What's new
Changes to Tracktor you can see and use, newest first.
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Tools
A Tools menu for the extras, starting with walkaround checklists.
New 7 changes
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Ask for a refund
Within 14 days of a payment, Billing → Ask for a refund gets your money back, no questions asked. It's also offered right after you cancel.
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Walkaround checklists
A quick look-over before you start a tractor, loader, mower, skid steer, UTV or implement. Free for anyone, no account needed; ticks stay on your phone.
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Refer a friend
Tools → Refer a friend: share your link and get a free week when a friend starts using it, or a free month if they upgrade.
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Year-end report
On Pro Plus, Tools → Year-end report: a printable summary of the year per machine (purchase details, hours, maintenance, repairs, fuel) and a spreadsheet for your records. It isn't accounting software or tax advice.
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Jobs
On Pro and Pro Plus, ask someone at your location to do a task or fix a problem. They get an email and see it under Tools → Jobs until it's done.
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Parts on hand
Tools → Parts on hand: keep count of filters and fluids on the shelf. The shopping list buys only what you're short, and marking a job done uses them up.
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Tools menu
Seasonal checklists, the shopping list and walkarounds in one place. More tools are coming here.
How it works: Tools menu
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Know when you have the free week of Pro
While your free week of Pro runs, a bar at the top says so and when it ends, and the dashboard lists things to try, with links to each.
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Photo readings by plan
Pro includes 10 hour-meter photo readings a month per location, and Pro Plus includes 100.
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All the reports in one add-on
Service cost reports, the fleet report and the year-end report now come together: included in Pro Plus, or one $3/month reports add-on for Pro.
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Referral rewards come off your bill
When a friend you referred starts a paid plan, you get a credit worth their plan's price off your next payments. A friend on the free plan still moves your next payment a week later.
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Walkaround checklists on the home page
The free walkaround checklists are now linked from the home page, so anyone can use them on a phone or print them, without an account.
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Compare plans
The Pricing page now has a table of every feature and what each plan includes.
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Hide the tools you don't use
Walkaround checklists, Jobs, the fleet report and the year-end report can now be hidden under Profile → Features you use, like the rest.
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Machine or implement
When you add or edit equipment, say whether it's a machine or an implement. It follows the hour meter at first, but a tractor with a broken meter can now be a machine without one. Plan allowances count machines and implements this way too.
How it works: Machine or implement
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Closed messages stay closed
When you close the message bar at the top, it stays closed on every page and device until you sign out.
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History from the day you bought it
Log hours from before you added a machine, and shorter pages.
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A free week of Pro
On the Free plan, you get a week of Pro with fleet reports a week after signing up, or after your 3rd hour log. It ends by itself.
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Add a tractor and its implements together
When adding a machine, tick the implements on it or go straight on to adding a new one. When adding an implement, say which machine it goes on, even one you haven't added yet.
How it works: Add a tractor and its implements together
Improved 3 changes
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A home page that explains it
The front page now shows what the app does, how it works and the plans, so it's easy to tell a friend about.
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Less scrolling
On a machine's page, Details, Readings, Service history and Share or sold it? fold shut under their headings (tap to open), and Change dealer hides behind a link. Profile is split into tabs: Account, Reminders, Look & features, and Password & account.
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Older readings
Hour readings can now go back to the purchase date instead of stopping at the day you added the machine. Add or change a purchase date and you're asked for the hours on that day.
How it works: Older readings
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Find your tractor in the list
Hundreds of tractor models to pick from when you add a machine.
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Makes and models
The make and model lists now cover about 800 tractor models from 44 makes, with the years each was made, and John Deere, Kubota, New Holland and Mahindra at the top. If yours is missing, choose "Not in the list" and we'll add it.
How it works: Makes and models
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Your colors
Pick a color theme to match your machines, or go plain or dark.
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Color themes
Profile → Color theme: green, orange, red or blue, with the logo to match, plus Plain (grays) and Dark for light text on a dark background. Only you see your choice.
How it works: Color themes
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A dashboard that tells you more
See what's overdue, what's next, and what you've spent this year at a glance.
New 8 changes
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Your dealer
Keep your dealer's details on each machine to call, email, get directions or check their Google and Yelp reviews, and mark jobs the dealer does so reminders say to book them.
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Fleet report
Every machine across your locations in one place: hours run, spending, cost per hour and what's overdue, with machines that have an hour meter listed apart from implements and date-only items, and a spreadsheet download. Pro Plus, or a $3/month add-on for Pro.
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Buy parts from the shopping list
Each part on your shopping list has a Buy link that searches Amazon for it. Reminder emails take you to the list.
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Implements on machines
Attach an implement to the machine it's on, like a grapple that lives on your second tractor, and move it when it changes. Each implement keeps a list of where it's been.
How it works: Implements on machines -
History of changes
Every machine and location now shows who changed what and when: edits, tasks, people, moves and more.
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Hide what you don't use
Turn off features you don't need, like seasonal checklists or service costs, in your profile. Nothing is deleted.
How it works: Hide what you don't use -
Hide machines from your dashboard
Untick Show on dashboard in Customize, or when adding a machine, for things like a snow pusher that need no regular upkeep.
How it works: Hide machines from your dashboard -
Arrange your dashboard
Tap Customize to drag sections into the order you like, hide what you don't need, and put your machines in your own order.
How it works: Arrange your dashboard
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At a glance
Overdue and due-soon counts and the next job coming up, at the top of your dashboard.
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Shortcuts on the dashboard
Your shopping list, service costs and fleet report are one tap from the top of the dashboard, and each task with parts links to the shopping list.
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Costs show in dollars
Every cost, total and cost field now shows the $ sign.
How it works: Costs show in dollars -
Two columns of machines
If you have both hour-meter and date-only machines, the dashboard shows them side by side so the page stays short.
How it works: Two columns of machines -
Service this year
What you've spent and how many services and repairs you've done this year, month by month (Pro).
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Clearer plans
Free covers everything you need to stay on top of maintenance. Pro adds charts, cost reports and exports, Add to calendar, inviting people and warranty reminders. Nothing you've entered is ever hidden or lost.
How it works: Clearer plans
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Built for the whole farm
Implements without hour meters, parts lists, repairs, seasonal checklists, and help when you need it.
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Equipment without an hour meter
Add implements, mower decks, balers and trailers and track their maintenance by date. They have their own allowance on every plan.
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Parts and fluids
List what each job needs, like filter part numbers and how much oil. It shows on the Done screen and in reminders.
How it works: Parts and fluids -
Shopping list
Everything you need for the maintenance coming up, added up across your machines, so it's one trip to the store.
How it works: Shopping list -
Problems and repairs
Note what's wrong with a machine, then record the fix and what it cost. Repairs count in your service costs.
How it works: Problems and repairs -
Seasonal checklists
Winterize, Spring start-up and your own lists, ready every year.
How it works: Seasonal checklists -
Add to calendar
Put due dates, warranty ends and checklists in Apple, Outlook or Google Calendar.
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Share or sell a machine
Send a link to its service history, or transfer it with its records to the new owner.
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Help
How-tos, common questions, and a "?" next to anything that isn't obvious.
How it works: Help
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Reminder emails
One-tap links to log hours or mark a job done, the parts each job needs, and a nudge when hours haven't been logged for two weeks.
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Purchase and warranty details
Record when and where you bought a machine, and get a reminder before its warranty ends.
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Tracktor launches
Know what's due on your tractor before it's overdue.
New 8 changes
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Hours and maintenance
Log engine hours and see what's due and overdue on your dashboard.
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Schedules
Start from shared schedules for your make and model, or share your own.
How it works: Schedules -
Read the meter from a photo
Take a picture of the hour meter and check the number before it's saved (Pro).
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Reminder emails
A daily email at the hour you choose, only when something is due.
How it works: Reminder emails -
Hours chart
See each machine's hours over time with the maintenance coming up.
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Locations
Share your equipment with family or workers.
How it works: Locations -
Service costs and records
This year, last year and lifetime, with spreadsheet and printable exports.
How it works: Service costs and records -
Plans and phone app
Free, Pro and Pro Plus plans, and install Tracktor on your phone's home screen.
How it works: Plans and phone app
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