Individual Buying Configuration

An Individual Buying transaction records the sale of agricultural product from a smallholder farmer to a Buying Station.

During initial system setup, you can set the following features of the Individual Buying transaction:
  • Comments - allows the user to add comments about the payment
  • Follow-up Transaction - allows the user to indicate if a follow-up transaction is necessary
  • SMS Receipt - enables the ability to issue a receipt through SMS
  • Quality Indicators - you can select or define quality indicators to be checked during this transaction
Quality Indicators

Quality Indicator

Entered as...

Color

free text

Defective "units"

percentage ( % )

Foreign objects

percentage ( % )

Insect damage

percentage ( % )

Micronaire

a positive decimal between 2.0 and 8.0

Moisture

percentage ( % )

Moldy units

percentage ( % )

Shape and Size

"unit"/kg

Staple

inches

Strength

grams per denier (g/den)

Trash

percentage ( % )