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.
Build period-based shift schedules with a Draft → Published → Archived status workflow. Automatic shift generation respects operating hours, active employment contracts and recorded vacations, and fair distribution keeps workload even across the team. Every plan can be edited, locked or regenerated manually – manual and locked entries are preserved, and existing entries are never overwritten.
Capture per employee the contract type (full-time, part-time, mini-job, seasonal, trainee, freelancer), job title, weekly hours, vacation entitlement, hourly wage and per-person scheduling parameters such as max consecutive workdays or minimum rest time.
Manage vacation, sick leave, special leave, parental leave and training with an approval workflow (Requested → Approved/Rejected → Cancelled). Approved days automatically block shift scheduling and surface in the calendar.
Define opening and closing times per weekday plus the minimum required staff. Closed days are honoured by the automatic shift generator.
Pre-configured compliance values based on the German Working Time Act — max daily and weekly hours, minimum rest, Sunday and holiday handling, overtime thresholds. Override per tenant to match your collective agreement or country.
A clear calendar view of all shifts and leave events, colour-coded by employee and event type. Filter by person, farm or status for maximum clarity.
Widgets for contract expiry alerts (30/90/180 days), pending leave requests, scheduled total hours, overtime tracking and a 90-day absence forecast — ideal for proactive workforce planning.
Employees clock themselves in and out without admin rights: start work, start break, end break, end work. The running work time ticks client-side via Alpine.js — no server polling. Every break is recorded as its own interval (start/end) and the break duration is summed automatically; on clock-out, the system computes actual hours as end minus start minus break minutes. Access requires an active employment contract at the farm.
Generate a print-ready hours record (A4) per employee and month. It lists start, end, break and actual hours for every workday with a monthly total and carries the statutory notice text under § 17 MiLoG on recording the start, end and duration of daily working time.
With each stamping you pick where the time belongs from a quick-select tree — barn, field, contract job or your own cost centre. When the work changes during the day you split the shift instead of overwriting the earlier booking. Drivers are offered only the jobs they may book onto; the job in turn shows which hours ran against it.
A shift across midnight counts towards the work day it began on — the hours do not slide into the next day, and events after midnight are marked. If someone forgets to clock out, FarmManager recognises the open entry as such, tells the person themselves and not only HR, lets them correct it, and HR can close the case instead of chasing it forever.
For any day you produce an A4 sheet with presence, break, net working time, the course of the day including booking targets and target/actual/variance. The working-time notes are filtered to that exact day. A day still running prints as a provisional figure with the time it was taken.
Quick answers to the questions farms ask most often about this module.
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Optimize daily tasks and ensure your team works with absolute clarity – a central calendar and granular tasks keep everyone in sync, from planning right through to field execution.
Maintain a digital twin of your entire herd. Beyond simple tracking, FarmManager provides deep insights into lifecycle events, genetics, and nutrition performance.
Keep your herd healthy and compliant – vaccinations, veterinary treatments, medications and automatic withdrawal periods, fully documented.
Make animal welfare verifiable – housing, inspections, biosecurity, mortality reports and transports, all structured and documented.
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.
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.
Plan crops and rotations based on data – with live rule validation, catch crops, harvest documentation and EU conditionality (GAEC).
Document crop protection applications in a legally compliant way – applications, products, certificates of competence and equipment all in one place.
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).
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.
Connect your machines to FarmManager and watch your fleet live on the map – position, operation and utilisation in one place.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Scale your agricultural business with advanced organization tools and granular security controls.
Scale from small farms to large enterprises.
