Bar & Restaurant Software Since 2004

Restaurant Management and Bar Inventory Software.

Count your bar once a week and Bar Cop tells you what it really cost you, where the money went, and what to do about it. All the stuff your POS reports were never built to show you.

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How Bar Cop Is Built

It starts with inventory. The rest is yours to take or leave.

Bar Cop tracks your inventory, ordering, and deliveries. From there, you decide what else you want to use. Build on the parts that fit your operation. Leave the rest alone.

The Foundation

Bar inventory, ordering and deliveries.

Count on your phone in your own shelf order. Your order sheet fills itself in off that count, you hit Create Order and email to the vendor. Deliveries land against it - your pour cost, food cost, and variance come out of it.

Bar Cop Take Inventory
See how inventory control works →
Built On The Count
(optional)

Close the week and see what it cost you.

Want more than inventory? Add the week's sales and hours to your count. You find out what the week made and what it cost you a few days after it ends, instead of next month. Your books come out of the same numbers.

See the weekly close → See hours and tips →
Built On Your Weeks
(optional)

Audit the bar and find the gaps.

Once a week is closed, run new audits and score your operations, profit, revenue, and cash. Bar Cop lists what is costing you the most money and prices the gaps in dollars, putting the biggest opportunities first. Run them again anytime.

Bar Cop Restaurant and Bar Audits
See what an audit gives you →
If Your POS Won't
(optional)

Shift control, drawers and the safe.

The safe, record the drops and bank runs, log waste, walked tabs, and build your checklists. The parts of a shift your POS has no report for, use only what you need and keep everything safely logged, instead of on paper.

See the floor tools →
Dig In Deeper
(optional)

Menu pricing, server checks and cash.

Rank the menu and price it, see how each server sells, and look at where your cash lands a few months out. Open one up when you want to dig in deeper and leave the rest alone until you want them.

See what is in there →
Their Own Thing
(optional)

Events, catering and your books.

Book the party, price it by the head and take the deposit. Your books build themselves out of the weeks you have already closed, so month end is a file you hand over to the bookkeeper instead of a night you lose in paperwork.

See events → See books →
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Trusted By Thousands Since 2004

Real bars. Real years.

Bars and restaurants that use Bar Cop
★★★★★
Within the first month of using Bar Cop our bar sales jumped about 12% after catching some employees that were stealing. If you care about stopping theft, you need this.
Jacob Bar Manager, The Horseshoe
10 years on Bar Cop

We've been using Bar Cop for over 10 years. It has worked flawlessly and does exactly what you would expect and want it to do: drive revenue and reduce COGS.

Mr. Bonbright Owner, Casa Verde Hotel
3 years on Bar Cop

We have been using Bar Cop for about 3 years and LOVE it! It has saved us more time and money than we could have imagined, and brought real accuracy to tracking inventory.

Ashley Manager, The Castle Pub
6 years on Bar Cop

We've used Bar Cop for 6 years and we love this system! It's super easy to use, plus it reduces staff errors and theft.

JoLyn GM, Outlaw Ray's Grill & Bar

I have tried other software over the years, but hands down Bar Cop is the superior inventory manager. Highly recommended.

Billy Partner, Kahuna Burger Bar

We tried other programs that didn't live up to expectations. Bar Cop is not only user friendly, it gives us the data we need!

Kathy Owner, TJz Bar & Restaurant

We couldn't be happier with Bar Cop. The software is easy to use and really shortened the time we spend on inventory, plus the support guys have always been fantastic.

Ryan GM, Brickhouse Bar
Questions

Answers before you start.

What Bar Cop is, how it works, and what it gives you, straight.

Bar Cop Basics
What is Bar Cop?
Bar Cop is bar and restaurant inventory and management software for independent operators. It starts with your inventory, your ordering and your deliveries. From there you can close your week, run audits that price what is costing you money, and work the fixes, as far in as you want to go. Your POS rings the sales. Bar Cop tells you what those sales actually cost you.
Who is Bar Cop for?
Independent bars, restaurants, and pubs, and the operators, owners, GMs, and bookkeepers who run them. It is built for the person who actually runs the floor and watches the money, not a corporate chain with a back-office team.
Can I use Bar Cop just for inventory?
Yes, and plenty of bars do. Counting, ordering and deliveries is the foundation and it stands on its own. Closing your week, the audits and everything past them are built on that same count, and they sit there until the day you want them. Nothing nags you to turn them on.
What POS systems does Bar Cop work with?
Any of them. Bar Cop is POS-agnostic. Where a POS export saves you time you drop the file in; where it does not, you key the numbers by hand. There is no integration to set up and no POS you are locked out of.
Pricing
Does Bar Cop come with support?
Yes, and it is built into the app. Contact Support and Report a Bug sit in the sidebar of every section, so you send a message from the screen you are looking at. It reaches the team with your email as the reply address and you get an answer within one business day. There is no support tier and nothing extra to buy.
Can I try Bar Cop before I pay?
The live demo is your free trial, a complete, fully-loaded bar you can walk through with no signup and no card. See every screen working before you decide.
How It Works
How does Bar Cop work?
You count your bar once a week. That gives you your pour cost, what to order, and what is sitting on your shelves. Want more than inventory? Add the week's sales and hours and Bar Cop closes the week, then scores the place and lists what is costing you money, biggest first. Work one of those and it measures what you got back. Everything past the count is yours to use or skip.
What is Close The Week?
Instead of daily busywork, you sit down once at the end of the week and put the week's numbers in: your sales, your hours, and your count. When you confirm, you know what the week made and what it cost you, days after it ended instead of a month later. Your books and your audit scores are built from those same numbers, so nothing is ever entered twice.
What is a Bar Cop Audit?
An on-demand score of your operation off your own logged data. It ranks every gap by what it is costing you a month and tells you where to start. Run the Bar Cop Audit for overall discipline, or a Profit, Revenue, or Cash audit for the dollars, any day and as often as you want, with no consultant.
Do I need an accountant or a consultant?
Keep the accountant or bookkeeper you already use. Bar Cop makes them cheaper by handing over a clean month-end file instead of a mess to sort out. A consultant is what you do not need. Bar Cop scores your operation and prices every leak off your own numbers, on demand, so nobody has to tell you what your numbers already say.
Getting Started
How do I get started?
Watch the live demo, then create your account and add your bar. Setup is your products and your vendors once, and most operators drop those in from a distributor file instead of typing them. Take a count and you are running. Add your staff later, when you want hours and tips in there too.
Can I get my data out of Bar Cop?
Yes. Your data is yours. You can export your books and reports any time, and the owner can pull a full backup of the account in one file whenever you want.
Find Out Where Your Money Is Going

Test it on a real bar first.

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