1.Please ensure that you have a broadband Internet connection available at each location where you wish to access your herd data via a desktop or laptop computer
2.You can use a Windows PC or Apple Mac with the system. Though you can use any web browsing program to access the main data entry and reporting screens, we strongly recommend the Google Chrome browser for best results.
3.If you don’t have Chrome installed, you can download it for free – use the web address www.google.com/chrome or type “google chrome” into an Internet search engine
4.To work with your herd data using a Smartphone or Tablet computer, please refer to the separate user guide (Note: you need to have a valid license for mobile access)
5.Ensure you have your FarmWizard login details to hand. These will have been sent to your nominated email address by the Service Desk
6.You should decide on a date when you will begin sending passport applications and movement notifications through the system. If anyone else is involved with registering passports or movements with the BCMS, we recommend that you make them aware of this change-over date
7.For cattle, if you have registered for the BCMS reporting channel "CTS Web Services for farm software" and provided the log-in details the the FarmWizard Service Desk, your FarmWizard account will be “live-linked” to the BCMS Cattle Tracing System. Once this is done, any birth or movement events that you choose to notify via FarmWizard will be sent to the BCMS automatically at around 9.30am on the day after the events were entered.
Note: it is also possible to do this manually if you want to submit to the BCMS as soon as you have entered the notifiable events.
