FermentAble Reviews in February 2025: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

"A breath of fresh air from error screens and crashing systems"

What do you like best about Ollie? The reporting features are most helpful and easy to generate our needed reports. Ollie is also visually appealing and well-organized. And the customer service is fantastic, specifically their quick turnaround to questions and support on any issues or questions that arise. What do you dislike about Ollie? It would be helpful to have a place to keep compliance information, i.e. for state reporting, COLAs. While TTB reporting is available, creating a way to ...

"A breath of fresh air from error screens and crashing systems"

What do you like best about Ollie? The reporting features are most helpful and easy to generate our needed reports. Ollie is also visually appealing and well-organized. And the customer service is fantastic, specifically their quick turnaround to questions and support on any issues or questions that arise. What do you dislike about Ollie? It would be helpful to have a place to keep compliance information, i.e. for state reporting, COLAs. While TTB reporting is available, creating a way to ...

"Switched to Ollie from Ekos - and love it!!"

What do you like best about Ollie? Ollie is great for inventory management and for knowing what we have on hand. Invoicing works pretty solid as well when we invoice distributors. Would be even more useful if we self distributed, but still good for using distributors. What do you dislike about Ollie? Sometimes clunky going from Ollie ops to Ollie Order. I think it's a little cumbersome on the staff with that. Should be easier. I don't need QB integration, so if that is slowing us down, need ...

"Very efficient way to run our brew house"

What do you like best about Ollie? The visual dashboard is a huge quality of life improvement and every aspect of Ollie ops/order makes my day-to-day life as a Brewer much simpler. What do you dislike about Ollie? If a error is made in assigning a tank to a brew day, it's a pain to transfer the correct brew task to the corresponding tank. What problems is Ollie solving and how is that benefiting you? Keeping up with inventory, logging past brew days/logs to reference, and mostly giving a ...

"Great for scheduling production and tracking inventory."

What do you like best about Ollie? Simplistic design is user friendly. It's easy to understand and integrate into current processes. It isn't overloaded with details or modules that the vast majority of breweries won't ever need. What do you dislike about Ollie? There are occasional redunancies when it comes to creating/ordering/adjusting items in inventory. The only thing I'm having consistent confusion about is yeast harvesting/repitching. What problems is Ollie solving and how is that ...

"Great software for staying organized"

What do you like best about Ollie? It easily tracks raw material inventory and can generate reports on future purchasing needs to simplify ordering and planning. What do you dislike about Ollie? Punching in times for process steps (mash times, transfer times, hop additions, etc.) it auto saves and closes out the input box too quickly so you have to keep clicking on the input box to update the hour, then the minutes. I'm usually just batch inputting everything at the end of a brew day, not ...

"Great software for staying organized"

What do you like best about Ollie? It easily tracks raw material inventory and can generate reports on future purchasing needs to simplify ordering and planning. What do you dislike about Ollie? Punching in times for process steps (mash times, transfer times, hop additions, etc.) it auto saves and closes out the input box too quickly so you have to keep clicking on the input box to update the hour, then the minutes. I'm usually just batch inputting everything at the end of a brew day, not ...

"Enhances cash and inventory management... and saves time"

What do you like best about Ollie? Checking accounts, prospects, and searching for stores within a defined geography helps generates target lists. Billing customers from my home after confirming delivery with my 3pl helps me bill in a timely way for their books and our revenue! What do you dislike about Ollie? I have yet to identify a downside. My peers use it and introduced me to it saying that it is what I needed, and they were right. What problems is Ollie solving and how is that ...

"Great customer support!"

What do you like best about Ollie? I like the visual aspect of seeing everything that is in the tanks, adding to do items and being able to schedule things out. Does come with a slight learning curve, but the customer service and the introduction meetings help make the process super easy! What do you dislike about Ollie? I can't yet import ingredients or things without hand keying in each required field. I'm sure it's something I'm not understanding, or my computer being ancient. What ...

"Ollie is a great way to bring numerous aspects of the brewery into a single online platform."

What do you like best about Ollie? We have really enjoyed the ease of use with the Ollie platform. It is very user friendly, and has been easy to train our staff on. Having access to all (most) of the pertinent information for the brewery in a single location is immensely helpful for scheduling, ordering, batch tracking and even paying taxes. The communication between Ollie Ops and Ollie Order is fantastic as well. What do you dislike about Ollie? For us, the startup on Ollie was ...