Setting up multiple businesses
It is possible to run multiple businesses from a single Breww account. This will enable you to manage each company's beer duty, excise tax, or TTB reporting while managing stock holdings across all your businesses with separate delivery, production, and sales operations.
There are a few simple steps to set up multiple businesses within a single account. These steps are listed in the order we suggest performing them for the most efficient set-up, as you will have the opportunity to assign what you are setting up in one step to one of the steps that follow. For example, the accountancy integrations below can be assigned to the invoice details in the step that follows.
If you use an integrated accountancy package for each business, you will want to start by connecting these to Breww (you may finish the complete set-up of the accountancy integrations later on, but we highly recommend connecting them at this stage). This will allow you to ensure that invoices, bills, and payments can be uploaded to the correct accountancy package and accounts. Our guide on Accountancy software integrations covers connecting to your accountancy platform in more detail.
You will want to set specific invoice details for each business to ensure the invoices you create and send to your customers reflect the correct company details. Our guide on Invoicing detailsο»Ώ how to set these up. During this setup process, you can link one of the accountancy integrations you have connected to Breww to each set of invoicing details, ensuring that whenever those invoicing details are used, the invoice goes to the correct integration.
Site groups allow you to separate beer duty/excise tax liability for your sites (such as production facilities, taprooms and warehouses). In its simplest form, if you had two businesses, each responsible for submitting separate beer duty returns or excise tax reports (e.g. Brewer's report of operations for TTB reporting in the United States) under a single Breww account, then you would need to set up a Site group for each business. You will want to ideally create the site groups before making all of your sites so that you can assign the relevant site group in the site creation process.
To create a new Site group, head to Settings -> Sites & locations ->Site groups->New site group. You will then just need to give your Site group a name.
You will now want to create your sites. Our guide on Creating sites & locationsο»Ώ take you through the creation process, but during this process, you will have the choice on each site to set the invoicing details used for that site, and the site group it belongs to. Setting the site group and invoicing details against a site means that all invoices will carry the correct company details and that when stock passes the duty or excise tax lines at that site, it is recorded on the correct company's reports.