Excel’s strengths
- Free and familiar
- Quick start and flexible sheets
- Can be enough for small farms
Excel’s limits
- Real-time entry from the field is hard, so records lag.
- Several people editing the same file creates version chaos.
- Formula errors affect decisions unnoticed.
- There are no alerts when thresholds are crossed.
- Feed stock, biomass and FCR are not linked automatically.
When should you switch to software?
- If you manage several cages, ponds or sites
- If several people enter records in the field
- If you want to see FCR and costs weekly
- If buyers ask for traceability records
How to make the switch
Stock, cage and feed data from your current Excel sheets is imported, and the team starts entering records by phone in the field. Every calculation you did by hand is then done automatically.
Free toolFree Excel TemplatesFCRSOFT
FCRSOFT does this for you automatically
You don’t need to do the calculations and checks on this page by hand every day. FCRSOFT derives them all automatically from the records entered in the field.
- Every calculation in the templates is done automatically in FCRSOFT.
- Field records by phone, no copying into Excel
- Instant alerts when thresholds are crossed
Last updated: 10/3/2026
