Key Features

• Project Lifecycle — planning → approved → construction → completed → operational, with cancellation blocked once operational. Completion auto-creates the asset record.
• Multi-Funder Financing — track funded and disbursed amounts from grants, CSR, donors, governments, loans and farmer co-contributions. Impact conditions can be flagged and verified.
• Asset Registry — type, value, ownership (company / farmer / leased / shared), install date, expected lifetime, operational status.
• Shared Bookings — hourly-rate booking workflow with overlap detection, operator assignment, and multi-state payment tracking.
• Lease Agreements — fixed, production-based, and revenue-share models with monthly / quarterly / seasonal / annual payment frequencies.
• Lease-to-Own — down payment, financed principal, residual value, monthly amortization. One-click ownership transfer at zero balance.
• Maintenance — preventive, corrective and emergency maintenance with planned / in-progress / completed states and daily due alerts.
• Monthly KPI Snapshots — booked vs capacity hours, utilization %, booking and lease revenue, maintenance cost, net margin and rating.
• SQL ROI Report — net return and payback years per asset.

Infrastructure Types

Define the equipment types your organization tracks:

1. Navigate to :menuselection:`Farm Infrastructure --> Configuration --> Infrastructure Types`
2. Click :guilabel:`Create`
3. Enter the type code, name and sector (crop, livestock, aquaculture, dairy, horticulture)
4. Click :guilabel:`Save`

Creating an Infrastructure Project

1. Navigate to :menuselection:`Farm Infrastructure --> Projects`
2. Click :guilabel:`Create`
3. Select the farm and infrastructure type
4. Enter the budget and planned dates
5. Add funding sources in the dedicated tab
6. Click :guilabel:`Approve` then :guilabel:`Start Construction`
7. When construction is finished, click :guilabel:`Complete` — the asset record is auto-created

Setting Up Shared Bookings

1. Open the asset record and tick :guilabel:`Shared Booking Enabled`
2. Set :guilabel:`Capacity Hours per Day` (defaults to 8)
3. Set the hourly rate
4. Navigate to :menuselection:`Farm Infrastructure --> Asset Bookings`
5. Click :guilabel:`Create`, pick the asset, dates and operator
6. Click :guilabel:`Confirm` — overlap is checked against confirmed and in-use bookings on the same asset
7. Click :guilabel:`Start` and :guilabel:`Done` as the booking progresses

Running a Lease-to-Own Agreement

1. Navigate to :menuselection:`Farm Infrastructure --> Leases`
2. Click :guilabel:`Create`
3. Select the asset and lessee farmer
4. Tick :guilabel:`Lease to Own`
5. Enter the down payment, residual value, annual interest rate and term in months
6. Save — the financed principal, monthly installment, total interest and total to pay are computed automatically
7. Click :guilabel:`Activate`
8. Record payments as the lessee pays each installment
9. When the remaining balance reaches zero, click :guilabel:`Transfer Ownership` to flip the asset's ownership type to farmer

Scheduling Maintenance

1. Navigate to :menuselection:`Farm Infrastructure --> Maintenance`
2. Click :guilabel:`Create` and pick the asset
3. Choose maintenance type (preventive / corrective / emergency)
4. Enter the planned date and estimated cost
5. Click :guilabel:`Start` then :guilabel:`Complete`
6. Set the next maintenance date to receive automatic alerts

Reading KPI Snapshots and ROI

• Monthly KPI snapshots are built automatically by cron every 7 days.
• Open :menuselection:`Farm Infrastructure --> Asset KPIs` to inspect utilization, revenue, cost and margin per period.
• Open :menuselection:`Farm Infrastructure --> ROI Analysis` for the SQL view with net return and payback years per asset.

Models

Scheduled Actions

• Maintenance Due Alert — daily activity creation for overdue maintenance.
• Lease Expiry Alert — daily 30-day-warning activities.
• Build Asset KPIs — every 7 days, rebuilds monthly snapshots.