Contract/3rd Party packaging

sending & receiving beer from third party packagers setting up 3rd party packager for the first time to create a third party packager in breww, go to production > view > 3rd party packagers and select new 3rd party packager you can then set all details for the 3rd party packager as you would with a normal customer or supplier such as contact details, delivery address and more sending beer for off site packaging to send your batch for off site packaging, go to the production menu, then click the actions drop down menu to select send for off site packaging this will give you the option to select which vessel you are sending beer from once you click next , you will be given the option to choose which third party packager you will be using and the volume you are sending for this packaging instance you can then also enter the volume lost (if any) and the reason image|690x221 receiving products from off site packaging to receive the product you have sent for off site packaging, go back to production > actions > receive from off site packaging you will see the batch that you have sent for off site packaging click next to choose which product you have received back if you are receiving back a cask or keg product, you can manually select any of your own containers in addition to the number of non returnables used once you have selected the date and time when you received these back, you can then add any stock items used and this will then deplete the stock from your inventory and you can finalise your received product items received back from 3rd party packagers are held in duty suspense screenshot 2021 12 15 150201|690x199 managing contract packaging (when you package on behalf of someone else) breww can handle contract packaging on behalf of others, with a minor workaround we have an open feature request ( new batch type for packaging only ) to improve this functionality, so if you use this, please vote for that request in the meantime, the below process will work well for you contract packaging is a common practice in the brewing industry, and you can use breww's contract brewing function to handle it through these steps create the customer you are packaging for as a customer in breww create the customer's beer that you are about to receive for packaging, where you can also use the "quick create products" functionality to quickly create the products you are packaging for them then create a new batch for that beer, select the brew type as "contract brewed in house", select the customer you are packaging for, the volume they are sending to be packaged as the planned volume and select the appropriate duty option you might also want to give the batch a prefix like "cp" to keep the batch numbers separate from your own batches next, start the batch, which will move into your brew kit as if you were brewing it yourself, then immediately transfer it to the vessel you are storing the received beer in this part doesn't exactly match what has happened in real life, as it hasn't actually moved through your brewing system finally, you can package the beer as usual, add it to an invoice for that customer and send it back to them if you don't expect to package this beer for this customer again, you can then obsolete the beer and the related products