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.

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!

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