Shot-level shrinkage detection, daily staff accountability, supplier price tracking, and complete stock intelligence — all in one platform built specifically for SA bars and restaurants.
Available on iOS & Android · No hardware required · Works with any POS system
Without the right tools, shrinkage, over-pouring, and supplier price creep are completely invisible. Money leaks out of your operation every single shift and nobody knows where it's going — until now.
Every feature was designed around the real daily workflow of South African bar owners and managers. No bloat. No features you'll never use.
BarIQ runs on any iOS or Android smartphone your staff already own. There's no hardware to install, no POS system to replace, and no technical setup required.
Add your bar locations — Main Bar, VIP Bar, Storeroom — and select your products from our pre-loaded South African brand database. Klipdrift, Jameson, Absolut, Bombay Sapphire and 40+ more brands are already there with their bottle weights. Set your PAR levels per product per location, and add your staff with their Login IDs and PINs. Most venues are fully set up in under 30 minutes.
Add your drink recipes — a Brandy Special is 4 shots Klipdrift and 2 small Cokes. Map your POS sale codes to each recipe once. After that, every time "BNDY SPC" appears in your POS export, BarIQ knows exactly which ingredients were consumed and in what quantity. This is what makes shot-level shrinkage reconciliation possible.
Each morning, staff open BarIQ, answer two quick pre-shift questions — any breakages? any stock brought forward? — then weigh each open spirit bottle and count beer and cider units per location. Upload last night's POS CSV export. BarIQ reconciles everything automatically and shows you the result: what was poured, what was sold, and what's missing — in rand value.
Your dashboard shows how much BarIQ has saved you, what went missing last night, what's below PAR, and what needs ordering today. Tap into Accountability to see any day's shrinkage in full detail. Review your trends to spot patterns. Check your margins to identify pricing opportunities. The intelligence gets sharper every week as the app learns your operation.
BarIQ gets smarter the longer you use it. In the first week you get stock tracking and shrinkage detection immediately. By month two the AI is predicting your orders, flagging supplier price trends, and showing you margin patterns across your menu.
Whether you're running one venue or twenty, BarIQ scales to your operation and gives you the same shot-level intelligence.
BarIQ is an intelligence layer that sits on top of whatever you already use. You don't need to change anything about how your venue operates.
Get in touch and we'll walk you through exactly how BarIQ works — from the morning scan to the daily accountability drill-down. No commitment, no pressure.
WhatsApp James → +27 62 114 0931Available across South Africa · Response within 2 hours