Recently we had a change in policy here in Alberta that lets us sell other alcohol products produced in Alberta. Essentially, we can buy beer (in Breww we would crate the products as Guest Beers) from another brewery and sell it in our taproom. We also have some house-made non-alc beverages.
We want to track the inventory of these products (kegs and cans) as we do any other product. However, these products do not pass through the AGLC and therefore do not have invoice and wholesale prices, SKU, markup categories, keg deposits, and units per case.
Can you offer some best practices/suggestions on how to deal with these products which are an exception to the typical invoicing system?
Do these products ever appear on the same invoice as other AGLC-registered products? In essence, would you ever have an invoice with a mix of guest products that don’t need the markup and units per case etc, as well as products that do need all that information displayed?
If you never have a mix on the same invoice, then the solution is easier. What you would need to do is create guest beer products in Breww, then add them to an invoice but ensure the order isn’t flagged as a direct delivery. To do this, ensure that the order’s price book isn’t your invoice prices price book and that the invoicing details connected to the order aren’t directing to use the “AGLC compatible” document template.
Hey Matt,
Sorry for the delay, I’m circling back on this.
These products would never need to appear on an AGLC invoice, but they would appear on the same Sales Order in Breww. Again, these would only ever be sold from us to our taproom. And this would be primarily done to keep our inventory straight. Now that I’ve spent some time with the AGLC LSA exports, we can filter out non-AGLC products. However, I must still set the keg deposits and units per case. Not a huge deal, just a minor annoyance.
Thanks, Ryan.
If they need to be on the same sales order, then it sounds like what you’re doing right now is the current solution. If they could be on a different one, then you wouldn’t need to filter them out them out the LSA export and set units per case.