- ✓Separate liquor (VAT) and food (GST) bills from the same order — each with its own number series
- ✓Serving hours, last call and dry days built in; age confirmation on the QR menu
- ✓Excise register, pour cost and brewery kegs & taps — no side spreadsheets
Challenges for Bars, Breweries & Pubs
One bill can’t carry two taxes
Liquor is taxed with VAT as per your state and food with GST — a single combined bill gets the tax wrong and makes the books hard to reconcile.
Tabs get messy
Running tabs on memory or paper lead to disputes, missed rounds and slow settle-ups at close.
Hours and dry days
Staff have to remember when the bar stops serving and which days are dry — one slip is a compliance problem.
Shrinkage and blind spots
Without pour-level numbers and a clean excise register, it’s hard to see what’s pouring out without ringing up.
Built for the bar
Separate liquor & food bills
One table order prints a liquor bill with VAT as per your state and a GST food bill — each with its own number series.
Diner & GourmetLicence & TIN on the bill
Your bar licence number and VAT TIN print on the liquor bill.
Diner & GourmetServing hours, last call & dry days
Liquor ordering follows your serving hours, with a last-call warning and the dry days you mark in advance.
Diner & GourmetQR age confirmation
Guests confirm they are of legal drinking age before ordering liquor from the QR menu.
Diner & GourmetAutomatic BOT
Drinks print as a Bar Order Ticket at the bar while food goes to the kitchen as a KOT — from the same order, even on one printer.
Diner & GourmetHappy hours
Percentage off, a fixed offer price or buy-N-get-M, for the hours you choose — applied automatically when the order is taken.
Diner & GourmetTabs, split & merge
Open a tab per guest or table, split the bill (equally includes liquor VAT), and merge or join tables when groups move.
Diner & GourmetWhatsApp e-bills
Send the paid bill as a PDF on WhatsApp from your own business number.
Diner & GourmetTips, service & cover charge
Record tips separately from revenue and add a service charge or cover charge where you use them.
Diner & GourmetExcise register
A ready excise register built from your sales, alongside VAT liability and liquor-vs-food reports.
GourmetPour cost
Cost per pour against what you sell it for, so shrinkage and over-pouring stand out.
GourmetBrewery batches, kegs & taps
Track each brewed batch into kegs and see what’s on tap — for brewpubs and microbreweries.
GourmetBar dashboard
Liquor and food sales, VAT and pour cost for the night at a glance.
GourmetRooftop bar + restaurant
Run the bar and the restaurant as separate outlets, each with its own tables, menu and prices.
Gourmet
How BistroBot helps Bars, Breweries & Pubs
Steward App
→Take rounds beside the table on any phone — drinks fire to the bar as a BOT.
Billing & GST
→Separate liquor (VAT) and food (GST) bills, tabs and split bills at close.
Reservations & Waitlist
→Take bookings for big nights and run the door with a live waitlist (Gourmet).
Desktop App & Offline Hub
→Keep billing and printing through late-night connectivity drops.
Accounting — Tally
→Post VAT and GST sales to the right ledgers in Tally, Zoho Books or QuickBooks (Pro, or a Gourmet add-on).
Analytics & Reports
→Excise register, pour cost, VAT liability and hourly sales (Gourmet).
VAT rates and bill formats follow the taxes you set up for your state. BistroBot doesn’t replace your licence or excise filings.
Frequently asked
Do bars get separate VAT bills?
Yes. When an order has both drinks and food, BistroBot prints a liquor bill with VAT as per your state and a separate GST food bill, each with its own number series and your licence and TIN on the liquor bill.
Can it stop liquor orders outside serving hours?
Yes — set your serving hours, last call and dry days, and liquor ordering follows them. QR menu guests also confirm they are of legal drinking age before ordering liquor.
How are running tabs handled?
Open a tab for a guest or a table and keep adding rounds through the night, then split or settle it at close.
Do you have an excise register and pour cost?
Yes, on Gourmet: an excise register, pour cost, VAT liability and liquor-vs-food reports, plus batches, kegs and taps for breweries.
What about a dropped connection late at night?
With the desktop app’s offline hub, ordering, BOT/KOT printing and billing keep running locally and sync to the cloud when you’re back online.
Built for Bars, Breweries & Pubs
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