A bar POS that keeps up with a Friday night
Open tabs, quick-pour buttons, keg depletion and a clean cash-up at 3am. SaleSprint runs the bar the way bartenders actually work — fast at the rail, honest at the till.
What generic POS software gets wrong here
- ✕A retail POS wants every sale closed on the spot. A bar runs on tabs that stay open for three hours, change hands between bartenders, and get split five ways at close — and if the system cannot hold that state, your staff hold it on paper.
- ✕Drinks are poured, not scanned. If stock only moves in whole bottles, a keg that should give 120 pints and gave 96 looks perfectly fine on the report, and nobody ever finds the 24 missing pints.
- ✕Happy hour, ladies night and a bottle-service list are three different price books on the same products. Systems that only support one price per item force bartenders to key manual discounts — which is exactly where the money leaks.
- ✕At cash-up nobody can prove which bartender was on which till for which shift, so a short drawer becomes an argument instead of a number.
Built for the way you actually operate
Every one of these is a real screen in SaleSprint — not a request form or a “coming soon” tile.
Open Tabs & Pre-Authorisation
Start a tab by name, card or table, keep adding rounds all night, and hand it to the next bartender at shift change. Close it in full, split it across the group, or move it to another tab.
Keg & Bottle Depletion
Track beverage stock by the serve, not the case. A keg is a batch that yields a known number of pours, so variance between expected and actual depletion shows up as a number you can act on.
Quick-Pour Buttons
Your twenty fastest-moving drinks sit on the first screen as one-tap buttons. New bartenders ring a round of beers, shots and mixers without ever searching a product list.
Happy-Hour Price Rules
Set time-boxed pricing that applies itself. Between 5 and 8, the rail price is the rail price for everyone — no bartender keying a manual discount and no manager approving it one drink at a time.
Shift Cash-Up & Till Sessions
Every bartender opens a till session with a declared float and closes it with a counted drawer. The variance is recorded against a person and a shift, and it posts straight to the ledger.
Void & Comp Control
Voids, comps and staff drinks need a manager PIN and leave an audit record with who, what and why. The nightly comp report is the one report most bars never had.
How a day runs
Open the bar
Each bartender opens a till session with a counted float. Kegs tapped and bottles brought up from the store are issued to the bar as a stock transfer.
Run the service
Rounds go on tabs or close instantly. Happy-hour rules price themselves. Quick-pour buttons keep the rail moving while the floor fills.
Settle tabs
Split by item or evenly, take cash, card and mobile money on the same tab, and print or send the receipt. Unsettled tabs stay visible on the close-out screen.
Cash up and reconcile
Count each drawer, close the sessions, review voids and comps, and compare poured stock against depletion before you lock the doors.
Everything included
Typical fit
The keg variance report paid for the system in the first month. We were losing about a keg a week and nobody could see it.
Questions we get
Can a tab move between bartenders at shift change?
Yes. Tabs belong to the bar, not to the person who opened them. At shift change the outgoing bartender closes their till session and the open tabs stay on the floor for whoever is on next. Each line still records who rang it, so accountability survives the handover.
What happens when the internet drops mid-service?
You keep selling. SaleSprint is offline-first: sales, tabs and payments are written locally and queued, then synced automatically when the connection returns. This is a design decision for West African networks, not an emergency mode.
How do you track pours if we do not have smart taps?
By expected yield. You define how many serves a keg or bottle is expected to give, issue it to the bar as stock, and SaleSprint compares sold serves against issued stock. It will not measure a heavy pour in real time, but it will tell you which nights and which staff run consistently short.
How long does it take to train bartenders?
Most bars are ringing drinks within an hour. The quick-pour layout means new staff rarely need to search for a product, and permissions stop them from doing anything they should not — so you can put someone on a till on their first night.
Can we run one bar now and add the club later?
Yes. Locations are added at any time and share one product and price master. Consolidated takings, stock and staff reporting come with the multi-location setup, so the second site is a configuration change, not a new system.
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Start a free trial, or let us walk you through the bar tabs setup on a 30-minute call.