Take and approve water orders
Orders arrive by phone, text, paper, or the app, and the office approves before anything moves. They land on a calendar organised by headgate so the week is visible at a glance.
Irrigation district software
Irrigation district software for the districts everyone else priced out.
Loamio is irrigation district software for small irrigation districts and mutual ditch companies — water orders, ditch rider run sheets, a share-based water rights ledger, and assessment billing in one system. Flat $99–$299 a month, no per-user or per-shareholder fees, and a 14-day free trial with no credit card.
The category
Five jobs, one system.
Irrigation district software earns its keep by covering the whole week, not one slice of it. Most districts do these five things every season; most tools handle two or three and hand the rest back to a spreadsheet.
Run the ditch
Riders get a run sheet on the phone, mark deliveries at the structure, and note what actually happened — including the skips and the partial deliveries.
Track the water right
Shares times acre-feet per share, not a flat allotment, so each patron's right and season-to-date usage stay exact and defensible.
Bill the assessment
Bill every shareholder by share count and collect by ACH, card, or invoice through Stripe, with paid, pending, and failed tracked in one place.
Answer for it afterwards
An audit log, a CSV export of everything, and a per-patron order history to point at when someone disputes what they got in July.
Sized for small districts
Priced so a small district can actually buy it.
The reason so many districts still run on a spreadsheet is not that they like the spreadsheet. A custom-built district system runs $150K–$350K, and the established vendors quote rather than publish. Loamio publishes its price and charges the same whether you have forty shareholders or four hundred.
- $99/mo Lateral, $299/mo District. Flat. No per-user charge, no per-shareholder charge, no setup fee.
- The small plan is not a stub. Water orders, the offline rider app, assessment billing, and the share-based ledger are all in Lateral, not held back for an upsell.
- 14-day free trial, no credit card. Load a season of real orders before you decide anything.
- Stripe fees at cost. Districts pay Stripe's standard rate on patron transactions and nothing on top of it.
The field half
It has to work where there is no signal.
Irrigation district software that needs a connection is office software with a phone screen. There is no signal at most headgates, so Loamio's field app is offline-first: the rider records deliveries, skips, and notes at the structure, and everything syncs by itself once the device is back in range. Map tiles cache the same way — load the district map on Wi-Fi in the morning and it keeps working out on the ditch.
The office half
Shares, not a flat allotment.
Western water is held as shares, and a system that models it as a single number per patron will disagree with your bylaws by August. Loamio tracks water rights the way the district issued them — share count times acre-feet per share — so the ledger, the season-to-date usage, and the assessment all compute from the same figure. Assessment season becomes a billing run instead of two weeks of manual reconciliation.
The dry-year half
Three things for the year water is short.
Drought curtailment
Set a cap, publish it as a dated decision, and see every patron sorted ok, near-limit, or over — with a CSV for the board.
Delivery benchmarks
Acre-feet per water-righted acre by irrigation method, anonymized so a method only appears once at least three patrons use it.
Hydraulic schematic
The network drawn as a tree, each turnout lighting up when water is running through it — so you can see who is downstream of a shutoff.
Questions
Irrigation district software, answered.
What is irrigation district software?
It is the system a district or mutual ditch company uses to run water delivery and the office work around it — taking and approving water orders, dispatching ditch riders and recording what was actually delivered, tracking each patron's water right, and billing annual assessments. Districts without it usually split those jobs across a spreadsheet, paper run sheets on a clipboard, and shareholder records in a filing cabinet.
What should irrigation district software cost?
Loamio is $99/mo (Lateral) or $299/mo (District), flat, with no per-user and no per-shareholder charges and no setup fee — and the price is published rather than quoted. A custom-built district system typically runs $150K–$350K, which is the reason most small districts stayed on spreadsheets.
Is Loamio suitable for a small irrigation district?
Yes — that is what it is built for. The Lateral plan is aimed at small mutual ditch companies and includes water order management, the offline ditch rider app, assessment billing, and the share-based ledger rather than holding them back for a higher tier. Because pricing is flat, adding shareholders or riders does not change the bill.
Does it work without cell signal at the headgate?
Yes. The field app is offline-first — a rider records deliveries, skips, and notes at the headgate with no signal, and the changes sync automatically once the device is back in range. Map tiles cache the same way, so the district map keeps working out on the ditch after it has loaded on Wi-Fi.
Can we get our district's records back out?
Yes. Shareholders, the ledger, orders, and billing history export to CSV at any time. The records your district puts into Loamio belong to your district, and they are never sold, licensed, or shared with another party.
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