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.

It's now possible to create supplier invoices that cover only part of a single inventory receipt, or that cover multiple entire inventory receipts, and anything in between!

As part of this feature, all related purchase orders, inventory receipts and supplier invoices are grouped into Goods in document pools (or just Document pools), which reconcile all related documents, and allow you to have you a single, simple view of what was ordered, what was received, and what was invoiced, regardless of how many partial deliveries or split invoices a supplier used to fulfil the order.

Even though we've introduced this more fine-grained control and robust functionality to goods in documents, we've made sure to ensure that creating a simple one-to-one supplier invoice from an inventory receipt is just as easy as before. To create a finalised supplier invoice for an entire inventory receipt, just go to the inventory receipt, click Create supplier invoice -> Select Finalised -> Click Create. Breww will then create a supplier invoice for all outstanding items on the inventory receipt and finalise it, just like clicking the previous Invoiced by supplier option on an inventory receipt.

To read more about document pools and supplier invoices, please see our guides here and here.

We hope this is helpful, and thanks to our fantastic community for the suggestion!

Breww now integrates with Fortnox! Breww is now integrated with eleven different accounting platforms, with more to come soon.

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.