Products

the products shown here are the items you make and sell (such as single beers, mixed pack beers and even bundles of beer with glassware) the stock items you purchase in order to produce these products (such as ingredients, packaging, glassware, etc) are managed within the stock items section there are 8 types of products that you can create, and these products must be set up before you can rack your beer or alcoholic drink into containers and sell them product types each product type in breww has a number of unique qualities, and making sure to choose the right kind of product is key the 8 product types in breww are stock item products stock item products allow you to sell any item in breww that is not a packaged beer or alcoholic drink product that you package this may include merchandise, ingredients, materials, pumpclips etc we have another guide on selling a stock item docid\ zij08zqddyzktjobuclv5 that covers this in more depth if the product you are selling is a beer or alcoholic drink product which you buy in rather than produce, then you will likely want to set this up as a guest beer instead cask and keg products whilst cask and keg products are separate product types in breww, they are functionally identical and separated only for reporting purposes cask and keg products allow you to sell any beers or alcoholic drinks that you package into cask or keg container types, respectively cask and keg products have some functions that are unique to them in breww one of these functions is ullaging if you have successfully created a cask or keg product for your beer or alcoholic drink, then once you have delivered one to a customer in breww you will have the ability to ullage it and reclaim beer duty on spoilt beer that has been delivered, whether this is a part or full reclaim you can read more in our guide on ullaging lost beer docid\ u r rfscmzhxrsqywwtpu there are some other key things you will want to know about keg and cask products that we cover in the following guides owned & rented containers docid\ xbri730a7ocjjh4qhwmyn printing stock labels docid\ iqjtj912azn2dd5z3lny smallpack single products whether you sell your products in singles or not, you will almost certainly want to set up smallpack singles for most of your products smallpack singles give you the ability to sell your beer or alcoholic drinks as a small single unit, such as a bottle or a can, but more than this, setting up a smallpack single product allows breww to disassemble and assemble stock on demand to fulfil your orders you can read more about this in our guide on understanding stock levels docid\ bflgby5ndwxihnh ayq4 smallpack multi pack multipacks allow you to sell cases/packs/boxes of a specific smallpack single product, along with any stock items required this is not the correct product type if you want to sell a combination of different beers/drinks together, as this is the function of smallpack mixed pack products multipacks are a relatively straightforward concept in breww, as you will choose the beer or drink, the small pack container type such as can or bottle and the number of those cans or bottles which make the multipack product, as well as any other stock items required (most commonly this will be packaging, but this could also include merchandise stock items such as a glass if you are creating a multipack & merch bundle) assembling multipacks multipacks, like any other packaged drink product that you produce, can be racked directly from a batch of that drink in vessel, but because multipacks are simply more than one of a specific small pack single product sold as a single unit, e g 12 x 330ml cans of beer a, they can also be disassembled into 12 single small pack single products or assembled from 12 small pack single products because breww can assemble and disassemble multipack, it is possible with the right settings enabled to do the following autoassemble multipacks from smallpack singles automatically on auto assignment to auto assemble a multipack from smallpack single products, you will need to first ensure auto assign small pack is enabled in settings > delivery settings > auto assign products on the same page, you will also need to turn on "auto assemble smallpack on auto assignment" this configuration of settings will allow breww to assemble a multipack that there is no stock of from existing smallpack single stock, providing you have a smallpack single product set up for that beer/drink and container type and have enough stock of the small pack single products to assemble the multipack product breww will also consider the availability of any stock items associated with the multipack that are set as "use when product is assembled from existing stock" (see our assigning stock items docid 44rjgcsococcdxlemccxo guide for more information) this particular configuration will not allow you to assemble a multipack that is out of stock from another multipack that is in stock on auto assignment, but this is possible using one of the other configurations listed autodisassemble multipacks into small pack singles on auto assignment this configuration is designed to allow you to sell smallpack single products by disassembling multipacks that are in stock on auto assignment this configuration is set up similarly to autoassembling multipacks from smallpack singles automatically on auto assignment, and is set up in settings > delivery settings > auto assign products once on the auto assign tab of delivery settings, you will need to turn on "auto assign smallpack" and "auto disassemble smallpack on auto assignment" before breww can disassemble your multipacks into smallpack single products, you will need to ensure the small pack single product has already been created, as this will not be done automatically it is also worth noting that this disassembly action will also return to stock and stock items assigned to the multipack being disassembled that are set up as "add back to stock when product is disassembled" (see our assigning stock items docid 44rjgcsococcdxlemccxo guide for more information) disassemble one multipack into small pack singles and assemble those singles into another multipack or mixed pack on auto assignment this configuration allows breww, where there is not enough stock of a particular multipack to fulfil an order, to, on auto assignment, disassemble another multipack, which contains the same smallpack single product, into smallpack singles and then assemble them into the multipack required for the order for example, you may have no 12 packs of beer a in stock but have one 24 pack of beer a in stock let's say, for this example, there are two 12 packs of beer a on an order with this configuration, breww could, on auto assignment, disassemble the 24 pack of beer a into 24 single cans of beer a and then assemble those 24 cans into two 12 packs of beer a, but for this to work, you must have set up a smallpack single product for the single can of beer a; otherwise, breww cannot complete the disassembly action required to assemble the multipack on order this configuration set up is a combination of the two previous configurations and is done by navigating to settings > delivery settings > auto assign products , and ensuring that "auto assign smallpack" , "auto assemble smallpack on auto assignment" and "auto disassemble smallpack on auto assignment" are all on for more information on how to use auto assign, see our guide delivery stock assignment docid\ uwliw7thcwx6k0vkiwep4 smallpack mixed pack mixed packs allow you to sell predefined packs of multiple small pack single products from different beers and drinks mixed packs are not variable in breww; this means each mixed pack is set up with specific components, and these can not be changed once the product is set up, racked and sold, and each combination of small pack single products you sell as a pack requires its own mixed pack product to be set up mixed packs are always auto assigned in breww; we have a whole guide on assigning mixed packs docid\ bshnaradweszgdkm99b4 , which explains how this works mix and match e commerce products and subscription boxes whilst mixed packs in breww have fixed non variable components, we do appreciate that create your own or mix and match boxes are quite common on e commerce platforms as well as subscription boxes there are a number of custom plugins that work with sales platforms like woocommerce and shopify that allow you to handle this not every plugin will work with breww, and we do not have a supported list as these are third party plugins designed for sales platforms, which are then integrated with breww, but most third party plugins that work by adding to the order a “parent mix & match product” followed by the individual component products should work with breww with some of these plugins, you can choose if the “parent product” should be priced as free with the components, adding the cost based on the customer's choice or have the components set up as free with the entire cost on the parent product this should be in the settings for your plugin if it supports this for breww to import an order from your e commerce platform, all products must be mapped to their breww counterpart (including any parent mix & match product) typically, it’s best to create a “service product” in breww for the mix & match parent product as this way the order can be imported without any stock implications for the parent product (and the components are the only products which affect stock and require delivering) this service product will now have infinite stock available and you can map this to the mix and match product in woocommerce, but if set up correctly, the component stock will be consumed when this product is ordered the same principle can be used for subscription boxes with the subscription box product mapped to a service product in breww and all component products correctly mapped to their counterparts in breww guest beer products guest beers products allow you to sell beer or other alcoholic drink products with batch tracking and reportable volumes in your all sales report that you do not produce yourself but buy in and sell we have a complete guide on alias, derived & guest beers docid 5nlsa tkzwas7vnhzbuo9 , which covers this product type in more detail, as well as how to create them service products service products have a variety of uses in breww, but the core concept is to create a sellable product that does not require any stock items to be consumed and has an infinite stock level this is great for any chargeable services or things like brewery tours and other tickets there are some other occasions where service products are useful; one of these is mentioned in the section of mixed pack products and is for mix and match e commerce products and subscription boxes the other use is for handling served drinks (pints, wine by the glass, etc) as a part of taproom & pos management docid\ io0wv5xdkon 1xohmtmta we would not advise using service products to handle delivery charges in breww as we have a separate function designed to handle those, which you can read more about in our guide on delivery charges docid 7sxlqp8ydngejxfpdelhg white label products and other beer or drink products you sell under different names in breww, we have some dedicated functions that can help with packaged beer or drink products you sell under different names or white label for specific customers we cover these in our guide on alias, derived & guest beers docid 5nlsa tkzwas7vnhzbuo9 , but using this, you will be able to sell the same beer under multiple names and, we'll customise the invoice, delivery note and any cask/keg/etc labels, so the customer never knows that you also sell it (possibly for less) under a different name😉 ⚠️ we strongly advise against creating two or more products which have the same component stock but different product names and skus in breww without setting them up as either alias or derived products, but you will find more information on this in the guide on alias and derived beers creating products in order to sell something in breww, you need to first create it as a product with the exception of stock item products, guest beer products and service products, every other product in breww is built of at least two fundamental things the beer/drink you are selling and the container type it is sold in it is important that before attempting to create your packaged beer/drink products in breww that you first set up the container types and beers/drinks setting up beers and drinks in breww if you need information on setting up beers in breww, you will want to check out article beers/drinks and packaging approval docid\ jnwliow0zpz4wj42twuxl if you produce drinks other than beer the principles in the above guide apply but you will also want to read our guide managing drink types docid\ fpa bzi0rxqtetgcqdl4d setting up container types in breww whilst breww does come with some container types set up out of the box, if the container type you need does not exist you will need to add it before you can create products using it our article on managing container types docid\ zcqnhtu3elmnxajujt7f covers how to do this once you have ensured you have the above done, you can begin creating your products by clicking on products from the main menu, then click the new product button in the top right start by selecting the type of product you would like to create you'll then be guided through the appropriate steps we will always need a name, code and basic price more complex pricing can be managed using price books from within the products section of breww our guide price books and pricing docid\ iptdxp24eiiaxy0fcukiv has more in depth information on this you can add stock items to products during the product creation, such as packaging items or merch like a glass for a gift pack, which can be automatically used up during racking/assembly these are the items you purchase (managed in the stock items section of breww) before deciding to assign stock items to your product directly, we highly recommend reading our guide on assigning stock items docid 44rjgcsococcdxlemccxo , which will help you get the best functionality out of your products the product page when on a product's page, you will be able to see all the basic details about the product at the top of the page, including code (sku) product type product barcode product barcodes allow you to add your own unique sku barcode to breww stock labels this is designed to help when selling stock to wholesalers, as they can use this so long as you provide them with the barcode details to scan your product as a sku to set up a product barcode, go to any products product page and select actions > edit ; then under product basic details, you can enter a unique barcode number, which will then appear on stock labels for that product name for label printing on a product's product page, you can set a name for label printing that is different from the actual product name this allows you to print labels using a shorter name if you have a particularly long product name a name for label printing is easily set on a product page by simply finding the section labelled name for label printing and using the small edit (pencil icon) button this will open a new window where you can set your new name for label printing and save it from then on, anytime stock labels are printed for this product, they will use the new name for label printing quantity in stock/available pricing cost to produce current stock export information (commodity code and country of origin) weight & volume out of stock automatic substitutions product tags product tags are a great way to separate your own products to view and report on these are also great as they can be added as categories in your breww trade store and are very easy to set up and use stock availability forecast graph a stock availability forecast graph is shown on any smallpack single, keg, or cask product's page this will show any planned packaging and a predictive stock level based on the expected sales forecast and the expected sales themselves this graph can help you to predict when you should brew a new batch of a certain beer or drink based on your sales image|690x468 at the bottom of the product page are some useful tabs with more detailed information about the product and current stock components used to see quickly what your product is made up from including stock items assigned directly to ther product and container type stock breakdown shows your product stock by container/packaging number, batch, location, quantity and best before date outstanding orders shows any shows orders containing that product that have yet to be delivered and are not cancelled locations shows your locations across all sites that have stock of this product, and using the edit location icon on any location will allow you to move stock from one location to another log your product log shows all product rackings, adjustments, deliveries, assembly and disassembly actions pricing shows all prices your product is sold for across all of your price books alias products used to create a view alias products where an alias beer has already been created find out more in our guide on alias, derived & guest beers docid 5nlsa tkzwas7vnhzbuo9 breww trade store shows the basic product information represented on your breww trade store if enabled image|690x413 product assembly this lets you assemble products from their components you can do this manually by going to products > tools > assemble product , or on an individual product page by navigating to actions > assemble product or you can set breww to do this automatically for you at the point you assign products to a delivery, by going to settings > delivery settings > auto assign products , then enabling auto assemble smallpack on auto assignment there is more information on this above under the multipacks product type, and for mixed packs, you will want to view our guide on assigning mixed packs docid\ bshnaradweszgdkm99b4