What You Get. What You Don’t Suffer

What You Get

A program written by a university-qualified programmer, Philip Prohm BSc MCompSc, with major input from Kristi Prohm BSc(Hons) PhD(Agric), and co-developed with full-time alpaca breeders
A program designed meticulously and carefully from the ground up before a single line of code was written—AlpaFarm thus contains a very strong and stable foundation upon which very powerful features can and are implemented
A program written with care with a rock-solid industrial-strength database engine cherished by large corporations for its reliability and integrity—AlpaFarm contains no bugs that we know of (Please report any)
A program with each completed record automatically saved upon acceptance (no need to do File:Save every few minutes)
An exceptionally well-written program at that
A program in which you do the minimum work and the computer does the maximum—even Ident Numbers are calculated automatically for you!
A program you can guess your way through
A program with no limits on the amount of data that can be stored
A program that automatically converts your data for you upon installation of newer versions—some programs require you to send your data to the developers for manual conversion! Or expect you to convert them yourself! This is inexcusable and completely unnecessary
Beautiful and professional Marketing Reports, which include your logo and a picture of your alpaca
Professional Stock Reports, for use on-farm
Free technical support, even for Trialware
Detailed, hand-holding Getting Started instructions
Website offers
A comprehensive Help System
The Edition of your choice
The Data Flow “Bible”
The option to join our opt-in, no-spam, low-traffic Announcements list, so as to be notified of new releases (please read our Privacy Policy)

What You Don’t Suffer

Here are just some of the things you won’t need to worry about:

You won’t get a program written on an inferior database platform no competent programmer would touch
You won’t get a program written in Microsoft Access, FileMaker, Delphi or PowerBuilder
You won’t get a program rushed to market and written with ill consideration for future developments and improvements. AlpaFarm was designed and constructed on paper before a single line of code was written, and contains as a result a very strong and stable foundation upon which very powerful features can and are implemented
There are no activation fees—AlpaFarm doesn’t care if you upgrade / change your computer hardware when and as you see fit
There are no data loss due to power failures—each completed record is automatically saved upon acceptance
There are no limitations on how many records can be stored
You won’t be required to send your data to us for manual conversion, or be expected to convert them yourself with each new release—AlpaFarm has an automatic data converter built in
You won’t get “bloatware” (a program greedy for disk space and memory, and enormous in size for the functionality it provides)—AlpaFarm is very lean
You won’t get a program written by someone who assumes or expects you to have the latest hardware and operating system and develops accordingly—AlpaFarm will happily run on your old i486 computer (circa 1995) running Windows 95, and yes, some of our clients have this very system
You won’t get a program that will only run on the latest hardware and operating system—AlpaFarm will happily run on your old i486 computer (circa 1995) with a low resolution screen running Windows 95, but will take advantage of a newer and faster computer if you have one
You won’t get a program that is a nightmare to install, requiring multiple reboots while it loads components sequentially (because it expects you to have the latest hardware and software)—AlpaFarm installs effortlessly in a minute or two, and doesn’t even require rebooting to run after installation!
You won’t get a program that is clunky and hard to use
You won’t get “DLL Hell”—AlpaFarm neither installs nor relies on external Windows functions or DLLs in order to operate. AlpaFarm is completely self-contained and doesn’t overwrite existing shared Windows files
You won’t get a program that generates huge data files difficult to back up to external media. In fact, unless you have imported the enitre IAR database into AlpaFarm, even people with large herds will most likely find that their entire data will fit on a floppy disk or two. And probably on one. The program is that lean!
You won’t get a program that fell out of the ugly tree :)