AI calls for agri-input dealers let you ask every farmer for payment in the few weeks after harvest, when the money is actually in hand. In Takkada, you open Send reminders now once the mandi sales start, tick the farmers and village retailers who still owe you for the season's seed, fertiliser and pesticide, and tap Call with AI. An AI agent calls each one in the language you set, such as Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Telugu or Hindi, names your shop and the amount due from your Tally books, and asks when they will pay. Each answer is logged as a follow-up on that party: Will pay with an amount and date, No answer, Wrong number, Disputes amount or Refused, with a note and, once ready, the recording. If a farmer misses the date he gave, the AI can call him again on its own a set number of days later, so the short post-harvest window does not slip by while your counter is busy with sowing.
The agri-input credit season
An agri-input dealer sells on credit for months. Seed in June, urea and DAP through July and August, pesticide whenever the pest arrives. Two or three hundred farmers buy on udhaar, along with a few village retailers. Bills range from ₹3,500 for a farmer with two acres to ₹85,000 for a retailer.
Nobody pays until the crop is sold. Then, for two or three weeks after the mandi auctions, money moves. A dealer who asks in that window gets paid. A dealer who asks a month later finds the cash has gone into a wedding, a tractor instalment or the next crop.
The trouble is that the window is also when the counter is busiest. The rabi sowing season starts right as the kharif money comes in. There is no time to call three hundred farmers one by one.
Calling in the farmer's language
The AI calling settings let you pick one language from twelve: Hindi, English, Assamese, Bengali, Odia, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. A dealer in Vidarbha picks Marathi, a dealer in Saurashtra picks Gujarati. The language applies to all calls for your business.
Tone is Polite or Firm. For farmers you will sell to again next season, Polite keeps the relationship intact. A callback number lets a farmer ring your shop directly if he wants to talk to you.
Timing the calls around field work
Farmers are in the field by morning. In the settings you choose the calling hours and the calling days, so the calls go out when your parties are reachable. The default is 10 in the morning to 6 in the evening, Monday to Saturday, and you can change both.
A cap on AI calls per farmer per month (four by default) keeps the AI from calling the same family too often.
What you see after one round
Each call shows up on the farmer's record, tagged AI. With the Recovery dashboard on, it sits on the party's follow-up timeline. Without it, it shows on the party's bills page under AI call results. A farmer who said "soybean bikne ke baad, 20 tarikh tak" has a promise saved with the amount and date. A farmer who says the bag count is wrong shows Disputes amount, with the reason in the note.
For how the calls work across trades, read AI calling for payment collection, or see the AI collection calls page.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Can the AI call some farmers in Marathi and others in Hindi?
A: The language is one setting for your business, chosen from twelve. All AI calls go out in the language you pick.
Q: Will the AI call a farmer with no phone number in Tally?
A: No. A party with no mobile number on the ledger shows "No mobile number saved" and cannot be ticked.
Q: Does the AI call automatically when the harvest starts?
A: No. You choose when to start by ticking parties and tapping Call with AI. After that, the AI tries again by itself after a missed promise, or on the next calling day when a farmer did not pick up or gave no date.
Q: Can a farmer call back to talk to me?
A: Yes. Put your number in "Number the party should call back". If you leave it empty, the owner's number is used.
Try it before the next harvest
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