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About Ekos
Ekos is a cloud-based business management software solution designed to help craft producers of beer, wine, and cider manage their day-to-day operations in inventory, production, sales, and accounting. Partnered with makers in 40 countries, the Ekos software is designed and built to help organize and operate craft businesses more efficiently and profitably, delivering insights unavailable from spreadsheets and traditional methods. Features include real-time inventory management, production scheduling, automatic costing, pipeline management, integrated CRM, financial management tools, simple reporting, custom dashboards, and more.
With Ekos, craft manufacturers can track and update supplies, raw materials, and finished goods using real-time inventory reporting tools and reduce inventory costs by only utilizing materials on an order-by-order basis. Ekos automatically calculates production costs for future batches and will utilize production logs to keep track of any manufacturing process. Sales teams can monitor sales performance and send invoices, while also accurately fulfilling orders with instant inventory checks. With an integrated CRM hub, sales teams can also check on all order status such as pending deliveries, order updates, incomplete activities, and more. Additionally, Ekos allows financial teams to generate accounting reports and view a Quick Overview Dashboard that displays all financial activity.
Ekos integrates with third-party solutions such as Xero, Quickbooks, Square, and MicroStar. Ekos is available for mobile devices via iOS and Android apps.
Ekos pricing
Ekos does not have a free version and does not offer a free trial.
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Ekos Reviews
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Dan
- Industry: Consumer Goods
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Review Source
5
Reviewed on 16/08/2023
Ekos is a great all in one solution
Overall a solid 8/10 experience. The people are great to work with and they do listen to feedback.
Pros
One stop system for tracking inputs to outputs and all points in-between.
Cons
Unwarranted cost increases. While Ekos is still lower than many other offerings, to just increase pricing cause it’s needed from their business standpoint is frustrating. Add more functionality and improve quality and make the increase have a reason.
Cesar
- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Review Source
5
Reviewed on 31/08/2023
Using Ekos from the start
Pros
The ability to do almost everything we need to do in the brewery and track it back as needed. The reporting is another great aspect. It is overwhelming at first, but once you get used to the way it is structured, it give you a lot of possibilities.
Cons
The layout of the software may be a bit overwhelming for beginners and busy production users, but given enough training and on the job usage our users became fairly proficient.
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OllieReasons for Choosing Ekos
We had Ekos and decided to try another product. Unfortunately we had not the best experience with all the needs we had and switched back. Ekos integration with quickbooks is robust and trustworthy and the ability to so production, planning, and sales all in one platform with multiple sites is another feature we cannot live without.Switched From
OllieReasons for Switching to Ekos
Familiarity with the product
Alicia
- Industry: Wine & Spirits
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Review Source
2
Reviewed on 30/01/2023
Not worth it
Negative. Top two reasons are:1. Horrible customer service.2. Winery management portion of Ekos was majorly lacking and difficult to use.
Pros
The shining light of Ekos is the ability to invoice and their inventory management
Cons
a lot of the functionality was difficult to use and their customer service was almost no help in figuring it out. 40-60 emails to figure out one problem.
Colin
- Industry: Wine & Spirits
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Review Source
5
Reviewed on 17/08/2023
Ekos works great for breweries
Ekos is a great CRM software, and overall great tool for a brewery of any size. You can keep all your information in this one program, and unlimited users can get a ton of value out of Ekos.
Pros
'Order Hub' is a fantastic one-of-a-kind feature from Ekos, allowing customers to place orders in an Amazon-type environment.
Cons
I'd really like Ekos to have an auto-save feature. Remembering to click save after I do something important can be tedious
Paul
- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Review Source
4
Reviewed on 31/08/2023
Ekos is critical to our daily facility operations
Without Ekos we would be buried in a sea of spreadsheets and whiteboards. It did not take much effort to learn the various systems within Ekos as most of them are easy to navigate and self-explanatory. It is integral to every aspect operating our production facility, so I couldn't imagine doing my job without it at this point.
Pros
No matter how well you plan out a production week, the batches don't always end up in the same vessels you planned to put them in. The improvements to the Planning feature has made my life much easier with added ability to drag-and-drop my batches into different vessels as well as adjust the close dates with the slider. I can do all of this without having to load the batches, open the tasks, and then edit the parameters. It has probably saved me hours of work since it was added.
Cons
I wish the customizable reports were a little more user friendly with an easier to parse UI. It's my biggest gripe. There's also the occasional error with batch tasks that prevent us from deleting an incorrect task or batch, requiring us to make a help desk request to remove the erroneous tasks. I wish we had some sort of admin over-ride to brute force these tasks out of existence without asking for help.
