What the app keeps for your snails
In snail farming nobody keeps snails one by one, and in the app they are not registered as animals. What it keeps is the whole farm, or each pen or lot if you make it a group counted by quantity: what you harvest, what you spend and what you sell.
- Harvest in kilos. Snails are sold by weight. The quick log takes the kilos harvested as meat in a few seconds, for the whole farm or for one pen. On the free plan you see the farm’s total for today and the last 7 days; monthly and three-month totals are on the Pro plan.
- Costs. Compound feed, vegetables, calcium carbonate, netting, water and labour are recorded as expenses, with a category and a description, and assigned to the whole farm or to a pen. Each month you see what comes in, what goes out and the trend over the last six months.
- Sales. Every sale of live snails, pre-cooked snails or breeding stock is recorded as income, for the farm or for a pen.
- Reminders. Changing the feed, sorting by size or the harvest, each with its own date and a notification on your phone. They can repeat every so many days, weeks or months: when you mark one done, the app sets the next.
On the free plan you have up to 2 groups and 10 reminders, and assigning kilos and money to a pen is free. The Pro plan removes those limits, shows each pen’s balance and adds monthly and three-month production totals.
A long cycle, with many small tasks
Several months pass between laying and harvest, and during that time the farm needs almost daily care: keeping the humidity up, removing leftover food, separating the snails whose shell lip has already formed and making sure rats and birds do not get in. The app does not measure humidity or temperature. Its reminders can repeat, but each one counts toward the free plan’s 10, so use them for the tasks you are most likely to forget and for the dates that mark the cycle: the next sorting, the feed change or the harvest.
The farm’s cost per kilo
With the kilos harvested and the costs recorded, when you close the cycle you divide what you spent by the kilos and you have the cost per kilo. That way you know whether the sale price leaves you a margin and you compare one cycle with the next. If each pen is a group and you assign its kilos and costs to it, you compare pens too: on the Pro plan each pen’s record shows its income, expenses and balance, and its production over the last 30 days.
Record in the field, sync when you reopen it. For now, wait for the app to finish syncing before you close it. How it works today.