Start a seven-day demo
The demo is free and doesn’t require credit card details to get started.
If you aren’t already logged in, go to www.farmfocus.nz
Click on Start a Demo.
You’ll be asked to provide some basic information including:
If you are a current Farm Focus user
Your profession
The demo you would like to look at
Click Get Started to begin the demo
If you want to, you can start the Dairy and Sheep & Beef demo farm businesses at the same time.
Access to each demo will expire after seven days, but you can purchase a subscription at any point during this time (if you are not a current user).
You can download the demo databases as many times as you like.
Once the demo has expired, any information you’ve added will be removed and you can start again by selecting another demo.
Activities to try on the demo databases
Navigate through the 5 key areas of Farm Focus by clicking on the Navigation menu down the left-hand side: Dashboard, Plan, Actuals, Reports & Settings.
Activities to try in the Dashboard:
Click into the Pie charts for Money earned and Money Spent to view a breakdown of how the business income and expenditure is allocated throughout the year.
Activities to try in the Settings:
Check out the Livestock tab and the opening & closing weights and values for each stock class. These flow through into the reports to provide a better analysis of your business.
Look into the Tags tab to understand more about the differences between Management Tags and Cost Tags.
Activities to try in the Actuals screen:
Code a bank transaction or an invoice
Set up a new coding rule
Match bank transactions to corresponding invoices
Record livestock events (financial and non-financial).
Filter for the following views in the Completed and Stock activity tabs
Date, Other party, Coded lines or Transactions, Amount, Quantity, Event date
Activities to try in the Working Plan:
Add planned transactions to either a draft or working plan
Add planned livestock events to either a draft or working plan
Save a working plan to Baseline read-only
Go to Dairy Forecaster and change settings to suit your business
View your Reports:
Create a GST return and view your filing options
Check out your EFS report and learn about the different viewing options