You run a bar. So why do your nights end in front of a computer?

Because you do it all, and there aren't enough hours in the day. Every week you pick what doesn't get done. We built Pour5 to give some of those hours back. Nothing changes in your register until you say yes.

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What it does

The rules are yours. Pour5 follows them.

You decide what a category should earn. You decide what a pour is. You decide which brands sit in the well. Those are yours, and they don't change often. What changes is everything underneath: a case price goes up, a product gets discontinued, a delivery arrives short.

Pour5 learns your rules from what you've already decided, then watches for what falls outside them. When something does, it shows you what has drifted and what it should be. Say yes, and it's done. We think most software stops at the report and calls that help.

You make the decisions. We do the work.

What a price change costs

Twelve cents a pour, and nobody tells you

You priced a bourbon when the bottle cost $30. The distributor raised it to $32. Nobody told you, the invoice went in a drawer, and the register still charges what it always did.

$1.77: what a 1.5 oz pour costs
12¢: less margin on every pour
$250: a year, at 40 pours a week

That is one bottle. Your back bar has dozens, each changing price on its own schedule. Pour5 catches the change when the invoice comes in, and brings you the new price to say yes to. We think the hard part was never the math.

Where the hours go

Three things you already handle. Pour5 can do the work in each.

Your stock, your deliveries and your register.

Your stock

What you have, and where it is

You know where every bottle sits. Most tools still hand you an alphabetical list to hunt through. Pour5 sets the count in the order your bottles actually sit, so shrinkage, overpours and short deliveries show up without you translating between two orders. A count becomes a check rather than a survey. We think the list was the wrong shape to begin with.
Your deliveries

What came in, and what it cost

The invoice comes in with the case. Take a photo, and Pour5 records what came in and what each bottle cost. If something needs to go back to the supplier, it reminds you. Your margins become facts instead of estimates, and a price rise gets caught the day it happens, not at the next menu reprint.
Your register

What you sell, what it is called, and what it should cost

Your menu already has your names, your categories, the way you group things. Pour5 reads it and comes back with where it has drifted from what you intended: a price that slipped below its margin, a cost that's missing, the same item listed twice. Everything it shows you afterwards comes back in your shape, not ours.

The connection runs both ways. Say yes to a new price, and it changes on the register, where your customers see it. For whatever you've handed over, the retyping is gone.

Where to start, and how they work together →

Before and after

One Sunday, with and without it

Before

A distributor price sheet arrives in your inbox. You sit down with a spreadsheet to work out what the new cost does to every pour, every recipe, every price on the menu. Then you retype the new prices into the POS by hand, one at a time, hoping you don't miss one. There goes your Sunday.

After

The new cost arrives. Pour5 works out which pours have drifted off your target margin and what each one should now be, and hands you the list. You read it, you say yes, and the register is updated. Sunday is yours again.

Where it doesn't reach

You still count. Pour5 tells you what should be on the shelf, but it doesn't walk the room for you. Every count still starts with someone physically checking a bottle, because that's the only way to catch what actually went missing versus what the numbers say should be there.

What Pour5 changes is what that count costs you: a quick confirmation against what the system already expects, not an inventory built from nothing. It makes the count faster. It doesn't make it disappear.

Who it's for

Built for: Independent bar owners running one to five locations. The person who buys it is the person who uses it, on the floor.
Register: Square. Toast and Clover are designed for but not built. A bar running one is what moves it up the list.
Status: Private beta. Places are filled by conversation, not sign-up. What that means →

Pour your time where you choose.

Start with what the beta asks of your bar. If it fits, tell us about it.

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