The code on the bag

In short

• Your printed code opens your lot inside your public catalog.
• A roaster cannot put your lot on their bag without your approval.
• That first bag freezes the record of the coffee permanently. Nothing in the product undoes it.

Printing a code

The Print page turns your lots into a sheet of labels, and every label carries a QR code. You choose the label size and what else is on it.

The code is a short, permanent address. Scanning it opens that lot inside your public catalog — the same page a buyer would reach by browsing.

It only works while the lot sits in a public catalog. A lot that lives only in a secret catalog has no code to print.

A roaster asks

A roaster who buys the lot may want their own page for it, printed on their own retail bag. They ask you first. The request arrives as a notification, exactly like a sample request.

You approve

Nothing happens without you. The roaster cannot reach a bag page without your approval, and they can never edit your lot — they only ever write their own side of it.

Your approval on its own freezes nothing. The freeze happens later, when the roaster's bag actually goes live, which can be days after you agree. Until that moment every fact about the lot is still yours to correct.

What that first bag freezes

The moment a roaster's bag goes live, the record of the coffee is fixed. Everything that describes the coffee itself stops being editable. Among those fields:

• where it came from — the country, the region (your province or state), the growing region (the trade name buyers search for, such as Gayo), the specific area, the farm location, the farmer name
• what it is — the variety, the species, the altitude
• how it was made — the process, the process notes, the harvest year
• your green grading figures

Your sourcing chain locks with them. It happens once, on the first bag, and nothing anywhere in the product undoes it.

What stays yours

The commercial facts stay editable: the total weight, the amount you have left, the farm area, your commercial name for the lot, the price in each catalog, and which catalogs list the lot at all. You can still pause it.

"How much to show" also stays changeable in one direction — you can always reveal more.

What to do before you approve

Read the lot once, all the way down, and correct anything that is wrong. An altitude typed in a hurry is easy to fix today and impossible tomorrow. This is the one moment in the product where reading your own record is worth the time.