You can now add custom links to the top and bottom of the main menu. If there are places in Breww that you often go to, save yourself some clicks and create your own direct links. For more on how this works, please see the Customising your main menu documentation.

We're delighted to release transfer approvals. Please see the Transfer approvals documentation for more on how this works and how you can start benefiting from this update. In addition, there are brand new "Transfers" and "Brewing" tabs on the recently redesigned production dashboard.

• "Packaging approvals" are now "Pre-packaging approvals," as they occur before packaging. You can now also configure "Post-packaging approvals" (ideal for QC checks).
• You can choose whether to do packaging approvals on a one-per-batch basis (as they have been up to now) or one-per-planned-packaging (ideal if they need to be done once per day that you package, for example). 
• If you do them on a one-per-planned-packaging basis, you can have different packaging approval templates for different container types (varying the checks when canning vs kegging). 
• There's a new "Packaging" tab on the recently updated production dashboard to give you an overview of today's planned packaging, and those coming up soon.

Please see the updated packaging approvals help guide for more on this major update.

The production dashboard has been split into tabs to make it easier to navigate and see what you need at a glance.

If you have multiple production sites, rather than being tabs on the production dashboard, they are now listed in the main menu and have their own full-page dashboard (and related actions, such as packaging, transfers, etc, are filtered to the site you were viewing to make it easier to manage just activities at the site you at at).

This helps pave the way for some other updates coming soon, too... watch this space!

The new tool is designed to be used when someone in the business leaves, allowing bulk transfer of their task assignments and customer-salesperson assignments to someone else. For more information, please see the help guide on Transferring user data.

Guest beers in Breww now support full batch tracking and container types. To create a guest beer product, first set up the guest beer itself via Production -> Beers -> New beer -> Guest beer, then create products as normal using that beer. Breww automatically creates a linked stock item for purchasing, where you can add re-order quantities, supplier details and all other purchasing details.

When you receipt this stock item through an inventory receipt, Breww automatically generates product stock with batch and expiry tracking, just as if you had packaged it yourself. This means:

• Rack from containers - Guest beers work just like your own products
• Auto-assemble support - Include guest beers in multi-packs and mixed-packs
• Duty configuration - Specify whether you're responsible for the duty or not (defaults to not your responsibility, just like before)
• Unified reporting - Guest beers are included in reports broken down by container type

The "Guest beer" product type has been removed. Existing guest beer products are now "Stock item" products with a flag identifying them as guest beers, and new guest beer products are created as Keg, Cask, Smallpack, etc. Existing guest beer products can still be identified through the "is_guest_beer" option in BrewwQL and reporting. All existing PriceBook rules and BrewwQL filters have been updated to handle this change automatically.

If you previously set up guest beers using the older method, you can optionally migrate your existing stock items to take advantage of these improvements. See the migration guide for details.

We've added some major improvements to the Raw Data Explorer, including:

• Group by functionality - Group report results by selected fields
• Aggregation mode - Apply calculations (Sum, Average, Min, Max, Count, Count distinct, Concatenate, etc) to fields
• Sortable results - Sort directly in Breww without exporting to Excel

For more on how this works, please see the Raw Data Explorer help guide.

We're delighted to announce extensive support for multi-currency purchasing and sales in Breww. For more information, please see the help documentation.

Previously you had to initially create the recipe action, and then apply the timing. You can now set the timing at the point of creating (or editing) the action, which should save time in building and maintaining recipes.