Your production, bonded stock and excise shouldn't depend on one spreadsheet — or one person.

Qdos brings production, bonded stock, wholesale, inventory and sales channels together so your team can run the operational and commercial side of the distillery from one connected system.

Whether you’re making gin, vodka, rum or whisky, the same bottle might end up with a bottle shop on a trade price, a major retailer, an online customer or a cellar-door visitor. Qdos connects the operational and commercial records behind those sales, so your team has a consistent view of stock, customers, costs and fulfilment without relying on one person’s spreadsheet.

See how it connects ↓

Bottles from an Australian craft distillery being packed into cases for dispatch

One distillery, one connected operation

  1. 1. Make

    Recipes, materials, batches, costs

  2. 2. Hold in bond

    Bonded and duty-paid, side by side

  3. 3. Sell to trade

    Trade pricing and retailer EDI

  4. 4. Fulfil

    Your premises, warehouse or 3PL

  5. 5. Sell direct

    Cellar door and Shopify

  6. 6. See the business

    Sales, stock and margins

One set of products, stock and customers — from the still to the sale.

Make it your way

Run production in Qdos — raw materials and packaging, recipes and bills of materials, finished-goods production, material usage, costing and batch traceability. Or keep the production and maturation process you already use and bring finished goods into Qdos.

Hold it in bond, with a clear picture

Bonded and non-bonded stock are managed side by side, across one location or several, with stock movements and transfers recorded as they happen. Excise is determined when stock is released from bond — not when a batch is finished.

Records that support your excise obligations

Receipts, production, bonded stock movements, stocktakes and dispatches sit in one system, so the records your excise returns and remission claims rely on are consistent and easy to find when your adviser or the ATO asks. Lodging returns and eligibility decisions stay with you and your adviser. Read: Excise records and audit readiness for Australian distillers

Sell to trade and major retailers

Set customer-specific pricing for bottle shops, bars and restaurants, with bottle, case and mixed-case pricing and orders entered by your team or reps. If you move into major-retailer supply, Qdos supports EDI trading with major Australian liquor groups including Coles Liquor Group, Endeavour Group and ALM, so their orders run through the same stock and invoicing as everything else.

Fulfil from your premises, a warehouse or a 3PL

Ship from the distillery, your own warehouse, a 3PL, or a mix, with one stock picture across all of them. Qdos warehouse management covers receiving, picking, packing and dispatch where you run your own.

Sell direct, at the cellar door and online

Qdos point of sale runs the cellar door, and Qdos integrates with Shopify, so tasting-room sales and online orders come out of the same stock as your trade business and customers are recognised wherever they buy.

See the whole business

Access operational and commercial reporting from the same system used to manage your day-to-day business. Qdos provides bonded stock, production and dispatch records to support excise returns and remission claims, alongside product recall and traceability information, inventory reporting and commercial invoices for export. Qdos also integrates with Xero, so your accounts reflect the same sales and costs.

What’s included

Choose the functionality you need today, with the flexibility to add more as you grow.

  • Raw material and packaging inventory
  • Purchasing and stock receipting
  • Bill of Materials (BOM) and product recipes
  • Finished goods production and material usage
  • Product and inventory costing
  • Batch and inventory traceability
  • Bonded & unbonded inventory management and stock movements
  • Sales order processing, including bulk/batch processing
  • Single and multi-location inventory
  • CRM and customer management
  • Warehouse and logistics management
  • Excise on release from bond, with records to support your excise returns and remission claims
  • Reporting, plus EDI with Coles Liquor Group, Endeavour Group and ALM

how CBCo grew into one of Australia’s leading craft brewers

CBCo Brewing is an award-winning Australian brewery that uses Qdos to support its growing operations across multiple locations and increased production capacity.

"Qdos ERP has all the features a fast-growing brewery needs, and it was good to go on day one. We’re a proudly uncomplicated brand and the Qdos solution matches that ethos perfectly. We want to focus on making great beer, not entering data and wrangling spreadsheets. Qdos has everything covered - from production and logistics to CRM and financials, right through to reports and insights in real-time. The comprehensive Qdos platform makes running our two breweries easy."

Jarrod Stivala, National Brewery Operations Manager

Is Qdos right for your distillery?

Qdos suits distilleries where things have started to connect: bonded stock and excise, trade customers, a cellar door, Shopify, a 3PL or major-retailer supply. That can happen with a team of five as easily as fifty. If you mainly need a simple till for a tasting room, a lighter POS may suit you better — and we’ll say so.

Qdos also runs wineries, importers and distributors across Australia. See Qdos for wine, liquor and spirits

Frequently asked questions

Can Qdos support a whisky or spirits distillery?

Yes. Distilleries can manage raw materials and packaging, recipes, production, costing and batch traceability in Qdos, alongside bonded and non-bonded stock, excise on release from bond, wholesale, cellar door, Shopify and fulfilment.

Do we have to run our production process in Qdos?

No. You can run production in Qdos, or keep the production and maturation process you already use and manage bonded stock, excise, sales and fulfilment in Qdos.

Can Qdos help us keep records ready for an excise review?

Qdos keeps raw material receipts, production and batch records, bonded and non-bonded stock movements, stocktakes and dispatches in one system, so the records your excise obligations rely on are consistent and easy to find when your adviser or the ATO asks. Lodging returns and eligibility decisions stay with you and your adviser.

Is Qdos too big for a small distillery?

Not necessarily. Qdos suits distilleries where complexity is growing — bonded stock and excise, trade customers, a cellar door, Shopify, a 3PL or major-retailer supply — and that can happen with a small team. If you only need a simple till, a lighter POS may suit you better.

Talk to Qdos about your distillery

Tell us how your production, bonded stock and sales channels fit together, and we’ll show you how Qdos would run them.