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FOR BARS

Faster service.
Less waste.
Honest tabs.

POS, inventory, table plan, payroll: for the room that fills up between 10 PM and 2 AM.

18 · Bars Tab managementReal-time stockPour cost tracked

Pressure points

Where the day gets hard.

These are the moments operators mention first. Kotao is built around them, not around a feature list.

01

PEAK

Friday at midnight.

Tabs that hold dozens of items. Round-with-friends splits. POS that doesn't lag.

02

INVENTORY

Bottles vanish. Track them.

Pour cost tracked per drink, per bartender. Variance reports the next morning.

Operating day

Bars need more than checkout.

Kotao covers the work before, during, and after the operating day. Teams do not have to decide which disconnected tool has the truth right now.

01

Before opening

Reservations, orders, stock, staffing, and website content are ready before the team walks into the day.

02

During service

POS, bookings, payments, messages, and team workflows write live into the same workspace.

03

After close

Revenue, payouts, stock movements, guest profiles, and team hours are already ready for reporting and follow-up.

One record through the day

  1. Service
  2. Booking
  3. Inventory
  4. Payment
  5. Team
  6. Reporting

Implementation

Not all at once. All expandable.

A good rollout follows operational pressure. First the workflow blocking the team today, then the adjacent apps, then automation and reporting.

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  1. 01

    Define the first location or highest-pressure workflow.

  2. 02

    Import products, customer data, roles, and existing bookings.

  3. 03

    Connect payments, website, messages, and reporting.

  4. 04

    Turn on more locations, apps, and automations in the rhythm of the business.

BUILT FOR

Adjacent industries

Same platform, different shop floor.

Run the till. Run the books. Run the team.

POS, bookings, payments, inventory, payroll, website, reporting. One product. One bill. No plugin chain to maintain.