POS for bars & nightlife
Fast tabs, faster rounds, age verification and split checks that survive last call — built for the busiest three hours of your week.
A bar POS is judged at 11pm on a Saturday. Novaryq opens tabs in seconds, repeats rounds with a tap, verifies age for restricted sales and splits checks at last call. Offline cash is Beta and limited to supported, prepared terminals where the workflow is enabled; card payments require connectivity.
Open, name and manage tabs in seconds, even three-deep at the bar.
Repeat the last round instantly — speed where bars actually need it.
Built-in age verification prompts for restricted sales keep service compliant.
Split tabs by person or item cleanly, with tips, when everyone’s leaving at once.
Tabs, the part that leaks money
Most bar losses are not theft; they are tabs that were opened, forgotten, walked, or closed against the wrong card. Each of those is a place where a system can help.
A tab is opened with a pre-authorisation, so the tab that walks is not simply lost revenue.
Rounds go on in a tap or two — a bar POS that needs four screens per round is a bar POS nobody uses at 11pm.
Open tabs, their age and their total are on one screen, so the forgotten tab is visible before last call.
A tab moves between bartenders at shift change with its ownership intact, rather than being closed and re-opened.
Closing a tab binds its cash to the open drawer session that took it, so the count at the end of the night is attributable to a person and a till.
A bar runs multiple people through one or two tills. Attribution is the difference between a variance you can investigate and a variance you can only argue about — so cash is bound to a drawer session at the moment of capture, not reconstructed at close.
See tabs, rounds and split checks at speed in a demo.