Farm Management System: know what your farm costs and earns

Why now rather than later

The best time to put this in is before you plant

You do not need a system to start farming. But a season you farm without records is a season you cannot compare against, and that is gone for good.

Start with it

Your history builds itself, season by season, without anyone typing it up.
By your second harvest you can compare, because there is something to compare to.
Costs get recorded while you still remember what they were for.

Add it later

Someone has to reconstruct it, usually from notebooks, receipts and memory.
The seasons before it went in stay a blank, so trends start from today.
It is the same work, done the hard way, at the point you are busiest.

It works the same whether you are clearing your first plot or running established blocks. Earlier is simply easier.

Compare packages

Both tiers are live. Prices and features here come straight from the platform, so they cannot drift from what you actually get.

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FMS Core

$5 / mo

Know what your farm costs and what it earns, from your first season.

7 features included

Farm / Section Tracking
PayPal Gateway
Stripe Checkout
Paystack Gateway
Direct M-PESA
Point of Sale (till)
Online Store (basic storefront)

Order FMS Core ($5 / mo)

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Core

Farm / Section Tracking

Payments

PayPal Gateway
Stripe Checkout
Paystack Gateway
Direct M-PESA

Sales

Point of Sale (till)
Online Store (basic storefront)

FMS Pro

$50 / mo

Take payment online, run more than one farm, and sell through Watu Farmers Market.

11 features included

Everything in FMS Core, plus:

Marketplace Sync (Watu Farmers Market)
Full Project Tracking
Multiple farms/companies per tenant
Priority support

Order FMS Pro ($50 / mo)

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Core

Farm / Section Tracking

Integrations

Marketplace Sync (Watu Farmers Market)

Operations

Full Project Tracking
Multiple farms/companies per tenant

Payments

PayPal Gateway
Stripe Checkout
Paystack Gateway
Direct M-PESA

Sales

Point of Sale (till)
Online Store (basic storefront)

Support

Priority support

Monthly billing. Cancel anytime. Moving between tiers changes your plan, not your records.

How the two tiers work

FMS Core runs one farm. FMS Pro runs an operation.

Core is the whole system for a single farm, payments included. Pro is for when there is more than one thing to keep track of.

Step one
FMS Core, $5

Track sections, harvests, batches, stock and expenses. Sell at the gate with the till or online through your own store, and take payment however your buyers pay.
Step two
Run a season

One full cycle through the system is what makes the numbers worth reading. That is the same on either tier.
Step three
FMS Pro, $50

When you have more than one farm or company to run, want project tracking in depth, want your produce listed on Watu Farmers Market, or want priority support.

Payments are not the difference between the tiers. Core takes M-PESA, card, PayPal and Paystack, same as Pro.

What it keeps track of

The farm

Sections Harvest records Batches Stock ledger Expenses Projects Assets Utility readings

The selling

Point of sale Online store Sales orders Customers M-PESA Card PayPal Paystack

Who it is for

Owner-operators who currently run on a notebook and a good memory.
People about to start who would rather not have to reconstruct year one later.
Growers selling at the gate who want the same record whether a sale happened in person or online.
Small agribusinesses running more than one block or company, who need to compare them.

Not for you if you are looking for a business to start. FMS is the system you run a farm on, not a farm in a box.

Straight answers

What farmers ask first

Do I need internet at the farm?

To record something as it happens, yes, the same connection you would use for M-PESA on your phone.

In practice most people record in batches, at the end of the day or after a harvest, wherever they have signal. Nothing is lost by entering it later.

Does it work on a phone?

Yes. It runs in a browser and is built to be used on a phone, which is where the till and the harvest records actually get used.

Can my workers use it without seeing everything?

There are staff accounts with roles, so someone can run the till without seeing your costs or margins.

If you need several people managing separate farms or companies, that is what FMS Pro is for.

Can I get my data out?

Yes, and you should ask this of any system that becomes your records. Your harvests, stock, sales and expenses are exportable, and they are yours.

This is the question we would want answered before putting a season of work into someone else's software, so we would rather you asked it now than after.

What happens to my records if I stop paying?

Talk to us before you cancel and we will get your data out to you properly. We are not going to hold a season of your work hostage.

The system itself is part of the subscription, so access ends with it, but the records are yours to take.

Start your farm system

Tell us your farm name and the sitename you want, and your Farm Management System is set up at yourfarm.launch-pad.biz. Most people start on Core, because a single farm is what Core is built for and moving up later keeps every record you have entered.

Start on FMS Core

One farm, with sections, harvests, stock, expenses, a till and an online store. Payments included, so you can be paid from day one.

Order FMS Core ($5 / mo)

Start on FMS Pro

Right from the start if you already run more than one farm or company, want project tracking in depth, want your produce on Watu Farmers Market, or want priority support.