Cut costs, not quality

Overview

In the process of finding the best software to manage your coffee roasting business, you might wonder how Cropster compares to Bean Mind's Beanventory. Cropster provides you with a marked leading profiling tool as well as tools to manage your inventories with a focus on the roasting of your beans. Beanventory takes a different approach by putting your products and inventories at the forefront of your day-to-day operation.

What does Beanventory do?

Beanventory offers a cost-effective essential package that allows you to run your coffee roasting business successfully with a focus on keeping your costs down and the ability to expand your operations with paid-for add-ons if and when you need them.

What does Cropster do?

Cropster gives you the tools to focus on producing coffee. It offers solutions to manage samples and green coffee inventory. It's focused on saving you time at the roasting machine.

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Roasting Intelligence

While Cropster focuses on profiling with its roasting intelligence module. Beanventory leaves this to your favourite roast profiling software like Artisan Scope.

We believe that the best tool for profiling is not necessarily the best tool to run your business.

Production Management

Beanventory's production planning focuses on creating Categories, Product Lines and Products in a calendar view. This way, you can plan and control your coffee production in one cohesive view (read about it here).

Cropster's Foundation tier only offers production management reporting. To start having similar functionality to Beanventory, you must upgrade to their Professional or Commerce tiers.

Inventory Management

Beanventory keeps inventory of your greens, roasted single origin or blended coffee and all of your bagged products. This helps you keep tabs on what you have in stock wherever you are in the production or fulfilment process.

Roast Scheduling and Order Fulfilment

A coffee roasting business is more than just roasting. Beanventory was built with your business in mind. It offers automated order processing with production and roasting schedules.

Order to roast and daily roasting schedules are a must if you want to sell your coffee. However to have similar functionality in Cropster, you must move to a higher tier.

Pricing and Extendability

While Cropster requires you to go to a higher tier to have the tools you need to grow your business. They also charge you for the monthly volume of green coffee you roast across all of their tiers.

Beanventory has one price and only charges for the add-ons you need when you need them.

Example

Suppose you are roasting 1500 kg worth of greens in a month and you sell to retail customers using Shopify.