| Commerce
Efficiently Managing Your Webshop in 10-30 Minutes a Day
Running an E-Commerce store can be a demanding task, but with effective time management strategies, you can efficiently handle key...
| Roast
A Roaster’s Guide to Preventative Machine Maintenance
Preventative maintenance is a non-negotiable for coffee roasters, but for many, it is pure overwhelm. To lend you some practical help in this, we teamed up with Liz Bishop, roast technician extraordinaire from Vintage Coffee. She wrote up a thorough list of what preventative steps to take, when, and how. Pair her ultimate checklist with Cropster's Task Management feature, and you're ready to develop a successful maintenance routine!
| Roast
Ensuring Quality at Wholesale Accounts
Operating a wholesale coffee roasting business is more involved than one might think. Even putting aside the complexity of sourcing, roasting, and quality control; there’s a lot more to wholesale than simply delivering product to your customers. Providing the right service and support to your accounts so they can effectively represent your brand (and their own!) is crucial to the success of your business and theirs.
| Cup
Lot Evaluation, Sample Types & Sample Groups
Roasters, along with coffee labs, importers, exporters, and producers all have occasions where they evaluate multiple samples of the same coffee lot. Cropster Sample Groups make it easy to keep track of samples.
| Cafe
Defining Recipe Ranges
Recipe management is an essential part of any successful coffee business. In a cafe, recipes might be managed by multiple people across multiple locations (e.g. owners and managers, barista trainers, or from a centralized lab or roastery). With this in mind, let’s take a look at recipe management in the cafe.
| Roast
Drum speed control for Besca Roasting Machines
We are excited to announce our latest release with Besca. Besca roasting machine users now have the added benefit of controlling drum speed via Cropster Roasting Intelligence.