We frequently swap casks of beer with other breweries, so every week we add lots of guest beers for sale to our system. It’s not too often we take the same beer twice, so usually we have to run through the full gamut when entering each beer:
Create a beer
Create a stock item for that beer
Create a product for that stock item, with a unique product code
Create an inventory receipt for (usually) one cask
This is quite a lot of work to do to and, as a user, I would prefer to do this in one operation rather than four. Our staff find this time-consuming, not to mention tedious and error-prone (!)
Ideally, I’d like a simplified UI for this use case. However, I don’t see other companies clamouring for this, so I guess that’s a long shot!
Alternatively, if the Breww API allowed it, I could write a tool to automate the four-step process. I would need API support for
Creating a guest beer
Creating a “guest beer” stock item, and linking to a supplier
Creating a “guest beer stock item” product
Creating an inventory receipt from a supplier for multiple “guest beer” stock items.
So my ask is - unless a new UI is actually on the cards - please can you open up create/modify support for the relevant endpoints on your API?
I agree with this sentiment Jon. It’s awesome that guest beers exist as an option, as our previous software didn’t have this function. It’s really useful for our brewery. However I think the implementation of this idea could be much improved & streamlined. It is clunky that you have to enter a guest beer twice (stock item and product). It is also non-intuitive that guest beers do not show up when we do a stock take on finished goods. One problem is that a guest beer is both a stock item and a finished good in the system (by necessity); However, once the beer is on site, we mostly want to treat it as a finished good, not as a stock item, but Breww seems to skew the other way.
Thanks for the suggestions. We’re already working on a significant project to change how guest beers work behind the scenes drastically. They will become much more like other beers and not be related to stock items, and with it bring lots more functionality to guest beers in Breww.
For this reason, we will not need to implement this feature request as it’s currently set out. I’ll close this for now, but once the new way guest beers are handled is live, if you would like further optimisation, please feel free to open a new feature request for the changes applicable at that time.