Does anyone have any experience setting up Kegs United as a container?
I’m guessing its a non-returnable container, with deposit?
We don’t have a perfect set-up - but it works. We have both our own and kegs united kegs, so have to do some extra things to make sure we can report properly to Kegs United
We use it as standard returnable kegs with deposits, give it a different pre-fix than our own kegs. We print the keglabels and put them on the keg collar, we the use the number/label one time.
We scan them out as normal. When we generate a monthly report of kegs delivered we can filter out the kegs united kegs.
When taking returns, we note if the keg is our own or Kegs United and credit the deposits in a creditnote with a seperate line for our own and kegs untied kegs. We made a custom report of these creditnote lines so we filter out the kegs united returns every month. This allows us to take in kegs united that are from other breweries.
We get our brewpub kegs returns (that have no deposit) from the containers returned report (we scan all these kegs back in).
It sounds a bit cumbersome, but we streamlined it so that it takes 15 minutes every month.
I did chat with both Schweeta (Kegs United) and the breww crew about this at the craft conference to maybe improve this in the future - they already know each other so that helps
Hey,
Thansk for the message, Gijs. Some questions:
- Do they one time numbers used for the KU kegs stay in your containers overview? If you don’t delete them timely, it would seem that they just accumulate over time?
- For your own kegs, do you also use a one-time number system, or are these unique per keg?
Remi
the KU kegs accumulate (like I said - not fully ideal)
Our own kegs have unique numbers
we had unique numbers too, but I’m stepping away from that now. Both systems work with one-time numbers… or am I missing a reason to keep the unique numbers for own kegs?
I like the traceability of them.