For South African fruit farms
Run the whole farm from one place.
Yovel brings the office and the orchard into one system, and it does the arithmetic for you. From the picker's bin in the block to the payslip. From the spray record to the audit pack.
How it works
You already keep the records. Yovel gives them one home.
Each one captured once, where the work happens, and everything that depends on it worked out for you. Your time goes to the decisions.
Once, in the block
Capture
The team records the day's work on a phone, where it happens. Picks, sprays, scouting, hours. Offline-tolerant, a PIN per worker.
Not just stored
Compute
Yovel works out cost per kilogram, budget against actual, pay from piece rates and the minimum wage, whether the spray plan was kept, and where compliance stands.
Every morning
Decide
The manager opens one screen and sees what needs doing today, per department, read straight from the farm's own records.
The manager's desk
One screen that says what needs doing.
The office opens on your farm map, tinted by today's state, and one line per department beside it. Every line is computed from what your team captured. A line changes state, act, watch, on rhythm, or nothing recorded yet, and it never quietly disappears.
Click a line and you are on the screen that resolves it.
The team's phone
What the field records.
- Hours and piece work
- Harvest picks and grading
- Bin tallies
- Spray applications
- Scouting and IPM
- Fertigation runs
- Plant census
- Fuel per machine
- Onboarding a worker
It works offline and syncs when signal returns. A shared phone, a PIN for each worker, and face clock-in that runs on the device itself.
Nothing is typed twice. The hours and the piece work become the day's timesheet, the wage and the block's labour cost on their own.
What is inside
The whole farm, in departments.
Phases, blocks, plant census, pollination, fertigation, water, orchard events, and a replant horizon read from each phase's age and yield.
A spray plan that closes only when a matching application is logged. The resistance group off every label, with a single-site repeat flagged. Disease risk from your own forecast. Withholding periods that hold themselves.
Bin tallies to the block, crop estimate against actual, cost per kilogram computed to the gate. A held block is not picked without a written reason.
Attendance, work log, block coverage, performance, a pay engine, payroll export, with no double-pay.
Quotes, purchase orders, stores and reorder, stocktake, pushed through to Xero.
A live CAPEX tracker, OPEX against budget, cost per kilogram, and a Gantt of plan against actual.
GLOBALG.A.P., SIZA and the standards your buyers ask for, a training register, a PPE register, carbon footprint, a full change log, audit packs.
An asset register, repairs and maintenance, faults measured by how long they stay open, fuel logs tied to the diesel tank's own stock.
One day of the farm composed from what was captured, printable for any date. Your real outlines, coloured live by state, harvest or crop protection.
The difference
Built to run a farm, not just record one.
You start with your own farm in it, not an empty system
Your blocks, workers, stock, spray and harvest history and your farm map are brought across when you come on board, so the system knows your operation from the first day. You carry on farming while that happens, and nothing is lost on the way.
Your data is yours. No lock-in.
Every farm's records live in their own database, and you can export the whole lot, in plain files, any time you ask. You are never held hostage by the software.
It computes, it does not just log
Cost per kilogram to the farm gate. Budget against actual, live. Pay worked out from piece rates and the minimum wage, correctly. A spray plan closes only when a matching application is logged, never a tick.
A living operating procedure
Every farm gets its own SOP, written from its live data, so it is always current. Every rule you are audited against, and the screen that enforces it.
Ask Yovel
An AI advisor that answers questions about your own farm's numbers, in plain language. Which block is over budget. What is my cost per kilogram this season. It never names a product or a rate: chemistry stays your agronomist's call.
Built for here
The national minimum wage and levies, POPIA, Xero, GLOBALG.A.P. and the standards your buyers ask for, the rand and real fiscal years. Made for South African farms.
Coming on board
You do not stop farming to start.
Your records move across
Your spreadsheets, your history and your farm map are imported for you, checked at every step. Losing data is not an option, so the process is built to make it impossible.
Your team starts capturing
Phones in the field from day one. Picks, sprays and hours are recorded where the work happens, by the person doing it.
The office sees it compute
Costs, payroll and compliance work themselves out. Your first month-end on Yovel is the proof, not a promise.
See it on a real farm
Let us walk your farm through Yovel.
Ask for a quote and tell us what you farm. We reply with the quote, then arrange a demonstration over Microsoft Teams on the demonstration farm closest to your operation. We present it ourselves, so your questions are answered as they come up.