BrewPlanner 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview
Pricing and Plans
Features
User Reviews

Overview

BrewPlanner

4.2

(9)

Pricing

Starting at $45.00 per month

About BrewPlanner

BrewPlanner is a cloud-based brewery management software that enables all crew members in the brewery to effectively and efficiently collaborate to make great beer. This solution includes scheduling, inventory, and raw material management, multiple users, reports, QC, and more. The software is designed to think like a brewer, making it intuitive and easy to use. This takes the focus off of spreadsheets and turns it back to brewing.

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BrewPlanner Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $45.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Base

$45.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

Visually intuitive and adaptable dashboard
Virtual representation of production environment
Brewer-developed
Real-time anywhere access to production schedule for efficient communication
Easily drag and drop to adjust to schedule changes
Daily to-do lists
Notes for additional communicaiton
Fermentation times easily lengthened or shortened with a click and drag
QC recording

MRP

$105.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

MRP (raw materials and inventory management)
Reports
Sales orders and purchase orders
Additional users
All features from Base version

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BrewPlanner Features

Popular features found in Brewery
Billing & Invoicing
For Breweries
Inventory Management
Multi-Location
Order Management
Production Tracking
Recipe Management
Sales Order Management
Summary Reports
Third-Party Integrations
More features of BrewPlanner
Activity Dashboard
Customizable Reports
Delivery Tracking
Purchase Order Management
Quality Control
Real-Time Reporting
Real-Time Updates
Sales Reports

BrewPlanner User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.2

Ratings Breakdown

22%

78%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.1

Value for money

4.9

Customer support

4.5

Functionality

3.8

Have you used BrewPlanner and would like to share your experience with others?

Benjamin R.

Verified reviewer

Food & Beverages

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2024

Planning Brew with Brew Planner

Overall good. We don't utilize nearly as much as is offered however what we use it for, we like it.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The ease of use, multiple teams can access and see it.

Cons:

Moving beers around seems to get glitchy, when extending the residence times in tanks sometimes you have to scroll around a lot to find the point in which changing the tank time is allowable

Reasons for choosing BrewPlanner

Cost was a big thing, Ekos had more features than we needed thus wasted money on the subscription.

Vendor Response

Thank you for your review, Benjamin! One strategy that many breweries use when trying to make space for extending residence times is to create an additional column as a place holder for brews that are getting moved. Reach out to support@brewplanner.com if you'd like to discuss that option further. Cheers!

Replied February 2024

Megan B.

Verified reviewer

Food Production

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed January 2024

Great product!

Overall, BrewPlanner has been a great option for us at this stage of our growth. We brew kombucha, not beer, and it has been easy to adapt for our products. I highly recommend BrewPlanner if you are looking to get a better handle on your production schedule and inventory planning.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

BrewPlanner is easy to use, visually intuitive, and offers knowledgable & authentic support to its customers. Working with them has been a consistently positive experience, as they are always striving to improve and develop options to better serve their customers.

Cons:

There isn't an app version, which has slowed adoption by production workers.

Reasons for choosing BrewPlanner

As a small producer, we didn't need all the bells and whistles that come with the expensive ERP systems and wanted something that was flexible, tailored to our needs, and affordable.

Seth W.

Verified reviewer

Food & Beverages

2-10 employees

Used monthly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed March 2019

Good Platform with Room To grow

A good intro to basic brewery production planning with plenty of options for the small brewer but more complex and complicated brewhouse-ops requiring a higher level of "work-arounds" to accommodate planning.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

With the free price tag this is tough to beat in regards to brewhouse production planning. Aesthetically pleasing and fairly intuitive layout. There is decent amount flexibility and expansion to adapt to most small-moderate size brewing operations. Once you get a hang of user interface workflow becomes increasingly easier.

Cons:

Seems to still be in Beta phase. A few operation glitches (occasionally planned brewing cycles wont save). On the fly changes due to brewing snafus or irregularities seem cumbersome to accomodate. No integration with other management tools (that I can see)

Vendor Response

Thank you for your review, Seth. We are continuing to develop our pro version that will include more features and eventually integration with other systems and tools. We always welcome any feedback or suggestions that will help inform the best way to implement these features. We can also schedule a video call any time to discuss a specific scenario you're finding cumbersome to accommodate. Please reach out to support@brewplanner.com anytime with questions or feedback. Cheers!

Replied March 2019

Simon M.

Verified reviewer

Food Production

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2024

Brewplanner for a joint brewery/winery/distillery

It's been really great forecasting and planning tool, although our production is getting a little big and complicated for it. Price is amazing for what you get. We have not used the inventory or sales side. It's hard to find software that does this in the correct way for the Finnish authorities. We use another service for this so i have not really looked into it. Search function was not very good. even searching for brew dates or past lot numbers seemed difficult.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Visually, brewplanner has been excellent. We have run Monday morning staff meetings, focusing on brewplanner dashboard for 3 years now. It's easy to forecast and plan brews and packaging runs. We use the notes sections to assign tasks to staff.

Cons:

Some bugs now and then. Some staff found that their updates (especially notes) would disappear.

Reasons for choosing BrewPlanner

Price, brewery focused. recommendation from another craft brewery

Vendor Response

Thank you for your review, Simon. We're happy to hear that BrewPlanner has facilitated your communication and forecasting! Please be sure to let us know at support@brewplanner.com if you ever experience issues like notes disappearing so we can get it resolved! Cheers~

Replied February 2024

Cody M.

Verified reviewer

Food & Beverages

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed January 2024

Brew planner is excellent

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We love the timeline view rather than the Birds Eye tank view others implement. Brewing is never an exact schedule and being able to shift things around easily is very convenient and effective. We use it frequently in team meetings to forecast production and plan exact dates for product release. It’s amazing in that way!

Cons:

We’ve had issue expressing our concerns with how the software functions and it being heard by the company. 3 years in and we’ve not seen any of our feedback implemented. We’ve also had many occurrences of batches disappearing or many edits not saved correctly. For the software team: we use icons A LOT and you’ve stated that it’s the corner stone of your UI and keeping it simple. To our point when we started using your system icons were easy in that when we extended or contracted the schedule the icons would adjust accordingly(mainly the packaging days at the end of brites or the transfer days at the end of fermentation), but an update was made a while back and now we find ourselves making A LOT of clicking to keep icons placed correctly. It has made things a lot less convenient. Also, PLEASE make the icon dropdowns alphabetical or customizable order. Thank you!

Vendor Response

Hi Cody, Thank you so much for your review- we're happy to hear that it has facilitated your forecasting and visualization! We always appreciate feedback and requests from our customers. The icon behavior that you have mentioned was changed because it was resulting in other issues. We have added it back to our backlog to see if we can find a solution to bring it back since that was such a useful feature. Please reach out to us at support@brewplanner.com any time you experience an issue such as edits not saving correctly so we can get it resolved right away. We have also added the icon request to the backlog. In the meantime, we wanted to make sure you were aware that you can select exactly which icons appear in each section from the "Icons in Sections" page. This allows you to remove any icons that are not used in your brewery. Thank you again for your review and we will be in touch when we have an update! Cheers~

Replied February 2024

Haley H.

Verified reviewer

Food & Beverages

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed January 2024

BrewPlanner Review - January 2024

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Pros: - Organized brewing schedule - Keeps track of inventory - Helps keep track of cellaring activities

Cons:

Cons: - Can be difficult to navigate at times - Can be glitchy

Vendor Response

Hi Haley, Thank you for your review- we're happy to hear the BrewPlanner is a useful tool for your organization of inventory and activities! Reach out to support@brewplanner.com any time you experience an issue so we can get it resolved for you. Cheers~

Replied February 2024

Sam S.

Food & Beverages

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed September 2018

Solid free software for bigger picture brewery labor, tank, and timing optimization

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to understand. Communicates complex issues effectively and easily. Customer support receptive to suggested improvement and troubleshooting. It's free to use.

Cons:

Sometimes restrictive, would like a great ability to customize to our needs (create new icons, better labelling solutions, more room for notes, better designation of brands beyond the color, etc) - Still seems unfinished and buggy - sometimes resulting in inability to use software.

Vendor Response

Thank you for the review, Sam. We appreciate your feedback as it helps us continually improve. We will be in touch when these suggestions become available. Cheers~

Replied September 2018

Dean P.

Food & Beverages

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed September 2018

Good Planning Tool

This replaced Excel spreadsheets. Now, I make fewer mistakes and create the schedule faster.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Makes scheduling complicated fermentation and conditioning profiles easy. Makes it more difficult to make mistakes.

Cons:

It doesn't print. You can only create one activity per day per beer.

Vendor Response

Thank you for the review, Dean. The optional Pro version that will be released in the coming months will have the option to print the dashboard as well as various other reports. We're working on a solution for the multiple activities per day. Cheers!

Replied September 2018

Francis D.

Food & Beverages

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Reviewed September 2018

Best out there at no cost

Great starf for a soft ware will follow and keep using to see what features they will add. two thumbs up

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Free, User Friendly, color coded, diverse, web based

Cons:

Features missing could be faster Limited to two users

Vendor Response

Thank you for the review, Francis! Our optional pro version that will be released in the coming months will have the ability to add additional users with varying access levels.

Replied September 2018

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