How to run Bar Cop.
Step-by-step guides for every part of the app. Keep this open in a second window while you work, so you can follow along on your own screen.
run the cash audit
The Cash Audit is a weekly score on your cash health, from 0 to 100, with a breakdown across the four things that decide whether a profitable bar runs flush or tight. It reads straight off your counts, orders, schedule, and bills, so there is nothing to type.
1. Understand the four sections
Open Cash Recovery → Cash Audit. It scores four areas: Capital Efficiency, how hard the cash on your shelves works; the Cash Conversion Cycle, how many days your money stays locked from buying product to selling it, net of the days you take to pay; Liquidity and Runway, whether the thirteen weeks ahead hold and how long your cash covers you; and Payment Terms, whether you are keeping your float instead of paying early.
2. Read the cash to free
The opportunity number up top is the cash you can free right now, your dead stock plus the overstock above par. It is a one-time amount you can put back in the account, not a monthly figure, so Bar Cop shows it as exactly that.
3. Sharpen the runway
Set your opening cash balance in Cash Position and the audit reads a real runway: the week you would run thin, and what is actually safe to spend. Without it, the liquidity read still scores your tight weeks, the ones where more cash goes out than comes in.
4. Read the risk signals and work the actions
The last section flags the cross-cutting risks the four scores do not isolate: a cash crunch coming in the next thirteen weeks, a Safe to Spend gone negative, owner draws and debt outpacing what the business keeps, a reserve running thin. Each fires only when it is actually true. Below, the audit ranks what to work first by where you are weakest, and every Fix This button drops you into that Cash Fix system.
Still need a hand? Email support@barcop.com.