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System problems? Never fear when FarSoft support manager Darrell Cloete is on the job. The go-to person for typical ViTrax support queries, pivots and server...

Largely because of his analytical abilities and substantial input, Dutoit Agri system developer Edrich Botha was chosen as the ViTrax Power User of the Year in September....

Villiersdorp-based Betko Fresh Produce, one of the Western Cape’s leading apple and pear pack houses and a FarSoft client since 2009, is absolutely ecstatic about the...

“I must say that the recent integration of the MAF RODA pre-sorter with the ViTrax Pallet and Bin Tracking module at our packhouse has been extremely successful,” said...

Eagerly awaiting their first season with QlikView, the packhouse team at Verdun Estates is looking forward to experience its benefits. This latest addition to their...

With great success Novo Fruit Packers upgraded its previous carton management system with the FarSoft one 14 months ago. Appsource director André Swart, who collaborated...

“Invaluable!” is how Sonlia Fruit Packers financial manager Jacques Aldrich described the recent installation of ViTrax Money to its existing ViTrax system. “It’s...

FarSoft recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of its ViTrax QC module going live at Chiltern Farms, Vyeboom. A valued client for 19 years, Chiltern started...

Kicking off its ViTrax installation, United Packhouse in Johannesburg implemented the pallet tracking and bin tracking modules late last year. Part of United Exports,...

With close on 22 operational years under its belt, FarSoft IT has evolved to become FarSoft Solutions (Pty) Ltd, with founder Freddie Roux and business manager Gerhard...

Gerhard Nel, Farsoft’s business manager received a diploma for the Management Development Programme at the University of Stellenbosch on 8 December 2016. Said Farsoft MD...

When Freddie Roux joined the ranks of the unemployed on 1 September 1996, little did he know that it was the start of a huge success story. He had no business plan, no...

At Farsoft, people capital isn’t seen as unwanted overheads, but as an intrinsic part of its operations and success. After all, it’s people, not kit, that really make the...

 20 years of technological advances When Farsoft came into being in 1996, what was then a one-man software operation slowly grew into an information technology company...

Having a delighted customer is the most thrilling experience, according to Farsoft founder Freddie Roux. So, with the Farsoft ethos of ‘customers first’, the company has...

When Novo Packhouse in Paarl built two new cold stores which used mobile pallet racking, Farsoft was called to devise a solution. In conjunction with Appsource, it...

To eliminate time-consuming manual capture of sorted bin data from the Greefa pre-sorting machines at Paarl-based Novo Pack House, Farsoft built software in ViTrax to...

There’s nothing that Farsoft system supporter Selwin Matthyse enjoys more than helping clients, troubleshooting problems and testing new program features. “Visiting...

With the ViTrax QC product line celebrating eight successful years, Farsoft embarked on modifying it for use on tablet devices last year. Oast Farm was the first site...

Installing ViTrax at the newly built Bella Frutta packhouse late last year proved quite a challenge, but according to Farsoft development manager Gerhard Nel, all went...

Prior to the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) implementation on 1 July, Farsoft was hard at work for weeks on end to enhance the ViTrax software solutions to comply with the...

To provide an automated carton scanning solution for two of DuToit Vrugte’s packhouses, FarSoft and AppSource collaborated by integrating the latter’s production...

Having joined the burgeoning ViTrax community in September 2015, the century-old Dutoit Agri has been extremely pleased with the ease of operating this packhouse...

“I was born to do this job,” said Mariska Cubitt of her position as Farsoft’s systems supporter. As a people’s person, she loves the people aspect of the job the...

With a level of excellence close to perfection according to Farsoft MD Freddie Roux, 2015 ViTrax Power User Amber Swart of Timberlea Farming Trust is going places....

Not only has the integration of ViTrax with pre-sorting sizers meant far fewer man hours for packhouses, but the live data is more accurate and has enabled quicker and...

ViTrax has come up trumps yet again at both Univeg Piketko and Augpad Koelkamers. Having implemented ViTrax in January 2014, this integrated information system has...

Third-generation family business Graaff Fruit is known for its top quality standards and produces some of the best deciduous fruit, including peaches, nectarines,...

Life has become a whole lot easier at Oudam Citrus thanks to Farsoft’s FruitInfo system, according to packhouse manager Gerrit Jacobs. Farsoft developed this lean...

Novo Pack House’s Shirley Williams is the 2014 ViTrax Operator of the Year. Congratulations Shirley! Farsoft signed Paarl-based Novo Packhouse in late 2013. MD...

Together with the PPECB and Novo Packhouse, Farsoft formed part of the groundbreaking team which achieved a major milestone for Project Titan in May. The group...

Spontaneous and extrovert are the words that describe Farsoft’s new client service manager Hanneke Alberts who joined the company in July this year. In this role...

When Babsie Karsten of Karsten Farms contacted her children’s former computer studies teacher, Freddie Roux , to write a packhouse programme, little did she know...

Chiltern Farms at Vyeboom , Western Cape has truly revolutionised its business after installing the ViTrax system. Since the first pallet tracking installation in 1999,...

The ten-year-old ViTrax packhouse information system is in a league of its own when it comes to service delivery. According to FarSoft Information Systems chief Freddie...

Three new installations of Radio Frequency Scanning have been completed by FarSoft IT recently. This is undoubtedly the future of information technology in terms of data...

ViTrax user Sterkwater Boerdery is situated in the beautiful Witzenberg and Koue Bokkeveld area – a thriving producer and distributor of apples, pears, peaches,...

A group of five prominent pack houses in the Vyeboom/Grabouw area has formed an alliance with Somerset West-based exporting company Fruitways, part of the Melsetter...

When Citri Fruit Packing on the farm Groot Patrysvlei was urgently looking at replacing its produce data capturing and management tool earlier this year, ViTrax was...

After the 2005-season, FarSoft presented the following user awards: • Angeline Rooi – from Graaff Packing, Prince Alfred ‘s Hamlet for the best novice user...

Implementing a fully-fledged pack house system such as ViTrax with all its requirements and work flow mechanisms into a typical smaller pack house operation poses major...

Because Farsoft cares about its people and realises that without the people there’s no Farsoft, the company makes a point of organising annual staff enrichment...

Over the past few seasons there’s been a huge uptake of ViTrax’s built-in financial module known as ViTrax Money. This trend is indicative of packhouses’ and depots’ need...

As always, Farsoft is hard at work on enhancing its products and services while looking for client value-add opportunities. In due course, the company will roll out pilot...

Gideon van den Heever of Ceres Koelkamers has been awarded the ViTrax Power User title for the 2007/8 season. Every year, Farsoft honours exceptional ViTrax users who add...

Multi-talented Colin Galpin was originally headhunted by Farsoft to do mainly technical work. However, he excelled in support and as such is now support manager. MD...

Backups are the last line of defence against hardware failure, floods or fires, the damage caused by a security breach, catastrophic virus or spyware infections or simply...

Farsoft’s Freddie Roux recently handed a brand new laptop to Mr J Jantze, municipal manager at the Karasburg municipality in Namibia as a token of appreciation for more...

Life has just become a whole lot easier for ViTrax users. Using MySQL, ViTrax data now can be accessed by Microsoft Excel at lightning speed – thus making the system...

Orange River Wine Cellars in Upington has been co-sponsored by Farsoft to undertake an educational tour to a number of Western Cape wine cellars. Seen here are in the...

In the 1990s, software development was shaped by two major influences: internally, object-oriented programming replaced procedural programming and externally, the rise of...

In the 10 years since Farsoft’s inception, owner Freddie Roux has learnt to rely on good quality people for timeous, good quality work. In business, his motto...

For some time now, Farsoft has been working on building the foundations of automated messaging into ViTrax. Said managing director Freddie Roux, “Without getting...

Parmilee Koen of Elgin Orchards is the 2010 ViTrax Operator of the Year. Well done Parmilee! About 400 people countrywide physically work on ViTrax at some time during...

With the tough responsibility of ViTrax development and project manager, Farsoft’s Gerhard Nel knows the program inside out. But despite this formidable workload, those...