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How Vapour can help you

For business leaders in the spirits industry, having complete visibility and control over production, maturation, and bottling is essential for maximising efficiency and profitability. Vapour provides a powerful SaaS solution that centralises operations, delivering high-quality data, streamlined workflows, regulatory compliance, and enhanced customer experiences.

With accurate, real-time data, leadership teams can make informed decisions that drive operational efficiency and financial performance. Vapour tracks every stage of production, from raw material usage to spirit yields, maturation progress, and bottling output. Comprehensive reporting and analytics provide insights into efficiency trends, loss prevention, and stock forecasting; enabling proactive decision-making and better cost control.

Operational efficiency is improved through automated workflows, task management, and seamless data integration across departments. No more manual spreadsheets or disconnected systems; Vapour ensures that production, warehouse, finance, and sales teams are always aligned, reducing errors and saving valuable time.

Regulatory compliance and financial oversight are simplified with Vapour’s built-in reporting tools. Automated record-keeping ensures accurate tracking of duty payments, stock movements, and customs and excise requirements, helping to avoid costly errors and audits. Custom financial reporting and integrations provide clear insights into cask values, production costs, and profit margins, supporting better business planning.

For spirits businesses managing cask investments or third-party maturation, customer experience is key. Vapour’s secure customer portals allow maturation customers to log in, check cask status, view historical data, and access key documentation in real time. This transparency builds trust and strengthens relationships while reducing administrative burden on the team.

By implementing Vapour, business leaders gain full control over their operations with high-quality data, increased efficiency, regulatory confidence, and a superior customer experience - ensuring their spirits business is positioned for long-term success in a competitive market.

Book a demo today to see how Vapour can transform your operations, or contact us to discuss your specific business needs.

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Key Vapour Features

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Insights & Analytics

Vapour’s Insights & Analytics service transforms raw production and maturation data into actionable intelligence for distilleries and spirits businesses. By capturing real-time data from mashing, fermentation, and distillation, alongside cask inventory, movements, and losses, Vapour can provide custom dashboards aligned to your business KPIs that highlight trends, inefficiencies, and opportunities for optimisation. Operators can track yields, efficiency rates, maturation losses, and spirit quality changes over time. With deep reporting capabilities, businesses gain a comprehensive view of both production performance and cask stock, ensuring consistency, compliance, and better forecasting. Vapour empowers distilleries and spirits businesses to make informed decisions, refine processes, and maximise efficiency, all within a user-friendly, intuitive platform

Analysis

Comprehensive Reporting

Vapour delivers powerful reporting capabilities, covering everything from raw material usage in mashing and fermentation to spirit production data and efficiency tracking. For maturation, detailed cask inventory reports provide insights into stock levels, movements, and losses. The platform also generates billing reports for storage and services, alongside compliance reports for customs and excise and other regulatory bodies. In bottling, Vapour tracks dry goods inventory, finished goods, and order fulfilment, ensuring seamless stock management. With accurate, real-time data, Vapour’s reporting tools give distilleries and spirits businesses the insights they need to optimise operations and maintain full transparency across production and inventory

API Integration Portal

API Integration Portal

Connect Vapour to any other system or platform using APIs

Production Efficiency

Production Efficiency

Say goodbye to spending hours on complex spreadsheets to analyse the effectiveness and efficiency of your Mashing, Fermentation, and Distillation operations. Gain real-time insights directly from the distillery as your operators carry out their daily tasks

Compliance Reporting

Compliance Reporting

Vapour has compliance reporting built-in with intelligent tracking of liquid movement, casks and cased goods

Customer Billing

Customer Billing

Monetise cask storage and services with flexible, zone-based, cask-type, custom and customer-specific pricing. Every cost is tracked and logged to your customer's account

Automated billing downloads for Xero, Opera, Zoho and Microsoft Dynamics Business Central

Extend even further with API integrations

Customer Login

Customer Login

Offer your clients the ultimate in Cask Management convenience and traceability with their login to your Vapour Platform to view and request services on the cask inventory you hold on their behalf

Traceability

Traceability

Unrivalled visibility, traceability and accessibility. For distillers, for cask managers, for bottlers, for investors. Every action in Vapour has a detailed audit trail to support your compliance or quality management needs

Duty Reporting

Duty Reporting

Automatic calculation of duty payments due on samples and movement of stock out of bonded areas

Cask Inventory Reporting

Cask Inventory Reporting

Flexible inventory reporting by warehouse location, zone, cask type, customer

Exportable to many formats, including PDF and Excel, you can even check historic inventory to interrogate stock movements!

Finance Integrations

Finance Integrations

Out-of-the-box connectivity with leading finance platforms such as Xero, Intuit QuickBooks, Microsoft Dynamics Business Central, Sage, plus many, many more

Spirit Production Report

Spirit Production Report

No more wrangling dozens of paper records or spreadsheets. Generate Spirit Production reports instantly to understand your distillery's production output at the touch of a button, covering both performance tracking and compliance reporting, such as HMRC W21 submissions

Fermentables Usage Reporting

Fermentables Usage Reporting

Generate a report at your convenience breaking down all the fermentables (i.e. grain, malt, molases) across your production processes

Recipe Management

Recipe Management

Manage your Mash/Cook, Fermentation and Distillation recipes in a simple, easy-to-use designer tool. Guide your operators throughout the production process with pre-defined guidelines on assets, volumes, temperatures, etc. Pre-plan production or archive unused recipes to keep your production team on track

Production Week Planning

Production Week Planning

Plan your Spirit Production weeks for the year. Define your mashing and fermentation weeks and the cross-over to distillation weeks. Drive reporting and materials usage based on both calendar and mashing and production weeks

Supplier Management

Supplier Management

Manage your suppliers and track how their products are used throughout your production and bottling processes. Recall with ease using the built-in provenance features of Vapour to track and trace exactly what element was used, where and when

Customer Management

Customer Management

Streamline contract distilling, maturation services for cask owners, and bottling for both B2B and B2C customers, ensuring seamless communication, accurate tracking, and tailored service at every stage

What are the benefits?

How can Vapour help me?

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Vapour Brochure

Learn more about the features, benefits and users of Vapour by downloading our brochure.

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