Explainers · 30 longer reads
How Famu thinks
The guides tell you what to tap. These are the longer reads — what a feature is for, how it works things out, and where it does not fit. Most let you try it right on the page.
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How importing a spreadsheet works
Hand over the workbook you already keep, and how Famu decides where every tab belongs before you check a single row.
4 step-by-step guidesRead it → Getting started5 min readHow adding someone already on Famu works
Give an agronomist, a vet or a manager of another farm access to yours on the login they already have, and what they can and cannot see.
2 step-by-step guidesRead it → Getting started6 min readHow confirming your email works
Why Famu asks for a 6-digit code instead of a link to click, what to do when it does not come, and why you get a week.
3 step-by-step guidesRead it → Every day5 min readHow notes work
A tip from a neighbour, written down in seconds, found again with half a word, and read back by the assistant when you ask.
3 step-by-step guidesRead it → Every day4 min readHow schedules work
A spray or vaccination programme read off a photo, checked by you, and turned into dates someone actually gets reminded about.
2 step-by-step guidesRead it → Every day3 min readHow sending a schedule works
Export a schedule as a file, open it on another farm or next season, and pick a new Day 1 so every date moves with it.
1 step-by-step guideRead it → Every day4 min readHow schedule templates work
A programme kept as days instead of dates, laid onto each new planting from its own start, and shared with other farms if you choose.
2 step-by-step guidesRead it → Crops6 min readHow selling a harvest works
Record a harvest and the sale of it in one go, and how Famu keeps the yield and the money as two records that agree.
3 step-by-step guidesRead it → Crops4 min readHow transplant programmes work
Garden preparation before transplanting, sprays after it, and day numbers that follow the transplant date instead of the sowing date.
1 step-by-step guideRead it → Money5 min readHow enterprise costs work
Saying which enterprise, and which animal, plantation or batch, every shilling was for, so each one's costs add up on their own.
2 step-by-step guidesRead it → Money8 min readHow equipment records work
What a machine is, how to run it, what happened to it and what it has cost — kept together, and readable by whoever runs it.
5 step-by-step guidesRead it → Money5 min readHow sales work
What left the farm and whether the money came back, on one sale, with a receipt and a balance that waits until it is cleared.
4 step-by-step guidesRead it → Money4 min readHow capital costs work
Why a chicken house or a pump is kept apart from spending, and how Famu spreads its price over the years it works.
2 step-by-step guidesRead it → Money5 min readHow water and power tracking works
How long the Yaka will last, what the borehole uses per bird, and how Famu notices a leak from your own normal.
2 step-by-step guidesRead it → Money5 min readHow expenses and receipts work
Recording spending once, keeping the receipt behind it, and paying a fundi or a supplier in pieces without losing track.
6 step-by-step guidesRead it → Money5 min readHow petty cash works
A float in somebody's hands, spending that takes itself out of it, and a Saturday count that keeps its difference.
3 step-by-step guidesRead it → Money4 min readHow other income works
Farm visits, lectures, training and hire: income that is earned but not sold, and what belongs somewhere else.
2 step-by-step guidesRead it → Money6 min readHow loans and grants work
Why a loan is not income, a repayment is not an expense, and only the interest is a cost — with a schedule you can try.
3 step-by-step guidesRead it → Money5 min readHow money owed works
Unpaid sales, instalments, wages and loans, read off records you already keep, grouped by person and aged by days.
2 step-by-step guidesRead it → Money4 min readHow reports and the accounting export work
Whether the farm is making money, per enterprise and per period, and the same books as one file for an accountant or a bank.
2 step-by-step guidesRead it → Money4 min readHow traceability QR codes work
Publish one plantation, coffee lot or batch for buyers to scan, with a spray check at the top and never a price on it.
2 step-by-step guidesRead it → People7 min readHow payroll works
What a worker earned, how Famu works it out, and why a monthly salary and a day rate are paid differently.
5 step-by-step guidesRead it → People7 min readHow savings and items on credit work
Keeping part of a worker's pay for them, buying them something they pay back, and how every shilling still adds up.
4 step-by-step guidesRead it → People6 min readHow worker statements work
One page or one slip that says what a worker's items cost, what came off their pay and what is left, with a line to sign.
2 step-by-step guidesRead it → Your farm7 min readHow milestones work
Two dates on every target, the one you planned and the one it happened, and how Famu keeps the gap honest.
7 step-by-step guidesRead it → Your farm3 min readHow the activity log works
Every record added, changed or deleted, written by the database itself, with the record before and after.
1 step-by-step guideRead it → Your farm5 min readHow AI reads your records
Put one plantation, batch or animal in front of an AI — Famu's assistant or your own — and what goes with it.
2 step-by-step guidesRead it → Your farm7 min readHow connecting your own AI works
Add Famu to Claude or ChatGPT and it looks up your records itself, as you — and logs them for you only if you allow changes.
1 step-by-step guideRead it → Your farm5 min readHow your AI makes changes
Tell Claude or ChatGPT what happened and it records it in Famu — only with your yes, only what your role can, and every change marked.
3 step-by-step guidesRead it → Your farm6 min readHow the WhatsApp assistant works
Connect your number once, then ask about your farm and record what happened in a chat — as you, and only with your yes.
9 step-by-step guidesRead it →There may be a step-by-step guide for it — and inside Famu, the Help Center covers every page you can open.
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