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CenterPoint Accounting for Agriculture vs FBS Systems (MASA)
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Capabilities
CenterPoint Accounting for Agriculture describes 1 of 10 capabilities (4 partial); FBS Systems (MASA) describes 1 (7 partial). They differ on ai assistant, grain marketing, mobile app. Both describe accounting.
| Capability | CenterPoint Accounting for Agriculture | FBS Systems (MASA) |
|---|---|---|
| AI assistant | ? Unverified | ◐ Partial |
| Accounting | ● Yes | ● Yes |
| Grain marketing | ○ No | ◐ Partial |
| Field maps & agronomy | ◐ Partial | ◐ Partial |
| Inputs | ○ No | ○ No |
| Labor & staff | ◐ Partial | ◐ Partial |
| Weather | ○ No | ○ No |
| Equipment data | ◐ Partial | ◐ Partial |
| Elevator / buyer connection | ◐ Partial | ◐ Partial |
| Mobile app | ? Unverified | ◐ Partial |
CenterPoint Accounting for Agriculture: Accounting: general ledger with profitability by field, crop or herd, grain-bushel/head-count/feed inventory, Schedule F mapping, farm ratios (working capital, debt-to-asset, operating expense), depreciation and land-rent tracking; cloud-hosted or local install. Labor: integrated ag payroll (Form 943, piece-work crew pay, bilingual stubs) plus Employee Portal/Online Time Clock; not a workforce-scheduling tool. Equipment: vendor integration page lists John Deere Operations Center (pulls field boundaries into Production Analysis maps) as the only equipment-brand integration. Elevator/buyer: GrainTrac integration posts settlement checks and grain-sale invoices into CenterPoint; Plaid bank feeds. Vendor terms mention 'AI Features' but no AI assistant is described on product pages. No mobile app described on vendor pages fetched.
FBS Systems (MASA): Accounting: general ledger with cash, accrual, market-value and lower-of-cost/market bases, multi-entity consolidation, AP/AR, ACH e-payments, payroll (legacy FBS page), W-2/1099, activity-based cost accounting, Farm Financial Standards 'Sweet Sixteen' ratios. Grain marketing: tracks cash/futures contract status for crops and imports grain tickets from electronic scales/sales and Excel (not a bid/offer marketplace). Agronomy: crop production records (fields, inputs, applications, harvest), no field-map/agronomy imagery described. Equipment: 'machinery economics' pulls telemetry from machines and trucks (via acquired CropZilla) to compute cost per acre; no equipment brands named. Mobile: legacy FBS site says field production activity can be recorded via the Conservis Mobile App; no MASA-native app described. Labor: labor cost per acre tracked; payroll on legacy FBS page. AI: MASA sells a synced data replica that external tools (Power BI, Tableau, Claude) can query and runs 'MASA Labs' where producers build AI tools; no built-in assistant. Buyer integrations: packer settlements/carcass data and feed-mill imports; grain tickets from electronic scales.
Price, data and ownership
| CenterPoint Accounting for Agriculture | FBS Systems (MASA) | |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Red Wing Software, Inc. | MASA LLC (Mutual Agricultural Software Alliance), formerly FBS Systems, Inc. |
| Category | accounting-financials | accounting-financials |
| What the AI does | Unverified — AI level not assessed. | Unverified — MASA/FBS pages describe analytics; no assistant could be confirmed. |
| Pricing model | Contact sales | Contact sales |
| Published price | Not published | Not published |
| Your data | Vendor terms state 'Customer Data remains the property of the Customer' and that Red Wing Software 'shall not sell Customer Data or use it for advertising,' though de-identified aggregated AI inputs may be used for any business purpose and personal information may be shared with third-party contract partners. | Not published |
| Crops and regions | Row crop, livestock and mixed crop-livestock farms and agribusinesses (vendor wording); US-focused tax forms (Schedule F, Form 943). | Crop (row-crop), swine, cattle, dairy and diversified operations, multi-entity and farm-management companies; North America (vendor states ~3,000 agricultural clients across North America). |
| Farm size | Not published | Not published |
| Ownership | Private — private | Producer-owned — producer-owned private (producer-owned: owners are farm operations, an accounting firm serving producers, and founder Norm Brown; 7 of 10 board seats held by farm operations using the software; vendor states it is not venture-backed) |
| What else they sell | Farm software co. — farm-software-only company (vendor also sells general-business, nonprofit and municipal accounting/payroll editions of CenterPoint; not part of an equipment, input, grain-buyer or retailer company) | Farm software co. — farm-software-only company |
| Headquarters | Red Wing, MN (US) | Tipton, IA (US) |
| Built and supported | US-built, US support (Red Wing, MN; support hours 8:00 am-5:00 pm CT Mon-Fri; vendor states unlimited phone/email support with any paid service plan) | US-built, US support (remote team; vendor states service area is North America; 2025 newsletter lists weekly maintenance windows in Central Time) |
| Founded | 1979 | 1980 |
| Status | Active. Sold as part of the CenterPoint family (Accounting, Accounting for Agriculture, Fund Accounting, Payroll, Depreciation). Available as local install or Red Wing-hosted cloud service. | REBRANDED: The FBS Systems name has been retired; the software continues under MASA (Mutual Agricultural Software Alliance), a producer-owned LLC in Tipton, IA. fbssystems.com remains live with legacy product descriptions, and MASA pages still reference 'FBS accounting' integration and fbssystems.com email addresses. Date of the ownership change is not published on vendor pages. |
| Confidence | partially verified | partially verified |
| Last reviewed | 2026-10-25 | 2026-10-25 |
Sources with access dates are on each product page: CenterPoint Accounting for Agriculture and FBS Systems (MASA). Request a correction.