Cafe | Cropster

September 23rd, 2025

🎉 New Features or Settings

Recipes Overview: Smarter, Faster, and Easier to Use! We’ve modernized the Recipes overview page with a fresh new look and feel. This refactor sets the stage for exciting new table features to significantly improve how you manage your recipes.

✨ Improvements to Existing Features or Settings

Mobile-Friendly Recipes: The updated Recipes overview page is now mobile-friendly, providing a unified, seamless experience to quickly find and review all your Espresso, Manual Brew, Batch Brew, and Cold Brew recipes on any device.
Future Table Enhancements: This update is the first step toward powerful new features like drag-and-drop column reordering, pinning columns, and quick on-page actions (like edit and delete).

🎉 New Features or Settings

Introducing the New Location Dashboard! The old “Barista Insights” page is officially gone, replaced by the all-new, lightning-fast Location Dashboard. This is now the official landing spot for your daily operations.
Fleet Dashboard: Your Operations, At a Glance! We’ve revamped the main Operations page (replacing the generic welcome page) to introduce the Fleet Dashboard. Users with management permissions will now land directly on this strategic overview.

✨ Improvements to Existing Features or Settings

Location Dashboard is Mobile-Friendly: The Location Dashboard is built on a modern framework for a smooth, consistent, and mobile-friendly experience across all your devices.
Better Naming: “Barista Insights” is now the Location Dashboard, clearly showing it’s your central hub for location-level operations.
Tasks Front and Center: You can now see a clear overview of tasks due today and in the next 7 days right on the Location Dashboard.
Smarter Recipes: The Location Dashboard is now smarter about brewing methods. If you don’t have a recipe for Cold Brew or Batch Brew, you’ll see a clear call-to-action to add one, reminding you that Cropster Cafe supports all brewing methods, not just espresso.
Fleet Dashboard Strategic KPI Cards: The Fleet Dashboard now features essential, high-level KPI cards:
- Online Espresso Machines
- Connected Machines
- Total Locations
Clear Management Focus (Fleet Dashboard): Renamed to “Fleet Dashboard” to clearly align with management responsibilities and multi-location perspective.

🗑️ Removed Features or Settings

🎉 New Features or Settings

New: Real-Time Espresso Machine Status! We’ve launched a powerful new feature under Cafe → Assets—the Espresso Machine Status dashboard. This is your central hub for machine health, connection status, and installation progress across all your locations.

✨ Improvements to Existing Features or Settingssposs

Connection Health Monitoring: Get immediate visibility into which machines are On, Pending, or Experiencing Signal Issues, allowing for proactive maintenance.
Proactive Diagnostics: Tapping any machine shows specific installation details (like Flowmeter and Solenoid status), task summaries, and suggested actions to resolve issues—the system tells you what to check.
Mobile Optimized: The entire dashboard is fully functional on your phone, allowing you to check machine status and troubleshoot on the go.

🎉 New Features or Settings

Quantify Your Decisions: Compare Data is Now Live in Inventory Insights! A powerful new update to your Cafe Inventory Insights page: Data Range Comparison. This feature allows you to compare performance metrics, production, and waste side-by-side between any two periods.

✨ Improvements to Existing Features or Settings

Quantifiable Decision-Making: You can now measure the ROI on training, evaluate equipment upgrades, and optimize scheduling by comparing key metrics (like waste percentage and production) before and after changes.
Visual Comparison: Data is displayed side-by-side—current insights in vibrant colors on the left, and past insights in a muted color on the right.
Granular View: You can toggle ‘Show daily averages’ for a more detailed view.