Cut bar inventory shrinkage from 25% to 1-3%
Scannabar measures what is actually left in every bottle, so a bartender can count 120 bottles in about 15 minutes and you can see your real beverage cost the same night. Properties running Scannabar cut beverage costs 25-50% within weeks.
Book a 15-minute demo See how it works
15 minutes, screen share, no install. A guided walkthrough of the software, and straight answers on what it costs.
| 1-3% | shrinkage after Scannabar, down from 20-30% |
| 25-50% | lower beverage cost, within weeks |
| 120 bottles / 15 min | a full count, by one person |
| Since 1998 | 28 years in hotels, bars and clubs |
Your pour cost is wrong, and the count is why
Most venues lose 20-30% of their liquor to over-pouring, spillage, comps that never got rung in, and theft. The reason it keeps happening is that the count cannot prove it. Eyeballed bottle levels are guesses, and a guess cannot be reconciled against sales. Scannabar removes the guess. Each bottle carries a bar code along its height, so the system reads the level instead of estimating it. Once the count is accurate, the loss has nowhere to hide, and it comes down to 1-3%.
Shrinkage cut to 1-3% from a typical 20-30%, against an industry average near 25%.
A full bar counted in about 15 minutes
Counting used to be the reason inventory happened once a quarter. One person scans 120 bottles in roughly 15 minutes with Scannabar, which means a weekly count is realistic and a daily spot count on your highest-value spirits is not a fantasy. Frequency is what turns inventory from a compliance chore into a management tool. You catch a variance while the shift that caused it is still on the schedule.
120 bottles in approximately 15 minutes, one operator.
Twenty-eight years of this, hosted the way you want it
Scannabar has been measuring beverage inventory since 1998, and the measurement method is our own rather than a workaround built on top of someone else's app. It runs in hotel bars, restaurants, nightclubs, and golf and country clubs, in single venues and in properties with several outlets. It is hosted inside your own dedicated cloud environment if you have an IT department and a data policy, or on our server if you would rather not run anything. Nobody in this category has been doing it longer.
Bar-code-on-bottle measurement, developed inside working bars since 1998. Cloud-hosted, in your environment or ours.
One system, every property
If you run several properties, Scannabar hosts all of them on a single system, so a regional food and beverage director sees the same variance report for every outlet instead of chasing a separate spreadsheet from each one. That is the difference between managing a group and managing a list of venues.
In their own words
Every quote below is from a named Scannabar customer and is published in full, unedited, on our reviews page. The figures are the operators' own, measured on their own sites.
“Scannabar is the best Liquor Control and Inventory System that I have seen in 37 years in the Night Club business. I have saved over $15,000 a month since installing the Scannabar System. Every establishment that is dispensing liquor should be using the Scannabar System.”
— Jan Harrold, Owner, The Club at Firestone, Orlando, FL
“Scannabar has helped us stop major fluctuations in beverage cost almost immediately, as we were able to identify very easily the errors made in the life cycle of the bottles during each period. Scannabar also enhances the perception of control.”
— Murari Nambiar, Comptroller, Sailfish Club of Florida, Palm Beach, FL
“My staff found the Scannabar system very easy to use and the reports are very clear and easy to understand. Some of the other benefits which I am enjoying include a marked reduction in liquor purchases…. My cash flow from liquor sales has increased significantly.”
— Silvano Paletta, Manager, Day's Inn, Winnipeg, Manitoba
“We could not run our business without the visibility and security Scannabar delivers. It is the most comprehensive and accurate system on the market. The service and support of this product is first rate as well.”
— Tom Burchett, Chief Financial Officer, Clevelander Hotel & Bar, Miami Beach, FL
Straight answers before you book anything
"We already run a POS. Does this connect?"
Yes. Sales data comes into Scannabar by CSV, by XML, or through a direct API connection built to your POS vendor's published specification. Some configurations involve custom programming, and we will tell you which category yours falls into on the call rather than afterwards.
"Do my staff have to learn software?"
They have to learn to scan a bottle. The count takes about 15 minutes for 120 bottles, and the reporting sits with your managers, not your bartenders.
"Is this hardware from the 1990s?"
The measurement method dates to 1998, which is the point: it has been refined against real bar inventory for 28 years. Scannabar runs on a rugged Zebra or Motorola handheld scanner rather than a staff phone, which is deliberate. A purpose-built scanner survives a wet bar, holds a charge through a full count and does not walk out of the building in someone's pocket. We will show you exactly what your staff will hold during the demo.
"What if it does not work in our venue?"
Tell us your outlet count and your current pour cost on the call. If the math does not clear your cost in the first year, we will say so.
See your own numbers in 15 minutes
Bring one month of beverage purchases and your current pour cost. We will show you where the 20-30% typically hides, and what your venue looks like at 1-3%.
Montréal, Canada. Operating since 1998. Talk to a person: 1-800-939-8960.
