Cask Manager
Warehousekeepers, cask owners, brokers and distilleries all work from the same record. Here is what each corner of the platform does.
The cask registry and physical-custody workflow a bonded warehouse runs on, from intake to stocktake, anchored by a cask identity that cannot be duplicated.
A to-scale 3D map, camera and wedge-scanner cask lookup, and one live inbox for everything staff need to action today. It is the physical daily-work layer over the same warehouse registry.
Ownership becomes a warehouse-anchored record rather than a spreadsheet cell, with an append-only ledger and a Delivery Order workflow where title only moves on acknowledgement.
A duty engine, W1 returns, duty warrants that price and gate every home-use removal, and an EMCS movement lifecycle that runs the full eAD/ARC cycle on screen, not a set of report templates. Live HMRC filing stays switched off until sandbox credentials verify it.
Owners self-serve their holdings, title status and documents. The questions Cask 88’s administrators spent months answering by email are answered continuously instead.
Stock lists, offers, the single-cask brokerage pipeline, and bulk sales that hand off cleanly into the Delivery Order flow. It is the commercial layer nobody else runs end to end.
Brokerage runs on explicit, revocable permission rather than on trust. Every broker needs a book, an approving bond and the owner’s mandate, and any of the three can be withdrawn independently.
The storage-billing operating console: rate cards, billing runs, invoices and an arrears worklist, plus duty-disbursement recharges and a file bridge into your own accounting package.
New-make receipt through to a filled cask, and the physical sampling workflow that follows it, both tied into the same warehouse ledger everything else runs on.
Everything upstream of new-make receipt, from vessels and versioned recipes to the mash → fermentation → distillation run chain, raw materials, and the efficiency figures that fall out of ordinary capture.
A compliant bottling run from notice to despatch: the EWER stepper, outturn into traceable case lots, FIFO sales orders, and third-party bottling under a W8 record or a bottler’s own EMCS approval.
An optional add-on across seven parts of the platform. What makes it usable in a bonded warehouse is not what it does but what it cannot do: it files nothing, changes no figure, never sends an identity document anywhere, and every suggestion is accepted or rejected by a named person with that decision on the record.
Join the design partner programme, or read the docs to see how every workflow is put together.