Built for the barn,
not the boardroom.
Every module connects to the same chain — complete a chore, log a harvest, make a sale, and it flows straight into your income statement, balance sheet, and schedules. Automatically. No accounting knowledge required.
Dashboard & Command Center
The real-time overview of your entire operation — weather, tasks, alerts, and instant access across all your properties.
Real-time weather widget
Current conditions at your location, updated live on the dashboard.
Daily & weekly task summary
At-a-glance view of what's due today and this week across your whole operation.
Multi-site selector
Switch between properties in one click — each site stays fully isolated.
Overdue alerts
Automatic flagging of overdue tasks, low stock, and unpaid vendor bills.
Property type presets
Homestead, Farm, or Ranch — your module set adapts to your operation type.
Role-based access control
Owner, Admin, Manager, and Worker roles with appropriate permissions throughout.
Feature flag system
Enable or disable modules per property type with configurable per-tenant defaults.
Tenant data isolation
Every record is scoped to your operation. Your data is never visible to others.
Tasks & Runlists
A complete operational task system — from one-time chores to templated daily runlists that auto-generate, auto-deduct inventory, and never forget a job.
15 task categories
Feeding, Watering, Health Check, Medication, Breeding, Harvesting, Planting, Maintenance, and more.
4 priority levels
Urgent, High, Medium, and Low — with overdue detection and visual alerts.
Recurrence patterns
Daily, Weekly, Biweekly, Monthly, Quarterly, or Annually — set it once.
Runlists (daily collections)
Group templates into scheduled runlists. Auto-generate task occurrences each day.
Full status lifecycle
Pending → In Progress → Completed, Skipped (with reason), or Cancelled.
Drag-and-drop reordering
Rearrange your daily task order by dragging. Works on any device.
Auto-deduct inventory
Completing a feeding task automatically removes feed from site inventory.
Inventory allocation modes
Deduct a total quantity per task, or a per-animal quantity for herd tasks.
Bulk operations
Reassign, delete, or update status across multiple tasks at once.
Projects with milestones
Create projects, assign team members, track milestones, and add notes per project.
Livestock & Animal Records
Full individual and group tracking for 30+ species — from birth to sale, with pedigree, health records, production logging, and lifecycle management.
30+ species supported
Cattle, horse, sheep, goat, pig, llama, chicken, duck, rabbit, bees, fish, and more.
20+ production purposes
Dairy, Meat, Fiber, Eggs, Honey, Draft, Show, Breeding, Riding, Herding, Service, and more.
4 animal types
Livestock, Pet, Working Animal, and Guardian — each with appropriate tracking fields.
Animal groups (flocks & herds)
Manage groups as single entities. Track starting/current quantity with flock adjustments.
Pedigree & breeding tree
Visual ancestor/descendant tree. Record births with dam, sire, offspring count, and date.
Offspring-per-female reporting
Track reproduction performance across your breeding program over time.
Production logging
Log periodic yields per animal — milk, eggs, wool, honey — with historical tracking.
Health records & protocols
Pre-defined treatment and vaccination protocols. Weight tracking over time.
Slaughter & processing records
Log slaughter events, processing details, and cause-of-death records.
Status transitions
Sell, retire, archive, or mark deceased. Bulk move animals to a new location.
Grazing & Pasture Management
Real-time visibility into where your animals are and where they're going next — with rotation plans, move history, and herd migration analysis.
Live grazing board
Real-time visual display of which animals are in which pasture right now.
Visual pasture board
See occupied vs. empty pastures at a glance, with herd health alerts.
Rotation plans
Create rotation schedules — plan which pasture each herd moves to and when.
Scheduled pasture moves
Set planned move dates and actual return dates per pasture segment.
Grazing move history
Complete timeline of every animal movement between pastures.
Rest period management
Track how long each pasture has rested. Prevent overgrazing automatically.
Herd migration analysis
Historical pattern analysis of herd movements across your property.
Land & Structures
A full spatial hierarchy for your entire property — from mapped land tracts down to individual bins — organized the way your operation actually works.
Land tracts
Acreage, soil type, irrigation status, coordinates, and usage tracking per tract.
Google Maps integration
Visualize your land boundaries on a real map, directly in the app.
Polygon boundary drawing
Draw precise boundary shapes on the map to define exact acreage.
Sites with farm map view
Full site CRUD with a map view of all your sites and a guided creation wizard.
Structures (8+ types)
Barn, Shed, Greenhouse, Coop, House, Garage, Container, and more.
Nested areas
Divide structures into stalls, pens, or paddocks with animal and inventory assignments.
Shelving systems
Add shelves to any structure with slot-level management.
Bins (9 types)
Dry Storage, Refrigerated, Freezer, Silo, Tank, Pallet Rack, and more — with capacity tracking.
Infrastructure tracking
Fencing, water systems, electrical, roads, and gates — with inspection and maintenance logs.
Garden & Growing
Plot planning, growth tracker, harvesting log, preservation tracker, and seed library — from seed packet to food storage, with every harvest feeding straight into your books.
Crop beds
CRUD with dimensions, soil type, planting date, and map placement on your property.
Crop plans
Variety selection, bed assignment, planting and expected harvest dates.
Growth journal
Log milestones, photos, and observations throughout the growing season.
Harvests
Record quantity, unit, and yield per crop. Auto-create food storage lots from harvests.
Seed library & inventory
Track variety traits, days to maturity, yield expectations, and physical seed packets.
Seed saving
Record germination tests, viability, and seed exchange history.
Preservation recipes
Library of canning, pickling, and fermenting recipes with batch recording.
Preservation batches
Log inputs/outputs per batch and link directly to food storage lots.
Orchards & trees
Tree CRUD with species, variety, planting date, and production history. Log prune, treat, and harvest events.
Annual yield by tree
Track and compare production output across individual trees year over year.
Frost zone & climate
Spring and fall frost date display with regional climate data for your property.
Inventory & Stock Control
Inventory auto-depletion — complete a chore and the feed, medicine, or supplies you used are subtracted automatically, with weighted average cost and a full audit trail across every site.
Master item catalog
Feed, Medicine, Supplies, and Equipment Parts — with SKU, unit, and reorder thresholds.
Per-site balances
Qty on hand, reserved, and available per site per item — always accurate.
Weighted Average Cost (WAC)
Every receipt updates unit cost using the industry-standard WAC method.
Inventory movements
Receipt, Consumption, Adjustment, and Transfer — each with full audit details.
Cross-site transfers
Move stock between properties. Both sites update instantly.
Auto-deduction on task completion
Completing a task automatically consumes the linked inventory items.
Per-animal assignment
Assign medicine or feed to a specific sick animal. Deduct on completion.
Allocation modes
Total quantity per task, or per-animal quantity for herd-level operations.
Low stock alerts
Automatic notification when any item falls below its reorder threshold.
Purchasing & Procurement
Auto-generated purchase orders — when inventory runs low, SteadStack writes the PO, and every step from requisition to paid vendor bill records itself straight into your books.
Requisitions
Draft, submit, approve, or reject. Auto-fill with item reorder quantities. Convert to PO.
Purchase orders
Draft → Sent → Open → Partially Received → Received → Closed. Vendor and send-method tracking.
Goods receipts
Receiving auto-posts to inventory (WAC update), site balances, and the A/P ledger simultaneously.
Vendor bills (A/P)
Match bills to POs and receipts. Draft → Approved → Partially Paid → Paid → Void.
Multi-bill payments
Pay one or multiple bills at once. Check, ACH, Card, Cash, or Wire.
Check generation & printing
Generate checks with print-ready formatting for physical payments.
Failed posting recovery
Reprocess any receipt that failed to post to the ledger without duplicating entries.
A/P aging analysis
See outstanding payables by vendor and age bucket. Never miss a payment.
Purchasing activity summary
Reporting across all purchasing activity by vendor, item, or date range.
Accounting & Financial Reports
Financial statements that build themselves — income statement, balance sheet, and schedules — because every chore, harvest, and sale auto-posts to a real double-entry ledger. No accounting knowledge required.
Agricultural chart of accounts
Homestead, Farm, and Ranch charts pre-configured with Schedule F categories. Activate one in a click — ready to use on day one.
Full double-entry ledger
Every transaction creates balanced debits and credits. No simplified single-entry shortcuts.
Idempotent posting
Each farm event posts to the ledger exactly once. Duplicate entries are architecturally impossible.
Event-to-ledger auto-posting
Goods receipts, payments, and invoices auto-post to accounting without manual journal entries.
Manual journal entries
Auto-numbered (JE-00001), balance-enforced before posting, with full reversal and audit trail.
Accounts receivable
Customer invoices, A/R aging by customer, statements, and cash receipt recording.
Bank account management
Manage bank accounts, record deposits from receipts, and track undeposited funds.
Bank statement import & matching
Import statements, auto-match transactions, flag unmatched items, and create adjusting entries.
Bank reconciliation
Full workflow: Start → Import → Match → Adjust → Complete, with status tracking.
Financial statements
Trial Balance, Income Statement (P&L), and Balance Sheet generated on demand.
Asset & schedule reports
Equipment depreciation, livestock assets, inventory valuation, loans, and infrastructure schedules.
Assets & Equipment
A unified registry for everything your operation owns — vehicles, equipment, tools, infrastructure, and stored items — with maintenance tracking and checkout management.
Unified asset registry
Animal, Land, Building, Vehicle, Equipment, Infrastructure, Tool — all in one searchable registry.
Vehicles
Full CRUD with year, make/model, VIN, location, and status. Link to work orders for maintenance.
Large equipment
Tractors, plows, sprayers — with maintenance logging and overdue alerts.
Hand tools
Individual tool tracking with checkout/check-in workflow and location management.
Infrastructure
Fencing, water systems, electrical, roads, and gates with inspection and maintenance event logging.
Non-consumable stored items
Fixed assets in specific bins — parts, tools, spare equipment — with status tracking.
Overdue maintenance alerts
Automatic alerts when maintenance is past due on any tracked asset.
Contacts & People
One unified contact system for everyone your operation interacts with — employees, vendors, customers, contractors, and family — each with the right data fields for their role.
Employees
Farm workers and managers with labor rate tracking for time-based cost calculations.
Contractors
Outside workers hired for specific jobs — separate from your regular employees.
Vendors
Suppliers integrated directly with the purchasing pipeline (POs, bills, payments).
Customers
Buyers integrated directly with accounts receivable and commerce orders.
Family members
Household contacts with relationship type, date of birth, and age-aware task assignment.
Labor rate tracking
Per-contact rates for accurate labor cost calculations on work orders and tasks.
Search, filter & export
Filter by type, search by name, and export the full contact list at any time.
Food Storage & Earmarks
Track every jar, bag, and barrel your homestead produces — with lot management, FIFO, expiration tracking, earmarks, and a visual bin display.
Food storage lots
Product, quantity, unit, harvest date, storage location, and origin tracking per lot.
FIFO & expiration management
First-in-first-out guidance with expiration date alerts to prevent spoilage.
Split lots
Use a partial quantity from any lot without losing tracking on the remainder.
Quantity adjustments
Record adjustments with reasons — spoilage, sampling, donation — with full audit trail.
Earmarks (pre-allocation)
Reserve quantities for selling, household use, or seed saving before drawing them down.
Auto-earmark rules
Configure rules to automatically earmark a percentage of each new lot on creation.
Harvest-to-storage auto-create
Logging a harvest can automatically create the corresponding food storage lot.
Bin view with photos
Visual display of bin contents with photo documentation of actual storage locations.
Commerce & Direct Sales
Sell directly from your farm — storefronts, product catalogs, order management, and integrations with Shopify, Square, WooCommerce, and GrazeCart.
Storefronts
Create branded storefronts with name, description, and logo. Public shopping URLs auto-generated.
Product catalog
Products with price, SKU, weight, variants (sizes/types), and photo upload.
Inventory sync
Products pull from your inventory catalog — available quantity stays accurate.
Order management
Pending → Confirmed → Ready → Fulfilled → Cancelled, with manual order creation.
Farmers market mode
Quick-sale interface for fast, in-person transactions without a full checkout flow.
Pick/pack/ship workflow
Fulfillment workflow with shipping and delivery tracking per order.
Commerce API
API token management with auto-generated documentation for third-party integration.
Platform integrations
Shopify, Square, WooCommerce, and GrazeCart — with webhooks for incoming order and inventory updates.
Work Orders & Maintenance
Track every maintenance job on your farm — from oil changes to fence repairs — with labor hours, parts, photo attachments, and optional ledger posting.
Asset-linked work orders
Attach any work order to a vehicle, piece of equipment, or infrastructure item.
Status lifecycle
Open → In Progress → On Hold → Completed or Cancelled, with full status history.
Work logs
Add progress notes and log labor hours per work session directly on the work order.
Parts tracking
Record parts used or replaced, with quantities and cost reference.
Photo & receipt attachments
Attach photos of the issue, repair diagrams, and vendor receipts.
Approval routing
Work order requests go through an approval workflow before being scheduled.
Cost tracking
Link labor and parts costs to expense accounts for accurate job costing.
Ledger auto-posting
Optionally post labor and parts costs directly to the accounting ledger on completion.
Built into every module.
These aren't add-ons — they're the foundation that every feature is built on.
Multi-site operations
Per-site inventory, tasks, and accounting — all consolidated for reporting.
Drag & drop
Task reordering and the live grazing board both support touch-friendly drag and drop.
Google Maps integration
Land boundary visualization and polygon drawing for precise acreage tracking.
Photo & file attachments
Attach photos and documents to tasks, work orders, animals, beds, and bins.
Export everywhere
Excel, CSV, and PDF export for reports, invoices, statements, and checks.
Dark mode
Full dark mode support throughout the entire application.
Mobile responsive
Designed mobile-first. Log from the barn, the field, or the tractor cab.
Overdue notifications
Automatic alerts for overdue tasks, low stock items, and due vendor bills.
Search & filtering
Every module ships with full-text search, type filters, status filters, and date ranges.
Event-driven ledger
Every meaningful farm action auto-posts to double-entry accounting. No manual re-entry.
Idempotent posting
Farm events can only post to the ledger once — duplicates are architecturally prevented.
Weighted Average Cost
WAC inventory valuation updates automatically on every goods receipt.
Role-protected routes
Feature visibility and data access match the logged-in user's role exactly.
Weather integration
Real-time weather data displayed on the dashboard for your operation's location.
Full audit trails
Every create, update, and delete carries user, timestamp, and reason throughout the system.
Contextual in-app help
Searchable help center with categorized articles and contextual links throughout the app.
The gap is closing fast.
SteadStack now covers territory that no single competitor matches — full farm operations, double-entry accounting, purchasing, and commerce in one system built for agriculture.
| Feature | SteadStack | Farmbrite | FarmKeep |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | |||
| Monthly price | From $7.99 founding member / $14.99 standard | $19–$45/mo | $119.99/mo |
| Lifetime price lock | |||
| Livestock | |||
| Multi-species tracking | |||
| Animal health & weight records | |||
| Pedigree & breeding tree | Limited | ||
| Production logging (milk, eggs, wool, honey) | Partial | ||
| Grazing & pasture rotation | Partial | ||
| Garden & Growing | |||
| Crop beds & plans | Partial | ||
| Harvest tracking | Partial | ||
| Seed library & saving | |||
| Preservation & canning batches | |||
| Orchards & tree management | |||
| Inventory & Purchasing | |||
| Multi-site inventory | Limited | Limited | |
| Weighted Average Cost valuation | |||
| Full procure-to-pay pipeline | |||
| Purchase orders & vendor bills | |||
| Food storage lots & earmarks | |||
| Accounting | |||
| Full double-entry accounting | |||
| Accounts receivable & invoicing | |||
| Bank reconciliation | |||
| Financial statements (P&L, Balance Sheet) | Limited | Limited | |
| Operations & Commerce | |||
| Task templates & runlists | Partial | ||
| Work orders & maintenance | |||
| Commerce & direct sales storefronts | |||
| Multi-site support | Partial | ||
| Mobile offline support | Planned | ||
Competitor feature data based on publicly available product pages. Features and pricing may change.
More features. Lower price. Built for farms.
FarmKeep charges $119.99/mo for a fraction of the feature set — and still leaves you doing your own books. SteadStack founding members lock in from $7.99/mo — for life — with full automated accounting included.
65+ pages. 51 data models. 56+ API modules.
Full double-entry accounting integrated with every farm operation — not bolted on after the fact.
Explore all of this with your own data.
Join as a founding member and set up your operation. Every feature above is available on day one.