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Features

Everything Autarla does.

Every module of the platform, grouped the way a farm works and named the way other farm and accounting software names them, so you can compare it line by line with what you use today.

Every feature is on every plan, the free Starter plan included, except the AI advisors. Users are unlimited.

Where each module works

Web
in the browser, on a computer, tablet or phone
App
in the Autarla app for iPhone and Android

Fields & crops

Your land, what grows on it, and what each field earns.

5 modules

Field records & mapping

WebApp

Every parcel with its boundary, tenure and history.

  • Boundaries drawn on the map, or imported from Shapefile, GeoJSON or CSV
  • Owned or leased; cropland, pasture or hay; legal land location
  • Field weather once a boundary is drawn
  • Photos and files kept with the field
  • Printable field record with its chemical history

Crop cycles & harvests

WebApp

Each season’s crop on each field, from seeding to the bin.

  • Crop, variety, planting date and seeded area
  • Season status from planned to harvested
  • Next season started from last season’s cycle
  • Harvest loads into stock and a chosen bin, with moisture and grade
  • Yield per crop cycle from the loads recorded

Crop planning & budgets

Web

What you budget before you plant, beside what really happened.

  • One plan per crop and season, with or without a field
  • Cost budget per acre or hectare, by category
  • Yield and price scenarios with revenue, cost and margin
  • Plan against actual from the books once the crop is in

Terrain, map layers & imagery

Web

The ground under your fields, in two and three dimensions.

  • Elevation fetched for Canadian fields automatically
  • 3D terrain with low and steep areas listed
  • Elevation GeoTIFF layers with hillshade and slope
  • Yield, soil and management zone layers
  • Surveyed or drone models (.3mf) in 3D
  • The latest satellite image of a field

Map points

WebApp

Water, gates, salt, mineral and feed, where anyone can find them.

  • Placed on the map, or where you stand
  • Put-out and removed dates kept as history
  • Bins with a location on the same map
  • Saved without signal and sent later

Field work & tasks

Every job done and every job still to do, with what it used and what it cost.

4 modules

Activity log

WebApp

The farm’s diary: every job on a field, a herd or a machine.

  • Spray, plant, fertilize, harvest, feed, treat, repair, inspect and more
  • Products used come out of stock by themselves
  • Machine and people hours, with the cost of production as you go
  • Scouting notes with photos from the field
  • Repeat the last job with today’s time in one tap (app)
  • Mistakes voided with a reason, never deleted

Spray & fertilizer records

WebApp

The records an inspector, a buyer or a 4R plan asks for.

  • Pesticide application record: registration number, rate, area, target pest, method, applicator
  • Weather for the field and the hour suggested for the record
  • What is still missing listed before you finish
  • Pesticide log filed in Compliance by itself, with its keep-until date
  • 4R placement on every fertilizer job

Voice entry

WebApp

Say what you did; the form fills in for you to check.

  • Activities, tasks and animal records from a spoken note
  • Your farm’s own names for fields, products and animals
  • Nothing saved until you check it
  • Recorded without signal, filled in when you are back in range

Work orders & tasks

WebApp

Jobs handed out: what, where, who and by when.

  • For a field, an animal group or a machine, with a due date
  • Planned work with its products and rates
  • Overdue, due this week and unassigned at a glance
  • Completed with the activity that did the job, stock and cost included
  • Set by voice in the app; your own tasks on its Home
  • A notification when a task is given to you

Grain marketing & storage

What is in the bins, what is sold, and what still has to be hauled.

2 modules

Bins & storage

WebApp

Every bin, shed and grain bag, what is in each and how full.

  • Capacity, kind and place on the map
  • Harvest into a bin; ship out of a bin
  • Moves between bins, and bin counts with the gain or loss
  • Bins as of any past date, for insurance or year end
  • Fill levels in the app, readable without signal

Grain contracts

Web

Grain sold ahead, the loads still to haul, and what is unsold.

  • Fixed price, basis, deferred payment and futures-only contracts
  • Delivery windows, delivery points and planned loads
  • Deliveries recorded against the contract as grain ships
  • In stock, sold and unsold by crop, with an oversold warning
  • Prices shown only to the roles that read the books

Livestock & grazing

Groups and animals, their health, the chute, and where they graze.

6 modules

Herd & animal records

WebApp

Groups or individual animals, with everything recorded on each.

  • Groups for a herd, a flock or a pen; animals by tag
  • Weight, body condition (1–5 or 1–9), breeding, pregnancy check, birth, weaning, sale and death
  • A birth adds the calf with its mother
  • Weight chart, photos and files on each animal
  • Records for a whole group at once; bulk regrouping
  • Herd import from CSV

Animal health & withdrawal

WebApp

Treatments recorded the way a VBP+ or BQA review reads them.

  • Product, dose, route and withdrawal days
  • Lot, expiry, injection site, who gave it, and extra-label use with the vet’s order
  • Withdrawal warning until the clear date, and on any sale inside it
  • A notification the day withdrawal ends
  • Treatment record for a period, as PDF or CSV

Chute mode

WebApp

Work animals one after another at the chute.

  • The day’s jobs set once: weight, condition, preg check, treatments
  • Tags typed, scanned or read by an EID reader
  • EID readers as a Bluetooth keyboard, over Bluetooth LE, or paired Bluetooth on Android (app)
  • Save and next, undo, and the day’s totals
  • Answers filled in from what you say
  • Works without signal

Pastures & grazing

WebApp

Where each group grazes, and how long each pasture has rested.

  • Group moves with head count and animal units
  • Grazed now, or resting so many days against your target
  • Animal-unit days per acre or hectare for the year
  • Water, gate, mineral and feed points on each pasture

Satellite pasture greenness (NDVI)

Web

Sentinel-2 readings for pastures and hay fields.

  • Weekly readings from April to October
  • Each pasture compared with its own usual level
  • Regrowth after grazing, against its level before
  • “Likely ready”: rest met and the green back

Traceability

Web

Canadian livestock traceability with CCIA and CLTS.

  • Approved 15-digit tags and premises IDs
  • Moves in and out, deaths, exports and tag replacements queued for filing
  • Animals still missing an approved tag, listed
  • The CLTS upload file prepared for you

Inventory & equipment

What is on the shelf, in the tank and in the shed.

2 modules

Inventory

WebApp

Seed, feed, chemicals, fertilizer, fuel, parts and grain.

  • Items with categories, units and reorder points
  • Deliveries received against the supplier’s bill lines
  • Shipments against the customer’s invoice lines and grain contracts
  • Stock counts, with the adjustment written for you
  • Use taken out by the activities that use it
  • Low-stock alerts; stock looked up in the app

Equipment & maintenance

Web

Machinery, its hours, its service and what it costs to run.

  • Tractors, combines, sprayers, trucks and implements
  • Hour meter readings
  • Service schedules by hours, days or both; due and overdue
  • Service history, with repairs costed in the books
  • Running cost per machine and per hour, for the year

Farm accounting

The books kept beside the work, in the farm’s own currency.

8 modules

General ledger

Web

Every dollar in and out, by category and by month.

  • Double-entry books; bills, invoices, pay runs and costed jobs post themselves
  • Each category shows the tax-form line it is reported on
  • Loans and owner’s money kept out of income and expense
  • Voids with a reversing entry; nothing is deleted
  • Filed periods closed against change
  • Ledger export to CSV

Accounts payable

Web

Supplier bills: what you owe, and when.

  • One total or line by line, with discounts
  • GST/HST on each line
  • Received and paid in the same entry
  • Aging by how late and by supplier
  • Supplier credits; costs allocated to fields

Accounts receivable & invoicing

Web

Invoices that go out numbered, printed and emailed.

  • Numbered invoices with a fixed PDF copy; amend and re-issue
  • Emailed in the customer’s language, with delivery status
  • GST/HST, discounts, and lines tied to the stock shipped
  • Credit notes, refunds, and credits applied to other invoices
  • What you are owed, by how late

Recurring entries

Web

Rent, insurance, loan payments and monthly invoices, set up once.

  • Bills, invoices or ledger entries on a schedule
  • Waits for you to post it, or posts itself
  • Amounts that change each time
  • Pause, resume or end a schedule

Banking & reconciliation

Web

Every bank line matched to the books.

  • Statements from OFX, QFX or CSV files, or typed from paper
  • Suggested matches; one bank line to several entries
  • Transfers between your own accounts
  • Statements signed off at a difference of 0.00
  • Automatic bank connection through Plaid, for the banks it supports

Balance sheet & lender reporting

Web

What the farm owns and owes on any date.

  • Three-tier lender layout, or two-tier FFSC
  • Fixed assets with straight-line depreciation
  • Notes, loans and operating lines from the lender’s statement
  • Equity-to-assets, debt-to-assets and current ratios

Profitability

Web

Profit by field, by crop cycle, and on the map.

  • Revenue and cost traced to each field
  • Overhead shown as not traced, or shared out by area
  • Net per acre or hectare, and by crop cycle
  • Fields coloured on the map by profit

Import from other software

Web

Your past books, brought over.

  • QuickBooks Online or Desktop, AgExpert, Sage 50, Xero or a spreadsheet
  • Opening balances from a trial balance, with open bills and invoices
  • Figures checked month by month before anything is added
  • A whole import undone in one step

Payroll & team

Pay the crew, keep their hours, and decide who sees what.

3 modules

Canadian payroll

Web

Pay runs with CPP, EI and income tax worked out for you.

  • CRA formulas for the pay date; Revenu Québec’s for work in Quebec
  • Hourly, salary or piece rate; vacation pay; TD1 amounts
  • Payslips by email; a direct deposit file or an e-Transfer list
  • Remittances with the PD7A figures, as bills to pay
  • T4 and RL-1 slips as XML; Records of Employment for ROE Web

Time clock

WebApp

Clock in from the phone; approve the week’s hours.

  • Clock yourself in, or a whole crew at once
  • Punches kept without signal, with their own time
  • Where a shift started, when the phone allows it
  • Weekly timesheets, corrections with a reason, and approval
  • Approved hours fill the pay run

Team & roles

Web

Your whole crew and your advisers, each with the right access.

  • Unlimited users at no charge
  • Owner, Manager, Bookkeeper and Field worker roles
  • Vet, agronomist, bookkeeper and read-only roles for outside advisers
  • Invitations by email, or a link to text
  • Several farms under one sign-in

Reports & compliance

The papers you hand to an insurer, an inspector, a lender or an auditor.

2 modules

Field reports

Web

Built from the records you already keep, as PDF and CSV.

  • Crop insurance: seeded area by legal land, production and grain in storage
  • Input usage by field, with rates
  • Spray records with each application record
  • Crop rotation year by year, with next year’s plan
  • 4R nutrients: source, rate, time and place
  • A food-safety binder for an on-farm audit such as CanadaGAP

Compliance records

Web

Certificates, tests, logs and training, with their expiry dates.

  • Certifications, training, water tests, cleaning, calibration, pest control, visitors and corrective actions
  • Pesticide logs written from each spray
  • Documents and photos attached
  • Expiring soon and expired, also on the Overview

AI advisors & help

AI that works from your own records, and help on every screen.

2 modules

AI advisors

Web

Advisors for farm management, finances and livestock that read your records.

  • Answers that say which records they used
  • Drafts of bills, activities and work orders that you review and save
  • A daily briefing each morning
  • Asked by voice or typed; remembers your preferences if you let it
  • Sees only what your role can see; names masked before a question leaves Autarla
  • Not on the free Starter plan

Help & guided tours

WebApp

The user guide on every screen, and tours on the real page.

  • The guide for each screen, in three languages
  • “Show me how” tours that walk you through a task
  • The Autarla assistant answers from the guide and shows its sources
  • Questions it cannot answer go to our support team
  • The whole guide in the app, readable without signal

Phone app & field use

Made for the yard, the field and the chute.

3 modules

The Autarla app

App

For iPhone and Android, signed in with your web account.

  • Home: today’s shift, your tasks, the crops, bins and herd
  • One + button for every entry
  • Fields on the map, coloured by this year’s crop
  • The herd, the chute and grazing moves
  • Push notifications for tasks, today’s work and withdrawal

Working without signal

WebApp

Entries wait on the phone and are sent in order, once.

  • Activities, voice notes, animal records, harvest loads, punches, group moves, map points and chute work
  • The herd, fields and stock readable as last read
  • How many entries are waiting, and Send now

In the browser, too

Web

The whole platform in any browser.

  • Installable on a phone’s home screen
  • Field mode: stronger contrast for bright sun
  • The activity form reachable from any screen on a phone

Your data & security

Your records stay yours, and stay private.

3 modules

Data ownership

Web

Everything you have entered, yours to take.

  • Every record as CSV in one zip, with a README, at any time
  • Free, with nobody to ask, even when the farm is read-only
  • Smaller CSV exports on the screens themselves
  • A published data-portability statement

Security & access

WebApp

Who can sign in, and what each person can see.

  • Two-step verification with an authenticator app and recovery codes
  • Role-based access on every screen and in the AI advisors
  • Signed-in phones listed, with sign-out for a lost one
  • Card payments handled by Stripe; your card is never stored by us

Languages, units & farms

WebApp

Set up the way your farm works.

  • English, Canadian French and Spanish
  • Acres or hectares; the farm’s own currency
  • Crop, livestock or mixed farms
  • Several farms, switched from one menu

Missing something your farm relies on?

Tell us what you need. Every request is read, and the guide on each screen explains how the rest works.