Hay & Crop Manager™ Chosen as a 2008 World Ag Expo Top Ten New Product
South Bend, INDIANA, -- September 24, 2007 --Hay & Crop Manager™ has just been chosen as a 2008 World Ag Expo Top Ten New Product and will be featured in a special exhibition area at the World Ag Expo in Tulare, California in February 2008. In addition to the exhibition area, the program will be prominently mentioned in the show materials, on their web site and a plaque will be awarded on Media Day.
Tara contacted Rick Middleton with Excelisys, Inc.,
www.excelisys.com, a professional custom software development house
specializing in FileMaker development, to retain their services.
The Excelisys, Inc.’s project team assigned to the
project consisted of Kurt Knippel, VP of Development, and Michael
Rocharde, one of Excelisys’ lead FileMaker
developers, who were able to produce the award winning
solution. (Originally developed in FileMaker™
8.5, the program has already been optimized for
FileMaker™ 9 with conditional formatting of fields
throughout).
From the beginning, the intention was to develop a unique, very
user-friendly, interface so that non-computer people would feel
comfortable with it. To achieve this, the interface was
designed with iconic farm photographs as navigation and function
buttons and many aspects of the program are simply point-and-click
so that typing and data entry is minimal. A comprehensive
set of video tutorials make learning the program extremely easy and
technical support is available 7 days a week from 7 am to 10 pm
(PST).
The program keeps complete control of everything from the time the
fields are planted to the time the final sales payments come
in. Inventory is totally controlled and is added to a
contract by simply selecting the crop you want. The
program instantly displays all of the available inventory - you
click on the lot, enter the quantity that is being sold and the
price and press the Save button. Inventory levels are
automatically updated and once a lot is sold out, it disappears so
that it is impossible to sell what you don’t
have. If an item is subsequently cancelled, it
immediately becomes available for sale again.
As well as keeping track of inventory and sales, Hay & Crop
Manager™, also keeps track of deliveries so that you
always know what has been delivered and what is waiting
delivery. Delivery charges can be
included on a per contract item basis or can be added to the
invoice itself. Invoices are generated automatically with
each delivery and the program instantly assigns payments, to those
invoices, where funds are sitting on account. Deposits
can be posted to a contract and applied at a specified time;
typically when x % of the contract has been delivered.
Any overpayments are automatically posted to the client account for
future use.
Hay and Crop Manager also keeps track of everything that is done to
every field (plantings, herbicides, fertilizers, soil tests, etc.)
and the costs that are associated with them and you can compare one
year to another with the press of a button. The program
also has a very powerful (and simple) report generator
and a wide range of management reports that are easy to
read and understand and which make sense.
Currently there are three optional modules for:
Custom invoicing for services provided to other farmers
Combining barn lots into a single lot
Equipment tracking & maintenance.
Although Hay & Crop Manager™ is not inexpensive
($2,795 for a single user version), the savings in time and the
efficiencies gained make it a very attractive investment.
For a farmer with 1000 acres, the first year cost is $2.80 per acre
and the program will continue to work (at basically no cost)
indefinitely after that. Just think, no more worrying
about what you sold or who you sold it to; no more worrying about
where everything is stored or what still needs to be delivered. and
no more worrying about who owes you money. It’s
all taken care of, automatically, with minimal effort by the user.
Hay & Crop Manager™ is completely cross platform
running on both Windows (inc. Vista OS) and Mac. Ag-Biz
Solutions also offers complete customization services so that
clients with a specific need or requirement can be accommodated; in
fact, an extra premium package is available that includes 3 custom
designed reports and 4 hours of customization services or online
training.
For more information visit
www.haymanager.com
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