Rules in the allocator are the easiest way to automate your work in Figured, so that the income and expenses coming through from your preferred accounting software are automatically applied to a crop season.

By allocating it to a crop season, you are assigning that income/expense to that crop to get a more accurate cost of production and gross margin breakdown.

When you're inside your allocator, click Allocation rules.

On the screen that follows, you'll be able to view existing rules and setup new rules.

To add a new rule, select Add rule.

You'll fill in this information based on what accounts you wish to be dealt with automatically.

Rules need an Account and/or a Tracking option (if applicable).

For example, in the above I have set the following criteria for transactions flowing from your cloud-based accounting software:

That means that any transactions that match that criteria will then be automatically allocated to my crop season for Corn.

There is no limit to the rules that you can create, and these can be updated or deleted at any stage.

While setting rules based on an accounting software account is the more common way of using Allocation rules, if you are using Tracking Options in your accounting software then setting rules based on those options is a great way to automate the allocation of costs/income directly to trackers. Providing you have your tracking options set up in your preferred accounting account, we would then need to check in Settings > Operation Tracking Category that we are using the appropriate tracking category for our Enterprises/Trackers.

Once that is set, we can set rules based off tracking options - for example, below all transactions in accounting software tagged with 'Wheat 2021' will be allocated to my Winter Wheat 2021.

It is worth noting that this is great for the majority of transactions that apply to enterprises, for anything that you want to track the quantity of through the Product Tracker (e.g. crop sales, Fertiliser, Chemicals, Livestock Feed etc) we need to Record a Purchase/Sale and manually add the product name and quantity purchased/sold in order to send this to the Product Tracker.

You have the ability in your allocator to add a Dismiss historical rule.How this rule works is that you set an end date - any transaction occurring before this end date will be dismissed.

This is really useful if you've got quite a few years on your accounting software already, and don't want to allocate historical information!

To add one in, click Add rule > Dismiss historical and enter your end date. That's it!

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