Beyond GPS Guidance: Tabula Releases New Suite of Tools for Ag Contractors

Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand – 8 June 2026 – Agricultural contractors are battling soaring costs and challenging labour markets where every missed detail directly erodes their gross margins. Traditional in-cab GPS guidance keeps machinery straight in the paddock, but leaves operators and their customers reliant on separate tools to monitor the whole operation.

To bridge this gap, Tabula has released its new agricultural contractor service offering designed to support end-to-end operations. 

Like no other ag operating platform, Tabula are connecting field operations seamlessly to the back office. By moving beyond GPS guidance, the Tabula platform integrates entire operations—from the office to the cab and the team on foot—into one unified system. This single source of truth removes the friction of administrative double-handling and app-switching, giving contractors the operational clarity needed to drive efficiency, protect their teams, and secure their profitability.

Michael Whittaker, CEO & Executive Chairman of Tabula, says: 

“For decades, the agricultural sector has viewed in-cab machinery tracking as the ultimate goal, but true profitability requires looking beyond the machine. Contractors run complex operations where a single communication breakdown directly hits their gross margins. We developed this suite to serve as a complete operational system—connecting planning, navigation, and field data capture to maximise daily productivity and run safer, more efficient operations.”

The End-to-End Operational Workflow

In alignment with how work flows naturally in the field, Tabula’s latest release introduces critical new innovations that map directly to a contractor’s daily schedule:

• • New: Operational Checklist ensures every job starts safely by allowing contractors to deploy tailored pre-start, risk assessment, and asset checks directly to the Field Support App, capturing operator responses on the go.
  • New: Tabula Navigate. An industry first. Getting operators from job to job by providing routes including custom hazard data, automatically re-routing where necessary to keep teams moving.
  • New: Field Support App extends the tools beyond the cab and allows workers on foot to keep in touch with job progress and the wider team, greatly increasing connectivity. 
  • New: Task Management enables you to track tasks beyond the vehicle via Tabula Online or the Field Support App.
  • New: Tabula Messaging allows workers to communicate, share images and updates directly referencing the work, without leaving the Tabula System, keeping teams aligned without switching apps.
  • New: Timesheets connect fields to offices. Employees log hours and breaks in the Field Support App, while managers review, approve and export for payroll.
  • New: Field Data Capture keeps records up to date. Create data collection points for fuel tanks, materials and locations for live management of inventories without log books, in one place.

Supported by Tabula’s Proven Core Platform

These new updates sit directly within Tabula’s established foundation of industry-leading features, including Live Tracking, comprehensive Farm & Infrastructure Mapping, and real-time Hazard Management with active pop-up alerts in the cab.

Compliance & Seamless Accounting Integration 

By capturing data end-to-end as it happens in the field, the system ensures that reporting becomes a natural byproduct of the workday. Accurate job and timesheet records flow seamlessly into trusted partner ecosystems like Xero, eliminating time waste and ensuring every hectare worked is accounted for.

To learn more, visit https://tabula.live/ag-contracting-new-tools-landing/

About Tabula:

Founded in New Zealand in 2006, Tabula is a global field operations platform that connects planning, guidance, live visibility and proof of work in one system. Supporting agriculture, horticulture, aviation and emergency response, Tabula enables organisations to manage complex operations with greater clarity, coordination and control.