RFID-Powered Barrel Tracking

Every barrel accounted for. Every movement tracked.

Barrel Scout’s integrated solution gives distilleries and spirits warehouses real-time visibility into every barrel, from the day it’s filled to the day it ships. Software, hardware, and tags built to work together: on the floor and in the rickhouse.

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Built and maintained by industry experts

Real-time inventory view Search inventory by warehouse, lot, ownership, age, condition, and more. Export anything to Excel in one click.

The problem

Spreadsheets weren't built for barrel warehouses.

Whether you're tracking 50 barrels or 250,000, managing inventory with spreadsheets, paper logs, or disconnected systems creates the same problems: lost barrels, inaccurate counts, failed audits, and hours of manual reconciliation.

Barrel Scout replaces all of it with a single, fully-auditable system purpose-built for the spirits industry.

The result? Complete confidence in your inventory, from anywhere, at any time.

How? One integrated system

Software, hardware, and inexpensive barrel tags, all designed to work as one.

Most “platforms” stop at software. Barrel Scout is both the data plane and the physical layer, built together so the floor and the office never disagree on what’s where.

01

Barrel Tag

Affixed once. Lives the life of the barrel.

Battery-free RFID + barcode combo. Inexpensive yet durable enough for any warehouse: traditional or palletized.

02

Reader

Handheld, mobile app, or forklift-mounted.

Reads hundreds of barrels in seconds at up to 20 ft. No line of sight required. Works with existing barcodes, too.

03

Software

Cloud-native, purpose-built.

One system of record. Centralized inventory, reporting, ownership, and audit history. Browser for office staff. Mobile readers for warehouse operators.

  • 20 ft+ RFID read range
  • 100s Barrels scanned per second
  • 0 Servers to install
  • Days Not months to deploy
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Barrel Scout inventory dashboard: filterable list of barrels with mash-bill bars, location columns, and Export to Excel

1-click export Filtered inventory to Excel, any view, any time

Inventory

See every barrel, everywhere.

Track location, contents, age, condition, and ownership across every building and warehouse in real time. Search instantly, filter by any attribute, and export to Excel with one click.

  • Real-time location tracking
  • Barrel condition monitoring (Filled, Empty, Leaking, Damaged)
  • Mash bill, proof, and lot details per barrel
  • Complete audit trail of barrel’s lifecycle
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Shipping & Receiving

Ship and receive without the headaches.

Physically scan barrels into outbound shipments or from inbound deliveries in seconds. Barrel Scout validates what's in front of you against the real time paperwork of each shipment, ensuring a wrong barrel can't make it onto the truck.

  • Scan entire pallets at once with RFID
  • Go from delivery manifest to tracked inventory in seconds
  • Shipment status tracking (pending, in process, shipped)
  • Inter-warehouse transfers with linked shipment-delivery flow
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Auto-transfer Ownership moves the moment delivery is scanned

Barrel history audit trail: edits, ownership transfers, and delivery events recorded with timestamps for every barrel

Audit-ready Complete barrel history, every barrel, always

Reports & Compliance

Audit-ready, always.

Generate TTB-ready reports, customer inventory summaries, and warehouse utilization views on demand. Every barrel movement is logged with full version history, so you're prepared for an audit before the auditor calls.

  • Shipping & receiving summaries
  • Customer inventory reports
  • Owner summary breakdowns
  • Complete barrel history with change tracking
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What’s included

Standard with every plan.

Every Barrel Scout deployment includes the full software stack, the integration support, and the infrastructure to keep it running.

  1. 01 Cloud web app and native iOS + Android apps all users
  2. 02 Unlimited users, shipments, and barrel history no caps
  3. 03 Excel exports, REST API, and custom connections available built-in
  4. 04 Cloud hosting, updates, and backups handled
  5. 05 Warehouse layout configuration and data import incl.

Book a demo

See what Barrel Scout can do for your inventory.

Give us thirty minutes and we will give you a peek into how RFID tracking will improve your barrel operations.

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