Your history comes with you.
Nothing left behind: customers, suppliers, stock, certificates and order history move from your legacy system into MetlSys — in stages, with the business running the whole time.
Let’s say the quiet part out loud: stockholders don’t stay on thirty-year-old software because they love it. They stay because they’re terrified of losing thirty years of history, or of breaking the office mid-changeover while customers are still ringing.
So the migration is designed around exactly those two fears — staged, rehearsed, and reversible until the moment you choose to switch.
Five stages. No held breath.
Each stage ends with something you can inspect — and the option to pause.
Analysis
We sit with your current system and your office. What data exists, what state it's in, what the daily rhythm depends on. No commitments yet — just an honest map.
Mapping
Every field that matters gets a destination: customers, terms, stock codes, batches, heats, certificates, open orders, balances. You see the mapping before anything moves.
Trial migration
A full practice run into a test company. Your people poke at it with real questions — find the gaps while they're free to find.
Parallel running
Both systems live side by side for an agreed period. The office keeps working; confidence builds on evidence, not promises.
Cutover
A planned switch on a quiet day, with the old data preserved. The business runs throughout — no big-bang weekend, no held breath.
The whole memory of the business.
Customers & terms
ACCOUNTS, CONTACTS, CREDIT LIMITS, PRICE HISTORY
Suppliers
TERMS, LEAD TIMES, APPROVAL STATUS
Stock & batches
CODES, ATTRIBUTES, LIVE BATCHES WITH HEATS AND WEIGHTS
Certificates
MTC PDFS RE-LINKED TO BATCHES BY HEAT NUMBER
Order history
OPEN AND HISTORIC ORDERS, WORKS ORDERS, SUBCONTRACTS
Ledger position
INVOICES, CREDITS, BALANCES — RECONCILED AT CUTOVER
When the standard product isn’t the whole answer.
Some businesses run workflows nobody else runs. Custom development sits on top of the Corporate tier: bespoke screens, integrations with the systems you keep, and workflow changes scoped and priced before a line is written.
Built by an industry insider.
MetlSys comes from Reload IT Ltd — a developer who knows the steel trade from the inside, not a generic software house discovering what a heat number is on your budget. The system was designed as a ground-up rebuild of the legacy steel-office workflows many stockholders still run. [CONFIRM-WITH-MARK: bio wording]
Start with a migration review.
Show us the legacy system — we'll tell you honestly what moves cleanly, what needs work, and how long the stages would take.