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Illustrative previewAn ERPNext application that manages ponds and cages as living production units
— stocking, feeding, biomass sampling, mortality, harvest grading and batch traceability.
ECOSIRE builds, installs and supports it for your farm after a scoping call.
What is Aquaculture & Fish Farm Management?
An ERPNext application that manages ponds and cages as living production units — stocking, feeding, biomass sampling, mortality, harvest grading and batch traceability. ECOSIRE builds, installs and supports it for your farm after a scoping call. Built to order by ECOSIRE for ERPNext v15, v16 — indicative price from $999.00 USD; request a quote for a scoped proposal.
Key Features
Built to order, done for you
No DIY setup — a working app, built, installed and supported by ECOSIRE.
- 1
You order
Start with a one-time build price. We scope it with you at kickoff.
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We build & install
ECOSIRE builds, configures and installs it on your ERPNext.
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Go live + support
You go live in about one working week, with two weeks of go-live support. Defects in the code we deliver are fixed free of charge.
Technical Specifications
- ERPNext Compatibility
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- License
- Licence confirmation required
- Python Requirement
- Python 3.10+
- Database
- MariaDB 10.6+
About this Product
A fish farm runs on biology, not on bills of materials. Your real cost drivers are feed conversion ratio, standing biomass, mortality and the number of days a cohort sits in the water — and none of those exist in ERPNext out of the box. Farms end up running ponds in spreadsheets: one workbook for stocking and mortality, one for feed bags issued from the store, one for sampling weights, and a painful reconciliation at harvest when nobody can explain why 100,000 fingerlings became 78,000 fish at an average weight well below plan. ERPNext already has excellent Item, Batch, Stock Entry, Warehouse and Purchase/Sales flows, but it has no concept of a pond as a production unit, no biomass that grows between transactions, and no way to tie a feed issue to the cohort that ate it.
ECOSIRE builds a proper Frappe application — its own app in the bench, its own module, versioned in git — that adds the aquaculture layer on top of ERPNext instead of bolting fields onto Stock Entry. New DocTypes model the farm the way your team already talks about it: Culture Unit (pond, tank, cage or raceway with area, volume, depth and a linked Warehouse), Stocking Record (species, strain, hatchery source, fingerling count, average stocking weight, date in water), Feeding Log, Sampling Record, Mortality Record, Water Quality Reading, Transfer / Grading Entry and Harvest Entry. A Fish Batch document is the cohort that carries traceability from hatchery to dispatch, linked one-to-one with a native ERPNext Batch so the standard stock ledger, valuation and Sales Invoice paths keep working untouched.
The calculations live in server-side Python, not in client formulas. Doc events registered in hooks.py on Feeding Log and Harvest Entry post the matching Stock Entry (Material Issue for feed out of the feed store, receipt of graded fish on harvest) inside the same transaction, so feed inventory and fish valuation move together and never drift. Standing biomass is recalculated from stocked count minus cumulative mortality, multiplied by the latest sampled average weight; cumulative and period FCR are total feed issued to the batch over biomass gain, exposed on the Fish Batch form and through whitelisted methods so dashboards, field tablets and IoT loggers can read and post over the Frappe REST API. Scheduler events run the nightly roll-up — daily biomass snapshot, growth curve versus the stocked plan, feed-days remaining, and alerts when a unit crosses your dissolved-oxygen or mortality thresholds. Client scripts keep pond-side entry fast: one screen to log today's feed across every active unit, ration defaulted from the feed table for the current average weight and water temperature. Role profiles and permission rules separate Pond Technician (log feed, mortality, samples), Farm Manager (approve transfers, harvests, write-offs) and Accounts (valuation and costing), with workflow states enforced server-side.
Because this is build-to-order, nothing is downloaded and hoped for. We start with a scoping call, confirm your species, unit types, feeding regime, sampling protocol, grading rules and the traceability documents your buyers or auditors demand, then write the app against your ERPNext version — v15 or v16 — and your actual chart of accounts and warehouse structure. You receive the source, we install on a staging bench first, you run UAT against real pond data, and we go live with a documented rollback plan. Typical delivery is one working week from confirmed scope. There is no instant download, and no pretence that a generic marketplace app already fits your farm.
What you get
- Installable Frappe app source code built for your ERPNext version (v15 or v16), delivered as a versioned bench app
- Installation and configuration on your bench or hosted site, including warehouse, item group, batch and role-profile setup
- Technical documentation: DocType reference, hooks.py doc events, scheduler jobs, whitelisted API methods and custom report definitions
- End-user guide covering daily feed logging, sampling, mortality, transfers, grading and harvest, plus a live training session for your team
- UAT on a staging site with your real pond and feed data, an agreed acceptance checklist, and a documented rollback plan before go-live
- Post-go-live support window for defect fixes and configuration adjustments through your first production cycle
- Private git repository handover with full commit history so your team or any future developer can maintain and extend the app
- Data migration helper scripts to import existing pond, stocking, feed and harvest history from your spreadsheets into the new DocTypes
Who this is for
Farm Operations Manager
Runs 20–200 ponds or cages and needs one screen showing standing biomass, survival rate, days in water and FCR per unit — instead of reconciling three spreadsheets every week to find out which cohort is underperforming.
Hatchery-to-Harvest Group Controller
Owns multiple sites and wants cycle cost per kilogram derived consistently from real feed issues and real harvest weights, posted into ERPNext accounts, so site-by-site profitability comparisons are defensible.
Feed and Inventory Supervisor
Issues feed daily and is accountable for shrinkage. Needs every bag leaving the feed store to become a Stock Entry attached to the cohort that ate it, with feed-days remaining forecast before the next purchase order falls due.
Quality and Compliance Officer
Must produce on demand a traceability document resolving a dispatched lot back to its culture units, feed lots, treatments and hatchery consignment for a buyer audit or export certification.
How Aquaculture & Fish Farm Management Compares
| Criterion | ECOSIRE | Custom Build | Competitor | ERPNext Native |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fit to your farm's protocol | Built to your species, feed tables, sampling protocol and grading bands from a scoping call | Fits exactly, but only after you specify every rule yourself | Generic pond fields; your regime bent to fit the app | No aquaculture concepts at all — ponds live in spreadsheets |
| Biomass and FCR calculation | Server-side Python on doc events; cumulative and period FCR per batch and per unit | Depends entirely on the developer you hire | Often report-only, not linked to the transactions that caused it | Not available; computed by hand outside ERPNext |
| Stock and accounting integration | Feed issues and harvests post real Stock Entries against native Batches in the same transaction | Achievable, but integration correctness is the main project risk | Frequently parallel records that drift from the stock ledger | Stock ledger is solid, but nothing links feed to a cohort |
| Traceability to hatchery | Parent-batch lineage preserved through transfers and grading, with an audit-ready report | Possible; usually descoped when the deadline tightens | Batch numbering exists; split and merge lineage often breaks | Batch traceability for standard items only, not living cohorts |
| Time to production | Typically one working week from confirmed scope, including UAT on staging | Commonly several months including discovery and iteration | Installs in a day, then weeks of workarounds and manual reconciliation | Immediate, but the aquaculture gap is never closed |
| Field data capture | Client scripts for fast pond-side entry plus whitelisted REST endpoints for tablets and IoT loggers | Built only if it survives budget review | Desk-only forms designed for office users | Standard desk forms with no aquaculture workflow |
| Upgrade path and ownership | Separate bench app, no core patching, full git repository handed to you | You own it, and every future upgrade, with no reference build | Vendor controls the roadmap and the upgrade timing | Upgrades are clean because the functionality does not exist |
| Support model | Post-go-live support window, then an optional maintenance agreement including version-compatibility work | Ends when the contractor's engagement ends | Shared ticket queue; farm-specific issues rank low | Community forums and generic ERPNext partners |
Frequently Asked Questions about Aquaculture & Fish Farm Management
How long does delivery take, and is this an instant download?
It is not a download. This is a build-to-order application: ECOSIRE writes it for your farm, your species and your ERPNext version. Typical delivery is one working week from confirmed scope — that clock starts after the scoping call, once we have agreed culture unit types, feeding regime, sampling protocol, grading rules and traceability outputs. Multi-site rollouts or IoT water-quality integrations are scoped separately.
What happens after go-live — how are support and updates handled?
Every build includes a post-go-live support window for defect fixes and configuration adjustments during your first production cycle. You also receive the git repository, so your own developers can maintain the app. Beyond the included window we offer an ongoing support and maintenance agreement covering bug fixes, compatibility work when you upgrade ERPNext (for example v15 to v16), and new features quoted per change request.
Which ERPNext and Frappe versions are supported?
We build against Frappe/ERPNext v15 and v16, targeting whichever version your site actually runs. The app installs as a separate bench app with its own module alongside ERPNext, without patching core. If you are mid-upgrade we normally build against the target version and validate on a staging bench first.
Will this conflict with standard ERPNext stock, batches and accounting?
No. The design deliberately reuses ERPNext primitives: each Fish Batch links to a native Batch, each culture unit links to a Warehouse, and feed issues and harvest receipts post as ordinary Stock Entries through hooks.py doc events. Valuation, the stock ledger, Purchase Invoices and Sales Invoices all behave as standard ERPNext, which keeps upgrades and audits straightforward.
Can field staff log feed and sampling from a phone or tablet without desk access?
Yes. The app exposes whitelisted methods over the Frappe REST API for feed logging, mortality, sampling and biomass reads, authenticated with API key or token and constrained by the same permission rules as the desk. A lightweight mobile entry screen or PWA can be included in scope, and the same endpoints accept posts from IoT water-quality loggers.
We already track ponds in spreadsheets. Can that history be migrated?
Yes. Migration helper scripts are part of the delivery. We map your existing stocking, feeding, mortality and harvest sheets into the new DocTypes so opening biomass, cost-to-date and historical FCR are correct on day one. Data quality is reviewed with you during UAT before go-live.
Do you support species other than fish — shrimp, tilapia, catfish, salmon?
The model is species-agnostic: stocking, feeding, sampling, mortality, transfer, grading and harvest apply equally to finfish and crustaceans. Species-specific details — feed tables, growth curves, grading bands, and biomass-estimation conventions for shrimp — are configured or coded during the build based on the protocols you use today.
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Aquaculture & Fish Farm Management
An ERPNext application that manages ponds and cages as living production units — stocking, feeding, biomass sampling, mortality, harvest grading and batch traceability. ECOSIRE builds, installs and supports it for your farm after a scoping call.
- Custom `Culture Unit` DocType for ponds, tanks, cages and raceways with area, volume, stocking-density limits and a linked ERPNext Warehouse
- `Fish Batch` cohort document linked one-to-one with a native ERPNext Batch, so stock ledger, valuation and Sales Invoice flows stay standard
- `Stocking Record` capturing species, strain, hatchery supplier, fingerling count, average stocking weight and date in water
- `Feeding Log` with a hooks.py doc event that posts a Material Issue Stock Entry from the feed warehouse against the consuming batch
