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What It Is

BeeInTouch is a digital apiary management and hive card system for beekeepers. It can be used in a browser and also offers the Android/iOS mobile apps BeeInTouch Willi and Lager. It is not a general-purpose CRM or ERP; rather, it is a vertical SaaS product built around apiaries, colonies, inspections, honey harvesting, feeding, varroa treatment, inventory, sales, and batch traceability.

Core Features and Collaboration

Its core feature is the “digital Stockkarte hive card.” Users can manage apiaries on an interactive map and record inspections, disease treatments, relocations, feeding, honey harvesting, queen replacement, varroa control, and more for each colony. NFC/QR support is a highlight: once a label is attached to a hive, scanning it opens the corresponding record, and users can scan multiple colonies in sequence to create bulk actions. Willi supports offline data entry in apiaries without network access and syncs once connectivity is restored. Inspection fields can be customized from more than 70 standard options, making it suitable for different beekeeping methods. Inventory and batch management can trace honey from bottled products back to the apiary and colony. Together with the cash book, market sales app, and automatic inventory deduction, it forms a fairly complete small-business workflow. For teams, plans support different numbers of members, allow task assignment to colleagues, and control which apiaries are visible, though there is no clear information on advanced role-based permissions.

Pricing and Deployment

BeeInTouch offers a free Hobby plan, limited to 5 colonies, 2 apiaries, and no team members. Paid plans start with Hobby Plus at €3.08/month and go up to Riesenimker from €48.93/month, scaling by capacity for colonies, apiaries, breeding series, inventory, products, bookkeeping, and team members. Custom quotes are available for larger numbers of colonies. Deployment is mainly via cloud browser access and mobile apps; self-hosting is not mentioned. Information on APIs, third-party integrations, payment methods, security certifications, and data center locations is not disclosed.

Pros and Cons

The main advantages are its strong fit for beekeeping workflows, efficient on-site data entry, practical offline capability, and valuable professional features such as batch traceability, organic certification records, breeding management, and varroa treatment analysis. The drawbacks are that it is highly vertical and has limited general business software capabilities; public materials lack details on APIs, integrations, and security compliance; and its primary language environment appears to be German, which may create a higher learning curve for Chinese teams.

Who It’s For and Access from China

BeeInTouch is best suited to hobbyist through professional beekeepers in a European context, especially apiaries that need honey traceability, inventory and sales management, team operations, and certification documentation. Access from China cannot be determined from the available text, and payment options are not specified. If Chinese users need localization, a Chinese interface, and stable domestic network access, they could consider building similar apiary records, inventory, and batch traceability workflows with Feishu Bitable, WeCom/DingTalk forms, Jiandaoyun, or Huoban Cloud.