Take the weight of the bar off your shoulders.
Everything your bar runs on, kept in one place your whole team trusts. Your standards hold even when you’re not there.
Last shift left you
“Dead till 9, then slammed. Solid night. Jess nailed her first night on service bar. Heads up, we’re down a bartender tomorrow.”
Active condition
Walk-in fridge temp is high
Right now, your bar lives in a dozen places.
- A sticky note on the register.
- A whiteboard still showing last month’s specials.
- Three group chats, half of them muted.
- The rest of it? In your head.
So when something’s not on a note, the board, or a chat — they text you. “We’re out of house gin, what do I pour instead?” It’s 11 PM. It’s your night off.
You’re not disorganized. You’ve just never had one place to put it all.
Now it all lives in one place. No tool to babysit.
It’s the same shift work you already do. You just run your shift, and BarPulse stays current.
Create tasks with your instructions. Delegate prep with pars and recipes.
What’s 86’d, what’s broken, what the floor flagged. Live for everyone, the second it happens.
And everyone knows where to look, so the team stays on the same page without tracking you down.
Built by a bartender, not tech bros.
I’ve bartended and managed at a lot of bars, and the tools never cut it. The handover was a spreadsheet, good for one shift and useless after. The 86s were on a whiteboard nobody trusted. So I built the one place I always wanted.
Hunter · founder & working bartenderStop being the system. Start having one.
For small independent bars and the restaurants with a real cocktail program. Not a chain. Not a kitchen with a bar on the side.
Get the backbone big restaurant groups have always had, built for the bar that can’t afford one. You’ll be first in line the day I open it up. I’m bringing a few bars in early to help shape it. If that’s you, tell me about your bar below.
You’re in line.
I’ll email you when it’s ready.
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Frequently asked questions
How does shift handover work in BarPulse?+
Shift handover is the heart of BarPulse, and you shape it to how your bar runs. At the end of a shift you leave a quick note for the next crew — what’s 86’d, what’s low, what needs prepping, anything worth flagging — alongside a handover you customize to what your team should always pass on. The next shift reads it and walks in already caught up, instead of texting you at midnight.
How do I keep a digital 86 list for my bar?+
“86” is bar slang for out of stock. BarPulse gives your whole team a live 86 list: anyone can mark something out or running low the second it happens, and everyone sees it instantly. So the floor always knows what they can’t sell — no whiteboard nobody trusts, and no shouting “are we still out of the house gin?” across the bar mid-rush.
Can I use it to track prep and batching?+
Yes — that’s the prep sheet. You can add pars and recipes so your team knows when something needs prep and exactly how you want it made — and how much to make. They log batches as they go, and everyone can see what’s prepped, what’s running low, and what still needs doing before service, so you don’t open to an empty walk-in.
Can it run our opening and closing checklists?+
It can. Build your opening and closing checklists once, and the team checks off each step on their phone as they work through the shift. Afterward you can see exactly what got done and what got skipped — a lot more reliable than a printed sheet or an Excel template nobody remembers to fill out.
How is BarPulse different from bar inventory apps like BevSpot or WISK?+
Inventory apps like BevSpot, WISK, and Backbar track your stock and your numbers — counts, variance, pour cost. BarPulse does a different job: it runs the actual shift — handover, the 86 list, prep, checklists, and tasks — so the day-to-day doesn’t fall apart when you step off the floor. They own the numbers; BarPulse owns the shift. Plenty of bars run both.
| BarPulse — runs the shift | Inventory apps — track stock & cost |
|---|---|
| Handover, 86 list, prep, tasks, checklists | Stock counts, variance, pour cost |
| What needs doing + what’s going on | What’s in stock + what it costs |
Who is BarPulse for?+
It’s for the person who’s quietly become the bar’s single point of failure — usually the manager or owner everyone texts when something’s off. BarPulse puts everything a shift runs on in one place the whole team shares, so a small bar keeps running to your standard even on the nights you’re not there. It’s built for independent bars, not big chains.