Switching brewery and winery software · Canada
Moving to BrewCraft from the system you run today.
Whether your records live in another producer system or in a spreadsheet, the move works the same way: bring them in row by row, decide anything the file cannot settle, and declare your opening stock and its duty status once, at cutover.
How the move works
Your records come with you, and nothing is guessed on the way in.
An importer for another system’s own export is offered only once it has been tested against a real export from that system. Until then, the BrewCraft import template takes a spreadsheet of what you have.
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Switch over without retyping — or guessing
Bring your records in from a spreadsheet through the BrewCraft import template. Every row is staged and decided by a named person, nothing the file does not establish is defaulted, and each record keeps the file and row it came from.
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Opening stock, declared once at cutover
At cutover, the duty status of each packaged lot you hold is declared lot by lot against your last return, and counted as opening inventory — never as new production. Past batches arrive as history, and a trace that reaches back past cutover says so.
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Recipes brought in, not retyped
Import BeerXML or BeerJSON recipes as drafts you review. Each ingredient matches a material you already stock or waits for your decision, and a figure the file leaves ambiguous is held for you to confirm, never guessed.
Your data, walled off and yours to take
Every producer’s records are isolated at the database itself, not just in the app, and you can export all of it whenever you like — whether or not you stay.
Coming from spreadsheets
A spreadsheet will happily not balance. BrewCraft says exactly why not.
A spreadsheet is flexible, costs nothing and never tells you that you cannot do something. What it cannot do is reconcile a batch to the litre or follow a lot through a blend — BrewCraft does both, as the work is recorded.
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Batches that account for every litre
Brew days, transfers, dry hops and packaging, vessel to vessel. Volume in equals volume out plus volume on hand plus recorded loss — so shrinkage is always explained, never absorbed.
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Stock you never have to retype
On-hand is derived from an append-only ledger of movements. A mistake is corrected by a compensating movement, so the history always explains the number.
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One trace, both directions
From any finished lot back to the malt, hop, yeast, fruit or honey lots in it, through blends, and forward to every customer who received it. Links are written as the work happens, and never edited afterwards.
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Excise periods, reconciled to the litre
Every period is reconciled to the litre in the terms each statute sets out for its return, and your return figures come with the ledger that supports them. You review and file.
Coming from another system
Where to start, depending on what you run now.
This page describes BrewCraft, not the systems named below. What each one does is for its own vendor to say, and this page makes no claim about any of them.
Coming from a brewery system
Coming from Ekos, Ollie or Breww
Start with the part of the brewery you lean on most today — the brewhouse, the order book, the keg fleet or the excise period — and bring the rest across with the import template.
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Batches that account for every litre
Brew days, transfers, dry hops and packaging, vessel to vessel. Volume in equals volume out plus volume on hand plus recorded loss — so shrinkage is always explained, never absorbed.
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Every Canadian channel, one order book
Provincial boards, private retail, licensees, the taproom and direct-to-consumer — each with its own listing, pricing and paperwork, and a licensee order stopped when the customer’s licence has lapsed.
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Kegs as beer, asset and deposit
A keg is three things at once: the beer inside it, a steel asset you own, and a deposit you owe back. BrewCraft keeps all three, so the fleet, the empties and the liability agree.
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Excise periods, reconciled to the litre
Every period is reconciled to the litre in the terms each statute sets out for its return, and your return figures come with the ledger that supports them. You review and file.
Coming from a winery system
Coming from InnoVint or Vintrace
Start with the part of the winery you lean on most today — the vineyard, the cellar, the club or the excise period — and bring the rest across with the import template.
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Blocks, harvests and grape intake
Record vineyard blocks, spray programs and harvest picks, weigh in the fruit at the crush pad, and carry the block of origin into every wine made from it. A pick inside a pre-harvest interval is blocked, not merely flagged.
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Crush, press, barrels and blends
Press fractions, barrel fills and top-ups, and blends that keep their varietal and vintage composition — so a label claim can be checked against the wine that is in the bottle.
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Clubs and scheduled releases
Tiers, members, allocations and release runs for your wine, cider or beer club — with each release becoming an ordinary order, so duty, deposits and tax follow automatically.
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Excise periods, reconciled to the litre
Every period is reconciled to the litre in the terms each statute sets out for its return, and your return figures come with the ledger that supports them. You review and file.
Ekos, Ollie, Breww, InnoVint and Vintrace are trademarks of their respective owners, named here only to identify the systems this page is for. BrewCraft is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any of them.
Private beta · Limited places
Bring your records across in the private beta.
We are onboarding a limited number of Canadian breweries, wineries, cideries, meaderies and distilleries. Early partners get a named person who answers, beta pricing held for twenty-four months, and a real say in what ships next.