How to sign up and use Farm Focus seven day demo databases

Experience Farm Focus free for 7 days by visiting Farm Focus website, and go to start 7 day demo.

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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.com.au or www.farmfocus.nz.
Go to the top right hand corner and click on Sign up/Start 7 day demo.
Complete the signup process.

If you are logged in:

Go to your farm name on the top left hand corner and click on the drop down arrow and click on Start new
Go to Start a Demo and click Free demo.
Select country.
For NZ select either the Dairy or Sheep & Beef demo. For Australia select the demo.
Enter the postcode and answer the question.
Click Get Started to begin the demo

Access to each demo will expire after seven days, but you can purchase a subscription at any point during this timef 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.
You can start both the Dairy and Sheep & Beef demo farm businesses at the same time

Activities to try on the demo databases

Navigate through the 6 key areas of Farm Focus by clicking on the Navigation menu down the left-hand side: Dashboard, Plan, Actuals, Reports, Vault & 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
Create a draft plan
Promote a draft to set as a 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 (New Zealand) or GST worksheet (Australia) and view your filing options
Check out your EFS report and learn about the different viewing option

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