Managing Equipment

This article will explain how to manage your Equipment across your Locations and how to link Equipment with Brews for greater overview and insight.

You need to have the Cafe Manager's (Group Administrator's) permission to perform the steps outlined in this article.

Why use the Equipment feature?
The Equipment overview page
- Adding a new equipment
- Updating existing equipment

Why use the Equipment feature?

With the Equipment feature you can:

Have a comprehensive overview of your key brewing devices across your locations.
Connect Recipes and Brews to the specific equipments they were brewed on.
Gain valuable insights into how they reflect the quality.

You can also link Tasks to each equipments, so you and your team can stay on top of all the important cleaning tasks.

Furthermore, you have the ability to review the complete history of all completed tasks.
📚 Learn more about linking Tasks to equipments.

Using the Equipment feature is not mandatory for the Recipes feature to work.

The Equipment overview page

Creating new equipment

Log in to the online platform C-sar.
Navigate to Cafe on the main menu bar.
Select Equipment. You will be directed to the Equipment overview page.
Click on the +Add equipment button on the top right side of the page.
You can add an Espresso machine or select Other.
Select Other and enter the following information:
* is indicating mandatory fields
- *Equipment type: Select the type of equipment you would like to add (e.g. grinder, espresso machine, etc.)
  - Espresso machine
    💡 If you select the Espresso machine as Equipment type, you also need to add the number of Groupheads.
  - Grinder
  - Water boiler
  - Batch brewer
  - Water filtration
  - Scale
  - Other
- *Equipment brand: Choose the equipment's brand (e.g. La Marzocco, Nuova Simonelli, etc.)
- *Equipment model: Choose the equipment model (e.g. Strada, Linea, etc.)
- Serial number: Log the equipment's serial number.
- Alternative name: Assign an alias for your equipment.
- *Location: Select the location where the equipment is located.
- Stations: Select the specific station for your equipment.
- Comments: Add any additional information about your equipment.
Click on Add equipment to submit.

📚 Learn more about Locations and creating Equipment Stations.

Updating existing equipment

Navigate to Cafe on the main menu bar.
Select Equipment. You will be directed to the Equipment overview page.
Click the Edit button corresponding to the equipment you would like to edit.
Modify the details that you would like to update.
Click on Update equipment to save the changes.

📚 If you would like to use only a select group of equipment within a location, use Equipment Stations

Congratulations! You are now ready to manage your Equipment across your Locations and link Equipment with Brews!

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