Getting Started with Cropster Cafe (Admin)

This article will explain the steps required for a Cafe Manager to get started with a Cropster Cafe account. 

Before you can start to create and manage Brew Recipes, you need to set up Cropster Cafe. 


What is Cropster Cafe?


Cropster Cafe serves as a comprehensive platform for cafes, facilitating coffee quality control and retail operations. It allows staff to collaborate on bar and provides remote access for both cafe and company management to streamline processes effectively.

Recipes is the first Cafe module that enables you to manage your recipes across multiple staff and locations, monitor brewing parameters, set references.

It helps you to improve consistency and manage beverage quality, all throughout your retail operations.

  1. Log in to the online platform C-sar
  2. Navigate to  Cafe on the main menu bar. 
  3. You will be directed to the Telemetry Insights page:
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  4. Upon accessing the Cafe dashboard for the first time, you will be guided through the initial setup steps.
    💡 You can go through the steps of onboarding at any time from Cropster Cafe - Onboarding.
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📚 Learn more about Cropster Cafe Onboarding .

Setting up Cafe locations

By following the steps below you can set up Cafe locations:

  1. Log in to the online platform C-sar.
  2. By clicking on the dropdown next to Location you can either:
    • Select an already existing location from all the locations that have the "Cafe" attribute.
    • Create a new location. 
  3. After selecting either an existing location or creating a new one, click on the green Review location and continue button
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  4. Review your chosen or new location to ensure all required information is correct.
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  5. Enter the following information:
    * is indicating mandatory fields 
    • Cafe location name*
    • Location type*
    • Country*
    • Timezone*
    • City
    • Street
    • Zip Code
  6. You can either Go back to location selection or click on the green Continue button to continue.
  7.  If you would like to manage your locations, navigate to More on the main menu bar and select  Locations.

📚 Learn more about how to manage your locations.

Inviting Cafe Managers and Baristas

  1. Enter the Email address and the Name of the person you would like to invite to Cropster Cafe.
  2. Assign the user a respective role: 
    • Cafe Manager: Can view and edit recipes and brews. 
    • Barista: Can view recipes and edit brews.
  3. Click Save & Next, once you have invited all Cafe users.
  4. Under Users, you can manage users and assign permissions.

📚 Learn more about user permissions

Customizing your Brew logging parameters

Customize your Brew logging parameters by selecting the checkboxes next to the specific information you wish to track for each of your brewing methods.

Under Cafe Settings, the parameters can be revised at any time by a Cafe Manager. 
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As a next step, start Creating Recipes.


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Congratulations! You are now ready to start logging your Recipes and Brews!

Your opinion matters. If you have further questions, feedback, or concerns, please feel free to reach out by submitting a support ticket directly from support.cropster.com