Cupping a table of coffees

In short

• Score as many coffees as you like, then save once.
• A half-scored coffee is a real save. Fragrance is scored dry, long before anything is tasted.
• Come back to a coffee and what you typed is still there.
• Other people at the table score from their own phones, using a code you read out.

Save once, not once per coffee

A session used to make you finish a coffee, save it, and move on. That is not how a table works. You go round with the dry samples, then round again after the pour, and the scores fill in across every cup at once.

So the form no longer asks you to finish anything. Score whatever is in front of you, in any order, and press Save all when you are ready. The bar at the bottom tells you how many coffees are waiting, and what actually saved.

If a coffee fails to save, it stays in the queue and says so. Nothing is reported as saved that did not reach us.

A half-scored coffee is not a mistake

Fragrance is scored on the dry grounds, minutes before the water goes in. For that stretch of a session every coffee on your table is half-scored, and that is the normal state of a cupping — not an error to be cleared up before saving.

You can save a coffee with one section filled, or a note and nothing else. The only thing that is refused is a coffee with nothing in it at all.

What you type is held on the device

Reload the page, switch tabs, close the laptop and come back — your unsaved scoring is still in the form. It is held in the browser on that device until you save it.

Two things worth knowing. It is held on that device only, so scoring on your phone does not appear on the laptop. And if your browser is refusing to store anything, the page says so at the top of the form rather than letting you find out later.

Someone else at the table

Each session has seats, and each seat has a short code. You read a code out, the person opens the link on their phone, types the code, and scores into that seat.

If their phone dies, they take the same seat on another one. The scores already in that seat move across with them. Codes change each time a seat is claimed, so check your seat panel before reading the next one out.

Everyone's scores land in the same panel, and the panel is what the lot carries: the number of people who cupped it and the average they gave it. No names, on your page or anywhere a buyer can see.