Bar and pub
Bar POS system
A bar runs on open tabs and shared rounds. A check sits open for two hours, grows, moves, splits four ways at the end of the night, and half of it is paid in cash. The till has to hold all of that without losing the thread, and you have to be able to see, the next morning, who was on it.
★Open checks, split payments, and a drawer you can account for.
Cash and open tabs are where the money quietly goes.
The risk in a bar is not a bad night, it is an unaccountable one: a drawer nobody owns, a tab that was closed without payment, a shift where the numbers do not reconcile and there is no way to reconstruct why.
How it works
Simple where it counts.
Open the tab and leave it open
Checks stay put across a long night, growing as rounds are added.
Split it however they ask
Split payments at the end, in cash, card or a mix, without rebuilding the check.
Close the shift with names on it
A shift gate and time clock mean the drawer, the shift and the person are linked, and the Z-report reconciles.
What’s inside
Everything this covers.
Tabs that behave like tabs
Open checks are the normal case, not an edge case: added to across the night, moved, and settled in whatever combination the table asks for.
- Open checks held across the night
- Split payments, cash and card mixed
- Cash always one tap away
Accountability on the drawer
A manager opens the shift, the drawer is owned, and the end-of-day numbers are produced by the system rather than reconstructed from memory.
- Shift gate and time clock
- Cash drawer operations recorded
- Z-reports and a sales dashboard
The morning-after question
Every bar owner has asked "who was on that drawer?" The system should already know, without anyone having to remember.
Good to know.
- Best for
- Bars, pubs, cocktail bars, taprooms
- The hard part it solves
- Long open tabs and cash accountability
- Payments
- Split across cash and card
- Shift control
- Manager-opened shifts with a time clock
Questions, answered.
Can a tab stay open for hours and still split at the end?
Yes. Open checks persist across the night and can be settled with split payments in cash, card, or a mix.
How do we know who was responsible for a drawer?
Shifts are opened by a manager and tied to a time clock, and cash drawer operations are recorded against them.
Do we get end-of-night numbers automatically?
Yes. Z-reports and a sales dashboard are produced from the shift rather than assembled by hand.
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