Every batch belongs to a product, and every product belongs to a product type. The type carries the process defaults; the product carries the food safety checks.
Product types (admin or owner, under Settings)
- Open Product Types and click Add New Product Type.
- Name it, and set the fields that drive behavior:
- Requires Fermentation Tracking: on for fermented products. Batch forms then show fermentation fields like start date, pH, and earliest packaging date. Off, and those fields are hidden and the start date is labeled Production Date.
- Minimum Duration: with its unit (minutes, hours, or days). FourFoxes adds this to a batch's start date to compute the earliest package date.
- Shelf Life in Days: packaged lots get an expiration date of packaging date plus shelf life.
- Click Create Product Type.
[facsimile candidate: Add New Product Type form]
The setup wizard offers common starting points, like fermented hot sauce or jam, which it creates as product types in your account.
Products
- Open Products and click Add New Product.
- Name it, pick its product type, and check its Food Safety Checks (CCPs). Those checks are what appear on the packaging screen for the product's batches.
- Click Create Product.
Deactivating a product or product type is soft: it disappears from pickers for new work, but nothing historical is touched, and existing batches keep their records.
Product types are part of the Professional plan and above; trial accounts include them. Each product type also links to its post-packaging stage workflow for admins.
There is no per-product duration override. If two products ferment for different lengths, give them different product types.
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