Start with whatever is annoying you now.
There is no order to follow and no setup phase to finish first. One part on its own is useful, and each one you add makes the rest sharper.
Start where it hurts
There is no first step, only the one you need most
Pour5 is three parts. Inventory knows what you have and where it is. Deliveries know what came in and what it cost. Your register connection runs both ways: reading it tells Pour5 what sold and teaches it your menu's own vocabulary, and writing back keeps what you charge matching what you actually decided.
None of them is a prerequisite for the others. Start with whatever is annoying you now, and add the next one when you want the next thing fixed.
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Bartenders say you're out of things that are sitting there
You know the stock is there. Somebody has to remember where. Put your shelf in and the answer stops living in your head.
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You don't really know what's actually selling
What sold, in what quantity, at what price. This is also where Pour5 picks up your menu's shape, which is why everything after it looks like your bar rather than like software. We think a sale should be read as what it took off the shelf.
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You don't know what a pour really costs
Deliveries give the real cost of the bottle. Your register gives the pour sizes and what you charge. Neither is much use alone. Together they turn an estimate into a number.
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Prices haven't moved in a year and costs have
Costs change when the distributor says so. Prices change when you get to them, and the gap between the two is quiet money. Closing it takes all three: what things cost now, what you currently charge, and the ability to put the correction back where customers see it. We think a cost change should find you, not wait for you to go looking.
The further down you go, the more parts it takes, and the bigger the problem it fixes. One part on its own is genuinely useful. That is the whole argument for adding the next one, and it is also why nobody has to do all three to start.
Letting it touch your register
Nothing changes unless you say so
Pour5 can rename, restructure, reprice and remove things in your register. That is the point: your menu is worth fixing, not working around. It does none of it until you tell it to, and what it proposes is shaped by the standards you set, not by an opinion of its own.
You also choose how much it handles. Hand it the gin and leave the rest alone, or hand it the whole back bar. Whatever you haven't handed over keeps working exactly the way it does today.
What each part adds
You never reconfigure anything. Each part you add takes more of the thinking off you, so what it tells you carries fewer numbers, not more. A number only shows up when you still need it to decide.
- With inventory
- It knows you are down to one bottle, and where it is. Everything after that is yours to work out.
- Add your register
- It knows what you pour, so it can tell you when you will run out. A bottle count says what you have. A day says when to order.
- Add deliveries
- It knows what the bottle costs now and what you charge, so it can tell you a pour has drifted and what the price would have to be. All that is left is yes or no.
What's in scope
Anything you pour and charge for. If it goes through your register and gets poured, opened or mixed, Pour5 manages it. Food and merchandise stay untouched.
Fixed in place
Your menu already works. It just has rough edges.
Your Square menu already works, mostly. Years of small changes leave rough edges: a duplicate item here, an inconsistent name there, a pour size that never got added. Pour5 finds those and fixes them one at a time, in the menu you have.
You pick the order and the speed. Vodka next month, or the whole menu in one evening if that's more your pace. Nothing waits on a rebuild.
Whenever you're ready
Start with the part that fixes what is bothering you. Everything after that is at your own pace. Private beta, filled by conversation.