A spot check is a fast theft-and-overpour check on a few high-risk bar products for one shift. You count a product before and after the shift, tell Bar Cop what the register rang, and it shows whether what left the bar matches what was sold. It does not touch your inventory counts; it only borrows the product list.

1. Pick the bar and its register

Open Inventory → Spot Check. A spot check is scoped to one service bar and its register. Pick the bar from the dropdown, the service bars you marked in Set Locations, and the product picker narrows to that bar's liquor, wine, bottle beer, and draft. The POS sales you enter must be that one register's, not the whole venue, because that single-register scope is the only way the bottles that left can be matched to what was rung.

No bar in the dropdown? Mark it as a service bar with the checkbox on Set Locations first.

2. Pick your targets

You do not check everything. Pick the bottles most likely to walk or get overpoured, usually your top shelf and your fast movers.

3. Count before and after

Set the pre-shift count when the shift starts and the post-shift count when it ends. Liquor and wine use the fill slider, bottle beer is cases plus loose, and draft uses the keg slider. Your check auto-saves to this device, so take the pre-counts at open and come back to finish at close. If you brought more up from storage mid-shift, enter it under Restocked so the used number stays honest.

4. Enter the register sales and read the result

Enter what the register rang for each product, or drop that register's POS sales report and Bar Cop fills it in by matching names. It then works out what physically left the bottle and compares it to what was rung. Anything off by more than your Flag at % setting flags red. Over means more left the bar than was sold, the classic sign of overpouring, give-aways, or theft. Under means short pours that skimp the guest.

5. Investigate what flags

Saved checks land in Spot Check History, where View opens the full breakdown. Hit Review on a flagged product and the investigation opens right here, working the same record Loss Prevention reads. Spot checks also feed Loss Prevention and the Bar Cop Audit.