April 2009

South Island Fieldays 2009

i.Agri had a site at the South Island Field Days held at Lincoln this year. (see the picture below – taken before the gates opened) It was a busy time meeting potential clients and putting a face to the existing clients who called to see us. We displayed all parts of our program, including the pocket diary software which is currently running on PDA Windows 2003 and will soon be running on Mobile 5 & 6.

Don’t forget that if you have a Pocket Diary the software is FREE as part of your subscription. Many of those who visited, including existing clients, were blown away by the extent of the program and what can be achieved by LandMark when used in depth. As we’ve often said, “There’s more to good Farm Management than just keeping a Cash Book”.

Upgrades/Service Packs

Service pack 8 (SP8) is due to be released this week. It is our biggest service pack with many upgrades and improvements. Most obvious are the changes to Kiwi Saver and the inclusion of a new calculator which is available in a host of new places in the program. Not only does the new calculator have a ticker tape on which calculations and additions can be checked but it also has a more natural keystroke sequence using either the keyboard or mouse clicks as the means of entry.

IMPORTANT – as in all of our newsletters it is important that you know about and run the service pack upgrades. These are posted on the i.Agri website Support Page www.iagri.com/support_downloads.htm or can be mailed to you on request. Clients are notified of service packs via email (if we have your email address). The service packs must be run sequentially i.e. – if you are on service pack 5 (SP5 on the blue line at the very top of your main office screen when you are in the Landmark Program), then you must run service pack 6 then service pack 7 etc. We have been advised that some of our emails have been going into Spam folders and are not being read. Emailing is free and instant so that is why we want to use it. If you are receiving our emails – do nothing. If you aren’t please have a look in your Junk E-Mail folder. If you find one of our emails in there, right mouse click on that email, select “Junk E-mail” then “Add to safe sender list”. This will ensure our future emails don’t finish up as junk.

Tax Rates 2009

As at 1 April 2009 the tax rates and Kiwi Saver rates/rebates will change. Service Pack 8 will cover the Kiwi Saver changes but not the tax rates. LandMark is set up so that the tax rates can be changed manually. Those of you using the Wagebook will have done this previously. We will follow this newsletter up with an email advising you of the new tax rates and reminding you how to change them.

Website

We have added a Survey page to our website. If you have a few minutes to spare it would be fantastic if you could fill the survey in for us to get some feedback from our clients, we would love to hear from you.