What a harvest really pays, once the cutters and the lorry are paid.

Gross vs. what's left

A 2-tonne round at RM 700 a tonne pays RM 1,400 at the ramp. But the cutters were RM 300, and the lorry to the dealer was RM 80. The number that goes in your pocket is RM 1,020. Most people know the first figure and only feel the second.

The app records both. The sale stays in your ledger as income at the full RM 1,400, because that's what was paid and what the dealer's records will say. Each cost is its own expense entry, dated the same day and tied to that harvest. Nothing is netted away silently — the ledger, the month totals and the profit-and-loss all stay honest — but wherever you look at the harvest itself, the app shows what was left.

Logging costs on the harvest

On the Log a harvest form, below the notes, there's an optional section:

Leave any of them empty and nothing is recorded for it. Fill one in and two lines appear under the income readout: Costs and Left after costs. Save, and the harvest, its sale and its costs are written together.

Where they show up

• Money. Each cost is an expense in its category — Labor, Transport, Other — with the note Harvest cost, next to the FFB sale it belongs to.
• The lot's harvest history. A harvest with costs reads 11 Sep 2026 · costs RM380.00, and the figure on the right is the net.
• Reports. Costs fall into the cost breakdown under their categories, so harvesting labour is visible as its own share of the year's spend.

Tips for cleaner numbers

• Record the lorry per trip, not per month. Tied to the harvest, it tells you what each round cost to move — which is the number to argue with a transporter about.
• If cutters are paid per tonne, work it out on the form. 2 t × RM 150 = RM 300 in the labour field. The note field is a good place to keep the rate.
• Costs that aren't about one harvest — a new sickle, the month's fuel — belong in Money as ordinary expenses, not on a harvest.