Back Office & Compliance
TTB deadline. Export the report. Five minutes.
Everything was entered at the tank, all period. No scrambling, no reconciliation, no stress. The numbers are already right because they came from the operations themselves.
How it works
Data is captured at the source
When cellar workers record operations and weigh tags, all the TTB-relevant data is captured automatically. Grape receipts, transfers, losses, bottling runs — every transaction that matters for compliance is already in the system.
- ✓ Quantities tracked in gallons with four-decimal precision
- ✓ Grape receipts from weigh tags with varietal and block origin
- ✓ Loss tracking built into every operation — nothing to estimate
Generate reports in one click
Select the reporting period and click generate. Crush queries the operation graph, calculates every line item — wine in bond, taxable removals, losses, grape receipts — and presents the report for review. The math comes from the operations. There's nothing to reconcile.
- ✓ TTB Form 5120.17 — Monthly Report of Wine Premises Operations (still widely known by its old number, Form 702)
- ✓ Every required line: wine in bond, taxable removals, grape receipts, losses
- ✓ Automatic line-item calculation from committed operations
Review, snapshot, file
Review the calculated report. If something looks off, drill into the operations behind any line item. When you're satisfied, take a snapshot. The snapshot freezes the report — even if new operations are recorded later, your filed report doesn't change.
- ✓ Drill into any line item to see the underlying operations
- ✓ Snapshot locks the report — filed numbers are permanent
- ✓ Export to PDF or CSV for filing
No account? Try our free TTB excise tax calculator — Form 5000.24 with the small-producer credit, every rate cited to statute.
Audit with confidence
Every number on your TTB report traces back to specific operations with timestamps and quantities. When an auditor asks "where did this 400 gallons come from?", you click the line item and show them the transfer, the source tank, and the weigh tag from the vineyard.
- ✓ Complete audit trail from report → operation → source
- ✓ Historical snapshots preserved — see exactly what was filed
- ✓ Immutable operations mean the trail can't be retroactively altered
Why snapshot-based reporting matters
Most winery software generates reports from live data. Crush takes a different approach.
Calculate anytime
Generate a report for any period at any time. The calculation queries committed operations within the date range. Run it mid-month to check your numbers, or wait until filing time.
Snapshot freezes it
When you're ready to file, take a snapshot. This captures the exact numbers at that moment. Even if someone records a late operation after you file, your snapshot doesn't change. The filed record is the filed record.
Recalculate to compare
After filing, you can recalculate the same period to see if any late operations changed the numbers. Compare the live calculation against your filed snapshot. If there's a difference, you know exactly what changed and can decide whether an amendment is needed.
Label claims, checked at the bottle
Set the minimum varietal, vintage, and appellation claims a bottling needs to carry. Crush compares them against the wine's exact computed composition and flags every rule — green when it clears the 27 CFR Part 4 thresholds, red when it falls short. No spreadsheets, no guessing whether the blend still qualifies.
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Want to test a blend before it's in the tank? Our free wine label checker runs the same 75% varietal, 85% AVA, and Var-App (§4.23(b)) rules on any grape × AVA grid — no account needed.
Common questions
What TTB forms does Crush generate?
Crush generates the TTB Form 5120.17 — the Monthly Report of Wine Premises Operations, which many winemakers still call by its old number, Form 702. It covers wine in bond, taxable removals, grape receipts, losses, and every line item the TTB requires for monthly filing. For the federal excise side — TTB Form 5000.24, the wine excise return often confused with IRS Form 720 — try our free TTB excise tax calculator.
Does Crush help with wine labeling compliance too?
Yes. Because Crush computes exact varietal and AVA percentages for every blend, it's straightforward to check whether a wine can carry a given varietal or appellation claim under 27 CFR Part 4 — the 75% varietal rule, the 85% AVA rule, and the Var-App conjunction in §4.23(b). No account? Try our free wine label checker — enter your blend as a grape × AVA grid and see what it can legally be labeled.
What if I record an operation after I've already filed?
Your filed snapshot is untouched — that's the point of the snapshot workflow. You can recalculate the same period to see the updated numbers. If the late operation materially changes the report, you'll see the difference and can decide whether to file an amendment.
How are losses calculated?
Losses are captured at the operation level. When a cellar worker records a transfer or rack, the difference between what left the source and what arrived at the destination is automatically recorded as loss. These losses roll up into the correct TTB report line items. There's no estimating or back-calculating at the end of the month.
Can I drill into the numbers on a report?
Yes. Every line item on a TTB report links back to the specific operations that contributed to it. Click a line item and you'll see the list of operations — each with its timestamp, source, destination, and quantity. You can follow any operation all the way back through the cellar lineage to the original weigh tag.
Do I need to enter data specifically for TTB reporting?
No. That's the key idea. The cellar team records operations as they happen — transfers, racks, additions, bottling — because it's useful for their daily work. Those same operations are what the TTB report calculates from. There's no separate compliance workflow and no double-entry. You just work, and the report generates itself.
The report is just the season, added up
Nothing here is entered for compliance's sake — it's the same vineyard, cellar, and lab work, rolled up. See how one lot gets from the weigh tag to this report in our crush-to-cellar walkthrough.