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

Outgrown the whiteboard?

Get production, availability, and wholesale orders onto one record your whole team can see. First value in days, with no IT department to run it.

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Independent nurseries

What you get.

  • Production on one record Planned plug to finished, visible to the whole team.
  • Real-time availability Behind every wholesale order before the promise is made.
  • Order processing Allocation and PDF invoices out of the box.
  • A portal for your buyers B2B customers place their own orders.
  • First value in days Grows onto the platform the largest operations run.
Verified in production
We were looking for production software that was practical, user friendly, and offered unmatched customer support. Silver Fern more than delivered! Now we can effectively plan and manage production through spring using true analytics and data.
Daniel, Green Legacy Daniel, Owner Green Legacy
Problems we solve

What goes wrong, and the module that fixes it.

01

Checking availability means finding the one person who keeps the whiteboard.

FULFILL™ Availability and orders live on one record the whole team can see.
02

Sales takes orders without knowing what production can actually deliver.

FULFILL™ Real-time availability shows on every order line before anyone commits to a date.
03

Shipped orders wait days for someone to re-key them into QuickBooks.

FULFILL™ Orders and invoices post to QuickBooks automatically.
04

You find out whether the season made money after it's over.

PRODUCE™ Cost builds on each lot while the crop grows, visible mid-season instead of after the sale.

Availability, answered

Stop selling by voicemail.

Today, an availability question by text takes four hours and six messages, and the count is wrong anyway. With PORTAL™, a customer searches hydrangea 3 gal, sees 240 available live, and reserves 40 in about eleven seconds with zero phone calls.

How availability gets answered today

With PORTAL

Timings and counts shown are illustrative.

Every module, laid out

One product. Switch on the slices you need.

Work Suite is the product; each module is a slice of it, listed here in the order that matters most for independent nurseries.

FULFILL™ Order management Scan at the dock. Bill the same day. Explore PRODUCE™ Production management Know your cost while it's still growing. Explore FORECAST™ Demand modeling Plan the season before the trucks roll. Explore RESTOCK™ Inventory replenishment Orders written from data, not gut feel. Explore
One system underneath

One order. Everywhere at once.

Order #100284 Shipped
Bachman's on Lyndale BACH-01
Geranium — 4.5 in388
WholesalePO #4471Wk 32Paid
ERP Id · 100284Invoice · INV-100284
FULFILL
Ready to pick, ship, and invoice
PRODUCE
You already know what it cost to grow
RESTOCK
RESTOCK sees the sale and sends the refill
Reporting
In every report the second it's saved
Books
The invoice is already on your books
FORECAST
Logged for next season's plan
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Reporting & analytics

Build the report you actually need.

A real report builder: design it across every module's data, start from a template, then schedule it to run on its own.

Build any report

A drag-and-drop builder with tables, text, variables, and barcodes, laid out the way you need it and exported to PDF.

Across your data

Pull any field from orders, inventory, customers, and production, filtered and parameterized.

Start from a template

Prebuilt templates for Sales, Operations, Inventory, Customers, Shipping, and Financial.

Schedule and deliver

Run it daily, weekly, or monthly, delivered as PDF with a full run history.

fernie™ · beta

The assistant that does the work.

fernie™ lives inside Work Suite. Ask in plain language and it pulls the data, acts on your grids, drafts reports, and starts orders on your live operation.

fernie™ Beta Create an order
Start an order for Petitti Oakwood — 36 Hosta Patriot 1gal, 24 Daylily Stella d’Oro 1gal
unfurling…
Order draftedPetitti Oakwood · PET-01
  • Hosta Patriot 1galHST-PT-1G36
  • Daylily Stella d’Oro 1galDAY-SO-1G24
Priced on Petitti’s wholesale group. Add a delivery date or another line before you review?
Review order →Add a line
What customers do we have?
unfurling…
10 customersActive accounts
  • Bachman’s on LyndaleBACH-01
  • Earl May Council BluffsEM-001
  • Green Thumb Plano YardGTL-01
  • Sun Valley LandscapingSVL-01
+ 6 more · Costco, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Petitti, Stein, Walmart
Open a customer →
What 1-gallon perennials do we carry?
unfurling…
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: Coneflower, Salvia, Coreopsis…
View items →
Generate a summary report of our orders
unfurling…
Orders summaryThis period
Closed18
Open7
Picked4
Initialized3
Top account this period: Bachman’s Garden Center · 6 orders
Open report →Export

What it actually does.

  • Pulls customers, items, and pricing from your live data
  • Filters and searches your grids on command
  • Drafts reports and starts orders
  • Jumps you to the right screen
  • Asks before it acts, so nothing happens without your say

Built into Work Suite, beta and shipping.

Accounting & integrations

Keep your accounting system.

No accounting migration. One unified integration keeps orders, customers, products, and invoices in sync with the books: no manual re-entry.

Accounting platforms

  • QuickBooks
  • Xero
  • NetSuite
  • Sage Intacct
  • Dynamics 365
  • FreshBooks
  • Zoho Books
  • Clear Books
  • FreeAgent
  • Moneybird
  • Wave
  • See all integrations

Built-in capabilities

  • Big-box EDI
  • Pay-by-scan
  • Flat-file import
  • SFTP
Asked by independent nurseries

The questions that come up most.

We're a small team with no IT. Is this too much for us?
No. You switch on one module, see first value in days, and add the next one when the operation asks for it. There is no server to run and no IT hire to make.
What does it actually replace?
The whiteboard, the spreadsheet only one person understands, and the binder that rides in the truck. Availability, orders, and production move onto one record your whole team can read.
Can my customers order online?
Yes. PORTAL™ gives your wholesale buyers a login with live availability behind it, so they place their own orders and you stop taking them down over the phone.
What happens when we outgrow it?
The same platform runs enterprise growers shipping into tens of thousands of retail locations. Start with the module that solves your most painful problem; the system that fits you now still fits after you double.
Start with one module

Run your operation on one system.

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