Yesterday, we released long-overdue functionality to make the LEx platform collaborative for brewers who work at the same brewery. Here are some things to know:
- Accounts aren’t meant to be shared - Each member of your organization should register separately and join your brewery, either by entering the brewery’s TTB registry number or via invitation from someone else at the brewery.
- Email Address must be unique - It’s not possible to use the same email address for multiple accounts.
- Managing Access - Admins and users can be managed (by admins) from this page (for breweries) or this page (for merchants/growers).
- You can only join 1 brewery location - If your company operates multiple breweries, you’ll need a separate account/email address to join a second location.
- New job = new account - Your account won’t follow you if decide to go work for a different brewery. You’ll want to create a new account (with a different email address) if you take a new job.
- History is Shared - When you join a brewery, all other members of that brewery location will have access to your order history, messages, etc. You’ll want to avoid joining a new brewery with an account previously used for a different brewery. When in doubt, create a new account!
- Brewery organizations are collaborative - Need to reply to a message, ship an order, edit a listing, submit a PO, etc. on behalf of your colleague? Now you can do that.
- History is permanent - Let’s say Fred gets fired or takes a job at a different brewery so someone from your team removes Fred from your brewery organization. Fred’s history (orders, messages, etc.) remain available to all other members of the brewery but now Fred can’t access your brewery (or even login to The Lupulin Exchange) without creating a new account.
- You only need 1 tax exemption certificate - If Bob makes a purchase and Jennifer already submitted a valid tax exemption certificate, we won’t ask Bob to fill out another one.
- Payouts for Sellers - Only admins can enter/change banking info, but all users can create listings once banking info has been entered and approved.
Those are just a few highlights - there’s more & more coming soon. Please let us know what else you’d like to see or if you think something could be better. When someone requests a feature via the comments here and we see 10+ other brewers click the heart button on that request, we typically prioritize the development of features like that as high as we can.