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Type | Short description | Status | Justification |
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Machinery | Expenses related to the purchase, lease, rental, and maintenance of machinery. | Retained | Heavily used. |
Utilities | Recurring expenses related to electricity, gas, water (including irrigation), garbage collection, and other periodic services. | Proposed | Commonly used for monthly or annual expenses such as electricity, gas, and water (including irrigation). |
Labour | Expenses related to employed and contracted individuals. | Proposed | Heavily used. |
Seeds and plants | Purchases of seeds, starts, and seedlings used in planting and transplanting. | RetainedRenamed | Combination of existing “Seeds” and many entries under “Other” related to transplanted seedlings or starts. |
Soil Amendment | Expenses related to additives such as fertilizers that improve the attributes of your soil. | Retained | |
Equipment | Expenses related to simple tools, supplies, and parts for operating your farm. | Retained | Combination of existing “Equipment” with “Building supplies” and “maintenance” found during “Other” analysis. |
Fuel | Expenses related to the fuelling of infrastructure, vehicles, machinery, and equipment. | Retained | |
Pest control | Expenses related to the purchase of ingredients, products, and devices used to manage weeds and verminunwanted species. | Renamed | Renamed from “Pesticide”. Includes purchases of ingredients and services for both weeds and verminpests. |
Land | Expenses related to the purchase, financing, lease, rental, access, tax, and other fees for land ownership or use. | Retained | Renamed from “Land” to more clearly define different relationships to land relationships described in “Other” analysis. |
Infrastructure | Expenses related to building or improving structures on the farm. | Proposed | Asked for by user feedback group. Small set of existing examples from “Other” type. |
TransportionTransportation | Expenses related to moving inputs, outputs, and people to where they need to be. | Proposed | |
Services | Expenses related to other services such as licensing, certification, agronomy support, testing, marketing, and others. | Proposed | Combination of “Tax” and “Licenses and dues” found in Other analysis. |
Miscellaneous | Everything else. Consider creating a custom expense type if you will have additional expenses like this in the future. | Renamed | Renamed from “Other”. Should be less visible than other types. |
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Question | Answer | Date |
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What migrations - caused by changing existing expense types - need to take place? | As of , only “pesticide” → “Pest control” Duncan Brain. |
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Does it make sense for custom expense types to be at the end? Should they be elsewhere?TBD! | No - include them in alphabetical order. | ; reiterated |
How do we make types both short and crisp and descriptive? | Make the short descriptions searchable such that if someone searches for “lease” it brings up “Land” and “Machinery” since both of those might have the idea of a lease embedded within them. |
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Is alphabetical sorting the best ordering for expense types? | TBD; we would need a very good reason to move away. If we do move away, it needs to be statically ordered. Yes, we will use alphabetical sorting and custom expense types will be embedded along with standard expense types. |
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With 13 default types, it feels like we’re right on the edge of tiles being a useful tool. Do we need to rethink the selection process / flow? | Include a search bar. Remove or reduce icons role and move to list view rather than tile view. Loic Sans thinks he can also support longer titles on a list view as needed. |
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Should the UI for selecting revenues be updated to be consistent with the expenses UI? | Not for V1.5. Reasoning: Expenses are a batch selection process and revenues are not. Revenues will stay consistent with task tiles (which are also single selection) for now. |
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It’s often difficult to disentangle whether something is purely labour, purely machinery rental, or a combination of both. Do we need to be able to answer this or is it sufficient to allow the user to select one or both? | Guidance for user onboarding and support 👇
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Is there a way to make “Services” more useful of a type? Examples from the data include:
| Short description helps with this. Will re-evaluate a few months post-release. |
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