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Customer Management
Maintain all customers with address, contact person, phone, email and tax ID. See at a glance how many jobs and how much lifetime revenue each customer generated.
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Contracting Business
Manage customers, contractor jobs and the entire invoicing workflow in one place – from initial quote to paid invoice, with planned vs. actual analysis, linked finance entries and a print-ready view.
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Contracting Business: 23 capabilities
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Contractor Jobs with Status History
Capture jobs with an automatically generated job number (LU-YYYY-####), title, description, location, linked field and planned service period. Every job moves through the full workflow – draft, quoted, confirmed, in progress, completed, invoiced, paid or cancelled – each highlighted in colour.
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Line Items & Pricing
Add unlimited line items per job (machine usage, labour hours, fuel, materials, other) with quantity, unit, unit price and cost — totals are calculated automatically.
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Quote & Invoice
Generate a professional print view at the click of a button – either a quote or an invoice depending on status, including job number, service period, subtotal, VAT and grand total.
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Planned vs Actual
Compare planned and actual revenue, cost and profit. Variances are shown as a percentage so you immediately see whether jobs were priced correctly.
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Linked Finances
Assign incomes and expenses directly to a job. Actual values flow back into the module automatically to calculate the real profit per job without extra effort.
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Calendar Integration
Enable calendar visibility per job – the service period appears in the shared team calendar coloured by status.
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Statistics & Analysis
A "jobs by status" donut chart and a monthly revenue-vs-cost bar chart show trends and workload across the year at a glance.
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Operations Board with Drag & Drop
Plan the workday on a board — drag operation cards onto a crew's lane, put them in the right order and adjust the plan on the fly. Card colour always shows status, and progress updates automatically as operations run.
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Six Views of the Same Day
View the schedule as a crew swimlane, as a Gantt chart over a date range, as a status kanban, by location or field, by machine, or as a tree (crew → fleet → person) — whichever fits what you're focused on right now.
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Crews (Machine & Driver Teams)
Set up fixed crews of machines and drivers once — for example a chopping crew of forage harvester, hauling trailers and silage compactor — and deploy them daily. For a single day you can swap the crew's line-up without changing the template.
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Automatic Conflict Detection
The board warns you as soon as a driver or machine is double-booked, a crew is assigned twice, or a driver is absent. A "Conflicts today" panel bundles every warning with a direct jump to the affected crew; a capacity warning also flags when planned hours exceed the day's capacity.
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Weather per Day on the Board
For every day the board shows min/max temperature and precipitation (DWD) with frost and heat colour-coding — so you can plan weather-dependent work like harvest, tillage or plant protection ahead of time.
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Day Templates & Recurring Series
Save a complete day's plan as a named template and load it onto any day. Create recurring operations as a series — daily, weekly, monthly or yearly.
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Driver App "My Operations"
Drivers see their day's operations on their phone, move the status forward and report completion with actual hours, worked area and a note — progress appears on the board instantly.
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Actuals Capture & Utilisation Analysis
On completion, actual hours and actual area are recorded and compared against plan. A 30-day analysis shows completion rate, machine utilisation and a plan-vs-actual chart per crew.
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Operations Planning for Contractor Jobs
The same operations planning is available as its own board for external contractor jobs — with a Gantt overview, conflict-hours totals and a daily print sheet. It replaces the former read-only board.
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Print Daily Sheet
Generate an A4 daily sheet as a PDF for each day — one section per crew with all its operations and a signature line. The classic morning briefing for drivers on early shift.
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Capture Requirements with Category and Date
Create input requirements with a name, quantity, unit and the date by when they are needed, and assign each requirement to a category – from seed through fertilizer, plant protection and feed to diesel/fuel and other
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Compare Quotes
Capture quotes from several suppliers with price per unit, total price, delivery date and validity and compare them side by side
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Award and Revoke
Award exactly one quote; competing quotes are reset automatically, and the award can be revoked at any time. A requirement moves through the statuses open, collecting quotes, awarded, ordered and completed – on award it switches automatically to awarded, on revoke back to collecting quotes
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Metrics and Analytics
Keep track of open and awarded requirements, award value and quotes received, with a distribution by status and category
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Fulfil Procurement (Storage & Finance)
Fulfil awarded requirements straight from purchasing – either as a goods receipt that creates a storage batch with quantity and cost, or as a direct expense in Finance; the procurement target drives the booking and prevents double bookings.
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Frequently asked questions
Quick answers to the questions farms ask most often about this module.
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Keep your herd healthy and compliant – vaccinations, veterinary treatments, medications and automatic withdrawal periods, fully documented.
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Animal Welfare
Make animal welfare verifiable – housing, inspections, biosecurity, mortality reports and transports, all structured and documented.
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Milking & milk yield
The whole milk chain in one module – from a single milking through the lactation and the tank to the dairy delivery and the booked milk payment. The module appears as soon as your farm profile holds a milkable species.
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Land Management
Manage your fields with geographic precision – interactive polygon maps, documented field activities and VDLUFA soil samples including Nmin form the data foundation for crop management and fertilization.
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Crop Management & Crop Rotation
Plan crops and rotations based on data – with live rule validation, catch crops, harvest documentation and EU conditionality (GAEC).
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Plant Protection
Document crop protection applications in a legally compliant way – applications, products, certificates of competence and equipment all in one place.
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Fertilization Management (DüV)
Fulfil the German Fertilization Ordinance digitally – fertilizer demand calculation, closed periods, Annex 5 and manure transports, currently with curated reference values for the German state of Hesse (LLH).
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Fleet & Machinery
Minimize downtime and maximize the lifespan of your heavy equipment. From fleet inventory through preventive maintenance scheduling with dual intervals (operating hours OR months), compliant safety checklists and spare-parts inventory all the way to tax-grade depreciation (AfA) per German § 7 EStG – everything in one platform.
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Telematics & Live Fleet Map
Connect your machines to FarmManager and watch your fleet live on the map – position, operation and utilisation in one place.
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Storage & Warehouse
A complete warehouse for your farm inputs and your harvest – storage locations, dated and expiring batches with FIFO valuation, and a signed movement journal that books your finances automatically. From the fuel tank to the grain silo, always know exactly what is in stock, what it is worth and where it came from.
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Personnel Planning
Plan shifts, employment contracts, vacations and working hours in one place. The intelligent shift generator automatically respects contracts, absences and the German Working Time Act (ArbZG) — with fair distribution across all staff.
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Finances
Turn your farm accounting from a burden into a competitive advantage. Gain full visibility of your margins and cash flow – including automatic machine depreciation per German § 7 EStG.
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Multi-Farm Management
Run multiple farms under a single account – with separate billing per farm, strict data isolation and the ability to move staff between operations or grant them access to additional farms.
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Payroll & Social Insurance
Fulfil your reporting and record-keeping duties as an agricultural employer digitally — encrypted social-insurance profiles, DEÜV report files, monthly payroll data for payroll processing and A1 postings, GDPR-compliant and PII-safe.
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Quality, Safety & Traceability
Make food safety, occupational safety and provenance provable — HACCP self-checks, seamless traceability from sale back to a purchased batch, a central supplier directory and risk assessments under ArbSchG, each with automatic due-date reminders.
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Scale your agricultural business with advanced organization tools and granular security controls.
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