Ekos
Brewery software
Winery management software
Alcohol software
Winery software
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What is Ekos
Ekos is a brewery operations and inventory management platform used to track production, raw materials, packaging, and finished goods across one or more facilities. It supports day-to-day workflows such as batch/lot tracking, purchasing, sales orders, and reporting for alcohol producers that need operational visibility and traceability. The product is primarily oriented to breweries and other beverage producers rather than winery-specific compliance and cellar workflows. Ekos is commonly deployed alongside accounting and point-of-sale/ecommerce systems via integrations.
Production and inventory traceability
Ekos provides batch/lot-level tracking across ingredients, work-in-progress, and packaged goods. This supports recalls, variance analysis, and audit preparation by keeping production and inventory movements connected. For alcohol producers with multiple SKUs and packaging formats, the system centralizes operational records that are often spread across spreadsheets.
Purchasing and order workflows
The platform includes purchasing and sales order processes that connect demand to inventory availability and production planning. Users can manage suppliers, receive materials, and track costs through operational records. This helps reduce manual handoffs between production teams and back-office staff.
Integration-oriented deployment
Ekos is typically used as an operations layer that integrates with accounting and other business systems. This approach can reduce duplicate data entry when organizations already standardize on separate finance or commerce tools. It also allows teams to keep specialized systems for tasting room, ecommerce, or finance while using Ekos for production and inventory control.
Not winery-first feature set
Ekos is best known for brewery operations, so winery-specific workflows (e.g., vineyard blocks, crush/fermentation cellar operations, wine compliance nuances) may require workarounds or external tools. Organizations looking for end-to-end winery management may find gaps compared with products designed specifically for wineries. Fit depends on how much of the winery process needs to be modeled inside one system.
Compliance coverage may vary
Alcohol businesses often require jurisdiction-specific compliance, tax, and shipping controls that are handled by specialized compliance platforms. Ekos may not replace dedicated compliance tooling for all regions and scenarios, especially for direct-to-consumer shipping and state-by-state rules. Buyers should validate required filings, reporting formats, and integrations for their operating footprint.
Implementation and data hygiene effort
Accurate lot tracking and costing depend on disciplined item masters, units of measure, and consistent transaction entry. Teams migrating from spreadsheets typically need time to standardize processes and clean historical data. Without that operational change management, reporting and inventory accuracy can degrade.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Essentials (Wine) | Request pricing — contact sales (no public pricing displayed on official site). | Core capabilities: Real-time inventory; Production management; Bulk wine production & purchasing; Work order management; Floorplan view (drag & drop); Additive tracking & dry goods management; Cost accounting; Mobile app; Sales & customer management; Ekos Order Hub. Reporting: Standard reports. POS/ecommerce integrations: Add-on. Item-level lot tracking: available. Included production facilities: 1. |
| Plus (Wine) | Request pricing — contact sales (no public pricing displayed on official site). | All Essentials features plus: expanded reporting (Build-Your-Own reports); TTB Reporting (listed for higher tiers on site); Accounting integration (available); Same included production facilities: 1. |
| Professional (Wine) | Request pricing — contact sales (no public pricing displayed on official site). | All Plus features plus: Custom-built reports; Additional accounting integrations; Advanced features (item-level lot tracking emphasized); Included production facilities: 2. Additional enterprise-level features and add-ons available. |
Notes: Ekos lists three tiered plans (Essentials, Plus, Professional) across industries (Beer/Cider, Wine, Spirits) but does not publish any numeric prices on the official pricing page — users are prompted to "Request pricing"/contact sales. The pricing page also documents implementation/onboarding services and which features are included or offered as add-ons per tier.
