… but does that make the agricultural office digital? No, because only a (small) portion of daily mail comes and goes by mail. Standard office processes continue to rely on paper. The idea of the digital agricultural office, on the other hand, wants to get by without paper chaos as far as possible in the work processes by doing almost everything on the PC or smartphone. The technology used by topfarmplan is based on a document management system, or DMS for short, which keeps all documents and processes organized and makes them easy to search. This saves time and, of course, money.

Smartphones and tablets also turn the digital office into a mobile agricultural office. This means that work can be done quickly on the road, saving a few trips to the office and enabling many tasks to be completed on the side, for example directly on the tractor. Sounds tempting, doesn’t it?

‘Isn’t there a catch too’ you ask? 

Of course, you have to set up such a system first and start filing receipts digitally. Old receipts are often left untouched by this, so you’ll still need to refer to folders from time to time. However, if you continue to work with the digital system, you will quickly notice how much easier it is for you to do your office work. And when old documents aren’t subject to retention, you’ll eventually have everything in one place and searchable. So over time, the benefits of the digital farm office quickly outweigh the paper clutter. We’ve written a blog post about more pros and cons before on our site – feel free to stop by here if you want to dive deeper into the benefits consideration:  More advantages and disadvantages of the digital agricultural office.