Y Fan Wen
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- N W Snowdonia
Accounting software
- Thread starter MrsScrubbuster
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- Co Down UK
We supply the Kingswood accounts software for farmers and contractors in northern Ireland. You'll find the main office details for Kingswood of you do a Google search. We use the accounts for our own farming business and I'd recommend it.
Feldspar
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- Essex, Cambs and Suffolk
no - development seems to have stoped with Farmflo and I'm told they are focusing very much on Ireland and selling what they currently have developed
However I think I have finally found something very credible as GK replacement, it is 100% cloud based (subscription for £0-£30 per month feature activation dependant), unlimited user numbers within a business, has a very good app for mobile, is very users friendly and integrates with Xero and other could account systems. I've been using it alongside GK to try find the issues and so far I love it and am finding it does a lot more than GK especially re financials, budgeting and price / yield scenario stress testing etc.
It's not available in the UK yet and will needs some development to make it work with UK crops, varieties, inputs and fertiliser regs etc. We are looking into viability of bringing it to the UK via TFF, so far so good and if all goes to plan might be looking for beta testers in the spring if you are interested ?
don't ask me for links / names etc as Im under a NDA at the moment
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- Wiltshire
Very interested in this @Clive , am not a large grower so gatekeeper was way over priced for me. Been using spreadsheets plus planet for recs. Been looking for a program with planet incorporated within it.
runs perfectly offline and just syncs when your next connected
I think the future is very much like Xero where you pay a subscription, this offers options from free (basic use that would be fine for cross compliance) to £30 (ish still TBC) where you get full reporting, cross check data bases, mapping, mobile recording / scouting apps and multi users etc plus more - with a few half way use options in between. You don't buy software these days you just rent the use of it !
trouble is realistically if all goes to plan its a few months before this would be UK availble
currently no import for existing GK etc and I think that could be a big deal for some ?? its easy to set up and get going with though, the kind of software that you can intuitively just use without instruction or expensive training etc
currently no import for existing GK etc and I think that could be a big deal for some ?? its easy to set up and get going with though, the kind of software that you can intuitively just use without instruction or expensive training etc
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- Montgomeryshire
Sounds like an interesting development, especially if there is a 'light' version for those of us that don't need anything as fancy as GK and the likes.
Feldspar
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- Essex, Cambs and Suffolk
- Location
- Shropshire
A little. Been trialling since April. It links to Xero so it takes the accounting figures and categorises them. Good for forecasting and budgeting, though there still seem to be a few glitches in the system - for example at present I have to enter milk forecasts in what it describes as the 2018 year, in order for them to show in the current year, 2019 (because we have a 2019 year end).
It should also manage stock numbers for the accountant. You put in your opening figures and then as you have births, deaths and sales you enter them on here. Sales are posted to Xero. In theory at the end of the year it should have correct figures for your herd for each category.
There is a cropping tracker but as we don't have any crops I haven't looked at it. It will also track beef cattle, sheep and wool, or there is a customisable one.
wellingtonfarmer
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- Herefordshire
Anyone use quick books? Was looking at going into xero but are accountant doesn't use xero and recommended quick books
- Location
- Shropshire
How much is gatekeeper? Currently using green light grower management, but they put the price up this year (mainly because I wanted the chemical pro check part)
- Location
- Shropshire
We have set up a livestock levy sub code and an arable levy. When we sell a load of wheat, we put wheat in the one column and link it to crop sales, then put levy underneath and link it to arable levy (if anything I’ve made that sound more complicated than it is!).
yes - have had a few discussions with them and there are plans to make it more "UK" and sell it here in the future - the crop recording system I mention also works with Figured and the combination of Xero, Figured and the crop recording / mapping system i'm looking at would be a very neat and capable easy to use solution for an arable farm
no idea as we bought it a decade ago (hasn't changed much in that time ) price also depends on number of users and what modules options you have - it wasn't cheap a decade ago ( server thousands for our fully optioned version) and doubt its got any cheaper ! we pay over 1k pa in support and update fees alone
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- Shropshire
Wow!
matthew
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- Cornwall, SW England
I’m trying!
Bought it myself on offer for 6 months. I’m sure it’ll be fine.... at some point.
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