TL;DR: The year at a glance
In 2025, we focused on the following:
🌾 Smarter planning, in line with on‑farm work
⚡ Faster everyday work with less friction
🔍 Earlier signals and clearer insight from reporting
🐄 Farmer‑friendly livestock workflows
🏗️ Purpose‑built setup for different farm types
📈 Tools that scale for accountants and advisors
🌱 Strong foundations for growth in Australia
1. Planning: More visibility, more control
Why this matters:
Help you plan in a way that matches how costs and income are actually incurred, without spreadsheets or manual calculations.
What we delivered:
📝 Quickly copy and spread planned items directly from the Worksheet List view with weekly, fortnightly, and 4‑weekly planning frequencies.
📊 Total quantities visible in the Worksheet List for better inventory and sales tracking.
➗ Multipliers in plan worksheets (e.g., hectares × tonnes × unit price for fertiliser) to automatically calculate totals.
🎓 In‑context planning tutorials that stay open while you work so you learn as you go.
Why its useful: Planning is faster, more realistic, and easier to keep accurate as the year changes.
2. Invoices & Transactions: Less clicking, faster data capture
Why this matters:
Reduce friction in high-volume workflows so that you can move through work quickly and confidently.
What we delivered:
🏦 Quick matching of invoices and bank transactions for faster bank reconciliation.
⌨️ Keyboard shortcuts, multi‑select coding and tagging in Needs Action and Completed views to increase speed and accuracy of coding data.
📝 Meaningful descriptions are applied automatically when coding to reduce data entry.
🔔 Clear indicators when tax invoices have been sent and contact details & bank accounts have been set up so all the information is in one place.
♻️ Deleted invoices can be restored and drafts managed in a single Tax Invoice view to reduce friction.
✔️ Approved invoices can be easily identified from the Bill Payments screen for seamless workflows.
Why its useful: Fewer clicks, fewer mistakes, and less time spent on routine tasks.
3. Reporting: Earlier signals, clearer insight
Why this matters:
Move reporting and decision making from reactive to proactive for early awareness and understanding.
What we delivered:
🤖 AI‑generated commentary and insights for Variance, YTD Variance, and Trends (Beta phase).
📆 YTD comparisons across years in Trends to spot seasonal trends or fluctuations.
📦 Record Product on Hand in EFS for fine‑tuning your year‑end position.
📉 Variance widgets that quickly highlight your top overspends versus plan or last year’s actuals.
Why its useful: Surface issues earlier, and quick easily digestible insights rather than being overwhelmed by numbers.
4. Livestock: Farmer-friendly clarity
Why this matters:
Make livestock workflows easier to understand, especially when values matter.
What we delivered:
🐑 Clear, farmer‑friendly language for livestock events.
📋 Livestock balances visible while coding to reduce errors.
💰 Payment dates shown in livestock worksheet lists to streamline cashflow revision and stay on top of livestock payments.
🔢 Multiple livestock unit systems for Australian farms (AE, DSE, LSU, LU) for accurate reporting.
Why its useful: Less guesswork, clearer actions, and greater confidence when working with livestock data.
5. Templates & Setup: Built for how farms actually operate
Why this matters:
Reduce setup effort and improve reporting and budgeting from day one.
What we delivered:
🌱 Additional industry‑specific code templates for horticulture, broadacre and cropping.
🐄 Contract Milker‑specific templates.
🔍 Searchable code lists for faster maintenance.
Why its useful: Farm management accounts that reflect real businesses without manual set up work.
6. Professionals & Workspaces: Designed to scale
Why this matters:
Support accountants and advisors working across many farms and regions.
What we delivered:
🧾 Reduce GST errors by enforcing validation on unbalanced invoices or uncoded lines.
📘 Accountant codes captured directly when editing categories for efficient data mapping.
📤 Livestock valuation models and reconciliation exports available via Workspace to complete end‑of‑year reporting.
🛡️ Safeguards for verified workspace names to reduce fraud and increase security.
Why its useful: Cleaner onboarding, scalable engagement, and better, safer client support.
7. Australia Expansion: Local, relevant, ready
Why this matters:
Ensure Farm Focus works as well for Australia customers as their New Zealand counterparts
What we delivered:
🌏Country‑specific language and terminology (e.g. agistment).
📥 Australian‑specific supplier imports, livestock systems and reporting units.
🧾 PAYG instalment visibility in GST worksheets.
🔐 Australian‑specific workspaces so professionals can securely manage their staff’s access to clients’ data in Farm Focus.
Why its useful: Farm Focus is built for Australian farm businesses and their management reporting needs.
8. Customer-Driven Improvements: You asked, we listened
Theme intent:
At Farm Focus we respond quickly to real user feedback.
What we delivered:
📈 Comparison line on dashboard cashflow graph to easily track your progress from last year.
📧 Send tax invoices to multiple email addresses to reduce manual overhead.
♻️ Restore deleted invoices to quickly undo mistakes.
🖨️ Export or print contacts and stock activity screens for added convenience.
🚫 Exclude KPI groups from Break Even calculations to reflect the reality of your business.
Why its useful: Small changes that remove daily friction and save time.
What we’re focusing on next
More visibility. More control. More confidence.
In 2026, we’re doubling down on:
🔎 Improvements in planning to give farmers an early view of their finances and to support early decision making.
📊 Extending reporting for the complete picture of the farm's financial position.
🔗 More integrations with other software tools to reduce duplicate data entry.
🤝 Deeper support for professionals and partners.
🦘 Continued expansion across Australia.
So Farm Focus helps you act sooner — not just report later.
