User guide

About Barkeep v4.2
Barkeep is a liquor inventory tracking system designed exclusively for the Apple iPhone, iPod Touch and
iPad.
Barkeep allows you to track your liquor inventory and usage, determine your Pour Cost, manage Suppliers
and liquor orders, and track and analyze sales.
To run a successful bar or nightclub, it is extremely important to understand and manage your Pour Cost.
Barkeep helps you understand and track how well your bar is performing by determining exactly how much
liquor your bar SHOULD have used based on sales, and comparing that with how much liquor your bar
ACTUALLY used. This comparison between Expected Usage and Actual Usage is the key piece of information
that will allow you to
• Identify problem areas
• Set concrete metrics for your staff and managers
• Track progress
• Reduce costs by eliminating over-pouring
• Increase sales by reducing undercharging
• Improving staff training by identifying errors and correcting them
The primary goal of Barkeep is to make your business more successful. However, at Barkeep we have a
secondary goal that is almost as important to us – that our product should be fun and easy to use. There’s
no reason that inventory has to be a slow and painful process – so we work hard to make the process as fast,
easy, and accurate as possible. Our product adheres to the Apple iPhone Human Interface Guidelines so that
new users can feel immediately comfortable interacting with a familiar iPhone interface.