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CenterPoint Accounting for Agriculture vs Traction Ag
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Capabilities
CenterPoint Accounting for Agriculture describes 1 of 10 capabilities (4 partial); Traction Ag describes 5 (3 partial). They differ on grain marketing, inputs, labor & staff, equipment data, mobile app. Both describe accounting.
| Capability | CenterPoint Accounting for Agriculture | Traction Ag |
|---|---|---|
| AI assistant | ? Unverified | ? Unverified |
| Accounting | ● Yes | ● Yes |
| Grain marketing | ○ No | ◐ Partial |
| Field maps & agronomy | ◐ Partial | ◐ Partial |
| Inputs | ○ No | ● Yes |
| Labor & staff | ◐ Partial | ● Yes |
| Weather | ○ No | ○ No |
| Equipment data | ◐ Partial | ● Yes |
| Elevator / buyer connection | ◐ Partial | ◐ Partial |
| Mobile app | ? Unverified | ● Yes |
CenterPoint Accounting for Agriculture: Accounting: general ledger with profitability by field, crop or herd, grain-bushel/head-count/feed inventory, Schedule F mapping, farm ratios (working capital, debt-to-asset, operating expense), depreciation and land-rent tracking; cloud-hosted or local install. Labor: integrated ag payroll (Form 943, piece-work crew pay, bilingual stubs) plus Employee Portal/Online Time Clock; not a workforce-scheduling tool. Equipment: vendor integration page lists John Deere Operations Center (pulls field boundaries into Production Analysis maps) as the only equipment-brand integration. Elevator/buyer: GrainTrac integration posts settlement checks and grain-sale invoices into CenterPoint; Plaid bank feeds. Vendor terms mention 'AI Features' but no AI assistant is described on product pages. No mobile app described on vendor pages fetched.
Traction Ag: Core product is cloud farm accounting: multi-entity books, bank/credit-card sync via Plaid, cash and accrual reports, Schedule F and 1099s, land agreements, invoicing, payroll via Paylocity add-on. Grain: scale tickets, load tracking and crop/grain inventory in Plus; full grain contract/position/settlement management is in the enterprise 'Advanced Farm Management' suite. Field records: tillage, planting, application and harvest records with per-field profitability; machine integrations are John Deere Operations Center and Climate FieldView (no Case IH/AGCO listed); no imagery or agronomy modeling described. Inputs: seed, chemical and fertilizer inventory and prepay tracking. Labor: payroll integration, work orders and roles/permissions (enterprise and Sept 2026 update). Buyer/retailer: bill import from Keystone Cooperative and FS Billing; no grain buyer contract feeds named. Mobile: Traction Mobile on Apple App Store and Google Play. No AI assistant feature found on public pages.
Price, data and ownership
| CenterPoint Accounting for Agriculture | Traction Ag | |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Red Wing Software, Inc. | Traction Ag Inc. |
| Category | accounting-financials | whole-farm management |
| What the AI does | Unverified — AI level not assessed. | Unverified — AI level not assessed. |
| Pricing model | Contact sales | Subscription |
| Published price | Not published | Basic $95/month or $950/year; Plus $195/month or $1,950/year; Pro $395/month or $3,950/year (yearly billing shown as 'save 15%'); no per-acre or per-entity charges listed; free trial offered. Enterprise 'Advanced Farm Management' pricing not published. Accessed 2026-10-25 at tractionag.com/pricing-and-plans. |
| Your data | Vendor terms state 'Customer Data remains the property of the Customer' and that Red Wing Software 'shall not sell Customer Data or use it for advertising,' though de-identified aggregated AI inputs may be used for any business purpose and personal information may be shared with third-party contract partners. | Traction's Ag Data Use Agreement (Trust Center) states 'Traction believes that you are the owner of Ag Data that originates from your farm, device, or equipment' and 'Traction will not sell or share your Ag Data to third parties without your consent'; anonymized aggregated benchmarking is on by default with an opt-out. |
| Crops and regions | Row crop, livestock and mixed crop-livestock farms and agribusinesses (vendor wording); US-focused tax forms (Schedule F, Form 943). | '100+ crop types' with customizable harvest units; U.S. (Midwest origin) and Australia; livestock tracking not supported per FAQ |
| Farm size | Not published | Not published |
| Ownership | Private — private | Private, investor-backed — VC-backed private (vendor: 'proudly independent and owned by farm investors'; $10M Series A May 2024 led by Cooperative Ventures, a CHS–GROWMARK joint venture, with Plymouth Growth; 2022 release described it as majority employee- and farmer-owned) |
| What else they sell | Farm software co. — farm-software-only company (vendor also sells general-business, nonprofit and municipal accounting/payroll editions of CenterPoint; not part of an equipment, input, grain-buyer or retailer company) | Farm software co. — farm-software-only company (lead investor is a venture arm of two farmer-owned cooperatives) |
| Headquarters | Red Wing, MN (US) | Auburn, Indiana (US) |
| Built and supported | US-built, US support (Red Wing, MN; support hours 8:00 am-5:00 pm CT Mon-Fri; vendor states unlimited phone/email support with any paid service plan) | US-built ('Born in the Midwest'); US phone/live-chat/video support team (888-466-6080); also operates in Australia following the Conservis acquisition |
| Founded | 1979 | 2020 |
| Status | Active. Sold as part of the CenterPoint family (Accounting, Accounting for Agriculture, Fund Accounting, Payroll, Depreciation). Available as local install or Red Wing-hosted cloud service. | Active. Now the owner of both Conservis and Granular Business, marketed together as 'Advanced Farm Management'; vendor says it plans to fold that functionality into the core Traction Accounting product. Pricing page shows overlapping promotions (one dated 'expires December 19, 2025', another 'rest of 2026 free with yearly 2027 plan — expires Nov 15'). Founders not named on site; CEO Dustin Sapp named in 2024 funding coverage; team roots in Farm Works Software. |
| Confidence | partially verified | partially verified |
| Last reviewed | 2026-10-25 | 2026-10-25 |
Prices are quoted as shown on the vendor page on the review date and change often. Sources with access dates are on each product page: CenterPoint Accounting for Agriculture and Traction Ag. Request a correction.