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The deposit patterns, seasonality and timing that decide how funders read a file from a Canadian business in craft breweries.
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Short answer: Breweries combine taproom card sales with distribution to retailers, restaurants and provincial liquor boards, each paying on its own schedule. Funders read the taproom versus wholesale mix, payment timing, excise obligations and existing equipment financing. Common uses are tanks, canning runs and patio expansion before summer.
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Breweries combine taproom card sales, distribution to retailers and restaurants and government liquor-board channels, each paying on a different schedule.
Patio season and summer festivals drive taproom and keg volume. Winter softens taproom traffic but holiday packaged sales can help.
A merchant cash advance suits a defined equipment purchase. A revenue-share structure follows the seasonal taproom pattern.
A craft brewery with a taproom depositing about $90,000 a month asks for $40,000 for fermentation tanks and a canning run. At a 1.24 factor the payback is $49,600, a cost of $9,600. Over roughly 7 months that is about $337 per business day, or close to 8% of monthly deposits.
Every figure on this page is illustrative arithmetic in Canadian dollars. It is not an offer, a quote or a promise of approval.
A brewery month includes daily taproom sales, weekly or monthly wholesale payments and regular tax remittances on production. A canning run or a tank delivery can require a large payment at once. A reviewer reads how the taproom's steady card deposits cover fixed costs and how the wholesale side adds to them.
Beer sales in Canada flow through provincial liquor systems that vary widely: some provinces rely on government stores, others on private retail. The payment timing from each channel shapes the deposit pattern a reviewer sees.
Having one-line answers ready, with the statements, is usually enough to move a file from questions to a decision.
Reviewed by the Merchant Fund Express team on October 12, 2026. Official pages checked as of that date.
Yes, as deposits into the business account.
Eligibility varies by industry and funder. Many breweries are reviewed on the same deposit-based approach.
Yes. Timing it before summer helps repayment.
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