How Breww calculates future stock availability has been vastly improved, which should help keep you selling, if you'll have stock available in time. In some situations in the past, Breww would have thought the stock wouldn't be available when it could actually have been. This is no longer the case. For more on this, please see the original feature request and scroll to the final post in that thread for more information on the solution and to find out about the "See the future" feature!

Customer groups have been renamed Parent companies to better highlight their intended use, and we're excited to announce that they also now have far more powerful functionality!

What’s new with Parent Companies?

Parent Companies come with several enhancements:

• Multiple contacts: Add and manage multiple individual contacts for each parent company
• Multiple phone numbers and email addresses: Assign multiple phone numbers and email addresses to each parent company
• Payment management: Add payments to Parent companies and apply them directly to child customer invoices
• Parent company statements: Generate customer statements at the parent company level for better financial oversight (thanks for the suggestion Breww community!)
• Credit limits: Set credit limits not only for child customers but also for parent companies themselves (thanks for the suggestion Breww community!)
• Order blocking: You can now block orders for all customers under a parent company
• Task management: You can now assign tasks and record activities on parent companies (thanks for the suggestion Breww community!)
• Sales visits: Parent companies can now be added to sales visits

Breaking API Changes

As part of these updates, there are breaking changes to the API that you should be aware of:

• The customer-groups endpoint has been removed.
• Parent Companies are now found in the customers-suppliers endpoint.
• If you've stored an old Customer group ID, you can find the new corresponding Parent company by querying the parent_company_data -> old_customer_group_id field on the Parent company.

If your integration relied on the old customer-groups endpoint, you’ll need to update your API usage to ensure continued functionality.

I'm delighted to confirm that write capabilities have been added to the API for Customers & Orders (including Order Lines and Order Adjustments Lines). For full documentation, please see the Breww API docs.

We've improved the tools used for importing data to Breww; both tools for initial data imports when migrating to Breww and for bulk updating existing data (such as customers and products). The new tooling will make the process easier for you to follow, safer (from bulk mistakes) and make it easier for us to roll out more bulk data import tools in the future.

Rather than marking a collection as dispatched and then complete, you can now do both with a single click.

If you struggle to tell the difference between Breww's reds and greens, we have an exciting update for you! You can now enable the new Adjust colours for red-green colour blindness option in your Profile. Simply click on your user icon (top-right of most pages) and navigate to your Profile to enable the new option. For more on what this changes, please see the feature request.

'Tis the season for price increases, and to help you apply these in Breww, you can now import updated prices from a spreadsheet. Please see the Can I change product prices in bulk? help guide for how.

It's now possible to enable balance sheet syncing on Breww's Xero and Quickbooks integrations!

When enabled, Breww will move costs through your accounts in your accountancy software as they move through the production and sales processes in Breww. This means your COGS and balance sheet in Xero or Quickbooks are always up to date without any extra manual work.

To learn more, please see the guide: https://docs.breww.com/balance-sheet-syncing.

We've overhauled the stock move tool on the mobile app to be easier to use and also allow the movement of smallpack. Please keep an eye out for the latest app update, which should be available on the iOS App Store and Google Play Store in the next few days (once approved by Apple/Google).