The numbers your bank reads. Live
A livestock trading statement and a true gross margin that reconcile against the stock you actually have — built from the crush records, not pieced together in a spreadsheet in July.
The reason the real numbers only show up at tax time is that they live somewhere else — a sales spreadsheet, a shoebox of invoices, whatever the accountant reconciles months later. Livestock Library builds the books out of the same records you’re already keeping, so the trading statement is close to live instead of a year in arrears.
A livestock trading statement accounts for the change in your herd over a period: opening stock, natural increase, purchases, sales, deaths, and closing stock — valued properly. Get that right and gross margin (income minus the direct costs of running the stock) becomes a number you can actually make decisions on, and one the bank recognises.
How the books build themselves.
Sales & purchases
Record account sales and stock purchases as they happen — the tags, the weights, the price. They land straight on the trading statement.
Costs in one ledger
Keep a running cost ledger — animal health, freight, agistment, feed — so the cost side isn’t a guess at year end.
A margin that’s honest
Gross margin is computed from the two, and it tells you plainly when the cost side is incomplete instead of overstating profit.
A reconciled trading statement
Opening and closing numbers are drawn from the herd itself — the animals on the place at the start and end of the period, valued consistently — so the statement reconciles against reality rather than against a separate tally someone kept by hand. Natural increase (the calves), purchases, sales and deaths all flow from records you already logged in the yards.
A gross margin that admits what it doesn’t know
A margin figure is only useful if you can trust it. If the cost side is incomplete — you’ve booked the sales but not yet the freight or the animal-health bill — the platform says so, clearly, rather than quietly reporting a rosier margin than you’ve earned. An honest “this is missing costs” beats a confident wrong number every time.
Who can see the money
The books are sensitive, so they’re gated by role. Owners, managers and your accountant can see the financial screens; farmhands and your vet don’t, even though they use the same app for stock work. And only owners and managers can record money. You decide who sees the dollars — down to the person.
Built for your accountant, exportable any time
The statement is shaped the way an Australian livestock accountant expects to read it, and your data is yours — a full export is available on every tier, including the free one. When it’s time to hand figures to the accountant or the bank, you send them numbers that already add up.
Every dollar on the statement traces back to a sale, a purchase or a cost entry you can open — and the arithmetic is done by tested code, never estimated by the AI.
The detail.
| Trading statement | Opening, natural increase, purchases, sales, deaths, closing — reconciled to the herd |
|---|---|
| Gross margin | Income minus direct running costs, computed by code |
| Incomplete-cost flag | States plainly when the cost side isn’t complete |
| Cost ledger | Animal health, freight, agistment, feed and more in one place |
| Access | Financial screens gated to owner / manager / accountant; only owner & manager record money |
| Export | Full data export on every tier |
See it on your own place.
Start free on up to 200 head — no card, no lock-in. Running a bigger show? Book a demo and we’ll set it up around how you work.