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How to run Bar Cop.

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Run Shift Checklists

Checklists make the opening and closing routine the same every shift, no matter who is running the floor. You build the lists once, then a manager runs them each shift and the run is saved as your record that it got done.

Build Your Checklists

Build Checklists is where you create every checklist Bar Cop uses. There are two kinds: Manager Opening and Manager Closing lists that a manager checks off and saves, and Staff Print Only lists for the floor that print blank for a clipboard and never run in the app.

1. Build a checklist

Open Shift → Build Checklists. Name it, pick Manager Opening, Manager Closing, or Staff Print Only, and add your steps. For a manager checklist you can load the built-in default to start from, then add, remove, or drag the handle to reorder. The order here is the order it runs or prints in. Save Checklist to keep it.

2. Know the two kinds

Saved Manager Opening and Closing checklists show up in the picker on Run Checklists, where they are checked off and saved as a record; with none built, Run Checklists falls back to a built-in default. Staff Print Only checklists, named however you want like Bar Close or Kitchen Open, print a clean sheet with empty checkboxes and blank Date and Completed By lines. They do not run in the app; the signed paper in your binder is the record.

Run the Checklist

1. Run it each shift

Open Shift → Run Checklists. Flip between Opening and Closing up top (it starts on the one that fits the time of day), check the items off as you go, pick the manager who completed it, and Save. The save is your record that the checklist got run. Your progress is kept if you step away and come back; Start Over clears it and begins fresh. Tap Worksheet to print the list blank for a clipboard at the bar.

2. Review past runs

Every saved checklist drops into the list below, filtered to the type you are on. Narrow the range with the chips, then tap a row or View to open one run and see exactly which items got checked and which manager completed it. Export PDF on that detail prints it for the binder, and Delete pulls a run off the record if it was logged by mistake.

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