ABCgrower - The Ultimate Orchard Management Software
Orchard management software delivering digital solutions for modern growers that are flexible, adaptable and actionable.
Designed specifically for use on-farm, ABCgrower simplifies orchard operations, improves staff productivity and oversight and reduces the time spent on administration.
ABCgrower is hyperscale, meaning it instantly and efficiently scales up to handle massive or fluctuating workloads without slowing down. ABCgrower remains powerful, reliable and fast under the most demanding conditions.
Cloud-Based Orchard Software for Real-Time Farm Management
ABCgrower is the cloud-based orchard management solution for digital record keeping on-farm. Enabling real-time harvest tracking, productivity management and accurate capture of non-harvest time and task data, it gives growers complete operational oversight all the time. It delivers;
- Digital orchard record keeping at it’s best
- Real-time harvest and yield tracking
- Inventory and task management for growers
Streamlined Labour Management
- Orchard labour management software
- Piece rate and hourly labour tracking
- Contractor and employee management
Mobile Orchard Software – Online and Offline
ABCgrower Web – a mobile-responsive web platform that works seamlessly across all devices
ABCgrower App – an offline mobile app for collecting in-field data without an internet connection
ABCgrower delivers smarter orchard management across the farm and office.
Actionable Insights and Improved Workflow
Digitally recorded orchard data delivers actionable insights that improve workflow and increase operational efficiency. Detailed in-field recording of harvest and non-harvest activities provides live productivity reporting, accurate reconciliation, and better visibility across orchard operations.
ABCgrower enables growers to manage inventory with full traceability, supported by comprehensive reporting that accurately handles piece rates, inventory control, and block-level cost tracking.
Flexible In-App Data Capture for Growers
Direct in-app recording offers flexible functionality with a practical, user-friendly design. Permission-based access allows an unlimited number of users to securely capture and view data, ensuring the right information is available to the right people at the right time.
The results are streamlined workflows, reduced administration, and improved decision-making across the orchard.
Digitally recorded data has actionable insights to improve workflow and increase efficiency. Detailed in-field recording of harvest and non-harvest activities has live productivity reporting and reconciliation. Manage inventory with full traceability and comprehensive reporting handles piece rates, inventory and block costs.
Direct in-app recording has flexible functionality and a practical, user friendly focus with permission-based access to an unlimited number of users.
ABCgrower Capabilities and Modules
It’s Orchard Management Software made easy. Turn modules on or off as needed and keep it simple.
ABCgrower is the ultimate solution for accurate, practical and accessible on-farm tracking.
Timesheets
- Manage and record labour, piecework or hourly
- Record real-time start and finish times, individual or bulk tasks
- Electronically record time spent on piece rate tasks
- Records activities of individuals or groups to farm, block variety or bay/row level
- Generate and scan unique worker barcodes, work crew barcodes and NFC tags
- Record harvest and non-harvest activities
- Accurate time and task tracking
- Collect by piece for productivity information and conversion to hourly payment
- Pay by piece, by hour or mix and match rates
- Supports hourly payment and productivity bonuses
- Productivity bonus calculation tool for optional weighting and bonus rewards
Harvest
- Harvest time tracking by picker, container, unit, kilogram
- Record by container, eg. bag, bucket, bin, lug, crate, tray
- Individual and total tallies for picker checks and reconciliation
- Generate unique container labels for tracking and traceability
- Live productivity reporting on ABCgrower App and Web
- Despatch from orchard to packhouse or coolstore
- Track live productivity reporting, picker checks and reconciliation
- Harvest cost reporting by unit, tree, vine, standard unit and kilogram
- Harvest heat map with container search
- Use with inventory management for unique container tracing
Inventory Track & Trace
- Print container and bin labels on custom label templates to identify and track produce
- Unique container labelling is supported and permanent container numbers
- Trace containers to pickers and blocks
- Multiple container types converted to standard units for accurate reporting
- One or more pickers per container are supported
- Inventory and containers remain visible throughout
- Customise label templates
- Inventory and containers remain visible throughout
- Movements tracked through storage, room, row, column, tier, despatch - from orchard to cool store to packhouse
- Optional email notifications on inventory movement
- Create unique barcode labels for produce packed in field
- Record and label pallets for produce packed in field
- Supports individual or continuous scans
- Generate pallet labels, track and despatch pallets and show provenance
Reports and Calculators
- Detailed and comprehensive reporting options
- One-click output to spreadsheets for in-depth analysis
- Block cost, variety cost, productivity, inventory and labour reports
- Calculate block costs by individual measures – tree, vine, hectare, harvested unit, harvested kilogram...
- Output reports directly to payroll system
- Productivity and traceability reporting
- Report block cost of labour, and include chemical costs with ABCspray
- Optional Business Intelligence module - access a replica database and build custom insights in your analytics platform of choice, such as Power BI
Payruns
- Immediate overview of worker earnings to analyse daily performance
- Auto-calculation to top up minimum wage and paid breaks
- Set competency level for piece workers competency
- Reproducible, audit-ready records
- Supports two-step authorisation of timesheets
- Pay run reports and exports to payroll systems
- Australian overtime obligations managed for hourly paid workers
- Confidently forecast overtime hours with Australian Overtime Forecast Report
- Auto-calculation to meet minimum wages in Australia and NZ
Non-Harvest Work
- Non-harvest labour records by time and task for permanents and casuals
- Pay by piece or by hour
- Keep records of work offered and non-worked time
- See labour costs by block or variety and maintain level of detail required
- Record thinning, pruning and non-harvest piecework
- Allocate workers to bay or row and maintain visibility of work in progress and post-task quality checking
- Offline capability for on-orchard recording
Quality Module
- Flexible user-defined templates to assess workers, harvested fruit, trees etc...
- Track defects and record observations
- Works offline for infield quality assessments without internet or data connection
- Allows immediate remedial action to improve performance and quality
- Assign rating to worker activity and use for incentive payments
- Show defects on your farm map for effective and responsive quality management
Onsite Log
- Kiosk timeclock
- Electronic visitor book
- Records who is onsite and their location
- Maintains records of GPS location, photos, sign in and out times
- Logins shown on farm map
- Personalise health and safety questions
- Visibility of contractor and visitor records
- Self-sign in for packhouse workers
- Use sign in/out times to set paid start and end times
- Integrate with ABCgrower timesheets or use stand-alone
Maps
- Map and colour code farm and varieties for easy reference
- Harvest heat map
- View map of your quality assessment defects
- GPS location of onsite log ins
Security
- Create personal logins for each user
- Control what users can see and do
- Supports two-step authorisation of timesheets
- Data security with Azure cloud
The comprehensive products from ABC Software are easy to use and provide custom features and amazing benefits across the orchard and packhouse.
Book an obligation-free, customised demo today and appreciate all the possibilities.
Labour and harvest management on-farm that is fast, stable, and reliable throughout the season and is mobile, offline and cloud-based
Digital spray diary complete with consumables inventory management that is user-friendly, accurate and compliance ready
The total post-harvest solution in a single packhouse system. From farm to customer in a streamlined & simplified user friendly software
Here is the answer to the quality assurance (QA), quality control (QC) and reporting questions that’s focussed and flexible
