Getting Started | Managers
This article will be your guide to getting started and using Hectre to manage your orchard
As an Orchard Manager Hectre Helps You:
🔍 Know what, where, and by who jobs are being done in your orchards during each day
🌎 Visualize your pick with harvest maps
👩🌾 Track your pickers performance
🍎 Pull reports on yield
💰 Run reports on job and location labor costs
Here's exactly what we'll cover in this article:
- Where to start
- Setting up your account
- Using the app
- Using the dashboard
Find links within each section to learn more!
Where to Start
Setting up Your Account
Before you can start using the app, you'll need to add information to your account. You will use the same email and password to log in to the app and dashboard (computer version of Hectre).
- Varieties
- Orchard details
- NZAPI settings (only available for orchards in New Zealand)
- Jobs
- Minimum wage and account default settings
- Type of staff leave or sick days
Adding staff, set up modules, print badges
Details needed for Harvest
- Add bin and bucket pay rates, treatments, export countries
- Bins | QC defects, pick quality and number
- Bins | Customize bin ticket
- Bins | Connecting to bluetooth printer
Using the App | Timesheets and Pick
How the app is used to record timesheets and your pick, and links to instructional articles for each function.
- Timesheets
- MyTimesheet
- recording timesheets for yourself
- Picking bins
- Record your picked bins and who's picked them
- Print bin tickets
- scan external bin tickets if you'll be using your own bin tickets
- Record quality check
- Picking buckets
Using the App | What's Happening in the Orchard
View what is happening in the orchard during each day. Quick management tools for when you're in the orchard.
- App Insights
- get a live overview of what's happening (timesheets, bins, buckets, pruning, thinning)
- Picker performance
- quality control information for each team and pickers
- Quick management tools using the app - add staff, rates, print badges, reset trees
Using the Dashboard
The Dashboard is the website version of Hectre and is where you can gain insights on longer time-periods and download reports