Dairy management software
Know your cost per litre. Every day.
Lactra follows the milk — from the animal that produced it to the buyer who paid for it. Herd records, milk collection, quality testing and farmer payments in one system. Works offline, on the phone you already own.
No card requiredWorks offlineEnglish & اردوFree for 20 animals
The problem
Most dairy software stops at the shed gate
Herd software tracks your animals. Collection software tracks your cans. Neither one tells you what a litre actually costs, or where the litres went.
So the numbers live in three places — a register at the shed, a notebook at the collection centre, and a spreadsheet somebody rebuilds at month end. By the time those figures meet, the month is over and the losses have already happened.
You can feel the problems. A cow that has dropped off. A shed eating more than it should. Milk that does not add up on Friday. But you cannot prove them or price them, so they run for months.
Lactra is one system for the whole chain
Every litre carries its history: which animal produced it, on which shift, what it cost to produce, what fat it tested at, what it sold for, and who got paid for it.
What it does
One system, from the animal to the invoice
Herd management
Every animal, every event. Pedigree, lactations, weights, shed moves, culling. Cattle and buffalo, each with its own curves.
Milk recording
Per animal, per shift. Table entry, Excel import, or one at a time. Lactation curves and 305-day projections.
Breeding & reproduction
Heats, services, pregnancy checks, calvings, dry-offs. Semen inventory that decrements on every service.
Animal health
Treatments, vaccinations and deworming — individually, by group or by shed. Withdrawal periods enforced at milking.
Feed & inventory
Feed, medicine and semen as separate ledgers. Every consumption traced to the event that caused it.
Dairy accounting
Real ledgers, real trial balance. Cost per litre that reconciles, because every cost posts from an event.
Milk collection
Weigh, test, price, print, pay. Under 45 seconds a supplier, fully offline, fat and SNF from your analyzer.
Cold chain & traceability
Chiller intake, temperature logs, excursion alerts, shrinkage per centre. Forward and backward trace.
Mobile app
Android, offline-first, built for a 2GB phone on a bad connection. Role-based home screens.
Difference
Four things nobody else in this market does
It reads your milk analyzer
Ekomilk, Lactoscan and Milkotester, connected over RS232 or USB. Fat, SNF, CLR and added water land in the record automatically, in under three seconds. No typing, no transcription errors, no arguments at payout.
Every reading is stored raw alongside the value actually used, so a dispute is settled by looking at the record rather than by memory. No other vendor serving Pakistan integrates with any device at all.
It works with no signal
A collection centre at 6am with forty farmers queuing cannot wait for a network. Lactra runs a full shift offline — weigh, test, price, print, close — and syncs when the signal returns. Collection records and payments are append-only, so nothing merges wrong and nothing is lost.
Buffalo is a species, not a checkbox
Buffalo is the majority of Pakistan's milk, and most of the world's dairy software treats it as a cattle variant with a different label. Lactra gives buffalo its own lactation curves, its own standard fat, its own breeding intervals and its own benchmarks — Nili Ravi, Kundi, Murrah and crosses, recorded properly.
Urdu a farmer can actually read
A full right-to-left interface, Urdu on the printed slip a supplier takes home, and Urdu on the SMS that tells them what they are owed. Written by people who speak it, not run through a translator.
Who it's for
Built for how you actually operate
Dairy farms
20 to 2,000 animals. Yield, breeding, health and a cost-per-litre number you can trust.
Collection centres
Weigh, test, price, print and pay. Analyzer-connected, offline, 45 seconds a supplier.
Processors
Multi-centre procurement, cold chain, supplier ledgers and traceability across the network.
Buffalo farms
First-class buffalo records, breeds and benchmarks — not a cattle form with a label swapped.
Free tools
Try these before you try the software
No signup, no email. They work whether or not you ever become a customer.
Cattle & buffalo gestation calculator
Due date, dry-off date and the checks in between, from one service date.
Milk rate calculator
Fat and SNF in, rate per litre out. Single-axis, two-axis or matrix.
Dairy profit calculator
What a herd that size actually earns once feed is paid for.
Free Excel record template
If you are not ready for software yet, start here. No strings.
Pricing
Priced so a 30-animal farm can afford it
Free for the first 20 animals, permanently. $12 a month after that. Collection centres from $39 a month whatever the supplier count — because charging you more for growing is a strange way to run a business.
No card for the trial. Cancel any time. All features on every paid plan.
“We were reconciling milk on paper and finding the losses three weeks late. Now the variance shows up the same evening. That change alone paid for the software in the first month.”
D&J Dairy Farm — 117 animals, 82 milking, Punjab
Questions
Common questions
Does Lactra work without internet?
Yes. Full offline operation for herd records and milk collection. Everything queues locally and syncs when the connection returns. A collection centre can run an entire shift with no signal and lose nothing.
Which milk analyzers does it support?
Ekomilk, Lactoscan and Milkotester over RS232 or USB, with Everest, Ksheera and Lactostar in progress. Manual entry is always available as a fallback, and every device reading is stored raw alongside the value used.
Does it handle buffalo?
Yes, as a first-class species — separate lactation curves, standard fat percentages, breeding intervals and benchmarks. Nili Ravi, Kundi, Murrah and crosses.
Is there a free version?
Yes. Up to 20 animals and one user, free permanently — not a trial. Paid plans start at $12 a month.
Can I import my existing records?
Yes, from Excel or CSV, with a downloadable template, a validation preview and per-row error reporting before anything is committed.
Do I own my data?
Yes, and you can export all of it in open formats at any time, including after you cancel. It is written into the contract.
Start with your own herd, today
Free for 20 animals. Thirty days of everything else, no card. Import your animals, record a week of milkings, and look at your cost per litre.