I would like to suggest that deliveries can be completed after the fact, and be dated/invoiced with the real world date of the transaction rather than the Breww completion date.
Cutoff times for delivery completion do not allow us to resolve open issues when the team is together in the morning without changing the date of the invoice.
The biggest issue with this arises when it is the end of the month and a delivery is posted the following day/next month - making tax records inaccurate.
Having to change Breww and then our accountancy software is twice the work.
If a delivery person has issues on the road, they may not be able to complete a delivery, perform a pickup of a keg or out-of-code beer, or otherwise finalize a transaction. That person may just take a photo and/or make a note and then come back to the warehouse.
The next morning (which could be days later if it’s on a weekend), somebody in the office will complete or close out the transaction. This will need to be back-dated to ensure that the invoice due date, credit date, or item-return date are all accurate.
I totally agree - and also would be great if they can be forward dated. I use a 3PL and need to upload the day before, I close the deliveries out the day loaded to the 3PL and would be great if the date wasn’t overridden!
By default, Breww will keep the original scheduled date when completing a delivery to allow you to see and keep records of both dates. This can be changed using the Automatically update the scheduled date of a delivery/collection if it is dispatched early or late option in Delivery settings.
Assuming you keep this setting disabled, then you can report on when a delivery was scheduled for, even if it was completed early/late. There are also settings surrounding when (and if at all) an invoice is automatically raised when completing a delivery and if the invoice date should be automatically set to “today” when invoicing, or left as the planned date.
These options should give you quite a bit of control immediately, but I do like the idea of simply setting a delivery date at the point of completion. If anyone else would like to see this, please keep the votes coming in
Hello All, this would also be ideal if using a third party to make deliveries with their own software. The invoice does not necessarily flow thru within a 24 hour time period. This causes a particular issue when a delivery happens at the end of the month and then logging moves into the following month as Jan mentioned above. It also causes an issue when the 3PL is delayed and our invoicing in our bookkeeping software becomes out of synch with Breww. We want to make sure the invoice in Breww matches all other invoices logged by other parties when the transaction actually happened not as a virtue of when we log it in Breww.
