As summer transitions into fall, agribusinesses everywhere are bracing themselves for the busy harvest season. This time of year requires careful planning and preparation to ensure operations run smoothly. Whether you're a seasoned pro at creating push notifications or are new to using Bushelâs solutions, here are 7 easy steps to take today to ensure youâre ready to tackle harvest.
Send eSign Contracts to Farmers - Make sending and signing contracts easier and quicker for you and your farmers by taking advantage of the eSign feature available in your customer portal! Steps on generating and sending an eSign contract can be found here.
Send Notifications to Farmers - Keep your farmers engaged with well executed notifications. Check out this Knowledge Base article for 6 simple steps to send a notification. Some examples of notifications we often see include information on market updates, new features, events, holidays, location hours, storage, FSA info, settlements, and other reminders.
Ensure Youâre Confident in Using the Customer Portal - Watch our short tutorial video for an overview of the customer portal.
Manage the âAccount Not Foundâ Report - When a farmer logs into their customer portal on their mobile device, they are asked to provide their phone number. Once they do this, they receive a text message code to enter. If the farmerâs phone number is not connected to their account in your accounting system, they will be brought to the Account Not Found screen. The Account Not Found report provides you with a list of farmers who were unable to log in. This report should be delivered to your inbox each day. If you arenât seeing this report in your inbox, please get in touch with our support team. For more information on this report, visit our Knowledge Base.
Understand How to Pull a Proof of Yield Report - The Proof of Yield report is a list of loads during a specified delivery date. The purpose of the report is to prove what was delivered; other information on the report includes commodity, delivery location, delivery account(s), grade factors, and gross and net weights. You can quickly pull this report from your staff portal by following these simple instructions from our Knowledge Base.
Download a PDF Copy of a Scale Ticket - Farmers can generate PDF versions of individual scale tickets in both mobile and desktop experiences. The three vertical dots on each scale ticket prompt users to download a PDF of that individual scale ticket. View this Knowledge Base article for details.
Submit a Support Ticket - Our support team is here to help if something isnât working the way it should. Whether you are missing data, canât get logged in, or anything else in between, we can help! Save this link to submit a support ticket. You can also contact our team at [email protected].
Bonus Tip! Do you have farmers with older devices? Here's an article that outlines how to add a shortcut to your mobile device or tablet if a farmer's device doesn't allow them to download the latest iOS or Android operating system.
Direct Deposit Secures Your ACH Process
Bushel is excited to introduce our new Direct Deposit feature, which is designed to transform how you manage ACH payments. Bushelâs Direct Deposit offers a variety of benefits such as:
Mitigate Risk: Eliminate the need to store and guard sensitive personal and financial information.
Reduce Cost: Ditch the cost of printing, mailing, and managing the paper check process.
Enhance Security: Maintain your existing ACH payment processes with increased security using deposit-only ACH information.
Improve Customer Experience: Allow your farmers to self-serve and seamlessly enroll through Bushel while giving them the security of the deposit-only functionality.
đ˛ 5 Questions To Challenge Your Comfort With Risk
Sometimes it can be hard to know when to dive into new technology or processes or let people learn from their mistakes. This article from The Scoop covers the advantages of being an early adopter.
đ PepsiCo Commits $1.7 Million to Drive Young People into U.S. Ag
As we all know the issues facing an aging farmer population, PepsiCo is funding ways to drive more young farmers into the industry. They are partnering with Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI) to provide more opportunities for new farmers to enter farming. Read here at AgTech Navigator for more.
Bushel's All-in-One Customer Portal
Bushelâs customer portal, available on mobile and desktop, makes it easy to share account information with your farmer-customers. Our white-labeled customer portal works in tandem with our other workflow tools â CRM, payments management, and bid, offer, and hedge management â to provide ag retailers and grain buyers with one solution for interacting with customers and completing repetitive tasks.
Audrey Wieser from Flagler Cooperative Association shares that their decision to work with Bushel stemmed from the increasing demand from customers for more accessible and efficient ways to manage their agricultural needs. She highlights how Bushel provided a solution that aligned with the cooperative's goals to modernize operations and better serve the new generation of farmers.
Get more insights about how farmers want to do business with you
U.S. farmers answered survey questions about technology, grain marketing, payment methods, sustainability, and more. This is a a great resource to share with your team when deciding new initiatives to better engage your farmer customers. Download the full report here.
* Funds deposited into Bushel Wallet Accounts provided by Evolve Bank & Trust are covered by the FDIC standard deposit insurance amount. The standard deposit insurance amount is $250,000 per depositor, per insured bank, for each account ownership category
