A complete accounting platform for improving agricultural retail business financial performance.

Product Overview

Agvance by SSI is an agricultural software suite designed for web applications. The available modules include Accounting, Grain, Patronage, Propane, Motor Fuel, Mapping, Planning, and Blending. Together, they integrate various ag functions like supplier management, labor management, CRM, built-in accounting, and inventory management, catering specifically to the needs of the agricultural industry. The software streamlines workflow by connecting all aspects of an agribusiness operation, enhancing financial performance and operational efficiency.

Agvance Accounting serves as the financial hub of Agvance’s ag retail ERP, offering features like easy prepay management, timely inventory control, flexible billing, built-in forecasting, and visual data representation through an intuitive dashboard. It also supports B2B integration and has a simplified ledger system for agribusiness.

Pros

  • Combines multiple functionalities onto one platform
  • Regular updates and improvements based on user feedback
  • Wide range of report templates

Cons

  • Can be hard to use for those who prefer Windows-based systems
  • Pricing details not available from the developer

Target Market

Businesses of all sizes in the agricultural sector seeking a comprehensive web-based solution for managing various aspects of their business, including financials, inventory, customer relations, and labor.

About Agvance

Developed entirely by SSI utilizing the latest 32-bit Windows technology, Agvance Accounting has a consistent look and feel throughout the system and is extremely easy to operate. When combined with the other Agvance modules (Grain, Patronage, Propane, Motor Fuel, Mapping, Planning, Blending), information can flow from a soil test all the way to your financial statement. This one-step processing saves valuable time and provides information to the dealer when it’s needed most. While other systems claim to be integrated, Agvance takes system integration to another level.

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Agvance Accounting

Agvance Accounting is designed to streamline the record keeping/bookkeeping tasks of a ag cooperatives and dealers while providing valuable management information. Agvance will integrate grain, agronomy, propane, motor fuel and patronage functions into one powerful Microsoft SQL Server database. Agvance offers real-time inventory and financial reporting. All inventory and general ledger accounts are posted to when a transaction is entered. The centralized database allows for tremendous flexibility in generating reports and queries to aid management decision making. Accurate inventory and financial reports can be viewed anytime. Sales and inventory information can be viewed by location or combined for a total operation summary.

Agvance Blending

The Agvance Blending module can access field plans or quotes generated in the planning area and turn them into detailed work orders. Besides formulating dry, liquid, and suspension blends, this flexible program will generate blend tickets, custom application sheets, ‘haz-mat’ documents, and will optionally interface to several automated blending systems. At the foundation of each module is the Agvance ‘hub’. This powerful database will collect, store and provide access to a wide array of valuable field related data.

Agvance Grain

Agvance Grain makes it easy for grain professionals to stay on top of their workload and in step with the market. This powerful program is the ideal way to organize settlements, manage contracts, track shipments, and monitor your daily positions. What’s more, it works with all other Agvance programs (Accounting, Mapping, Planning, Blending, Patronage, Propane) and modules to give you complete system integration.

Agvance Mapping

Agvance Mapping can bring powerful site-specific functionality to a simple and practical level for dealers. Maps are object-oriented and can be exported to industry standard files for sharing valuable map data to facilitate various precision applications. It will import and display GPS map data, yield/moisture data, Digital Orthophoto Quadrangle (DOQ), soil tests, satellite imagery and other types of geo-referenced data. Maps can then be shaded and/or contoured based on their fertility needs and utilized with variable rate application systems. Dealers can also use the geo-based database to display and analyze their entire marketing area from data collected at the field level.

Agvance Patronage

Agvance Propane is a powerful add-on to the Agvance accounting system those dealers who need help tracking customer usage and tank inventory of LP or propane. This module utilizes heating degree-days to predict when tanks need to be filled and a geographical mapping tool to assist with dispatch and routing tasks.

Agvance Planning

The Agvance Planning module will generate nutrient recommendations, product formulations, detailed sales quotes, and access mapping information in the field or at the customer’s location. All product related expenses can be imported into a profitability model which can include all other field expenditures for a true break even analysis with cost per acre and total field profit.

Agvance Propane

Agvance Propane is a powerful add-on to the Agvance accounting system those dealers who need help tracking customer usage and tank inventory of LP or propane. This module utilizes heating degree-days to predict when tanks need to be filled and a geographical mapping tool to assist with dispatch and routing tasks.

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User Reviews of Agvance

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Submitted on December 12th, 2023 by Scott

Ease of use for accounting and setting up new locations is a zero star

The Good…

Grain and agronomy modules are good

The Bad…

The energy and accounting modules are klunking and they don’t care.

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Submitted on June 17th, 2019 by Jennifer Skold

Agvance allows us to bring all areas of our business into one system. We are not flipping from an accounting program to a grain program to a payroll program. Everything we need is in one central location.

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Submitted on June 17th, 2019 by Jessie Rexroat

Agvance handles every aspect of an agricultural business from dispatching agronomy services to selling retail products. Our accounting software is now connected to the mapping and blending tools which is a huge benefit. Having all the information in one system has had a huge impact.

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Submitted on June 17th, 2019 by Stephanie Fischer

The greatest benefit we’ve enjoyed since implementing Agvance over 10 years ago is that they are consistently trying to improve the software to fit our needs. They continue to improve with updates and new modules to keep up with the vast changing technology available in today’s world.

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Submitted on June 17th, 2019 by Nancy Frisch

I personally think the best benefits are the reports that I can show my customers, from field histories to sales to prepay. Whenever you have a customer walk out the door satisfied that they know where their money was spent and have easy to understand records to prove it is priceless!

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Submitted on June 17th, 2019 by Bobbi Attema

Agvance is a powerful program that makes our fertilizer & chemical business more efficient. We utilize many areas of the program such as planning, bookings, inventory, accounts receivables, payables and payroll and it is simple to teach other office people how to use it.

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Submitted on June 14th, 2018 by Anonymous

Very hard to use and not user friendly. Not being window based, it reminds me of programs from the 1980’s era

The Good…

NONE

The Bad…

Hard to find product with the search engine. Too many ‘buttons to click’ to make a transaction from the retail level. Customers get annoyed waiting for the transaction to be completed.