Pour, ring up and move on — with every bottle, tab and note in the drawer accounted for when the lights come on.
SageBizet is a free, browser-based bar POS that rings up rounds quickly, keeps open orders and customer tabs, tracks bottle stock with a recorded reason for every change, and balances the cash drawer at close.
At peak, bartenders take orders shouted across the bar and add them up in their heads. A slow till means fewer rounds served and more mistakes in the change.
Free pours, breakages, staff drinks and the odd missing bottle add up. Without regular counts and a reason for each change, the difference between what was bought and what was sold is a mystery.
An open tab on a scrap of paper is easy to lose, and the group that leaves without settling is gone for good.
With more than one bartender on a shift, voids, discounts and cash all go through the same till, and when the drawer is short nobody knows why.
16:00
Count the fridges and the spirits shelf and enter the counts as recounts; any difference is recorded against the item. Log the afternoon delivery as a purchase.
17:00
Open a cash drawer session with the float. From here SageBizet keeps a running expected-cash figure.
18:30
Tap the drinks, take cash with quick-cash buttons and read the change off the screen. A group that wants to keep going gets a held order that stays open on the till for the rest of the evening.
21:30
Bartenders on the Staff role can sell but cannot void a sale; a manager does that. Every discount is recorded against the bartender who gave it, and a big sale triggers a notification for the owner.
00:30
Resume each held order and charge it. A trusted regular who settles at the end of the month goes On tab to their customer record instead.
01:00
Count the drawer and the over or short is saved. Breakages go in as damage. In the morning, Insights shows sales, voids and discounts per staff member.
Touch-sized buttons, quick cash and automatic change keep rounds moving, and held orders work as open tabs for the night.
Bottles, cans and kegs are tracked as items; every recount, breakage or waste entry is kept with its reason, so shrinkage can be traced.
Expected cash is calculated from the float and cash sales, and each close records the difference, with a notification when a drawer does not balance.
Decide exactly who can void a sale, adjust stock or open and close the drawer, from 29 permissions.
Regulars who settle weekly or monthly get a proper running balance instead of a name on the back of a beer mat.
Staff performance shows sales, voids and discounts per bartender, and the weekday-by-hour heatmap shows which nights need an extra pair of hands.
Bars use the word tab for two different things, and SageBizet handles both. A tab for tonight is a held order: it stays open on the till and is charged when the group leaves. A tab that runs for weeks is a customer tab: the sale is charged to a named customer and their balance carries over until they pay.
| Situation | What to use | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| A group running a tab for the evening | Held order | The order stays open on that till; add rounds and charge it at the end |
| A regular who settles monthly | On tab payment | The sale is added to their running balance and shown in the total owed |
| A dropped bottle | Stock adjustment: damage | Stock goes down and the reason is kept in the item’s history |
| Spillage or a line clean | Stock adjustment: waste | Recorded separately from sales, so waste is visible |
| Weekly bottle count | Stock adjustment: recount | The difference between expected and counted stock is recorded |
| Happy hour | An order discount, or happy-hour items with their own price | The discount is recorded against the sale and the staff member |
Free during early access: POS, inventory, booking, an online store and reports included. No credit card, no per-user fees, set up in minutes in your browser.