# Inventory items - free issue (contract brewing)

**URL:** <https://community.breww.com/t/inventory-items-free-issue-contract-brewing/1036>\
**Category:** Ideas & feature requests\
**Created:** [11 April 2022 07:53 UTC](https://community.breww.com/t/inventory-items-free-issue-contract-brewing/1036 "2022-04-11T07:53:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![hazel-meehan](https://community.breww.com/user_avatar/community.breww.com/hazel-meehan/32/303_2.png) [@hazel-meehan](https://community.breww.com/u/hazel-meehan)\
**Post date:** [11 April 2022 07:53 UTC](https://community.breww.com/t/inventory-items-free-issue-contract-brewing/1036/1 "2022-04-11T07:53:43Z")

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For contract brewing we are often free-issued packaging materials (labels, cans, boxes, kegs), hops and/or other ingredients and it would be nice to be able to track these in the inventory as a contract item.

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**Author:** ![luke](https://community.breww.com/user_avatar/community.breww.com/luke/32/3636_2.png) [@luke](https://community.breww.com/u/luke)\
**Post date:** [14 April 2022 13:53 UTC](https://community.breww.com/t/inventory-items-free-issue-contract-brewing/1036/2 "2022-04-14T13:53:46Z")

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Thanks for the suggestion Hazel. Of course, you could simply add these items with a cost of £0, but is the issue here that you need to track, for example, silver 330ml cans, and your own cans are identical to those from a contract brewee (if that’s a word), but you’d like to keep them separate to ensure only the right ones are used on the contract brewed batch? Thanks.