Gatekeeper/Gatekeeper Express Opinions

[turniplover]

Have been looking into this software?

- Is it any good, it bad? View points please!

 

[Wheatland]

Good but overly complex and expensive. Also question mark over the sharing of customers data

 

[Clive]

comprehensive and expensive but after 15 years use its dated and i’m desperately trying to move away from it

don’t know much about express to be honest, assume its cloud based ?

 

[Brisel]

Gatekeeper is very good. Expensive (>£1k/year here) but versatile and good support. I’ve opted out of the data sharing.

 

[Thomas Simpson]

Very good but takes some getting round and expensive.

 

[farmerfred86]

Have been looking into this software?

- Is it any good, it bad? View points please!

Depends what you need it for? Its an excellent but dated software package that does it all. If you really only want mapping (easy to use mapping) and basic recording and cropping you'd find Fieldmargin to be very good value.

 

[wellingtonfarmer]

How does field margin wrk with Agromonists recs? Does it sync with gate keeper or GLGM?

 

[farmerfred86]

How does field margin wrk with Agromonists recs? Does it sync with gate keeper or GLGM?

They are setup for tasking which you could use but they really could do with developing a dedicated agronomist/inputs feature... @fieldmargin

 

[Clive]

How does field margin wrk with Agromonists recs? Does it sync with gate keeper or GLGM?

an agronomist can add a task very easy

stuff like MAPP numbers are missing however but I've found workarounds ............... I will post about it when I get a chance, 3 months of trialing has been interesting, there are areas where it is loads better than Gatekeeper and areas where its still lacking

 

[farmerfred86]

an agronomist can add a task very easy

stuff like MAPP numbers are missing however but I've found workarounds ............... I will post about it when I get a chance, 3 months of trialing has been interesting, there are areas where it is loads better than Gatekeeper and areas where its still lacking

The nice thing is that they listen...

 

[cricketandcrops]

I do record keeping for 3000ac arable farm, moved to GK Express because we weren’t using all functionality in GK and only really want for spray records. I do fertiliser/N Max/muck on spreadsheet still as so much quicker to copy and paste using last years template. Have to say cannot fault GK Express, big benefit is anyone can view, pukka GK was on farm laptop which sometimes was in my office then needed to be back for inspection day. It died hence move to GK Express. Cannot complain for what we need.

 

[fieldmargin]

The nice thing is that they listen...

We do indeed!

There's been lots of hard work to get to this point but we completely appreciate that there is still more to be done. Farmer feedback is key for everything we decide to build and we already have quite a pipeline of new features and improvements lined up for the coming months. If there are more things you would like to see or think could be better please let us know!

While we might not have every advanced feature yet we do make a huge effort to ensure that our apps are easy to use and a fair price.