Production data lives in brewing logs. Inventory lives in a spreadsheet. Compliance reports get assembled by hand at month-end. For craft breweries, wineries, and distilleries doing real volume, disconnected systems mean TTB filings that take a full day to reconcile, ingredient write-offs nobody caught in time, and tasting room sales that never sync with the back-office numbers. The margin pressure is real enough without adding a data problem on top of it.
Production batch management and recipe tracking built around your actual brewing or distilling process
TTB compliance reporting that generates automatically from production and inventory data, with no end-of-month reconciliation
DTC ecommerce, wine club management, and tasting room POS connected to a single customer and inventory record
Ingredient and raw material tracking from purchase order through fermentation to finished goods
Recognition
Spending a full day every month pulling batch logs, inventory counts, and financial records into a TTB report that still contains errors?
DTC ecommerce, wine club, and tasting room POS running on separate platforms so customer data never lands in one place?
Recipe changes made in one system that take days to ripple through ingredient purchasing, costing, and production scheduling?
The short answer
RaftLabs builds custom brewery, winery, and distillery software for craft beverage producers. Our brewery software development work covers production batch management, recipe and ingredient tracking, TTB compliance reporting, DTC ecommerce, tasting room POS, and wine club management. Most projects deliver in 12-18 weeks at a fixed, agreed cost.
Brewery, winery, and distillery software is purpose-built production and operations management software for craft beverage producers. It covers the full production lifecycle: recipe formulation and ingredient costing, production batch management, tank and barrel tracking, raw material purchasing and inventory, regulatory compliance reporting (including TTB filings), direct-to-consumer ecommerce, wine and spirits club management, and tasting room POS. Unlike generic ERP platforms, brewery software development accounts for the specific data structures and regulatory obligations of licensed beverage alcohol producers.
01 Diagnosis
Your TTB compliance report takes a full day to build from scratch every month
According to research cited by Crafted ERP, 72% of mid-sized breweries and distilleries struggle with tax reporting because production data, inventory records, and financial figures live in separate systems. The classic process involves pulling batch logs, reconciling them against inventory counts, cross-referencing with the accounting platform, and then entering totals manually into the Brewer's Report of Operations or DSP monthly report. A single transcription error between systems creates a discrepancy that triggers a TTB audit.The TTB requires brewers filing monthly reports to also file excise tax returns semi-monthly. For a production-stage craft brewery, that means 24 tax filings per year, each assembled by hand from disconnected records. Errors and missed deadlines carry financial penalties that erode margins in an industry where profitability is already tight. When compliance is built into the production data model from the start, reports generate automatically from the numbers already captured during brewing. The reconciliation step disappears.
Ingredient write-offs and batch losses that nobody caught until month-end
Over-purchased hops sit unused until they degrade. A dry hop addition logged on a whiteboard never makes it to the inventory record. Finished goods don't match what sales promised the distributor. When raw material tracking lives in a spreadsheet and production logs live in paper brewing records, the gap between what should be in the cold room and what is actually there grows every week. By the time someone reconciles the two, the variance has already affected purchasing decisions, costing estimates, and the production schedule.An operations manager who can't confirm ingredient availability without checking a spreadsheet, walking the cold room, calling the head brewer, and making an educated guess is making purchasing decisions on incomplete information. The result is either over-purchasing that ties up working capital or under-purchasing that stalls a scheduled batch. Real-time ingredient tracking from purchase order through fermentation to finished goods gives the purchasing lead and the head brewer the same accurate number.
DTC sales, wine club, and tasting room running on three separate platforms
A wine club member buys six bottles at the tasting room during a visit. The POS records the sale. The club management platform still shows the member's full quarterly allocation as pending. The ecommerce platform has no record of the purchase. Three weeks later, the club shipment goes out with the full allocation, the member gets charged twice for what they already bought in person, and the winery spends an afternoon processing refunds and apologies.Disconnected sales channels create reconciliation work and customer experience failures that scale with volume. For a winery doing $2 million in DTC revenue, the labor cost of keeping three platforms in sync is a real line item. A single platform where ecommerce, club management, and POS share one customer record and one inventory pool means a tasting room sale updates the club allocation in real time, and the customer's next shipment reflects what they've already purchased.
Recipe changes that take days to ripple through costing and purchasing
The head brewer changes the hop schedule on the flagship IPA: a new variety replaces one that's become expensive, the addition rate shifts, and the dry hop timing moves. The recipe change takes ten minutes to make in the brewing software. The cost model update takes until someone has time to sit down and recalculate. The purchasing schedule update happens when the assistant brewer notices the wrong hop is on the order. The production crew is given the updated recipe verbally because the system hasn't been updated yet.When recipe management, ingredient costing, and purchasing are connected, a recipe change triggers an updated cost calculation immediately and flags the purchasing schedule for review. The production crew works from the current version of the record, not a verbal update. Variance between actual and theoretical batch yield is captured automatically, so the brewing team knows when a batch underperformed before the product ships.
02 What we ship
Production batch management software tracks a batch from recipe selection through fermentation, conditioning, and packaging to finished goods. Each stage captures the data your compliance reporting needs: volumes in and out, additions and adjustments, transfers between tanks, losses and waste, and the final yield against the theoretical target.
We build the batch record so it generates the figures your Brewer's Report of Operations or DSP monthly report requires automatically. No separate data entry step. The production record is the compliance record.
Mobile apps for the brewing floor and cellar log tank readings, dry hop additions, gravity measurements, and transfer volumes at the point of activity. Data stays current without a daily catch-up entry session, and the head brewer has an accurate picture of every active batch without walking the floor.
Recipe management software stores every formulation version with the full ingredient bill, addition rates, process parameters, and target specifications. When the head brewer updates a recipe, the cost model recalculates immediately and the purchasing schedule flags the change for review. No lag between the recipe change and the downstream systems that depend on it.
Ingredient tracking follows raw materials from the purchase order through receiving, storage, and production use to the finished product. Lot tracking records which hops, malt, yeast, or adjuncts went into which batches, so a quality issue can be traced back to the source ingredient in minutes rather than hours.
We build costing models that account for your specific yield assumptions, waste rates, and overhead allocation, so your per-unit cost reflects actual production economics rather than a generic template.
TTB compliance software generates the Brewer's Report of Operations, the Distilled Spirits Plant monthly report, and excise tax returns from the production and inventory data already in the system. The figures don't need to be pulled from separate platforms and reconciled before filing.
For breweries filing monthly operational reports and semi-monthly excise tax returns, automation cuts 24 manual filing cycles per year down to a review-and-submit workflow. For distilleries, the DSP record requirements covering production, storage, and processing operations are captured at the activity level, not assembled after the fact.
Audit readiness is continuous rather than a periodic scramble. Every batch, transfer, removal, and loss is logged with the detail the TTB requires, so if an audit request arrives, the documentation is already organized. We also build state-level excise tax reporting for the states where you sell, using APIs including Avalara where available to automate state rate calculations.
DTC ecommerce platforms for wineries and distilleries handle age-verification at checkout, state compliance for direct shipping (the set of states where you hold shipping licenses varies and changes), and club membership management alongside the standard ecommerce features.
Wine club and spirits club software manages allocation selection, customization windows, shipment scheduling, hold and skip requests, and payment retry workflows. Club revenue is predictable and high-margin, so a club platform that reduces churn through better member experience is a direct contribution to top-line revenue.
We integrate with Stripe for payment processing, ShipCompliant or EasyPost for compliance-aware shipping label generation, and with your production system so inventory displayed on the ecommerce site reflects actual available stock. No overselling. No manual inventory sync.
Tasting room POS software designed for beverage producers handles flight sales, bottle purchases, club sign-ups, and event tickets in a single transaction. Member pricing, allocation redemptions, and club enrollment all happen at the POS without switching screens or looking up records in a separate system.
Reservation software for tasting experiences, private events, and production tours integrates with the POS so pre-payment, deposits, and event-day check-ins connect to the same customer record. Staff can see a visitor's club status, purchase history, and current allocation before the tasting begins.
POS data syncs to your inventory record in real time so tasting room pours and bottle sales reduce available stock immediately. DTC inventory and tasting room inventory pull from the same pool, with separate location tracking to keep the numbers clean.
Inventory management for craft beverage producers covers raw materials, work-in-progress batches, finished goods, and packaging materials in a single system. Lot tracking and expiry date management prevent the quiet degradation of unused ingredients. Barrel and tank tracking records fill dates, contents, proof, and location for each vessel, giving the cellar team an accurate picture of what's aging and when it's ready.
Purchase order management connects ingredient needs to the production schedule so buying decisions are based on planned batch volume and current stock levels, not a weekly phone call to the head brewer. Vendor management records pricing history and lead times so the purchasing lead can compare options without rebuilding a spreadsheet each time.
We build integrations with QuickBooks, Xero, and other accounting platforms so inventory valuation and cost of goods data flows to the finance team automatically rather than through a monthly export.
03 How we work
Companies we've built for
04 Track record
06 Client voices
Three-year average engagement. Founders and operators describing the work in their own words. No marketing varnish.
USARaftLabs nailed what other agencies couldn't — they started with our business problem and worked backwards to the right product. We were live in 14 weeks.
07 Why us
The industry changes. The broken process usually looks the same. Across 14+ industries and 100+ products, we recognise your problem fast, and we frame the fix around your margin and your operations.
We measure success the way you do: hours saved, revenue earned, margin recovered. We stay through launch and growth, so the result is ours to own.
Vodafone, T-Mobile, Cisco, Energia, Aldi, Nike. Six years, 100+ products in production, 4.9 on Clutch. Serious businesses keep coming back because we stay accountable long after launch.
08 Questions
Yes. The most common request we get from craft breweries is a system where production batch data feeds compliance reporting automatically. We build the data model so that batch volumes, transfers, removals, and losses are captured at the source, and the Brewer's Report of Operations or DSP monthly report generates from that data without manual reconciliation. Errors come from re-entering data across systems. We eliminate the re-entry.
Yes. Wineries and distilleries with separate ecommerce, club, and POS systems lose customer history every time a member buys at the tasting room instead of online. We build platforms where all three channels share one customer record, one inventory pool, and one club membership state. A club member's in-person purchase updates their allocation, their loyalty points, and their club shipment preference in real time.
A focused build covering production batch management and TTB compliance typically delivers in 12-16 weeks. A full platform covering production, compliance, DTC ecommerce, wine club, and tasting room POS typically delivers in 18-28 weeks. Cost depends on scope and integration complexity. Production and compliance systems run $30,000-$65,000. Full DTC and tasting room platforms with ERP integration run $60,000-$150,000. Fixed cost is agreed before development starts.
Yes. Most craft beverage producers already run QuickBooks for accounting and some use Shopify for online sales. We build integration layers that push production costs and inventory valuation into QuickBooks automatically, and we can migrate an existing Shopify storefront into a purpose-built DTC platform or connect the two systems depending on your preference. We also integrate with payment processors including Stripe and Square, and with ShipCompliant for state-compliant alcohol shipping.
Yes. A mobile app for the brewing or cellar floor is often the highest-impact piece of the system because it moves batch data entry from a notebook or whiteboard to the source record in real time. We build iOS and Android apps that work offline in cellars and cold rooms with intermittent connectivity, syncing when signal is available. Cellar staff log tank transfers, gravity readings, dry hop additions, and losses directly, so compliance reports and inventory counts stay current without a separate data entry step.
Tell us what you are building and we will scope it out together.