What ForestrPro does, feature by feature.

How it helps

Pick the type of work from clear cards, grouped into planting, cutting and clearance, vegetation, surveys and inspections, and other work. Each step asks only what that kind of job needs, with examples, and the last step shows everything with a Change link before you create it. The Jobs page lists every job with filters such as Needs attention and Not assigned.

In practice

1. Choose the type of work.
2. Give it a name and say what needs doing.
3. Mark the spot, draw the area, or use where you're standing.
4. Choose the team, the project and who does it.
5. Check it and tap Create job.

How it helps

Each job has a reference, a site, its species with planned numbers, the agreed rates and its own map: the planting area, the planter's movements while working, and refill points for collecting more trees. A job can belong to a team project, so the office sees it too.

In practice

1. Create the job and choose its project.
2. Add species, planned counts and rates.
3. Mark the planting area and refill points on the job's map.
4. Start a session when you start planting.

How it helps

Planting sessions record working time, pauses and trees planted per species. ForestrPro totals them for the day, the week and the job, with trees per hour, and calculates the recorded value: trees × the agreed rate.

In practice

1. Start, pause and resume a session as the day goes.
2. Record trees per species as you go.
3. Check today's and this week's totals on the Planting screen.
4. Jobs in a project appear in the dashboard's planting report.

How it helps

Tasks cover felling, harvesting, forwarding, timber stacking, roadside and vegetation clearance, invasive species removal, woodland maintenance and tree inspection. Each has a priority, a location or area, workers, progress, notes, photos and a full history. Timber stacks are recorded with their location.

In practice

1. Create a task, or raise one from a mapped tree or hazard.
2. Assign it, or leave it available for the crew to claim.
3. The worker accepts, starts, updates progress and completes it.
4. A manager approves it or reopens it with a reason.

How it helps

Mark windblown trees, blocked roads and other hazards on the map as you find them, with photos. The Cutting module's "From records" view lists recorded trees and hazards needing work, so clearance tasks can be raised from them, carrying their location and reference.

In practice

1. Drop a windblown-trees or blocked-road pin where it is.
2. Raise a windblown clearance task from it.
3. Assign the crew and follow progress.
4. Review the completed work with its photos.

How it helps

Set up a survey in the dashboard and record trees and sample plots on the phone, with or without a signal: diameters, heights and positions. ForestrPro works out tariff numbers and volumes by species, the stand estimate with its sampling error, and an indicative value from prices you enter. Each calculation is stored with the method, tables and measurements it used.

In practice

1. Create the survey and choose the method.
2. Measure trees and plots in the forest; they sync when there's a signal.
3. Calculate, and check what's estimated or provisional.
4. Download the PDF report and the trees as CSV.

How it helps

Tick the compartments and their operations (clearfell, thinning, restocking and so on), set the access point, and download a true-scale application map as PDF or JPEG with a legend, north arrow, scale bar and OS grid references. For England, ForestrPro makes the zipped shapefile Felling Licence Online takes, and checks the Forestry Commission's rules first. Volumes from tariffing surveys can go into the felling table.

In practice

1. Open Reports → Felling licence maps and choose the forest.
2. Choose England, Scotland or Wales.
3. Tick the compartments, choose each operation and set the access point.
4. Download the map, the spatial data and the felling table.

How it helps

Import a georeferenced PDF (GeoPDF) or a GeoTIFF, such as an aerial photo, or a ZIP of several, and the map is placed at its real position, including British National Grid maps, and prepared on the phone for offline use. Forests, compartments and your own records are stored on the phone too. If a map sits slightly off, choose another of its frames, or drag it into place by hand.

In practice

1. Import the PDF or GeoTIFF in the Maps library while you have signal.
2. Wait for "Ready offline".
3. Open the map in the forest: your maps, layers and position all work offline.

How it helps

The map shows your position with its accuracy and satellite count, and coordinates in British National Grid or latitude and longitude. Record a GPS track (pause and resume it) and export it as GPX. Measure distances and areas, and navigate to any point with distance and direction.

In practice

1. Tap your position to follow it.
2. Start a track at the beginning of a walk-over.
3. Measure a boundary or an area on the map.
4. Choose a point and navigate to it.

How it helps

Record trees, bushes and shrubs, plants and other vegetation as points or areas, with species, size, condition, notes and photos. Each record gets a reference, and its own layer on the map. Pins cover the rest of the site: hazards, gates, bridges, culverts, loading points, extraction routes and environmental restrictions.

In practice

1. Stand at the tree or plant and add it at your GPS position, or at the crosshair.
2. Fill in what you can see; add photos.
3. Find it again later from the map or the Records list.

How it helps

Each record has a history of inspections: who looked, when, what they saw, the management action and photos. Vegetation surveys group a day's records so they can be reviewed and exported together.

In practice

1. Start a survey for the visit.
2. Add new records, or inspect existing ones.
3. Finish the survey and export it: CSV, GeoJSON and the photos.

Import

GeoPackage, Shapefile, GeoJSON, KML and KMZ, GPX, CSV with latitude/longitude or easting/northing, and ZIPs of any of these. Each layer is previewed with its coordinate system and feature count before you import it, and each feature's own ID is kept.

Export

GeoPackage (with a QGIS project), Shapefile, GeoJSON and KML, in British National Grid or WGS84. Tracks export as GPX; vegetation records as CSV with their photos.

How it helps

Export a GeoPackage together with a ready-made QGIS project: open the .qgs file and the layers appear with their colours. In the other direction, pick a QGIS project (.qgs or .qgz) with its data files, and ForestrPro imports its vector layers with their names and colours, including categorised and graduated colours (each species or age class in its own colour). Its GeoTIFFs go to the Maps library for offline use, and its XYZ, WMS and WMTS layers are added as online layers, shown when there's a signal.

In practice

1. Prepare boundaries and layers in QGIS.
2. Import the project and its data on the phone.
3. Record in the field.
4. Export and open the result in QGIS.

How it helps

A team has owners, managers and members. Owners invite people by code, link or email; invitations are single-use, expire, can be withdrawn and can be locked to one email address. Managers run projects; members do the work. Every permission is checked on the server. Each person can add a profile (photo, job title, phone) that their teammates see, and the owner can add the team's logo.

In practice

1. Create an account and a team.
2. Invite the crew; they accept in the app.
3. Create projects: planting, cutting, mapping and survey, or mixed, with site information, hazards and the site map.

How it helps

Managers share map data with a project: GIS layers, forestry records and GeoPDF base maps. Members download them and prepare them for offline use with one tap. Tasks sync both ways: the office assigns, the field reports progress and photos, and changes made offline are sent when there's a connection.

In practice

1. Share the project's maps and layers from the app.
2. Members open the project and prepare it for offline.
3. Assign tasks; members see them on their map.
4. Progress, notes and photos come back as phones sync.

How it helps

Members who switch on location sharing appear on the team's live map for owners and managers, in the app and the dashboard. Each position is labelled live, delayed or no signal according to when it arrived, so an old position is never shown as live. Members see only themselves.

In practice

1. A member starts sharing with one team; a notification shows while it's on.
2. Owners and managers open Live Operations.
3. The member stops sharing whenever they like.

How it helps

Start lone working with how often you'll check in. The phone reminds you; tap I'm OK, even from the notification. Miss a check-in and the team's owners and managers, and your emergency contact, are emailed with your last position, repeating until someone acknowledges it. SOS alerts them at once. With no signal, check-ins are kept with their GPS position and time and sent later, and you can check in for longer before going out of signal.

In practice

1. Start lone working from Home in the app, or in the dashboard.
2. Check in when reminded.
3. Going out of signal? Check in for longer first.
4. Managers acknowledge alerts in the app or dashboard.

How it helps

Owners and managers write a site risk assessment for each project, and a job risk assessment for individual jobs: hazards scored likelihood × severity, controls, further controls and what risk remains, emergency arrangements and PPE. Or upload your own document (PDF, Word or a photo of a paper one). Everyone in the team reads it on the job's page, even with no signal, and signs; a change is a new version that everyone signs again.

In practice

1. Create one for the project's site, or for a job.
2. Start from common forestry hazards, or upload your document.
3. Publish it: the crew is asked to read and sign.
4. See who has signed, and print a PDF with the signatures.

How it helps

The web dashboard opens on what needs attention: tasks waiting for review, overdue work, who is out and recent activity. It also has project progress, the planting report with species and rates, records from shared layers, tariffing surveys, felling licence maps, lone working and the team's activity history. It works on a phone too, and can be added to the home screen like an app.

Exports

Tasks and task history as CSV, tasks as GeoJSON for QGIS, members, activity, planting jobs and species with rates, and shared layers and maps, all using the app's own references and statuses.