Building inspection report software for soft fruit
Appfront builds software for soft fruit growers, grower associations and traders who want to use the inspection of delivered lots: the inspection report from the auction, trader or buyer, read in per lot and linked to plot, variety, picking day and crew, with deviations and deductions visible, trends by variety and period, and evidence with photos and your own measurements if you disagree with an inspection. So that an inspection report doesn't disappear into a folder, but shows where quality can improve.
What is software for inspection reports in soft fruit?
A grower supplying soft fruit receives an inspection report per lot from the auction, trader or buyer: the class, the defects found, the grading, the weight, and sometimes a deduction or a lower price. That report says a lot about the quality of that lot. Inspection report software reads these results in, links them to where and when the fruit was picked, and shows where things can improve.
In many businesses the inspection report arrives as a PDF or email, is looked at and then disappears into a folder. Whether a particular plot regularly yields soft fruit, whether the Monday pick scores worse, or whether a variety drops off in the late season is not visible. And if a grower disagrees with an inspection, they have no data of their own to support the discussion.
We build custom software because the inspection has to line up with your crop and your buyers: who you supply and how they grade, what form you receive the results in, how lots are made up from plots and picking days, what checks you carry out on dispatch, and what origin records you keep. A buyer sends their inspection results; they do not make the link to your plot and picking.
Matched to the right lot
Inspection results imported and linked to the lot, with the plot, variety, picking day, crew and cold store the fruit came from.
Where it can improve
Defects, class and deductions by plot, variety, picking day and period, so a pattern becomes visible instead of a single result.
Your own evidence
Your own checks and photos on delivery alongside the buyer's inspection, as a basis for the discussion if you disagree.
How we build your software for inspection reports in soft fruit
We start with last season's inspection reports: from whom, in what format, how many with deductions, and what you currently do with them.
Your buyers and how they inspect, the format of the results, your plots and varieties, and your provenance records.
Importing inspection reports per customer, and linking them to batches by plot, variety and picking day.
Your own check on delivery with photos and measurements, alongside the buyer's inspection.
Trends by plot, variety and period, the evidence for a deviating inspection, and ongoing management afterwards.
What software for inspection reports in soft fruit actually does
The components below come up for almost every soft fruit grower. Which ones you need depends on your buyers and your crop.
Reading in results
Inspection reports from the auction, trader or customer as a file, email or integration, per batch.
Linked to picking
Every lot linked to plot, variety, picking day, crew and cold store from your own records.
Defects and deductions
Class, defects, grading, weight and deductions per lot, with the price consequence.
Own checks
Your check on delivery, with photos, temperature and your own observations.
Trends
Defects and deductions per plot, variety, picking day and period, side by side.
Justification
When an inspection result differs, an overview of your own check, photos and previous results.
For whom we build inspection report software in soft fruit
The software is designed for growers and organisations where inspection reports currently end up in a folder.
Strawberry growers
Many lots per week to several buyers. Linking them to picking day and plot is the core.
Raspberry and berry growers
Delicate fruit with many defects. Your own checks and trends matter most.
Grower associations
Inspections from many members. The overview per grower and the feedback are what's needed.
Traders and marketing organisations
Passing on buyers' inspections to growers. The link and the justification are the core.
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This page covers the inspection of delivered batches. For traceability from crate to delivery, see our page on an app for fruit origin registration; for pickers' piece-rate pay, our page on piece-rate registration in soft fruit; and for sales through an auction, our page on an app for consignment sales. You can read about our approach at building software.
Why choose Appfront for your inspection report software in soft fruit?
An inspection report is free quality information. We build on that: every inspection linked to the lot it belongs to, patterns that become visible, and your own justification.
Learning from inspections
Patterns by plot, variety and picking day become visible. You know where quality can be improved.
Discussing with data
When an inspection differs, you have your own check and photos. The conversation with the buyer is based on facts.
Nothing in a folder
Every result sits with the lot. At the end of the season it is an overview, not a stack of paper.
Security and privacy in inspection report software in soft fruit
The software holds inspection results, prices and buyers, commercially sensitive data. Access is set up by role: the grower sees their own lots, a growers' association its members, the trader the inspections they pass on. Results are stored as they were received.
The software runs in a European data centre, with encrypted storage and daily back-ups. Your own check works on a phone, even without coverage.
Frequently asked questions about inspection report software in soft fruit
Questions soft fruit growers ask before getting started.
It reads inspection results per lot from the auction, trader or buyer, links them to plot, variety, picking day and crew, shows defects, class and deductions, lays out trends by variety and period, and sets your own checks with photos alongside as justification.
As a file, as a PDF in an email, or through an integration with the buyer's system. We'll look at which formats your buyers use in the first step.
Through the lot number or the labels on the packaging, linked to your own record of plot, variety and picking day. If you keep origin records, it comes from there.
The software places your own check on delivery, with photos and temperature, alongside the inspection and previous results. How you contest an inspection depends on the agreements with your buyer.
Yes. Inspections from all members come together in one overview, with each grower's own data and feedback.
If you want. Inspections by crew or picking day can be fed back to the crew leader, so the picking can be adjusted.
Check that first. Some auctions and buyers have a portal for inspections, and that is enough if you supply one buyer. Custom software makes sense if you supply several buyers, if inspections need to be linked to your own plots and picking, or if you want to see trends over the season.
Inspection reports that show where quality can improve?
Tell us who you supply, how you receive the inspections and how you record your picking. We'll show you what the link, the trends and the justification look like.