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Designed for media professionals in production, post-production, broadcasting, equipment rental, agencies, and education. Schedule people, rooms, equipment and more in two integrated timelines. Manage your Project Lifecycles and track costs and forecast costs & revenue, configure rates & discounts and generate invoices. Collaborate with your teams using Cirkus and share tasks, comments and files - all integrated with your farmerswife projects. Let farmerswife simplify your work!
Provider
farmerswife
Located In
Spain
Foundation
1999
Open API
Yes
Deployment
Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
Mobile Apps
iOS
Training
Documentation, Live Online, Videos, In Person, Webinars
Support
Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Email/Help Desk
Production, post-production, broadcast, advertisement agency, equipment rental or a corporate media department.
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farmerswife Reviews
Pros
They have had great customer service overall and are very quick to implement any updates that users suggest (which is excellent!). I have enjoyed partnering with this company.
Amazing customization with flexibility for every type of organization.
Farmerswife is amazing for project management throughout the entire process of the project.
It is great to schedule and manage our resources and projects.
Cons
Farmerswife has a somewhat high barrier to entry from the user experience side. The UI and layout are unfamiliar to everyday users.
They have been using Farmers for many years prior to me joining. I was initially afraid to do anything on the server for fear that it would stop working.
I thought FW should be more open to making corrections and additions, even without the current customers having to pay for it. It should be a part of producing and maintaining software.
Even our tech designer who is used to a technical language totally freaks out over the UX. I dont think I'm gonna get him back to use it.
"From a Technical Perspective"
Overall: I have been an IT Engineer for our company for 5 years now. They have been using Farmers for many years prior to me joining. I was initially afraid to do anything on the server for fear that it would stop working! But, fear not! It has regular backups, both full and partial which is great for us technical guys. Just such a peasure to now know how it asll works, and to not have to worry about losing anything if it ever does crash out.
Pros: Farmers is just a dream from an IT perspective! From installing the Server, getting everything up and running to even doing simple Server upgrade or reinstalls. It takes minutes to do. Getting the users up and running is aven easier. Simple to maintain. Easy to administer. Just keeps running day by day! We also get a lot of power cuts this side of the world. Server crashes out, databases get corrupted... Copy 2 files and you back up and running! No need to sit for day trying to recompile databases! Fast and easy to get going with Farmers. The Farmers support team! BEST ever! Email re Please note that I only administer the server and software. I am not a daily user, so cannot comment on the internal workings. But hope this can help other IT guys and girls out there that are thinking about moving over.
Cons: The databases can tend to get very big which does starty to slow things down. But with regular maintence and archiving, things get back up to speed again.
Vendor Response
"I love this software"
Overall: They have had great customer service overall and are very quick to implement any updates that users suggest (which is excellent!). I have enjoyed partnering with this company.
Pros: For us, it gave us everything that we needed to keep track of our clients projects. The small stuff doesn't fall through the cracks!
Cons: It can be tricky to navigate the reoccurring tasks. We found triggers also didn't trigger completed tasks... so that would be a nice future integration!
Vendor Response
"Mixed emotions"
Pros: It includes everything and is very potent.
Cons: I have to be honest and say that this program is not user friendly at all. Even our tech designer who is used to a technical language totally freaks out over the UX. I dont think I'm gonna get him back to use it. It looks and feels like a programmer constructed it for another programmer and it still looks and feels like it was made in the 90s. Going from invoice creator to a PDF. Not logical... It's super competent but not intuitive. Is this something that will be addressed in the near future? Everything from moving to adding to editing to change stuff later down the line in projects makes you go back from the beginning and redo. It's eating hours to be in this system.
Vendor Response
"A game changer for post production"
Overall: Brilliant. Once I learnt the ropes, I wouldn’t look back.
Pros: Farmers wife has changed our way of working. As our facility grew, so did our way of booking jobs and resources. From a white board and physical tracking and ticking off, to a multicoloured booking system, it changed the game. The methods of summarising just how much work a project as taken, with all the little bits that usually go unnoticed, are unreal. Finally I can recharge productions a realistic fee and properly manage my team to be as efficient as possible.
Cons: The interface on farmers is its biggest Achilles heel. The interface is clunky and hard to get your head around. I would argue this software has a very steep learning curve. But once you ‘get it’ you’re golden.
Vendor Response
"Farmers Wife for Freelancer Management"
Pros: The different functions of Farmers Wife make it a very valuable software to manage our big freelance pool, countless contacts and the company's own little team. Easy to see-through, adjustable and optimizable, with color-coding that helps quickly wrap your head around schedules.
Cons: There's way too many unnecessary options we never actually use, so needs a lot of clicks to create simple task / project. Also, alphabetic loading in timeline view would be a huge help, and there were quite a few ideas we asked the FW team to realize within the software that never got done. Would be also good to have an "undo" function.
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