Breww now analyses each customer's ordering history to predict when their next order is likely and flag customers at risk of churning. New stat cards on the customer detail page show the next expected order date, ordering frequency, and churn risk at a glance, with colour-coded alerts when a customer is overdue. Four new reports under Reporting help your sales team prioritise reactivation outreach, view expected orders for the coming weeks, compare ordering consistency across customers, and track new customer onboarding. New BrewwQL/API fields (prob_overdue, prob_churned, next_expected_order, contact_after_date) let you build dynamic customer lists based on prediction data. For more, see the Order predictions and churn risk help guide.

Breww recipe files allow you to share recipes between Breww accounts or edit recipe definitions outside of Breww using any text editor. The files use the YAML format (.breww-recipe.yaml) and contain a complete description of a recipe's stages, actions, reporting tags, and calculated fields. The full help guide and file format explanation can be found at Importing/Exporting Breww Recipes.

This is particularly useful for:

• Sharing recipes between different Breww accounts (e.g. with contract brewing partners)
• Backing up recipes in a human-readable format
• Editing recipes in bulk using a text editor before importing them
• Creating recipes programmatically from external tools or spreadsheets

Smallpack packaging formats allow you to define reusable templates of stock items (components) for specific container type and pack size combinations. Instead of manually assigning the same stock items to every multipack product that uses a particular container type and quantity, you can create a packaging format once and have Breww automatically apply it to all matching products. For more, see the Smallpack packaging formats help guide.

The previous "Australian beer" duty option has been expanded and renamed to "Australian alcohol", with a new duty sub-type setting on each drink type. This allows Breww to automatically determine the correct tariff for your excise duty report based on whether the drink is a beer, spirit, brandy, or "other beverage".

Existing Australian beer drink types have been moved over automatically. If you have a drink type that could be classified under one of the new categories and is currently set up to use the "Self-managed duty" option, just get in touch, and our support team can help move it over.

For more on how this works, please see our guide here.

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.

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.

We're excited to introduce saved sales forecasts, which can be automatically generated using state-of-the-art machine learning! Breww's machine learning learns your seasonal patterns, product-specific demand, and growth trends to generate accurate forecasts - or you can simply create forecasts manually or by importing from a spreadsheet. Breww's automatically generated forecast can then be tweaked and adjusted manually by you, if required.

Once created, you can use your saved forecasts in the Stock availability forecast report to see when products might run out, and compare your forecasts against actual sales to track accuracy. This helps you continuously improve your forecasting and make more informed production decisions.

To find out more about how to create and use forecasts, read our guide here.