Pourmetrics SpotCheck turns a phone (and a €20 scale) into a complete stock spot-check tool for bars, hotels, and small chains. Spirits on the scale, cans and bottles by the count — every drink behind the bar in minutes, not at month-end.
14 days, full features, no card required.
Most venues only find out at monthly stocktake, long after the money's gone. By the time the numbers tell a story, the shift, the staffer, and the pattern are all ancient history. Spot-checks are the fix — but doing them manually is slow, inconsistent, and nobody does them often enough.
Monthly stocktake tells you the money's gone — three weeks after the shift that lost it. A 5-minute daily check tells you which shift, which SKU, and (usually) why, while the staff who worked it are still on the rota.
Your fastest-moving spirits and best-selling SKUs get checked every shift. That's where the money is, and where small slips compound fastest.
You can't weigh every SKU every day. SpotCheck doesn't ask you to — pick a few each shift, rotate through the catalog over a week. Every bottle gets eyes on it within the month.
When variance spikes on a Friday, you know it was Friday — not "sometime this month". Most of the time, asking the staff who worked the shift tightens the next one.
Point the phone at the barcode. Known SKUs jump straight to the weigh step; unknown ones get added to the global catalog once.
Spirits and partials go on a €20 Bluetooth scale — captured the moment the reading settles. Cans, mixers, and sealed beer bottles get counted by the unit. One tap per SKU, either way.
Compare actual stock against expected (opening + transfers − POS sales). Red bars show shrinkage in shots and euros, per SKU.
This is what a closing-shift spot check actually looks like — phone in one hand, bottle on a €20 Bluetooth scale, weight captured the moment the reading settles. No paper, no spreadsheet, no manager-only mystery process.
Bar staff pick up the flow on their first shift with the app. The mobile UI is built around what bartenders actually do — barcode, scale, save, next — so the check fits in the rhythm of close-down instead of fighting it.
Scan a bottle at any venue — if it's been seen before, it's already in the catalog with weights and density. Your team never re-enters Smirnoff.
Spirits and wines on any BLE kitchen scale — paired automatically, captured on stability. Cans, mixers, and sealed beer counted by the unit. One flow per SKU type, neither slows the other down.
Opening stock + transfers − POS sales = expected. We compute the delta against what you actually counted, sorted by worst shrinkage first.
Upload your daily POS sales CSV from the dashboard — no brittle API integration required. Works with any POS that can export a CSV (Square, Lightspeed, EposNow, and more).
Managers see variance numbers; bar staff don't by default (configurable). Multi-venue operators see every venue from one dashboard.
Invite staff by email — they sign in on mobile with the barcode-scan + scale flow. No dev tools, no manual setup per person.
SpotCheck is designed for the person who signs the invoices and watches the margins — independent pub owners, hotel F&B managers, and small chains with 2–10 venues.
If your stocktake is a monthly ritual of guesswork and a spreadsheet, this is the tool that turns it into a daily 10-minute check with numbers you can act on the same shift.
Sign up on the web first to set up your venue, then install the mobile app to run spot checks at the bar.
14-day free trial on any self-serve plan. No card required to try.
For a single-bar pub.
For a multi-bar hotel or gastropub.
For small hotel groups.
For chains of 4+ properties.
Subscription is software only. The Bluetooth kitchen scale is bought separately (about €20). We've tested with the Accuweight CK780 on Amazon, but SpotCheck works with any BLE kitchen scale.
Sign up, invite your staff, scan a few bottles. If you don't catch at least one shrinkage pattern in the first week, we'd be surprised.
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