Craftable Alternative

Craftable, once Bevager, is an inventory and AP-automation platform for restaurant groups. Bar Cop counts and costs just as fully, then can run your whole back office too if you need it.

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Side By Side

What each one actually covers.

	Craftable	Bar Cop
Food and beverage inventory	Yes	Yes
How you count	Manual count	Fill sliders, no scale
Recipe and pour cost	Yes	Yes
Purchasing, receiving, ordering	Yes	Yes
AP automation, invoice matching	Yes	Import or key
Labor, scheduling, tips, overtime	Cost visibility only	Full
Shift cash, over and short, voids, comps	—	Yes
Weekly close: sales, labor and cost of goods together	—	Yes
Audits that score you and price what they find	—	Four, on demand
13-week cash flow forecast	—	Yes
Events and catering	—	Yes
Weekly and month-end books, P&L	Syncs to your accounting	Full books
Where it runs	Web and mobile app	Any browser, nothing to install
Works with your POS	100+ integrations, wired in	Any POS, drop the export
Built for	Groups with an AP team	The whole independent back office

Craftable's plans and features change over time. This compares the two on what each is built to do, based on Craftable's publicly listed information. Check their site for their current details.

The Real Comparison

Built for an AP team.

Craftable, once Bevager, is a capable platform, and it has moved upmarket. Under the inventory and pour-cost counting sits its real pitch: accounts-payable automation, three-way matching that lines up each invoice against its purchase order and what actually showed up at the door, distributor EDI, approval routing. Their own line is that your accounting team catches errors instead of entering data. Read that again, it presumes an accounting team. Craftable is built for a group that runs one, on negotiated per-location pricing with implementation and tiered modules to match.

Bar Cop is built for the operator who does not have an AP department, because the operator is it. You count and cost the same way, match your own invoices without a matching engine to configure, then run everything Craftable leaves on the table: labor, tips, and overtime, shift cash, audits that price what they find, events, and the weekly and month-end books. One price a month, nothing to negotiate, nothing to implement. Craftable automates your back office. Bar Cop is your back office.

Count One Yourself

Run it without a team.

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Straight Answers

Bar Cop vs Craftable questions.

What operators ask when they are deciding between the two.

What is AP automation for?

Matching an invoice against the purchase order and what was actually received, then routing it for approval. It is real work and it saves real money, in an operation that has someone doing that work today.

Do I need an AP team for Craftable?

Its strongest layer assumes one. The pitch is that your accounting team catches errors instead of entering data, which lands differently when the accounting team is you at the bar after close.

Does Craftable do labor?

It gives you labor cost visibility. It does not build the schedule, run tips and tip-outs, or flag overtime while you are assigning shifts, which is where labor cost is actually decided.

Does Craftable do my books?

It syncs to your accounting system rather than being your books. Bar Cop closes the week and produces the P&L in one place, so nothing waits on a second system to tell you what the month did.

Does Craftable do shift cash?

No. Over and short, voids, comps, walked tabs and no-sale opens are outside it. That is the money that never touches an invoice, and it is the money that walks out the door first.

Which one fits an owner-run bar?

Bar Cop. Craftable is built around an AP department and priced per location by negotiation with an implementation behind it. Bar Cop is one monthly price for the operator who does all of it themselves.

Is Bar Cop as good as Craftable at inventory itself?

Judge it on that alone. Bar Cop counts a bar as a complete program and not a lite version: fill sliders, par levels, order sheets, deliveries, usage, variance, vendor price changes and waste, with the reports included rather than sold as a tier.

Can I move off Craftable without losing my history?

Your product list comes across as a file: export it and drop it in rather than typing hundreds of lines. Counts start fresh, because your first count in Bar Cop is the baseline everything after it is measured against.

Can I run my own audits in Craftable?

No. Bar Cop has four you can run whenever you want, and each one tells you before it runs whether it has limited, partial or full data to work with, then scores what it can rather than making you wait.

Bar Cop or Craftable for one independent bar?

Bar Cop, because one bar is exactly who it is built for. No per-seat charge for your managers, no tier that unlocks the reports, and no part of it aimed at a group with a back-office team you do not have.