The field guide
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Guides to every corner of BloomOS, written by the people who built it, and a straight line to us when a guide isn’t enough.
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Getting started
- Setting up your farmGetting from opening BloomOS for the first time to a working farm, in about two minutes.
- Putting BloomOS on your phoneAdding BloomOS to your home screen so it opens like any other app, on iPhone or Android.
- Working without a signalWhat happens to your records when the bars disappear, and how they catch up when you're back in range.
Cutting & the field
Growing & planning
- The variety libraryOver 1,400 cut flowers with the growing information already filled in, and what to do if yours isn't there.
- Planning your sowingsTurning "roughly every three weeks" into a season you can see, and finding out what each sowing really did.
- Beds and trial bedsSetting your beds up so your records are tied to real ground, and running proper trials on new varieties.
- Weather and frost warningsA local forecast for your farm, and warnings that know what you've planted and where.
Selling & getting paid
- Customers and ordersKeeping your florists, regulars and market customers in one place, and turning what you've cut into orders.
- InvoicesTurning an order into an invoice, printing or sending it, and keeping track of who has paid.
- Connecting XeroLinking BloomOS to your Xero account so invoices go across on their own.
- SubscriptionsSet a regular customer up once, and let their orders appear on their own.
- PrintingDelivery notes, packing lists, labels, invoices, bed plans and your sowing schedule.
Your account & data
- Getting your data outDownloading everything your farm has ever recorded, as spreadsheet files, whenever you want.
- Letting other people inThe difference between a guest PIN and a proper staff account, and how to set up either.
- Plans, billing and pausing for winterWhat each plan gives you, how to pause over the quiet months, and how to cancel.
- Deleting your accountHow to close your account, what gets deleted, and the few things the law makes us keep.
Quick answers
Contact
Still stuck? Talk to a human.
Messages land with the founders, one of whom will likely answer with soil still on her hands. Already in the app? Its Help & Support screen sends us a message with your farm attached, which is even faster to act on.