Traceability for olive oil producers

Every bottle should be able to prove where it came from.

Zaytana gives every press batch a digital passport — grove GPS, harvest window, press date, lab acidity, and the farmers behind it. A QR on the bottle opens the whole story. From the grove to the jar, fully traceable.

Built for presses in Nablus, Jenin & Salfit Cooperative accounts, not just estates Verified at the press

zaytana.com/p/ZT-25-NBL-0147 Verified at press

Batch passport

Nabali Baladi — single grove

ZT-25-NBL-0147
Harvest 2025

Grove
Wadi Beit Iba terraces
Coordinates
32.2214° N, 35.2107° E
Harvest
14 – 19 Oct 2025
Pressed
19 Oct 2025, 04:12
Free acidity
0.31 %
Peroxide
6.4 meq O₂/kg
Volume
1,840 L
Growers
3 · cooperative account

On every label

  • Harvest logged
  • Press verified
  • Lab result uploaded
  • Labels issued
Illustrative sample passport. Field values shown are demo data, not a real batch.

The honest problem

The story is real. The proof isn't.

Palestinian olive oil competes on quality and on a story that is genuinely worth telling. But by the time a jar reaches a shelf in Berlin, Dubai or Chicago, almost nothing about it can be checked.

In a market where fraud and quiet blending are routine, an unverifiable claim is worth nothing at all. Buyers discount what they cannot audit — and the discount lands on the grower, who is the one person in the chain with no leverage.

  • Grower
  • Press
  • Broker
  • Exporter
  • Importer & retail
Illustrative split of a bottle's shelf price along a typical brokered export chain. Zaytana does not publish figures it has not measured.
  • Provenance claims can't be checked

    "Single grove", "cold pressed", "first harvest" — every producer says it, no buyer can verify it, so nobody pays extra for it.

  • Lab results live in a drawer

    Acidity and peroxide certificates exist on paper, arrive by WhatsApp, and are never attached to the batch they describe.

  • Margin leaks to intermediaries

    Each broker between the press and the shelf takes a cut for handling the relationship — a relationship the producer could hold directly.

  • Software assumes a corporate estate

    Existing traceability tools model one owner, one farm, one harvest. Palestinian production runs through cooperatives and shared presses.

The approach

The press is the chokepoint. That's where we verify.

Every batch, from every grove, passes through a press. It is the one moment in the season when olives, farmer, weight, date and oil are all in the same place at the same time.

So Zaytana records the passport there — not later, not from a spreadsheet. The press operator confirms the grower, the intake weight and the press time on a phone. The lab result is attached when it comes back. Labels are only issued against a passport that is already complete.

Then the QR does the rest of the work: a buyer in a shop, an importer at a tasting, a customs officer with a document request — all land on the same verified record.

Walk through it with us

Scanned from the label

Nabali Baladi · Harvest 2025

Wadi Beit Iba terraces, Nablus

  • Picked14–19 Oct
  • Pressed within4 h 20 m
  • Free acidity0.31 %
  • Growers3

Verified at the press by Zaytana

Illustrative sample of the public story page a QR opens.

The platform

Everything a premium buyer asks for, answered before they ask.

Seven pieces of the same record. Built for the way presses and cooperatives actually run a season.

Batch passport with QR labels

One record per press batch, with a printable QR that maps to it. Labels can only be issued once the passport is complete.

Lab results and acidity tracking

Upload free acidity, peroxide value and polyphenols against the batch. Watch how a grove's numbers move season over season.

Grove mapping and yield history

Draw each plot once. Tree count, elevation, variety and yield per season stay attached to it for every future harvest.

Cooperative multi-farmer accounts

One account, many growers. Each farmer keeps their own plots and share of a batch, and the cooperative sees the whole season.

Export storefront with buyer messaging

Verified producers list available batches. Specialty importers filter by acidity, region, variety and volume, then message the press directly.

Shipping and certificate vault

Certificates of origin, phytosanitary paperwork, invoices and bills of lading, filed against the shipment instead of an inbox.

A consumer story page for every bottle

The QR opens a page written for the person holding the jar, not for an auditor: the grove, the week it was picked, the hours between picking and pressing, and the growers' own words. The verification sits underneath it, one tap away, for anyone who wants to check.

Included on every plan

How it works

How a batch becomes a passport.

Four steps, all of them inside a working press day. Nothing here asks anyone to sit at a desk during harvest.

  1. Map the groves, once

    Before the season, each plot is drawn on a map with its variety, tree count and the grower it belongs to. This happens a single time.

  2. Log intake at the press

    Olives arrive, the operator picks the grower and plot, enters the weight and the picking window. The press time is stamped automatically.

  3. Attach the lab result

    When the acidity and peroxide report comes back, it is uploaded onto the batch. Until then, the passport is visibly incomplete.

  4. Print labels and list the batch

    A complete passport releases its QR labels and, if the producer wants, publishes the batch to the export storefront.

Groves mapped once. Yield tracked every season after.

Mapping is the only slow part, and it happens outside harvest. After that, every batch inherits its grove's coordinates, elevation, variety and history automatically — which is what makes a genuine single-grove claim possible at all.

  • Plots, not estates

    A cooperative's map is a patchwork of small terraced plots belonging to different families. Zaytana models it that way.

  • Yield history per plot

    Litres per plot per season, so a grower can see an off-year for what it is and a buyer can see consistency.

PLOT-02 · 118 trees PLOT-04 · 240 trees PLOT-06 · 96 trees 500 m 32.22° N
Illustrative grove map. Plot outlines, tree counts and coordinates shown are demo data.

For importers and buyers

Buy the batch, not the brochure.

Specialty importers in Europe, the Gulf and North America can search verified batches by the things that actually decide a purchase — and message the press that pressed them.

No sample requests into a void, no chain of intermediaries adding a margin for making an introduction. If a batch is listed, its passport is already complete, its lab result is already attached, and its documents are already filed.

zaytana.com/market Verified batches only
  • Nablus
  • Nabali Baladi
  • Jenin
  • Salfit
  • Organic cert.
  • Single grove
  • ZT-25-NBL-0147Nablus · Nabali Baladi · single grove · 1,840 L 0.31 %
  • ZT-25-JEN-0092Jenin · Souri blend · cooperative · 4,120 L 0.36 %
  • ZT-25-SLF-0031Salfit · Nabali Muhasan · single grove · 1,150 L 0.28 %

Free acidity across listed batches

0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 extra virgin limit
Illustrative sample listings. Batch codes and figures are demo data.

Pricing

Priced for a press, not for a corporation.

Indicative launch pricing. A subscription for the traceability platform, and a commission only on export orders we actually help close.

Producer

$40 / month

A single press or estate, one operator account.

  • Unlimited batch passports
  • QR label generation
  • Lab result upload and acidity history
  • Grove mapping, up to 25 plots
  • Consumer story page per batch
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Export

5% / order

Added to either plan. Charged only on orders closed through Zaytana.

  • Listing on the export storefront
  • Direct buyer messaging
  • Sample and quotation workflow
  • Export document checklist per destination
  • No commission on orders you already had
Ask about export

Prices in USD. Indicative and subject to change before general availability — we will confirm final terms in writing with every press before any charge.

Where we actually are

An empty scoreboard beats an invented one.

Zaytana is pre-launch. We are onboarding our first presses and cooperatives ahead of the coming harvest. Below is exactly what we will publish — named, dated and checkable — and it stays blank until it is true.

Presses & cooperatives onboarded

Listed by name, with each press's written permission, from the first season onward.

Tonnes traced

Counted from press intake records, not estimated from bottles sold.

Countries shipped to

Only destinations reached by an order closed through the platform.

What we verify

Grower identity and plot, intake weight, press date and time, and the lab report as issued. All captured at the press, at the moment it happens.

What we don't claim

We are not a certification body and we don't grade flavour. A Zaytana passport says what happened and who says so — nothing more.

Why the cooperative model

Palestinian olive production runs through shared presses and family plots. We built for that structure first, rather than retrofitting software written for a single corporate estate.

Onboarding before harvest

Map your groves now, so the first batch of the season already has a passport.

Mapping takes a few afternoons and it only happens once. Do it before the olives arrive and every batch you press this year can be proved, listed and sold on its own record.