Bookkeeping and exports

Brewery paperwork, entered once.

Most small breweries type every number twice: once on the floor, once again for the books. BrauMo is where the money records are born, so the handover to your accountant is an export instead of an evening.

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Where the numbers come from

Every figure your accountant needs starts as something that happened in the brewery. Record it there and it never has to be retyped.

Invoices and quotes

Draft, send and number your invoices in sequence. Quotes convert to invoices without re-keying. A cancellation is its own document that reverses the original rather than quietly editing it, and overdue invoices surface on their own.

Bottle deposits

Deposits are the line small breweries most often get wrong, because they are money you are holding rather than revenue. BrauMo bills a deposit once and returns it as a credit, so the balance stays honest instead of drifting.

Delivery notes

A delivery note is written when the pallet leaves, from the lots that actually went out. It carries the same numbers as the invoice that follows it, which is what makes an invoice defensible months later.

Supplier bills

Tea, sugar, bottles, labels, caps. The payables side is recorded the same way as sales, so both halves of the month leave the brewery in one handover instead of two.

Bank statement import

Import a statement and BrauMo proposes which invoice each payment settles. You confirm before anything is booked, because a wrong automatic match is worse than no match at all.

VAT on each document

The VAT category is derived per invoice following EN 16931, which distinguishes a domestic sale from an intra-Community supply from an export. It proposes; it never blocks, and you can override any document.

The handover to your accountant

Three ways out, depending on what your accountant asks for.

A monthly bookkeeping CSV

One readable file per month with every sale, purchase and write-off, carrying net, VAT rate, VAT and gross columns. Skim it yourself or hand it over as it is.

A DATEV booking batch

Issued invoices for a date range as a DATEV-format Buchungsstapel, using your own chart-of-accounts mapping, with the payables side available the same way. A cancelled original stays in the export on purpose: the pair nets to zero at the accountant instead of leaving a hole.

For German breweries. Have your Steuerberater confirm the accounts and the first export.

An XRechnung XML

An EN 16931 UBL e-invoice for a public-sector recipient, generated from the invoice you already issued.

Shown for German sellers. Validating against a particular recipient's profile stays with you.

What BrauMo is not

Worth being blunt about, because the wrong expectation costs you a month.

Not your accounting system

No double-entry ledger, no annual accounts. BrauMo is where the records are born; the books stay where they are.

Not your VAT return

It proposes a VAT category per document and exports what the document says. Filing stays with your accountant.

Not payroll

Wages, contracts and social contributions are somebody else's software, and always will be.

Not a replacement for advice

Your accountant reads the rules for your business. BrauMo just stops you handing them a shoebox.

Questions accountants ask first

Does BrauMo replace my accounting software?
No, and it is not trying to. BrauMo is where the brewery's own records live: invoices, deposits, delivery notes, supplier bills. Your accountant keeps doing the books, using an export instead of a folder of paper. Breweries that already run accounting software keep it and stop double-entering into it.
Can my accountant import it directly?
For German breweries, yes: issued invoices export as a DATEV-format Buchungsstapel for a date range, mapped to your own chart of accounts, and supplier bills export the same way. Everywhere else the monthly bookkeeping CSV is the handover. Whichever you use, have your accountant check the accounts and the very first export before you rely on it.
Does it handle bottle deposits properly?
A deposit is billed once as its own position and comes back as a credit when the crates return, rather than being folded into the product price. That distinction is the whole point: deposit money is not revenue, and treating it as revenue is how a brewery's balance quietly stops matching its yard.
What happens when I have to cancel an invoice?
You issue a cancellation document that reverses the original, and both stay in the record. Editing a sent invoice in place would leave your numbering with a gap and your accountant with a question. The cancelled original stays in the export too, so the pair nets to zero rather than disappearing.
Will it file my VAT return?
No. It derives a VAT category per document following EN 16931, so a domestic sale, an intra-Community supply and an export are not treated as the same thing, and you can override any document. The return itself stays with your accountant, who is the one answerable for it.
Where is this data stored?
In a single database file on your own machine. Nothing is sent to us, which for financial records is usually the answer people were hoping for. Exports are files you generate and keep, and if you ever stop paying you can still view and export everything.