Automated Input Cost Overrun Alerts
Every Monday, WebRun opens Traction Ag, compares actual seed, chemical, and fertilizer spend against your budget by category and crop, logs any overrun to a Google Sheet, and sends you a Telegram alert so an input category running over gets caught mid-season, not at year end.
How do I get alerted when farm input costs run over budget?
Every Monday, WebRun opens Traction Ag, compares actual seed, chemical, and fertilizer spend against your budget by category and crop, and finds the overruns. It logs them to a Google Sheet with the dollar and percent gap and sends you a Telegram alert, largest first, so an input category running hot is caught mid-season instead of at year end.
- Input overruns surface mid-season while you can still adjust
- Every alert shows the budget, actual, and size of the gap
- A running sheet shows a category creeping over week over week
Built for row crop farmers · farm managers · farm bookkeepers · farm accountants
What does WebRun do on every run?
The exact actions WebRun takes, in order - in plain language, so you can adjust anything.
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WebRun signs in and gets to work
Opens
tractionag.comin a real browser with your saved login - no setup, no API keys. -
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Traction Ag - compare spend to budget
tractionag.com
WebRun opens Traction Ag to compare actual input spend against budget by category. - Open Traction Ag and read actual seed, chemical, and fertilizer spend by category and crop
- Compare each against the budgeted amount for the season
- Capture every category over budget with the dollar and percent overrun and the crop affected
Done when Every input category over budget has been captured with the overrun.
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Google Sheets - log the overruns
google.com
WebRun logs each input cost overrun to the Google Sheet with the gap. - Open the tracking sheet and add a dated row for each category over budget
- Record the category, crop, budget, actual, and the overrun in dollars and percent
- Keep the history so a category creeping over week over week stands out
Done when Every input overrun is logged in the sheet with the size of the gap.
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Telegram - send the overrun alert
telegram.org
WebRun sends you a Telegram alert of the input categories running over budget. - Send you an alert listing the categories over budget, largest overrun first
- Show the budget, the actual, and the overrun for each
- Keep it an internal alert for you, with nothing sent outside your farm
Done when You have this week's input cost overrun alert on Telegram.
How is each run configured?
Secure by default
Connect once, stays signed in
WebRun signs in once and keeps each session in a persistent environment, so every run picks up right where it left off.
Every action is checked against this policy before it runs.
Questions, answered
Does it send anything outside my farm?
No. WebRun logs the overruns to a Google Sheet and sends you a Telegram alert. Both are internal to you, so no supplier, lender, or landlord ever sees your spend against budget.
Is it safe to auto-send the alert?
Yes. The sheet and the alert are internal summaries for you, so WebRun writes and sends them on its own each week. Nothing leaves your farm and no one outside is contacted, so there is nothing to approve.
How does it know I am over budget?
It reads your actual input spend in Traction Ag and compares it to the budget you set by category and crop, so only categories genuinely over are flagged, largest overrun first.
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