Labor Control

Schedule to your sales. Control every labor dollar.

Build the schedule off your forecast, log hours and tips, catch overtime before it hits the check, and hand payroll a clean export. The labor system built for how a bar and restaurant actually runs.

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Build Schedule

Schedule to your sales, not a guess.

Bar Cop Build Schedule

Bar Cop builds the week off your sales forecast and shows the labor cost and labor percent as you drop shifts in. It flags anyone headed past 40 hours before you post, so you fix the overtime on paper instead of on the check. Copy last week, adjust for the events you booked, and send it.

Log Hours

Get the hours in, however you run.

Bar Cop Log Hours

Import the timeclock export from your POS or key the hours in by hand. Bar Cop splits them by position and daypart, carries the right wage, and rolls it straight into your labor cost and the pay period. Salaried managers log at zero hours and still count in the totals.

Tip Tracking

Run tips clean, day by day.

Bar Cop Tip Tracking

Drop your tip file or Log tips per day, split the pool, and set the tip-out by position on one screen. Bar Cop keeps the tip credit and net tips straight for payroll and your 8027, so tip night stops being a shoebox of math at the end of the shift.

Overtime Watch

Catch overtime before it costs you.

Bar Cop Overtime Watch

See every person approaching 40 hours for the week, with the projected premium in dollars if nothing changes. Move a shift, cut someone early, or split the coverage. This is the screen that pays for itself the first busy week.

Pay Periods

Hand payroll a clean number.

Bar Cop Pay Periods

Close the pay period and Bar Cop totals regular and overtime hours, tips, and the tip credit by employee, ready to hand off or export. It is not payroll software and never touches a bank account. It just makes sure the numbers you send are right.

Staff Roster

Your whole crew in one place.

Bar Cop Staff Roster

Keep every employee with their positions, wage, and certifications, and Bar Cop warns you when a card like a food handler or alcohol cert is expiring. Set who is a shift lead and who trains on what, then staff the schedule from a roster that is actually current.

Week in Review

Your whole labor week, in one read.

Bar Cop Labor Week in Review

Every shift's hours, tips, call-outs, and time-off, the close steps you finished, and what the week turned up: labor cost, labor percent, revenue per labor hour, and any overtime. The whole labor week on one page, so nothing slips between closes.

Everything In Labor

One section. The whole crew.

From the weekly close to payroll, every labor tool in one place.

Labor
How does labor work in Bar Cop?
Bar Cop runs your whole labor week in one place. You build the schedule off your sales forecast, import or key the hours, log tips and the pool, and close the pay period with clean totals. It watches overtime and expiring certs the whole way, and every hour rolls into your labor cost and labor percent.
Does Bar Cop calculate labor cost and percent?
Yes. As you drop shifts in and log hours, Bar Cop runs your labor cost and your labor percent against sales, hourly and salaried together, so you always know where the number sits before payroll, not after.
Is Bar Cop payroll software?
No, and it never touches a bank account or a tax filing. Bar Cop gets your hours, tips, and tip credit right and hands payroll a clean number to run, so the checks are correct without Bar Cop being the one that cuts them.
How does Bar Cop handle overtime?
Overtime Watch shows everyone approaching 40 hours for the week with the premium in dollars if nothing changes, and Build Schedule flags a person past 40 before you post. You fix it on paper by moving a shift or splitting coverage instead of eating the premium after the fact.
Schedule
How do hours and tips reach the close?
Close The Week is one page for the whole week, and labor fills two of its rows. Log Hours feeds the Hours row and Tip Tracking feeds Tips. Each row says what has landed and what is still missing, so a week never gets confirmed on half a payroll.
What is Build Schedule?
Build Schedule builds the week off your sales forecast and shows your labor cost and labor percent as you drop shifts in. It flags anyone headed past 40 hours before you post and warns you if you schedule someone who asked for the day off. Copy last week and adjust for the events you booked.
What is Schedule History?
Schedule History saves every posted week, so you can pull up what you ran on a given week, copy a strong week forward, and see how your staffing has moved over time.
What is Overtime Watch?
Overtime Watch shows every person approaching 40 hours for the week with the projected premium in dollars if nothing changes, so you can move a shift or cut someone early before the overtime lands on the check.
What is the Time Off Log?
The Time Off Log holds requests and approvals, so a day someone asked off shows up on the schedule as Off and Build Schedule warns you before you accidentally put them back on it.
What is the Call-Out Log?
The Call-Out Log records no-shows and uncovered shifts, and flags the staff with repeat call-outs, so a reliability pattern shows up as a number instead of a feeling.
Hours & Tips
What is Log Hours?
Log Hours takes your week's hours by importing the timeclock export from your POS or keying them by hand. Bar Cop splits them by position and daypart, carries the right wage, and rolls them into your labor cost and the pay period.
What is Labor History?
Labor History keeps your hours and labor cost week over week, so you can see the trend, compare a slow week to a busy one, and catch a week where labor ran heavy.
What is Tip Tracking?
Tip Tracking logs tips per day, splits the pool, and sets the tip-out by position on one screen. Bar Cop keeps the tip credit and net tips straight for payroll and your 8027, so tip night stops being a shoebox of math.
What is Tip History?
Tip History saves every tip night, so you have the record for payroll, the tip credit, and your 8027 without digging through old shifts.
Payroll
What are Pay Periods?
Pay Periods closes the period and totals regular and overtime hours, tips, and the tip credit by employee, ready to hand off. It is not payroll software, it just makes sure the numbers you send are right.
What is Payroll Export?
Payroll Export turns a closed pay period into a clean file you hand to your payroll company or processor, so nobody is retyping hours and tips off a printout.
Setup
What is Add Positions?
Add Positions sets your roles with their wage and tip-out rules, so every hour you log carries the right pay and every tip-out comes off the right base automatically.
What is the Staff Roster?
Staff Roster keeps every employee with their positions, wage, and certifications, warns you when a card like a food handler or alcohol cert is expiring, and marks who is a shift lead, so you staff from a roster that is actually current.
What is Training?
Training tracks who trains on what, so when you build the schedule you know who can actually cover a station and who is still learning it.
Run Your Labor

Test it on a real bar first.

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