NEWMeet fernie™, the assistant inside Work Suite.See fernie →

For the people who grow things.

The grower's operating system.

AI-native ERP — Work Suite connects production, forecasting, fulfillment, replenishment, and customer ordering in one platform built for horticulture, arboriculture, viticulture, floriculture, olericulture, and pomiculture.

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Silver Fern customers
Bonnie PlantsYoung's Plant FarmCatoctin Mountain GrowersGreen LegacyAmerican ColorSunBlest GardensLittle Prince of OregonVan Berkum NurseryLandcraft EnvironmentsHackney NurseryAndy Mast GreenhousesEVL NurseryBabikow Greenhouses

Why Switch

Retire the spreadsheet sprawl.

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After · Work Suite
WorkSuite / Availability Live
Units on hand
48,212
across 3 sites
Ready this week
12,640
from live counts
Open orders
96
synced now
ItemLocationQtyStatus
Gerbera Daisy 6 inBay 41,040 Available
Geranium 4 inBay 23,180 Available
Petunia Hanging 10 inGH 1640 Committed
Boxwood 1 galYard A2,210 Available
Hosta 1 galYard B1,870 Available
  • One availability number, shared by every team.
  • Counts post as they happen.
  • Orders, production, inventory in one place.
Before · Spreadsheets
  • Six spreadsheets. Six answers. No one knows which is current.
  • Counts on paper, keyed in Friday.
  • Availability by phone call.

Before · Spreadsheets

  • Six spreadsheets. Six answers. No one knows which is current.
  • Counts on paper, keyed in Friday.
  • Availability by phone call.

After · Work Suite

  • One availability number, shared by every team.
  • Counts post as they happen.
  • Orders, production, inventory in one place.
The platform

How one system runs it all.

One crop. Four moves. No gaps.

01 · FORECAST™

Plan.

Turn your sales history into the crop plan.

Explore FORECAST 02 · PRODUCE™

Grow.

Turn the plan into lots, space, and labor.

Explore PRODUCE 03 · FULFILL™

Ship.

Turn orders into scans, invoices, and EDI.

Explore FULFILL 04 · RESTOCK™

Replenish.

Turn store sales into replenishment orders.

Explore RESTOCK
One data layer — every module and fernie™ on the same record. ItemsCustomersStoresLotsInventoryOrdersPricingEDI
Stephen, Heartland Growers
Automation and real-time analytics saved me about 16 work hours weekly. STEPHEN · HEARTLAND GROWERS
fernie™ · beta

Just ask. fernie™ does the rest.

fernie™ lives inside Work Suite. Say what you need in plain language and it pulls customers, finds items, checks pricing, builds reports, and starts orders on your live data.

fernie™ Beta Create an order
Create an order for Bachman’s on Lyndale: 48 Lavender Munstead 1gal, 24 Knockout Rose Red 3gal
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Order draftedBachman’s on Lyndale · BACH-01
  • Lavender Munstead 1galLAV-MU-1G48
  • Knockout Rose Red 3galKKR-RO-3G24
Priced on Bachman’s price group. Set a delivery date or add more before you review?
Review order Add a line
fernie™ Beta Look up customers
What customers do we have?
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10 customersActive accounts
  • Bachman’s on LyndaleBACH-01
  • Earl May Council BluffsEM-001
  • Green Thumb Plano YardGTL-01
  • Petitti OakwoodPET-01
  • Sun Valley Landscaping YardSVL-01
+ 5 more · Costco, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Stein, Walmart
Open a customer
fernie™ Beta Search the catalog
What 1-gallon perennials do we carry?
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1-gal perennialsCatalog
  • Lavender Munstead 1galLAV-MU-1GPerennial
  • Hosta Patriot 1galHST-PT-1GPerennial
  • Astilbe Visions Purple 1galAST-VP-1GPerennial
  • Daylily Stella d’Oro 1galDAY-SO-1GPerennial
Also matching: Hosta Sun & Substance, Coneflower, Salvia…
View items
fernie™ Beta Check pricing
Show me all price groups
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3 price groupsAll active
RetailActive
WholesaleActive
+ 1 more group
Every customer maps to a group, so each order prices itself.
Manage pricing
fernie™ Beta Generate a report
Generate a summary report of our orders
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Orders summaryThis period
Closed18
Open7
Picked4
Initialized3
Top account this period: Bachman’s Garden Center · 6 orders
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Real capabilities, shown with live data from a Silver Fern tenant. Meet fernie →

The Reporting module

Build any report, then let it run.

Reporting & Analytics is a Work Suite module in its own right: a drag-and-drop builder over every module's data — start from a template, design the layout, and schedule it to deliver as a PDF. Sales, operations, inventory, customers, shipping, and financials, all on the one shared data layer.

Works with your stack

The tools you already run, kept in sync.

Explore integrations
  • QuickBooks
  • Xero
  • NetSuite
  • Sage Intacct
  • Dynamics 365
  • FreshBooks
  • Zoho Books
  • Clear Books
  • FreeAgent
  • Moneybird
  • Wave
  • Big-box EDI
  • Pay-by-scan
  • Barcode scanners
  • RFID readers
  • Label printers
  • Flat-file import
  • SFTP
Compare

A better way to run the season.

SWIPE FOR SPREADSHEETS + LEGACY ERP

FeatureSee it live Silver Fern Best fit Spreadsheets Legacy ERP
Live availability Yes — One source of truth, real time No — One person's tab No — Batch updates
Big-box EDI & pay-by-scan Yes — Native, scan-to-invoice No — Manual re-keying Partial — Via consultants
EDI acknowledgements Yes — 850 in, 855 back, automatic No — Fax-era workflows Yes — Supported
Store-level replenishment Yes — Orders written from live demand No — Gut feel No — Not built for it
Knows what a greenhouse is Yes — Built for how growers work Partial — You make it fit No — Modeled as manufacturing
Time to value Yes — Days to first value Partial — Immediate, but fragile No — Six-month implementations
AI in the workflow Yes — Forecasting + replenishment, today No — None No — An add-on, if any
Ed, American Color Inc.
Silver Fern was the first to exceed my expectations. ED · AMERICAN COLOR INC.
Trust and implementation

Switch systems without standing still.

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01

Scope and clean the data

Your sites, modules, retailer programs, and season calendar become the rollout plan — and items, customers, pricing, and EDI maps are cleaned before they drive a single workflow.

02

Launch one workstream

Start with the module that solves your most painful problem and prove value in that lane, then expand. No big-bang cutover, and nobody stops shipping.

03

Train and expand

Department-by-department workshops, live support, and a dedicated success manager move the platform into daily use across the operation.

Aaron, Dutch Heritage Gardens
They helped with everything from onboarding to weekly workshops and training sessions. AARON · DUTCH HERITAGE GARDENS
Asked by growers

The questions that come up most.

Is Work Suite only for big greenhouse operations?
No. It runs operations from family nurseries to the largest growers shipping into big-box retail. You switch on the modules you need now and add the rest as you grow. Start with the module that solves your most painful problem.
Do I have to replace everything at once?
No. Work Suite is a full ERP, but you adopt it one module at a time. Enterprise growers stage the rollout so production never stops, and it connects to the tools you keep, like QuickBooks.
Can it handle big-box programs like EDI and pay-by-scan?
Yes. This is home turf. One scan at the dock generates the ship list, the invoice, and the EDI transaction. Replenishment and sell-through reconciliation are built around big-box programs, not bolted on.
What makes it “AI-native” and not a chatbot?
The intelligence lives in the work. Forecasting trained on your own sales history. Replenishment orders written automatically from what actually sold. Every module shares one data layer, so the predictions see the whole operation. fernie™ is the front door, not the product.
Will it work with my accounting?
Yes. One unified integration keeps orders, invoices, items, and customers in sync with your books — QuickBooks, Xero, Sage Intacct, NetSuite, Dynamics 365, FreshBooks, Zoho Books, and more. You run the operation here and keep the books where they already live.
What does it cost?
Plans scale from independent nurseries to enterprise operations. Get started and we scope it to the modules and volume you actually run. No surprise line items.
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