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Harvest

Last updated on October 28, 2026

Harvest records, for each super, the colony that produced it, the apiary and the harvest date. The starting point of production statistics, which can be completed with weighing at the honey house.

On the website​

Weighing is not done in the field at harvest, but at the honey house, right before the uncapping machine.

  1. Go to the Weighings menu.
  2. Enter the super's or hive's code, then its weight in kilograms: gross weight for a super (the net weight of honey is calculated automatically, see below), net weight of honey for a hive.
  3. Save the weighing: the weight is now linked to the harvest of that super or hive (its colony, its apiary and its harvest date).

On the mobile app​

  1. In the Enter tab, select Harvest.
  2. Scan the hive's QR code.
  3. Scan or select the supers harvested.
  4. Confirm the harvest.

Importing or deleting several weighings (website)​

On the website, the Weighings → Import menu lets you upload a CSV file (export from a honey-house scale) to record several weighings at once, instead of entering them one by one. Invalid rows are listed with their reason so they can be fixed and re-imported. From the weighings list, you can check the quantity of honey extracted over a period (an extraction day or the current year, for example). You can also make quick edits to correct a weighing's weight, or cancel several at once using the selection checkboxes.

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Weighing import is available from the plan that includes production in kilograms — see Pricing.

Super or hive: two ways to weigh​

Weighing accepts either a super's code (gross weight of the full super, before extraction) or a hive's code (net weight of honey, for example weighing at bee escapes with a crane scale). It's the nature of the scanned code that determines how the entered weight is interpreted.

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For a super, ApiTracer automatically calculates the net weight of honey as soon as the weighing is saved, by subtracting the super's empty weight (gross weight − tare). This tare is the same for every super of a given type: no need to reweigh each empty super at the end of extraction to know its net weight, the calculation comes straight from the type. One step remains before this harvest counts in the statistics: assigning its honey type at the End of extraction step, which then feeds the Statistics and the honey house log.

How do I estimate honey production per hive?​

The most common method for estimating a hive's production is to weigh its supers at well-defined steps rather than estimating the honey by eye — since the weight of a full frame varies a lot depending on how full it actually is, a visual estimate gives results that are hard to compare from one hive or one year to the next.

ApiTracer structures this weighing in two stages: the gross weight of each super at the honey-house weighing, automatically converted into the net weight of honey, then assigning the honey type at the End of extraction step — giving, hive by hive, a comparable production figure that can be used in the statistics (see also the corresponding question in the FAQ).