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.
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:
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).
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 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 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.
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, 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.
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.
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 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, which will help you get the best functionality out of your products.
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:
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.
- Breww Trade store - Shows the basic product information represented on your Breww trade store if enabled.
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.