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Welcome to Barkeep! The easy, inexpensive (and – dare we say – fun?) way to track your liquor inventory and usage, determine your pour cost, manage suppliers and liquor orders, and track and analyze sales. All for hundreds less than similar software. Barkeep helps you understand and monitor how well your bar is performing by deter-mining exactly how much liquor your bar should have used, and com-paring that with how much liquor your bar actually used. If you know how to use an iPhone, you know how to useBarkeep. It's a standard iPhoneOS app that will run on any iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch...no need for bulky, expensive, hard-to-replace, hard-to-use, stylus dependent hardware.Barkeep is one of those products that was born out of necessity. Written by Barkeep (and - in a past life at Oracle - a software genius) Tim Eicher..."I got my start in the bar & nightclub industry in 2004 after 'retiring' from Oracle Corporation. After 20+ years designing and building enterprise software, I was ready for a change and the bar/nightclub industry seemed like a great fresh start. Coming from a technology background - especially coming from a database company - I was appalled at the lack of data and accountability. I also hated how slow it was to take inventory. Imagine having an invoice with a bunch of alcohol that you bought, and having to flip through pages of barcodes to find a barcode, scan it, enter the quantity and add it to the receiving inventory. I found it really frustrating. It did about half of what I wanted a product to do and was slow to do it.""Finally, out of frustration, I decided that we could do a better job by building our own product. So I assembled a team of my old cohorts from Oracle and we built Barkeep. The goal was to build something that was fast, easy to use, and inexpensive. We didn't want to require an expensive scanner, so it had to be able to run on a cheap and flexible device (iPhone/iPod Touch). As a bar owner, I knew exactly what information I needed the product to capture. And believe me, my bar managers were not shy about expressing their requirements for how to simplify the task of entering data. So after several revisions and lots of first hand user feedback, we arrived at Barkeep.""Barkeep works. It has saved my bars thousands and thousands of dollars and has us operating at a very respectable pour cost. It has helped customers track down problems ranging from customer theft (customers literally stealing bottles from behind the bar), to over-pouring by bartenders, to simple mistakes like not charging for a float of chambord when making a purple hooter."