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FeePrime for agricultural businesses

Buy from hundreds of smallholders in the field with no network, track every batch to its expiry date, and prove where a consignment came from — months later.

Agricultural businesses fail at record-keeping in a specific place: the buying happens where there is no network, and the proving happens months later in an office.

Between those two moments sit a hundred paper receipts, a truck, and somebody’s memory. FeePrime is built for exactly that gap.

Buy in the field, on paper terms, in the system

Your buyer works a collection round with no signal. They record what they took from each farmer, at what price, and pay them. The device holds it and sends everything when the truck comes back into coverage.

Nobody re-types a day’s buying in the evening, which is where the errors were coming from — and where the disputes started.

A truck can be a location. Stock sitting on a vehicle is stock you can account for, distinct from what is in the warehouse. Cash the buyer is carrying is the same. You know what is on the road, not just what has arrived.

Batches, expiry, and shipping the right one

Track stock by lot or batch, with an expiry date on each. Movements draw down oldest-expiring-first, so the sack that must move this month moves this month rather than being found at the back of the store after it is worthless.

Every batch keeps its history: what came in, from whom, what it became, and where it went.

Processing is a first-class operation

Raw crop rarely leaves as it arrived. Recipes describe what goes into a finished product, and a production run consumes the inputs and produces the output as one recorded operation — so your finished-goods stock and your raw-material stock both move correctly, and your cost of production is a number rather than an estimate.

Traceability you can actually produce

When a buyer, a certifier or a regulator asks where a consignment came from, the answer is in the system rather than in a box of receipts. Batch to delivery, delivery to purchase, purchase to the farmer you bought it from — each step recorded when it happened, by a named person, with the previous values preserved.

This is also the honest reason to keep records well: the day you need traceability, you cannot create it retroactively.

The rest of the business, too

Suppliers and buyers in one address book. Purchase orders and bills. Invoices and payments, including mobile money. Multiple locations and transfers between them. SYSCOHADA reports for your accountant. A public page for buyers who want to find you.

Where to start: most agricultural businesses begin with buying and stock, because that is where the money leaks. Everything else can wait until that is habit.