mcartt11
Well-Known Member
Just wondering if any Beersmith users actually use it for tracking and managing their inventory? I have been only using for Recipes and Brew Logs up until now, but have been considering using the inventory tracking.
I have tried to use the inventory function on BeerSmith and it does work quite well. My issue was remembering to remove ingredients or recipes from inventory when I brewed. The other feature that I didn't care for too much was the pricing. I wanted a aggregate pricing based upon purchases and current inventory value and BeerSmith cannot handle that. I would need to work out the price by hand before entering it into the inventory.
So now I have a separate spreadsheet where I track inventory, purchases, usage and prices. I can see clearly now when I have entered usage for a recipe.
Thanks, for the response. I'm guessing that I will probably forget as well since I am not really used to doing either.
As far as pricing, one of the first things I did before even starting to do my own recipes was to add pricing to all the typical ingredients that I use. It isn't perfect as the prices of things change and it is hard to account for sales, etc. I feel like it gets me a close to accurate price per batch however.
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