What a crop plan contains
A crop plan is the season program for one paddock. Its activities can cover spraying, seeding, spreading, harvest and other work. Each activity can hold timing, products, rates, units, water rate, nozzle, droplet size, application details, equipment, costs (such as cartage or a receival fee) and notes. Operator, weather and actual-use information can be added when the work is completed.
A pass can be marked Conditional: only if it is needed in Crop Plan Studio. It shows with a dashed edge and a Conditional tag, and stays out of committed costs, planned nutrients and Inventory demand until it is committed or done.
Use Crop Plan Studio to create, change, copy, apply or clear plans for one or more paddocks. Use Map → paddock → Plan to view or check one paddock, review completed history, or edit one activity when you specifically want Phase to offer its matching copies. Mark work done from either place: the pass in Crop Plan Studio and the activity on the paddock's Plan tab both have Mark done, and both open the same form.
In the Studio, copying, shifting dates, marking paddocks not cropped and clearing plans are in Plan tools, the menu beside Add activity once paddocks are selected (the ••• button on a phone). The Actions menu in the top bar is for the whole season. See Creating Crop Plans In Phase → Two menus: Actions and Plan tools.
Add a planned activity to one paddock
Step 1 — Open Crop Plan Studio from desktop Plan, or mobile More → Planning & Imports → Crop Plan Studio. Select the paddock on the Studio map.
Step 2 — Confirm the season. Activities are saved against the selected paddock and season.
Step 3 — Select Add Activity and choose the activity type. Crop and variety pickers suggest the Phase library's varieties for that crop as you type; a name that is not in the list is still accepted.
Step 4 — Enter a recognisable name and the planned Date. An activity has one date, not a window.
Step 5 — Add the products. For each line, check the product, rate and unit. For a spray, also check the water rate, nozzle, droplet size and application details where relevant.
Step 6 — Add notes or equipment needed to make the job clear to the person carrying it out.
Step 7 — Save. Phase writes the activity to the selected paddocks and offers Undo; a preview appears first only when there is a decision to make, such as a paddock that already has that activity. Then read the activity card once more. Check that 500 mL/ha has not been entered as 500 L/ha, and that the activity is on the intended season.
If a product is missing, add it from the product picker where available or create it in Inventory. Linking the planned line to the correct inventory product improves demand, costing, labels, SDS access and Reconcile matching.
For a quick one-paddock alternative, use Map → paddock → Plan → Add Activity. Use the paddock sheet mainly when you are viewing or checking that paddock, recording completion, or deliberately using the matching-activities prompt after an edit.
Product prices and the inventory link on the Plan tab
Each product line shows its price beside its cost per hectare, with the unit it is per (for example /kg or /t), which you can switch. Bulk products such as fertiliser and cereal seed open per tonne. If a line would cost more than $1,000 a hectare, Phase asks whether a per-tonne price was meant before it saves. A linked line follows inventory's price (the average of stock on hand, else the last lot bought, else the product's List price) until you type a plan price of your own, and a line saved before its product had a price picks one up automatically. If inventory's price later moves under a line that is following it, the line asks Use $X or Keep $Y. Editing a line's rate or anything else but its price keeps how it is priced: a line following inventory keeps following it, your own plan price stays, and a line with no price stays unpriced rather than being saved at $0. A line pinned to an old price by an earlier edit can be put back with Use inventory price. See Product prices on the plan in Creating Crop Plans In Phase.
A line typed by name rather than picked from Inventory cannot follow stock. If it matches an Inventory product, the line says Not linked to inventory: matches product and offers Link to inventory; one tap links it and the price follows.
Change a rate on the Plan tab
On Map → paddock → Plan, tap a product's rate on any pass that is not done yet. On a phone a pencil sits beside each rate; on a computer it appears when you point at the rate. Type the new rate, then tap the tick or press Enter; the cross or Esc puts it back. The line's cost per hectare is worked out again as it saves, the same way as in Crop Plan Studio: a plan price you typed stays, and a line that follows Inventory takes Inventory's price at the new rate. The pass's cost and the paddock's cost per hectare at the top count to their new figures.
You can tap Mark done straight after changing a rate. A rate still being typed is saved first, and while a change to that pass is still saving, the Complete activity form says "Saving your change to this pass" and holds Complete until it lands, so Actual quantities used shows the new rate. The same goes for a product just added, swapped or taken off the pass, on the paddock card or in Crop Plan Studio. A rate typed with a comma ("2,5") reads as 2.5.
A rate that would make the line cost more than $1,000 a hectare is not saved, and Phase says why, for example "180 L/ha would cost $1,116/ha. Check the rate." It usually means a decimal point went missing.
To change the unit, swap the product or set a price, use Add product on the activity and the line's pencil. A pass that is done keeps the rates it was recorded with: correct those with Edit what was applied. Changing a rate needs permission to edit crop plans. Plan tab edits show in Crop Plan Studio's Change history, labelled Edited on the paddock's Plan tab.
Take a product off an activity on the Plan tab
On a computer, point at a product or machine row and its Remove appears. On a phone, tap the row: it takes a light shade and shows its Remove, and tapping the row again hides it. Tapping Remove asks first, for example "Remove MAP?" with Cancel and Remove beside it. Nothing is deleted until you tap Remove. Cancel is picked first, so pressing Enter never removes by mistake, and the question goes away by itself after a few seconds if you leave it. Remove on a line in the Edit activity window asks the same way.
A pasture under the crop, and seed mixes, on the Plan tab
On a sowing pass the first seed names the paddock's crop. Adding a second seed (a pasture under barley, or a second variety) no longer changes the crop to that seed's. When the second seed is a pasture, tick Undersown: a pasture sown under the barley as you add it (it starts ticked for a pasture species): the barley stays the crop and the pasture seed's cost is kept out of the barley's margin. A seed mix is one line, with its seeds listed under it. See Seed mixes on a sowing pass and Pasture sown under the crop (undersown) in Creating Crop Plans In Phase.
Edit one activity and update its matching copies
Step 1 — On the activity, open More and select Edit activity.
Step 2 — Change the date, product, rate, unit, water rate, application detail, equipment or notes.
Step 3 — Save the activity. Your edit is saved on the paddock you opened.
Step 4 — If other open activities matched before the edit, Phase opens Apply edits to matching activities?. Matching paddocks are pre-selected.
Step 5 — Untick any paddock that is an exception. If product or equipment lines changed, decide whether to leave Copy product and equipment changes selected.
Step 6 — Select Apply to … fields to update the remaining selected paddocks, or Not now to keep the change only on the first paddock.
Phase matches the original job using activity type, activity name, water rate, and its product, adjuvant and conditioner lines with their rates and units. Only Active or Planned activities in the selected season are offered. Completed work is not changed. Only what you changed is copied: change the nozzle on one paddock and the others keep their own dates, droplet size, targets, seed settings and sprayer or contract costs.
The match is taken before your edit. For example, if eight paddocks have the same fungicide activity at 0.4 L/ha and you change one to 0.5 L/ha, Phase can still identify the other seven original 0.4 L/ha copies and offer them for update.
Dates are not part of the matching signature. This means copies with different planned dates can be offered together. Untick any paddock that should keep its current timing before applying a timing change.
Why the matching prompt did not appear
Check whether the other activity is in the same selected season and is still Active or Planned. Phase will not offer completed activities.
The original copies also need the same activity type, normalised name, water rate, and product/adjuvant/conditioner setup with the same rates and units. A different product, rate, unit or water rate makes it a different job for matching purposes.
If no prompt appears, the edit has still been saved on the paddock you opened. Use Crop Plan Studio to select the intended paddocks and make a controlled group edit if needed.
Marking work complete
Step 1 — Open the job and select Mark done: at the foot of the open pass in Crop Plan Studio, or on the activity from Map → paddock → Plan. Both open the same Complete activity form. If the Studio pass covers several selected paddocks, choose the paddock you are recording under Paddock; the area and quantities change to that paddock's, and the others are offered in Step 4.
Step 2 — Review the date, Area done, operator, the amounts under Actual quantities used, weather and Deduct from inventory. The Date can't be a day still to come. For a job in the current season, or one still to start, it starts at today. For a job in a season that has finished, it starts on the job's planned date, or the season's last day if it has none, with a line under it asking for the day the work was done. Set Date to the day the work was actually done: that is the date the job shows as done on the Plan tab, in Crop Plan Studio, in the withholding and plant-back checks and on reports. Do not confirm planned quantities as actual use without checking them: the finished job costs the amounts you record (see What a finished job costs below). Machines and costs on the job are listed under Machines and costs with their $/ha.
If a product on the job sits in more than one silo, shed or stack in Grain & Hay Storage (seed in two silos, say), Came out of appears under its amount. It lists each silo holding that product and how much is in it, and marks any holding less than the amount you entered "(less than this)". Choose one and that silo goes down by the amount when you press Complete. If the silo you chose holds less than was sown, a second choice appears, The other … t came out of: pick the silo the rest came from, and the first silo is emptied and the second goes down by the rest. A line under the choices says what comes from where, for example "7.95 t from Silo 9 and 4.37 t from Silo 8." Leave the second choice on Nowhere else and it all comes off the first silo, which then reads empty until it is counted. Leave Came out of on Choose later and the job saves as before: the seed comes off the product's total and waits in Grain & Hay Storage under Not taken out of a silo yet until you say which silo. The question appears only when the plan line's shed or the product's default shed doesn't already say which, and it is hidden while Deduct from inventory is off. Products kept in one silo, and chemicals and fertiliser in Inventory's own sheds, are not asked about.
Step 3 — Add anything worth recording under Note ("missed a strip by the dam"), then press Complete. Phase records the reviewed values for that paddock. The completion saves in one go: the spray record, every product line and the stock use are all saved, or none of them are. If it fails on a poor connection, try again; it will not record the work or take the stock off twice.
If you marked a seeding pass done (or confirmed a John Deere seeding job) with a seed of a different crop or variety from the plan, Phase then asks, for example, Update the paddock's crop for 2026?, naming what was planned and what was sown. Update crop changes the paddock's crop for the season, its rotation and the pass to what was sown, and the change shows in Change history. Keep the plan, or closing the question, changes nothing. Only people who can edit crop plans are asked.
Step 4 — If the same open job exists on other paddocks in the selected season, Phase can open Mark same job on other fields?. It lists every matching paddock on the farm, not only the ones selected in the Studio. Matching paddocks start selected, each with its area in a box; untick any field that was not completed or used different actual quantities, and change a paddock's area if only part of it was done.
Step 5 — If the completed source job has product lines that the matching plans do not, review whether to add those extra product lines. Then choose Mark … other fields done.
Phase calculates totals for each selected paddock from that paddock's area. The completion date, operator, weather and inventory-deduction choice follow the reviewed completion. The silo does not: the other paddocks' seed waits in Not taken out of a silo yet, because the next paddock may have been sown from a different silo. This is a follow-up after one activity has been checked and completed; there is no separate button for marking an unchecked batch of planned activities done.
A completed job shows Done 3 Sep 2026 in green under its name, ahead of its planned dates, with the year, because finished work stays on the paddock across seasons. That is the Date set when it was marked done, not the day the button was pressed. To change it, choose Completed · Reopen, then Mark done again with the right Date (see Reopen a completed job). More → Edit activity changes only the planned date, never the date it was done. Once a paddock has completed work, a Sort by control above the list offers Planned date or Date completed; sorting by date completed puts the finished work first, most recent at the top, with outstanding work below it in planned order. Work reconciled from John Deere shows the Deere mix name under the completed activity's name.
For machine-completed John Deere work, use More → Data Feeds → John Deere (Reconcile), or the Work queue tile on Overview. Reconcile shows the jobs for the season in the season selector; each Deere product sits beside its Phase match with its applied rate and total, and Don't use leaves a product out of the completed record. See the John Deere Operations Center article for the full review.
Mark done with no signal
On the Phase iPhone and Android apps, you can mark a pass done on the paddock's Plan tab or in Crop Plan Studio while the phone has no connection, or while it is still loading the farm. Phase keeps the job on the phone and the pass shows Done, waiting to sync; a line at the top of the screen counts the jobs waiting. When the phone is back online, Phase records each one with exactly what you entered (date, area, amounts, operator, note and silo), and the stock comes off then.
If the pass was changed, deleted, moved or marked done by someone else in the meantime, Phase does not save it. The line at the top says a job was not saved, with Review: each one says why, with Try again or Discard, and you can mark the pass done again. The web app still needs a connection. A phone that shows a connection but has no data still shows an error, because the job may have saved: check the pass before marking it done again.
Reopen a completed job
Reopen takes a finished job back to planned so it can be recorded again, for example after you change the plan's rates, or to change the date it was done. It asks first, because it removes the record of what was applied, including any changes made with Edit what was applied, and puts any stock the job used back into inventory. Mark it done again and Phase records the plan's rates as they are then, and takes that amount from stock, so check the amounts and the Date on the form before you save.
On a paddock: Map → paddock → Plan → the completed activity → Completed · Reopen.
In Crop Plan Studio: select the paddocks, open Completed · N passes under the activity list, then Reopen on the pass. A pass completed on several paddocks reopens on all of them together.
Reopening needs permission to edit crop plans, and putting stock back needs permission to edit inventory too; without it, Phase says it could not reopen the job and changes nothing. A job recorded from John Deere is not reopened from the plan: use Undo confirm on it in Reconcile, which removes the record and its stock use and puts the job back in the queue. To correct a product, rate or unit without recording the job again, use Edit what was applied instead.
Marking a job done again without reopening it only adds products that were not recorded before. A product recorded before it was in your inventory is recognised as the same product and is not recorded or taken off stock a second time. Deleting a product from the plan only changes the plan, not a job already recorded as done.
What a finished job costs
A finished job costs what was actually used. Change an amount under Actual quantities used and the cost follows it: the amount used at the product's price, spread over the area worked. The price is the plan price you typed on that product, else Inventory's price (your stock's price, or the product's list price), else the price the plan was costed at. Leave the amounts as Phase fills them in and the job costs what the plan said. The finished record also shows the rate that actually went on: 25 kg/ha used on a 30 kg/ha plan records 25 kg/ha. If a price would make a product cost more than $1,000/ha (usually a price per kilogram that should have been per tonne), Phase keeps the plan's cost for that product. Machines and costs are recorded at their planned $/ha for the area worked, except a cost charged per tonne, which comes to what was actually applied or harvested (see Costs that are not a product or a machine below).
This applies to jobs finished from 30 September 2026. Jobs recorded before then keep the cost they were saved with. Correcting a product, rate or unit with Edit what was applied works the cost out again. The cost shows wherever finished work is totalled, such as Financial Performance's actual cost and gross margin.
Record a patch spray or part of a paddock
When only part of a paddock was done, such as a patch spray or a missed strip, say so on Mark done:
Under Area done, tap Part of it (Whole paddock is the default).
Type the hectares (or acres) done, or tap % of paddock and type a percentage. Phase says what that comes to: "11% of the paddock" for hectares, or "26.2 hectares of 262 hectares" for a percentage.
The amounts under Actual quantities used follow the area as you type: 1.2 L/ha over 28 ha shows 33.6 L, not the whole paddock's 314 L. An amount you type yourself stays as typed, with a "Plan for this area" line under it when it is well away from the plan.
Stock comes off and the job is costed for the area done. On the Plan tab the job then shows 28 of 262 ha in bold beside Done 9 Apr, its cost reads /ha done, and the job's dollar total sits beside the hectares. If a missed strip was recorded as a second pass, the hectares are added up and it says · 2 passes. A finished spray's water total is for the hectares done.
Before 9 October 2026, lowering the area on Mark done costed the record for the smaller area but still took the whole paddock's product off stock. Records already saved keep the area they were saved with; to fix an old patch spray recorded as the whole paddock, change Area done with Edit what was applied (below).
Notes on a job
Any job on a paddock's plan (a spray, a spread, seeding, anything) can carry notes about what happened: "wind swung north-east after the second tank", "blocked nozzle on the left wing".
Add a note: on Map → paddock → Plan, tap Add note in the activity's Notes section, on jobs still to do and jobs already done. Type it, tap Add photo to attach photos if you want, then Save note. Each note shows who wrote it and the date; tap a photo to see it full size.
While marking it done: type it in the Note box at the bottom of Complete activity.
Change or remove one: whoever wrote a note can Edit or Delete it (Delete asks "Delete this note?" first), and someone who can edit the plan can change anyone's.
Map notes linked to the job are listed under From paddock notes; tap one to open it.
Notes show in the paddock's History with the job's record (the row says, for example, "2 notes"); a note on a job not done yet is its own Job note entry. Reports → Spray Records shows them too. Anyone who can mark jobs done or edit the plan can write notes; view-only logins can read them. Reopening a job keeps its notes; deleting the job, its plan or its paddock deletes them.
Fix what was applied on a completed job
A completed spray, spread or seeding record can be corrected without reopening it. Open the completed activity on Map → paddock → Plan. While it shows what was applied (labelled Phase Actual, or the source it came from, with Actual picked on its Actual | Plan switch), choose Edit what was applied under its products. You can also start from Inventory: open the product, tap the pencil on the Used movement that came from the job, and choose Edit what was applied in the note.
Area done is at the top. Change it for a patch or a strip recorded as the whole paddock: each product's rate stays and its total is worked out again, the stock taken off follows, and machine and paddock costs are totalled again at their $/ha. The change is noted on the record, for example "area 337 → 30 ha".
For each product on the job you can:
Swap it for another product in your inventory, or link a product that came in by name only.
Change the rate and the unit, for example a granular recorded as 0.5 L/ha that should read kg/ha. The total follows the rate over the area worked, or type the total instead. If the unit doesn't match how the product is stocked ("Ammonium Sulphate is stocked in kg, but this says L/ha"), Phase offers a one-tap Use kg/ha.
Set Take it off stock: change the amount and the stock movement changes with it; swap the product and the old one goes back on stock while the new one comes off; untick it and the stock goes back.
A changed product shows Changed. The cost on the record is worked out again from your plan or stock price. Spray records are compliance records, so nothing is overwritten quietly: every save adds a line to the record saying who changed what and when, for example "Corrected 1 Oct 2026, 14:05 by Sam Carter: Ammonium Sulphate: rate 0.5 L/ha → 100 kg/ha". The line shows before you save, under Added to the record's notes, and prints on the spray record under Record changes, apart from the job's own notes.
Seed that came out of two silos is two stock movements on the job, one per silo, and the editor keeps them together: a higher amount comes off the second silo, a lower one goes back into the second silo first, and taking the product off stock puts both back.
Editing needs permission to edit crop plans, and changing what came off stock also needs permission to edit inventory. Jobs confirmed from John Deere can be edited too, and a John Deere refresh won't undo the change, but Undo confirm in Reconcile removes the whole record, changes included. When you swap the product on a John Deere job, the editor offers Next time John Deere sends "…", use …, ticked, and says what happens otherwise and how many waiting jobs switch too. Keep it ticked and every waiting job, and every new one, with that John Deere name comes in as the product you chose; untick it for a one-off. Machine cost lines are not changed here.
Save and reuse spray nozzles
For a spray activity, enter the nozzle name—for example, TeeJet AIXR 11003—and choose its ISO size alongside water rate and droplet size. ISO sizes use the familiar colour code: 01 orange, 015 green, 02 yellow, 025 lilac, 03 blue, 04 red, 05 brown, 06 grey and 08 white. The coloured size chip appears on the activity and completed spray record.
Phase remembers nozzles previously used on the farm and offers them as suggestions, so there is no separate nozzle list to maintain. Earlier free-text names such as AIXR 11002 can be recognised as size 02 and shown with the matching colour.
The same suggestions are available in Crop Plan Studio, a paddock's Plan tab and John Deere Reconcile. Completing a planned spray carries its nozzle into the completed record. In Reconcile, a reviewed Deere value or manual override takes priority over the planned value; use reset when the plan value is the correct one.
The 2,4-D droplet warning
If a planned spray contains 2,4-D and its droplet size is missing or finer than Very coarse, Phase shows a label warning. The warning can use the linked product's active ingredients as well as its name.
This is a reminder, not a blocker or a certification. Check the current product label, permits, conditions and adviser guidance before spraying; the product label remains authoritative.
Remembered equipment costs
Use Add equipment or Machines on the activity to choose from Jobs & Maintenance → Machines (the same fleet as Inventory → Machinery). Equipment is for a machine you run, with its running cost and diesel. Contractors, cartage, hire, fees and leases go under Add cost instead (see below). If an older plan line contains only a typed equipment name, Phase offers the matching machine or lets you add that asset to the fleet instead of creating a duplicate.
Each machine can remember its running cost per hectare and diesel use in litres per hectare. The next plan activity using that machine can pre-fill those values, and sprays can suggest machines normally used for spraying on that farm. Review the machine, cost, fuel and units every time; a value entered on the activity takes priority over the remembered value.
Saving a plan or activity as a template keeps each machine line's cost per hectare and diesel, and applying the template puts them on the new activities. An older template with no costs stored fills each machine line from what you last entered for that machine or name.
Costs that are not a product or a machine
An activity can carry a Cost as well as products and equipment: fertiliser cartage from the port, a grain receival fee, a hired stubble cruncher or roller, contract spreading, or a leased paddock. Nothing is added to the machine list.
Where to add one:
Map → paddock → Plan: Add cost under an activity (or Cost at the top of the Add to activity window), or Add cost while adding or editing an activity.
Crop Plan Studio: open the activity card and choose + Cost. The amount can be changed in place on the card.
More → Templates: set a line's Type to Cost.
Under Cost, pick one the farm has used before (it fills in its kind and the amount it was last planned at), one of the Common costs, or + Add a new cost… and name it. Then choose the Kind of cost: Cartage & freight, Contract work, Hire, Fees & levies, Lease & rent, Insurance or Other. The line under it says which row it adds up under in Finances.
Charged says how the amount is worked out:
Per hectare.
Lump sum for this paddock, which Phase divides by the paddock's area: $1,800 over 150 ha is $12.00/ha.
Per tonne of product on this pass, for fertiliser cartage at $/t. Under On, choose every product measured by weight, or one product such as MAP. The form shows the sum, for example "90 kg/ha × $45.00/t = $4.05/ha, $623.70 for 154 ha". Products measured in litres are not counted, and the form says so.
Per tonne of grain harvested, for grain freight or a receival fee, worked out on the plan's budget yield.
Fertiliser cartage starts per tonne of product, and Grain freight and Grain receival fee per tonne of grain. Leave the amount blank if the price is not known yet. A per-tonne cost keeps itself up to date: change the MAP rate or the budget yield, on the Plan tab, in Crop Plan Studio or through Phase Agent, and the cartage follows.
A cost counts in the activity's $/ha, the plan's budget and the gross margin. When the activity is marked done, Mark done lists it under Machines and costs, and it goes onto the record at its planned $/ha for the area worked, including on a pass reconciled from John Deere. A per-tonne cost charges what was actually applied, or for grain the harvest's yield, then the paddock's yield record for the season, then the budget yield. In Finances each kind adds up under its own row: Cartage & freight under Freight, Contract work under Labour & contract, then Hire, Fees & levies, Lease & rent, Insurance and Other. Machine running costs show as Machine work. If your grain price is already net of freight and receival fees, do not add those fees as costs as well, or they are counted twice.
Manage costs, beside the Cost label once the farm has costs of its own, lists them with how many plan lines use each. Choose Edit on one to rename it, change its kind, or merge it into another under Or merge into, for example "Cartage" into "Contract cartage". Every plan line and every job already done with that name changes together, and a merge asks first.
A machine that was only ever entered to get a cost onto a paddock, such as "Contract Cartage" or "Roller", can be moved: Jobs & Maintenance → the machine → More → Not a machine? Move to costs, then pick its kind. Its plan lines become cost lines, jobs already recorded with it take the same kind, and the machine is retired (it can be returned to service). It needs permission to edit both the farm and crop plans. Costs already entered as machines stay as they are until you do this.
Recommendations
Open the Recommendations tile on Overview to see the recommendations that are waiting, who sent them and the paddocks they cover. The expanded view has Inbox, In plan and Done tabs. Open an ignored or rejected recommendation and choose Restore when it needs another decision.
Select + or New recommendation, then choose Voice or Write. Voice records a spoken recommendation, matches the paddocks and products it heard, and opens the composer already filled in. Write opens the paddock picker and composer directly. The voice choice appears only for members who can record Notes. Nothing is saved until you review the composer.
The composer keeps the type, title, date, paddocks and products together. Its Templates menu lists the farm's recommendation templates and, under Saved activities, your saved activities: picking one fills in the products and rates, water rate, method, target and notes, and the due date if you haven't set one. Machines and per-tonne costs stay with the plan. Add cost puts a cost on the recommendation, such as aerial application or contract spreading, per hectare or as a lump sum for the paddock. It shows on the recommendation card under Costs, in the recommendation email and PDF, and goes into the plan at its $/ha when the recommendation is added to the plan. Under Products heard, check chips such as In your shed, Product Library, Check match or No match. Use Use … to accept a close match or Find product to search. Review every product, rate, unit, water rate and paddock before saving.
Every recommendation has Also apply to under its paddock. Add paddocks from the + Paddock list, or choose Pick on map: a full-screen map opens with the recommendation's paddocks ticked. Tap a paddock to add it and tap it again to take it off; paddocks without a boundary are listed under the map. The card at the bottom counts the paddocks and hectares ticked, and Use N paddocks takes them back to the composer. If you take the recommendation's own paddock off, the first paddock left takes its place. The same composer opens from Map → paddock → Plan → New Reco, from Overview → Recommendations → Write, and from Map Creator → Attach work → Create reco, where + Paddock now offers every paddock on the farm.
A recommendation for several paddocks is one recommendation and one combined PDF when sent. Approving, ignoring or deleting it acts on the whole recommendation, while adding it to the plan puts the activity on each paddock, as a new pass or in place of a planned pass it firms up (see below).
A saved recommendation can be edited. Open it with View on the paddock's Plan tab and choose Edit. What you change applies to every paddock it covers, and you can add or remove paddocks the same way, from the list or the map. Removing a paddock deletes that paddock's copy of the recommendation when you save, and the composer warns you first. Edit and Delete show only to the person who wrote the recommendation, or a farm owner or manager, so one adviser's recommendation can't be rewritten or removed by another. Everyone else who works with recommendations can still approve, ignore, reject, restore and add them to the plan. Edit shows only while the recommendation is a draft or sent on every paddock: once any paddock has approved, rejected, added it to the plan or finished it, its paddocks can't change. The detail view lists the paddocks a recommendation covers, for example "3 paddocks: North 1, North 3, Racecourse".
On Map → paddock → Plan, a recommendation not yet added to the plan appears at its due date with an amber Not in your plan yet state. Use Approve where required, then Add to plan; View and Ignore remain available as secondary actions. Once added, the activity carries the Reco marker and is not shown twice.
Add to plan first looks for a pass the recommendation firms up: one not done yet, of the same kind of work, and due within about three weeks or already using one of the recommended products. If it finds one, Phase asks: Replace planned pass, naming the pass and its date (for example "Post-em · 4 Jul"), or Add as a new pass. Replacing keeps the pass where it sits in your program and gives it the recommendation's date, rates and products, so it isn't counted twice in cost or in what you need to buy. Machines, and your own price on a product the pass already had, are kept. A pass with recorded work, a prescription map or a John Deere job can't be replaced, and says why. Marking the pass done still completes the recommendation, and your adviser still sees it as applied. If there is no such pass, a new pass is added as before. A recommendation goes into the plan of the season it was written for, not whichever season is on screen.
Fill Assist
Fill Assist is a tank-fill guide for a planned spray. Open it with the blue Fill Assist button beside the water rate on a spray activity on Map → paddock → Plan. Choose Full tank or Set area, enter the tank capacity (Phase remembers it on that device) and check the water rate. The Load estimate shows how many hectares that fill covers and how much water it takes.
Review mix order first reminds you that the product labels are the authority: select I understand once you have read them. Phase then suggests a mixing order from each product's formulation type (water conditioners first, adjuvants and oils last) and shows how much of each product goes in this fill. Move products earlier or later to match the labels. Start fill guide then takes you through it one step at a time: water first, at least half the tank, then each product with its amount, then the final top-up.
A rate per 100 L of spray mix (L/100L or mL/100L) is worked out from the water rate: 200 mL/100L at 80 L/ha is 160 mL/ha. Fill Assist, the plan's $/ha and the stock taken off on Mark done all use that figure; before 9 October 2026 they treated it as per hectare.
Fill Assist only calculates. It does not record the spray, take stock out of Inventory or check that the products are compatible. Complete the activity as usual once the work is done, and jar-test a mix you are unsure of.
Clean activity records
For spray or application records, try to keep the activity name, product list, water rate, operator and timing clear. Cleaner planned activities make inventory demand, reports, recommendations and Reconcile easier to trust.
If a product is missing from the picker, add or match it in Inventory so labels, SDS links, price and stock can connect properly.
