Inputs must equal outputs plus losses
A processing step cannot create coffee. Every kilogram in is accounted for as coffee out, by-product, or a recorded loss.
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Coffee Provenance
Follow every lot back to the farms that grew it.
HeritageIQ records coffee from harvest through processing and custody to the finished lot, with exact quantities at each step, so the origin of a lot can be shown rather than asserted.
Commercial lotHIQ-SAMPLE-0421Illustrative · fictional data
Origin2 supplying farmsaccepted farm history
ProcessingCherry → parchment → greenoutputs and losses recorded
CustodyFarm → mill → exporterordered holder history
Buyer resultPublished Coffee Lot Origin RecordSee the Passport ↗
Illustrative lot summary · Fictional data
The problem
Origin gets lost at the mill.
Cherry from many farms is pulped, fermented, dried and milled together. Weights change at every step, and bags change hands between farm, factory, mill and exporter.
Without a record of each step, a lot's origin becomes a statement nobody can check, and the numbers rarely add up.
What HeritageIQ records
The journey of a coffee lot, step by step.
- Farm
Harvest
Each accepted harvest becomes a quantity of cherry with a known farm, date and boundary.
- Factory & mill
Processing
Each processing step uses exact input quantities and records its outputs, by-products and losses.
- Exporter
Custody & lot
Hand-offs between custodians are recorded in order, and finished coffee is grouped into a commercial lot.
How the record holds together
Rules that keep the numbers honest.
Blends keep their farm shares
When coffee from several farms is processed together, each output carries the share that came from each farm.
No rounding drift
Quantities stay consistent through processing. What is available is calculated from the recorded history.
An ordered chain of hands
Custody moves whole units of coffee from one holder to the next, in order, separately from who owns the farm.
Where provenance becomes commercial
The lot record is prepared before the buyer link is published.
Coffee provenance is the underlying history. The Passport is the buyer-facing publication built from that history once the commercial lot is ready to present.
Follow the seller-to-buyer path ↗01ProvenanceFarm · harvest · processing · custody
02Commercial lotWhole coffee nodes grouped for sale
03Passport publicationFixed buyer-facing snapshot
04Buyer reviewPublic link · no account required
Workflow
What a pilot lot looks like.
Farms and boundaries in place
Supplying farms are set up with accepted boundaries.
Harvests recorded at source
Harvests are captured in HeriShamba and accepted into each farm's record.
Processing and custody recorded
Wet milling, dry milling and hand-offs are recorded as they happen.
Lot assembled and published
The finished coffee is grouped into a lot and can be published as a Passport.
Who it serves
Everyone between farm and cup
- Exporters and marketing agents selling identified lots
- Estates and cooperatives running their own processing
- Importers who need farm-level origin for each lot
- Roasters telling a single-origin story
Practical value
What you can show
- The farms and harvests inside any lot
- Yields and losses at each processing step
- Who held the coffee, and when
- An origin record that adds up
Coffee pilot
Trace one of your lots with us.
We will walk you through a demo farm, a sample lot and its Passport, then scope a pilot around one of your own farms or lots.
Keep exploring
The next part of the picture.
Give buyers the record
Digital Product Passport
Publish a fixed, integrity-checked Coffee Lot Origin Record that buyers open from a shareable link.
Explore Digital Product PassportPrepare origin evidence
EUDR Compliance Support
Prepare farm geolocation and traceability records for the due-diligence work your EU customers must carry out.
Explore EUDR Compliance SupportPut your farm on the map
Farm Traceability
Give every farm a durable identity, a mapped boundary with version history, and harvests tied to both.
Explore Farm Traceability