Welcome to TurfWise
What TurfWise does, how the app is laid out, and where to start in your first week
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TurfWise is one place to plan, record and report everything your greenkeeping team does, on the desktop in the office and on the phone out on the course.
It was built by a working Head Greenkeeper to replace the notebook, the WhatsApp group and the pile of spreadsheets. If you only read one help article, make it this one.
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Here's the short version of what you'll find inside:
- A daily command centre so you know the weather, the jobs and who's in before the crew arrives
- A work planner for scheduling jobs and seeing what got done
- Quick capture for logging notes, photos, issues and observations in seconds
- Team chat tied to jobs, areas and machines, not lost in a group chat
- Course, machinery, staff, finance, irrigation and health & safety pages, each in its own place in the bar
- Reports that turn your day-to-day records into something you can hand to a committee
There's also the TurfWise mobile app for your team on the course. It keeps in step with the desktop both ways, so a job ticked off on the phone shows up in the office and vice versa. See The TurfWise mobile app.
How is TurfWise laid out?
On a desktop or laptop screen you'll see a bar across the top with nine places. Click one to open its list of pages:
- Today -- daily briefing, alerts and quick actions
- Work -- the Planner: scheduled work and getting jobs done
- Notes -- Notes, Chat and Capture
- Course -- conditions, agronomy, weather and applications
- Irrigation -- water delivery, the network, upkeep and the Designer
- Team & kit -- Staff and Machinery
- H & S -- health and safety: reports, assessments, checks and training
- Money -- Finance: budget, purchasing, suppliers and stock
- Records -- Projects, the Library and Reports
The lime Capture button is always in the bar, and the Ask TurfWise box searches for pages and records. Your initial on the right opens Settings.
On a tablet or phone browser, the Menu button at the top opens the same list of pages.
Seeing a padlock on some items?
TurfWise has two plans: Core, which is free, and Premium. Pages your plan doesn't include stay in the lists with a small lock, so you always know what's there. See Core and Premium plans.
For the full tour, including search, Settings and pinned pages, read Finding your way around.
How should I spend my first week?
You don't need to set everything up on day one. This order works well for most clubs:
Log in and finish club setup
If you created the account, TurfWise walks you through a short setup wizard the first time you log in. See Your first login.
Check your course details
Make sure your weather location, courses and course areas are right, because the weather, spraying and reporting features lean on them. See Setting up your course.
Add your team
Add a staff record for everyone, then give logins to the people who need one. See Adding your team.
Start each morning on Today
Open Today before the crew briefing to see the weather, the day's jobs and anything that needs your attention. See The Today page.
Plan and capture the work
Put jobs into the Planner (under Work), and get into the habit of logging things as you see them with Capture. See The Planner and Capture.
Get the team on the phone app early
TurfWise gets more useful the more your crew records in it. The sooner the team is clocking in, ticking off jobs and logging checks on their phones, the sooner your records fill themselves in.
Where do I get help?
You're in the Help Centre now. Use the categories or the search to find an article on any part of TurfWise.
If you're stuck, open any place in the top bar and click Contact us at the bottom of its list. It opens the Contact & Support page, where you can Ask a question or Submit a fault with screenshots and follow its progress. You can also email paul@turfwise.co.uk.