A farm management system for farmers that brings plots, work orders, fleet, schedule and costs into one app. Not only spraying: the day's agricultural work, from the field and the office.
Plannter is a farm management system for farmers and for the suppliers and contractors who work with them. The farmer sees the plots and opens a work order. The supplier receives it, books a machine and updates status. Both sides work on the same record, instead of a notebook or a chat thread.
A farm management system for farmers is software that holds the farm's daily work in one place: plots, work orders, machines, a schedule, costs and inventory. Instead of splitting facts across a notebook, a WhatsApp thread and a spreadsheet, you see the same state from the phone and the browser.
A grower runs several kinds of work in the same week: soil prep, sowing or planting, fertiliser, irrigation, spraying, harvest, moves between plots and field repairs. A supplier or contractor runs a fleet, customers and invoices on those jobs. If that lives only in memory or in chat, it is hard to know what was done on which plot, who is due tomorrow, and what the job actually cost.
A farm management system does not have to be a heavy ERP. It should answer simple questions: where is the work, who is doing it, what is the status, and what is the plot history. An app that works on the phone matters because most decisions happen in the field, not at an office desk.
Good farm software also connects both sides when a supplier is involved: the farmer opens a work order, the supplier confirms and schedules, and both see the same document. Without that you go back to the phone and to I thought you cancelled.
Before you pick software, check that it covers the work itself, not one module. The list fits a vegetable farm, an orchard, a field crop, or a contractor who works for several growers.
Each plot needs a name or number, a crop, an area and a boundary on the map. Without a map it is hard to tell a supplier where to go, and hard to see what happened in that area last season. A live GIS map also shows where machines are now.
One order should hold the plot, the job type, the material or task, the area, the date and a field contact. That is true for spraying, and also for fertiliser, prep, harvest or any job you book with a supplier. Both sides see status on the same order.
When several machines are out, you need to see each tractor, vehicle, plane or drone. Live GPS on the plot map cuts where are you calls. A schedule per tool and operator completes the picture.
A daily or weekly board shows what is booked, what is open and what moved. Without a schedule the day lives only in the head of whoever coordinated the morning. Weather changes should sit on the same order.
After the job you still need to know what it cost. The system should attach cost to the work: material, hours, supplier, and a customer balance for a contractor. Closing the month in a separate spreadsheet is how gaps show up late.
Spray products, fertiliser and parts run out in the field. Simple stock that updates with the order stops a supplier arriving without product, or a grower finding an empty shed on the morning of the job.
A contractor who works with several farms needs a customer card: who ordered, what was done, what was paid. That card should live in the same system as the order, not in a third notebook.
Every job should be stored per plot: date, material or task, dose, who did it and status. That is the base of a spray log, an audit, and the next plan.
When many orders are open, it is slow to ask each time what is still open or what left the store. An assistant inside the system answers from data you already have, without a new chat thread.
Most farms already manage something. The question is whether the tool holds coordination, execution and a record. The table compares what happens in practice.
| Notebook, WhatsApp, spreadsheet, or a farm management system | Notebook | Spreadsheet | Farm system | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where the facts live | In a pocket, if it stayed dry | Scattered in threads | In an office file | On the order and the plot |
| Job status | None, unless you wrote it | You have to ask | Updated at day end, if at all | The supplier updates, everyone sees it |
| History per plot | Unsorted pages | Buried in the chat | Rows with no map | Saved on every plot |
| Supplier coordination | A separate call | Each side remembers it differently | The supplier never sees the file | One document for both sides |
| Fleet and GPS | None | A one-off location pin | No link to the field | Machines on the plot map |
| Costs | Invoices in a folder | A photo in the thread | A month-end total | Cost next to the job |
| Phone access | Only if you brought it | Yes, with no structure | Usually not in the field | App and browser |
| Finding it a month later | Flipping pages | Search in a long chat | Filter if someone filled the row | By plot, date or supplier |
Do not choose from a slide deck. Check whether the software serves the day in the field.
A farmer needs a system to run the farm: know what is happening on each plot, book work without searching a thread, and keep history. The Plannter farm app opens the order, follows status and records what was done on the plot.
Farm appA supplier or contractor needs the same system from the other side: receive orders, book the fleet, update status and manage customer balances. When both sides share one record, there are fewer calls and fewer mismatches.
Supplier system
You do not need a long rollout to try a farm management system. Download the app or open it in the browser, start a 30-day trial with no credit card, set up plots and invite the suppliers you already work with.
Start with the next job, not with all of history at once. If you have data in another system, you can import it. After the trial a subscription depends on use, with details in the app. If you still coordinate on WhatsApp, read why that thread breaks, then open the next order in the system.
Software that holds farm work in one place: plots and a map, work orders with suppliers, fleet GPS, a schedule, costs, inventory and history per plot. In Plannter that sits in one app for farmers and suppliers.
WhatsApp sends a message. A spreadsheet summarises after the fact. A farm management system keeps live status, the map and the record on the same order, so you are not searching a week later for what was agreed.
No. Spraying is one job. The same frame fits prep, fertiliser, harvest, moves and field repairs, as long as there is a plot, a crew and a date. Spray ordering is a clear example, not the whole product.
Both. The farmer manages plots and books work. The supplier or contractor receives the job, books the fleet and manages customers. If only one side is in the system, you go back to the phone.
A map, a shared order, GPS and a schedule, history per plot, costs and stock next to the job, and a trial with no card. If most of those are missing, you have a task list, not a farm management system.
A 30-day trial with no credit card, from the app or the browser. Set up plots, invite a supplier, and open the next job. You can also import data from another system.
30-day trial. No credit card.