Liquor inventory software that measures
Liquor is where the loss is. Most venues lose 20-30% of it, and the reason it keeps happening is that nobody can prove where it went. Scannabar measures the level in every open bottle, so the count can finally be reconciled against what you sold. Venues running it operate at 1-3% shrinkage and cut beverage cost 25-50% within weeks.
How the count works
A bar code runs along the height of the bottle. Your bartender scans it, the system reads the level, and 120 bottles are done in about 15 minutes. No tenths, no thumbs, no arguing about whether that bottle was a third or a half. This measurement method is Scannabar's own and has been in working bars since 1998.
The count runs on a rugged Zebra or Motorola handheld rather than a staff phone. That is deliberate: a purpose-built scanner survives a wet bar, holds a charge through a full count, and does not leave the building in someone's pocket.
What you see the next morning
Variance by product, by outlet and by count period. Usage that drives your ordering instead of your memory. Pour cost you can act on while the week is still live.
Because a count takes minutes rather than an evening, you can run one weekly, or spot-check your highest-value spirits daily. That frequency is the whole point. A variance you find this week still belongs to a shift that is on the schedule; a variance you find next quarter belongs to nobody.
Where your sales data comes from
Scannabar reconciles counts against what you actually rang in. Sales data comes across 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.
Built for the rooms you actually run
Hotel bars, service bars, nightclubs, restaurants, golf and country clubs, single venue or a property with several outlets. If you run more than one property, all of them sit on one system, so a regional food and beverage director reads the same variance report for every outlet instead of chasing a spreadsheet from each one.
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.
The numbers
| 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 |
The rest of your cellar
Liquor is the biggest number, but partial coverage produces partial variance. Scannabar counts wine by cellar, cooler, bin and bottle position and beer, kegs and dry goods on the same system and the same pass.
See it count your own bottles
Book 15 minutes. Bring your pour cost. We will show you the gap.
Book a 15-minute demo See how it works
Talk to a person: 1-800-939-8960. Montréal, Canada. Operating since 1998.
Guides: How to do a bar inventory count · Counting open bottle levels · Liquor monitoring system · How to manage bar inventory
