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
The problem
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?
Short answer
RaftLabs builds a custom brewery app for craft beverage producers, breweries, wineries, and distilleries: production batch management, recipe and ingredient tracking, TTB compliance reporting, DTC ecommerce, tasting room POS, and wine club management. A focused v1 launches in 12-16 weeks at a fixed, agreed cost, then expands.
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, 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.
Running a brewery means juggling hops, yeast, tanks, and sales. If you miss a cost or a keg, profit drops fast. The right system captures the data once, at the source, and reuses it for compliance, costing, and sales, so you never have to afford to guess.
01 Diagnosis
If you miss a cost or a keg, profit drops fast
The month-end process is the same at most producers: pull batch logs, reconcile them against inventory counts, cross-reference the accounting platform, then key totals by hand into the Brewer's Report of Operations or DSP monthly report. The reason it takes a day is structural, not careless: production data, inventory records, and financial figures live in separate systems that were never designed to agree. A single transcription error between them creates a discrepancy that can trigger a TTB audit. The TTB requires brewers filing monthly reports to also file excise tax returns semi-monthly. That means 24 tax filings per year, each assembled by hand from disconnected records. When compliance is built into the production data model from the start, reports generate automatically from the numbers already captured during brewing. The outcome is filings that assemble themselves.
It's all pretty horrific
One HN commenter summed up the state of brewery management software in four words: it's all pretty horrific. Inventory numbers that are sometimes not accurate, which is misleading. A phone app that does not function properly on the production floor, where a wet, noisy brewhouse is the actual workplace. Price increases with nothing new to show for it: unwarranted cost increases, and the only reason is the vendor's business standpoint, not new functionality. Over-purchased hops sit unused until they degrade. A dry hop addition logged on a whiteboard never makes it to the inventory record. Real-time ingredient tracking from purchase order through fermentation to finished goods gives the purchasing lead and the head brewer the same accurate number. The outcome is numbers you can trust.
Overwhelming for busy production users
The layout of the software may be a bit overwhelming for beginners and busy production users. One brewery's job posting tells the real story. Monitor and update brewhouse software daily to ensure data being entered on the brewhouse side is updated in a timely manner and correct. Work with brewhouse teams to remediate and re-train if needed. That is a full-time tax on the operation. 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. The outcome is software the crew actually uses.
Know the exact cost of each brew before you sell
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. The cost model update takes until someone has time to sit down and recalculate. 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. Variance between actual and theoretical batch yield is captured automatically, so the brewing team knows when a batch underperformed before the product ships. The outcome is the exact cost of each brew before you sell.
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. The outcome is batch data captured at the source.
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. 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. The outcome is costing that keeps up with the brewer.
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. Audit readiness is continuous rather than a periodic scramble. The outcome is continuous audit readiness.
DTC ecommerce platforms for wineries and distilleries handle age-verification at checkout, state compliance for direct shipping, 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, and with your production system so inventory displayed on the site reflects actual available stock. The outcome is club revenue that retains.
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. 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. POS data syncs to your inventory record in real time so tasting room pours and bottle sales reduce available stock immediately. The outcome is one customer record across every channel.
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. Purchase order management connects ingredient needs to the production schedule so buying decisions are based on planned batch volume and current stock levels. We build integrations with QuickBooks, Xero, and other accounting platforms so inventory valuation and cost of goods data flows to the finance team automatically. The outcome is inventory the finance team trusts.
The brewery software decision is usually about the vendor: what it costs, what it breaks, and what it never shows up to fix.
Stay on the vendor
Ekos, Orchestrated Beer
When the tool fits your size and the support answers the phone.
Build custom
When the price rises with nothing new
Unwarranted cost increases for the vendor's business standpoint, not new functionality.
When the floor won't use it
Overwhelming layout, a phone app that doesn't function on the production floor. Build for busy production users.
When you outgrow the tool
The software that fits at 1,000 bbl breaks at 10,000. Build for the volume you're heading to.
Bottom line
Stay on the vendor while it fits. Build when the vendor's pricing, support, or ceiling costs you more than the build.
04 How we work
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08 Why us
09 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 v1 covering production batch management and TTB compliance typically launches in 12-16 weeks, then expands. A full platform covering production, compliance, DTC ecommerce, wine club, and tasting room POS typically runs 18-28 weeks. Cost depends on scope and integration complexity. 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.
That fear is common and honest. The classic failure is a layout that overwhelms busy production users, so the data never gets entered and the spreadsheet stays the system of record. We design the floor workflows with your crew: big buttons, auto-save, offline-first in cellars and cold rooms, and batch logging that takes seconds at the tank. The system ships when your crew can run a full brew day on it without help.
Ecommerce automation
DTC ecommerce, wine club, and tasting room inventory in one system
AI development
Demand forecasting and production analytics on your batch data
Business process automation
Automate compliance reporting, purchase orders, and inventory reconciliation
Custom software development
Production batch management and TTB compliance built for your operation
Mobile app development
Offline-first floor apps for batch logging and cellar tracking
Tell us your production process, the compliance obligations you carry, and where the current system breaks. We'll tell you what we'd build and how.
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