items and records discards.
STAGE 3 OF 6
Run the Warehouse with Confidence
Direct putaway, replenish bins, and pick first-expiring-first-out across every location.
Plan Supply Against Real Demand
Forecasts drive suggested requisitions, so buying fills real gaps instead of guesses.
STAGE 4 OF 6
Agency Ordering Against What You Actually Have
Partner agencies, satellite pantries, and schools order from live available inventory, and holds stop orders that shouldn’t ship.
Client-Choice Ordering on Mobile
Staff and volunteers order for clients from a phone, within each client’s monthly points.
STAGE 5 OF 6
Ship, Transfer, and Deliver
Schedule shipments and transfers, and keep every load tied to its order, lot, and destination.
STAGE 6 OF 6
Report Every Pound to Funders and Boards
Trace any product from donor and lot to the agency that received it, and report every pound in and out.
Example: one gaylord, sorted
One journal converts the unsorted gaylord into category items and records the discards, so you see exactly how much became food, all traceable back to the drop-off.
“For a nonprofit, our capabilities have grown exponentially.”
“We set out to run our warehouse on an ERP while moving our e-commerce operations to Salesforce, and GoldFinch, which we found during our RFP, made that combined build possible. Today we’re live, moving millions of pounds of food a year and processing hundreds of thousands of transactions through GoldFinch inventory and order management. Now we’re rebuilding our warehouse with the GoldFinch team to bring in state-of-the-art functionality, from scanning to putaway and picking.”
WHY GOLDFINCH
Why food banks choose GoldFinch.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Frequently asked questions.
Prepare meals too?
If your food bank runs a kitchen or meal delivery program, GoldFinch adds menu planning, meal configuration, and production on the same platform and inventory.
Ready to get more food out the door?
Let’s talk about your warehouses, donation streams, partner network, and reporting requirements.
We will show you how GoldFinch:
- Receives donations, even when they arrive unannounced
- Weighs, sorts, and measures sort yield
- Runs putaway and first-expiring-first-out picking
- Fills agency and client-choice orders
- Traces every pound from donor to agency