A worker in a coffee shop featuring the Caravela logo.

Caravela

The client

Caravela Coffee sources and trades green specialty coffee, buying from producers at origin and selling to roasters around the world. Its operations run on Atlas, a custom ERP built for that trade. CodigoDelSur took ownership of the Atlas codebase and developed it for close to four years, from 2022 to 2025, alongside Roaster Hub, the platform where roasters source coffee and manage their contracts.

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The challenge

Green coffee trading does not fit an off-the-shelf ERP. A lot of coffee is bought from a specific producer in a specific harvest, tested in a lab for quality that determines its price, shipped across a border, warehoused, and sold on to a roaster who cares which farm it came from. Weight changes, quality is a score rather than a specification, and traceability back to the producer is the product rather than a compliance afterthought.

our approach

CodigoDelSur assumed ownership of the Atlas codebase and developed it for close to four years, covering the trading, export, import and lab testing operations it manages. Authorisation and audit run throughout, which matters when a price depends on a lab score somebody entered. Alongside Atlas, the team worked on Roaster Hub, where roasters source green coffee and manage contracts. Stack: Ruby on Rails, React, Azure, Twilio, Sentry.

The result

A custom ERP for green coffee trading was owned and developed for close to four years, managing buying, lab testing, export, import and inventory in one system. Roaster Hub was built alongside it for roaster sourcing and contract management, with permission and audit layers built in from the start rather than added afterwards.