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🌱 DigiFarmer Connect for Input Suppliers

Reach your farmers, watch their crops and sell inputs.

DigiFarmer Connect keeps your farmer records and farm maps, watches the farms you choose by satellite, tells your team when a crop needs attention, and helps you send offers to the farmers who agreed and sell through the DigiFarmer shop. We are getting ready to launch: every feature on this page says whether it is ready at launch or coming soon.

✓ Ready at launch: farmer records and farm maps ✓ Ready at launch: crop monitoring and offers ✓ Ready at launch: weather alerts and farm-gate selling
DigiFarmer Connect
Input supplier module What is ready at launch, and what is coming
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Farmer registration and farm mappingDigiAgent app, GPS boundaries
Ready at launch
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Satellite crop monitoringPer farm, Basic or Premium
Ready at launch
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Campaigns and offersTo farmers who agreed
Ready at launch
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Selling in the shopProduct Seller app and DigiFarmer app
Ready at launch
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Weather alerts per farmRain, dry spells, heat, wind
Ready at launch
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Farm-gate sellingOrders taken in DigiAgent
Ready at launch
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Scheduled campaignsSend later, see SMS costs
Coming soon
What input suppliers get

Built and getting ready for launch.

Your farmers, their farms and your shop in one place, with satellite monitoring and offers to the farmers who want them. None of it is switched on yet: when we launch, DigiFarmer switches each feature on for your business.

Ready at launch

Built — switched on for your business when we launch

Ready at launch
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Sign up and set up at once

Create your business account on the web or in the Product Seller app, and set it up straight away. Our team sets up your package. Monitoring, campaigns and selling to farmers start once DigiFarmer has approved your business.

Ready at launch
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Add and map farmers from the office

Import farmers from a spreadsheet, with a GPS point for their farm, or add them one by one. Give a farmer more than one farm. Import boundaries in bulk for farms that have none; a second person checks each file before anything is saved.

Ready at launch
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Register farmers in the field

Your staff register farmers in the DigiAgent app, check each phone number with an SMS code, walk the farm boundary with GPS and record the farmer’s choices about monitoring and offers. Uganda and Kenya phone numbers at launch.

Ready at launch
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Farmers join you by link or QR code

Share your invite link or QR code. A farmer opens it, joins your business and chooses whether to agree to “monitor my farm” and “send me offers”; both are optional. A farmer’s record moves to your business from another one only if the farmer agrees, by SMS code or in the app.

Ready at launch
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Satellite crop monitoring, paid per farm

Choose the farms to watch: Basic (Copernicus) or Premium (Sat2Farm), the whole farm or a 1-acre patch inside it. DigiFarmer runs the service and you pay for it from a prepaid monitoring credit, topped up by card or mobile money. Only farms whose farmer agreed.

Ready at launch
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Crop alerts to your staff and agents

When the satellite sees crop stress, your staff are told on the web and in a daily e-mail, and the farm’s agents in DigiAgent. Your staff and agents see crop health, alerts and advice in DigiAgent, read only. A farmer gets an SMS only if they agreed.

Ready at launch
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Your own advice rules

Write advice rules linked to your own products. DigiFarmer’s agronomist reviews each set before it is used, and it advises only your farmers. A satellite alert never names a nutrient or a cause: it says “check the field”.

Ready at launch
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Crop calendar

Record each farm’s crop, variety and planting date. The crop stage follows DigiFarmer’s schedule, so you can reach farmers at the right stage, and fewer false alerts come at harvest.

Ready at launch
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SMS your farmers

Send an SMS from the web to all your farmers or the ones you choose, narrowed by crop, district and season. Farmers who asked to stop are skipped.

Ready at launch
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Farmer groups and offer campaigns

Group farmers by crop, district, season, farm size, crop alert or soil result, and send an offer by SMS or in the farmer app with a link to your product. Only farmers who agreed to offers get them, every SMS has a stop link, and each campaign shows what it led to, up to paid orders.

Ready at launch
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Coupons you fund

Make coupons for your own products: a percentage or an amount off, with limits and an end date. The discount comes out of your price, and farmers use the coupon in the DigiFarmer app shop.

Ready at launch
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Input-demand leads

Farmers who agree share what they need: district, crop, acres and the input. Up to 3 input suppliers in that district can buy the need as a lead from their prepaid credit and send an offer. You see the farmer’s name and phone only when the farmer accepts your offer.

Ready at launch
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Your farmers in the DigiFarmer app

Every farmer you register can use the full DigiFarmer app. Once they confirm your business, they see the farms you monitor and your offers, if they agreed. Choose your logo next to ours, or your own branding.

Ready at launch
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Sell in the DigiFarmer shop

One catalogue on the web and in the Product Seller app. After DigiFarmer reviews a product, farmers order it in the DigiFarmer app shop and pay from their wallet or in cash. Once approved as a dealer, you also accept lenders’ input vouchers.

Ready at launch
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Product details, bundles and recalls

Add nutrient content, active ingredient, suitable crops and safety details to your products, and sell bundles. Lot numbers and expiry dates follow your stock; an expired lot is never sold in the shop, and if you recall a lot, every buyer is told.

Ready at launch
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Safe-use lessons

Short lessons with a quiz on using pesticides and herbicides safely, in the farmer app. A lesson is shown only after DigiFarmer’s agronomist and legal team approve it, and your crop-protection products link to it.

Ready at launch
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Deliveries and payment links

Follow your shop orders on a Deliveries page, and farmers press “received” when an order arrives. Send a payment link for an input plan: the farmer pays by mobile money, or from their wallet with a PIN.

Ready at launch
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Money page and sales reports

Your shop balance, the fees DigiFarmer took, your withdrawals and your monitoring spend, with your orders and sales reports from your own records. You withdraw your shop balance in the Product Seller app.

Ready at launch
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Outside agents and commission

Give an outside agent an access code: they can view your farmers, not change or message them, and the code expires. You can remove an agent. Farmers they register under your code are yours. Agents can earn a commission, funded by you, when a farmer they registered gets a shop order delivered.

Ready at launch
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Dealers and branches

Link a distributor and its independent agro-dealers: a shared catalogue, a view of the dealer’s stock of shared products, and reorders. For your own branches, see the stock at each branch and transfer it.

Ready at launch
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Machinery for hire

Hire out tractors and other machines through the DigiFarmer Service Provider app, with prices, an availability calendar, a deposit and delivery.

Ready at launch
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Pest, disease and moisture reports

For the farms you monitor at Premium: the satellite pest and disease forecast, soil moisture and the farm’s weather on your farm pages. Advice to farmers comes only from rules DigiFarmer’s agronomist approved.

Ready at launch
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Weather alerts per farm

Heavy rain, dry spells, heat, and wind before spraying, for every farm you monitor. Your staff and agents are told; a farmer gets an SMS only if they agreed, and can stop them.

Ready at launch
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Crop-protection offers

On your Premium farms, an advice rule can follow the pest forecast and name one of your crop-protection products. Once DigiFarmer’s agronomist approves it, matching farmers are suggested for an offer; your staff check it and send it. Nothing is sent automatically.

Ready at launch
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Farm-gate selling in DigiAgent

Your staff and field agents take an order at the farm for your products, at your prices and from your stock. The farmer pays in cash or by a mobile money link, and the agent records the farmer’s answer to an offer.

Ready at launch
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Input credit linked to season plans

Put a farmer’s confirmed season input plan on your own credit, within the limit you set for that customer, or let the farmer pay it with an input voucher from a lender. The sale, the stock and the repayments add up in your records.

Ready at launch
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Paid shop banners

Your banner in the DigiFarmer app shop, shown only to a farmer group you choose, among farmers who confirmed your business and agreed to offers. Paid by the week from your prepaid credit; DigiFarmer approves the picture first.

Coming soon

Coming soon — still being built

Coming soon
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Scheduled campaigns and SMS costs

Schedule a campaign to go out later, and see your business’s SMS use and its cost. At launch, a campaign goes out when you send it.

Coming soon
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Your own app in the app stores

A separate store app for your business, on request. At launch every farmer uses the one DigiFarmer app, with your branding if you choose it.

Coming soon
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More countries

At launch, farmer registration works for Uganda and Kenya phone numbers. Other countries are being prepared.

Coming soon
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Buy your package online

At launch our team sets up your package for you. Paying for a package online is paused until it is ready.

“Ready at launch” means built and waiting for release; nothing on this page can be used yet. Monitoring, campaigns and selling to farmers start once DigiFarmer has approved your business. “Coming soon” means still being built.

How it works at launch

From sign-up to your first order in four steps.

Every step uses features that are ready at launch.

1

Create your account

Sign up on the web or in the Product Seller app. We set up your package and approve your business.

2

Add your farmers

Import a spreadsheet, have your staff register farmers in DigiAgent, or share your invite link. Each farmer chooses whether to agree to monitoring and offers.

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Watch their crops

Choose the farms to monitor. Crop and weather alerts reach your staff and agents, with advice from reviewed rules.

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Offer, sell and get paid

Send offers to farmers who agreed, sell in the DigiFarmer shop, follow the delivery and withdraw your balance.

Rural markets are ready. Reaching them is about to get easier.

Your farmer records, your field staff’s app, satellite monitoring and one shop that farmers use, in one place.

Your farmer recordsProfiles, phone numbers, farms mapped by GPS
A field app for your staffDigiAgent: registration, mapping, crop health
One shopProduct Seller app and the DigiFarmer farmer app
Web portalconnect.digifrica.com
Use cases

For every company in the input supply chain.

Whether you produce seed, blend fertiliser or run an agro-dealer shop, here is what is ready at launch and what is coming.

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Seed companies

At launch: list your seed in the shop, group farmers by crop and district, send offers before planting to the farmers who agreed, and get weather alerts for the farms you monitor.

Coming soon: schedule those campaigns ahead.

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Fertiliser suppliers

At launch: map your farmers’ farms, watch them by satellite, write advice rules linked to your products (reviewed by DigiFarmer’s agronomist), put season input plans on credit, and let your agents sell at the farm.

Coming soon: see your business’s SMS use and its cost.

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Agro-dealers

At launch: sell in the Product Seller app, accept lenders’ input vouchers once approved as a dealer, link to your distributor for a shared catalogue, and pay for shop banners shown to your farmer groups.

Coming soon: buy your package online.

Farmers’ data and choices

Farmers decide what you can do.

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Farmers choose

“Monitor my farm” and “Send me offers” are separate, and both are optional. You monitor, and send offers to, only the farmers who agreed. Every offer SMS has a stop link, and a stop is respected everywhere.

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You see your own farmers

Full farm, crop, crop-health and soil details for your own farmers. Shop buyers who are not your farmers show a masked phone number. Other businesses’ farmers: nothing without their consent.

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Never shown to suppliers

DigiFarmer credit scores are never shown to input suppliers, and neither is a farmer’s own wallet or loans in the DigiFarmer app. A lead shows no name or phone until the farmer accepts your offer.

Prices

Pay for what you choose.

Monitoring, farmer-app branding, shop banners and leads are priced in US dollars and charged in your local currency at the day’s rate. Ask us for current prices.

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Your package

Per package

Your package sets which tools your business can use. At launch our team sets it up for you; paying online is coming soon.

Prices on request

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Crop monitoring

Per acre, per month

Basic or Premium; the whole farm or 1 acre per farm. Set in US dollars and charged in your local currency at the day’s rate, from your prepaid monitoring credit.

Prices on request

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Farmer-app branding

Per month

Standard is free, with the DigiFarmer logo. Co-branded (your logo next to ours) and White-label (only your logo, name, colours and support contact) are paid monthly, in US dollars at the day’s rate.

Prices on request

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Input-demand leads

Per lead

A price for each lead you buy, set in US dollars and paid from your prepaid credit in your local currency.

Prices on request

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Shop banners

Per week

A price for each week your banner shows, set in US dollars and paid from your prepaid credit in your local currency. If DigiFarmer does not approve it, the money comes back.

Prices on request

Monitoring is a DigiFarmer service: you choose and pay for it, and the farmer is never charged for the monitoring you choose. Money from monitoring and soil testing goes to DigiFarmer; there is no revenue share for suppliers. USB soil sensor tests are not offered to input suppliers.

🌱 Get started

Start selling to your farmers

Create your business account and choose “Input supplier” as the business type. You can set it up at once. Our team sets up your package and approves your business before monitoring, campaigns and selling to farmers start.

✓Module: input supplier
✓Portal: connect.digifrica.com
✓Next step: package set-up and approval by DigiFarmer
✉ Talk to us

Questions first?

Tell us about your products, the crops and districts you serve and how many farmers you work with. We will show you what is ready at launch, what is coming and what it costs.