Requirements checklist
What to ask for when choosing software for agri-drone operators.
A checklist built from how agri-drone operators work, to print or save as a PDF and bring to any supplier meeting.
What the software should cover
Tick each one that matters to your business.
- Farmer and field register
- Spray plan and tank mix
- Mission job card and flight log
- Drone, battery and payload register
- Pilot and permit papers
- Area billing and spray records
Roles that need their own access
Who logs in, and what each person may see or change.
- For owners
- For pilots
- For field helpers
- For the office
- For maintenance staff
Reports to ask for
Ask to see each one with your own sample data.
- Missions booked, flown and cancelled, by crop and area
- Acres flown by pilot, drone and week
- Product used and returned by mission
- Battery pack cycles and packs near retirement
- Dues by farmer, oldest bill first
- Drone downtime and repair log
- Pilot and registration papers expiring soon
Systems it may need to connect to
Note which ones you already run.
- WhatsApp or other messaging
- SMS
- Payment gateway
- Accounting export
- Flight app file import
Questions for any vendor
Put these to every supplier you are comparing.
- Does it fly or plan the mission?
- Can we quote spraying and mapping at different rates?
- How are battery packs tracked?
- Can a farmer receive a spray record?
- What happens when a mission is called off for wind?
- Does it track pilot certificates and registrations?
- Can it handle product supplied by the farmer?
- Do we keep control of our mission data?
- What does it cost?
- Can we try it with last season’s missions?
Where the work usually breaks today
Circle the ones you recognise. They set the order of the project.
- The spray record lives in a phone gallery
- Battery packs are used until one fails
- Tank mix and dose are not tied to the field
- Pilot and drone papers expire unnoticed
- Billed area differs from flown area
Prefer to talk it through? See the agri-drone operators page.