Adding Green Grading Information

This article explains how to analyze your coffees moisture content, screen sizes, defects and more.

Adding Green Grading information is available for the following products:

  • Roast: All tiers
  • Commerce
  • Origin: All tiers 
  • Lab


💡 Green Grading and Physical analysis are equivalent.

Creating a Physical analysis

In the Physical subsection you can measure and log the following for samples and green lots:

  • Moisture
  • Density
  • Water Activity
  • Defects
    ❗Defects logging is not available on Foundation packages 
  • Screen size
  • Milling difference
  • And more

There are four different ways to create a session:

  1. Via the Physical analysis overview page
  2. Via the Samples or Green Inventory page
  3. Via the lot's page
  4. Via the Dashboard

Each Green Grading (Physical Analysis) is recorded as a separate Quality Cupping (QC) session.

Via the Physical analysis overview page

  1. Log in to the online platform C-sar.
  2. Navigate to Quality on the main menu bar.
  3. Select Physical. You will be directed to the Physical analysis overview page.
  4. Click + Add physical analysis to create a new Physical Analysis.
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Via the Samples or Green Inventory overview pages

  1. Log in to the online platform C-sar.
  2. Navigate either to the Samples or Green Inventory overview page, depending on the type of lot for which you want to add physical information. 
  3. Check the respective checkboxes next to the lots you want to add the information to.
  4. A menu bar at the top of the table appears.
  5. Click Quality > Green grading.
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Via the lot's page

  1. Go to the lot's detail page by clicking on the referring SG- or PG number
  2. Scroll down to the Quality information section and click the Add green grading button. 
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Via the Dashboard

  1. Log in to the online platform C-sar.
  2. Click + Add > + Green Grading to set up a Physical Analysis.
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Setting up a Physical analysis

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  1. Set up the session:
    • Evaluator: Will be pre-filled with the user logged in.
    • Lab: Choose the Lab
    • Analysis: Check the box next to the information you want to track. 
    • Green weight: Enter the lot's weight. 
    • Samples: Choose the lot you want to add green grading information for. This section will be pre-filled when the session has been created from the Samples or Green Inventory overview page. 
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  2. Click Start Analysis
  3. Fill in the information you analyzed and click Save analysis. 
    💡 You don't have to complete all fields.
  4. Once you are done, click the Save & close button.

Reviewing the Green grading information  

The Green grading information can be found:

In the Physical analysis section 

The green grading information of every lot can be found in the Physical analysis overview (Quality > Physical) section under a unique QC number. 

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  1. Click the Customize button and choose what information to be shown in the overview. 
  2. Use Filters at the top of the table to look for certain information, e.g. "all green grading information entered in the last 7 days".
  3. Export the data by checking the box on the left-hand side of the table. A menu at the top of the table appears where you can choose the format of your export. 
  4. Edit your data by clicking the Pen symbol in the menu bar at the top of the table. 

In the lot's detail page

When you click on the ID tag (PG- or SG-number) of your green beans, you will be led to the lot's detail page. 

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  1. Scroll down to the Quality Information section to see the Green Grading information of the lot in question. 
  2. Click Show More to see more detailed information on the different tests conducted.
  3. If you want to add information, click Add green grading.

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Congratulations! You are now ready to add Green Grading information.

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