Bar costing software built for real cocktail programs.
Upload invoices, update ingredient prices, cost recipes, track menu margins, and manage advanced prep and Lab work — without living in spreadsheets.
Built by a bartender and operator for beverage teams that need clearer costs and faster pricing decisions.
Most bars still cost drinks in tools that were never built for the bar.
Spreadsheets, Google Docs, and POS reports can all hold numbers. But cocktail programs also have changing bottle prices, prep yields, batch work, infusions, syrups, clarifications, and recipes that shift the moment an invoice cost changes.
Invoice prices change
A case goes up six dollars and your margin quietly slips — usually long before it shows on a P&L.
Cocktail margins drift
One ingredient moves and every recipe using it is suddenly priced wrong, with no alert.
Prep work disappears
Syrups, infusions, and batches carry real cost that spreadsheets never connect back to the drink.
One workflow from invoice to menu margin.
The path a real beverage program actually walks — connected end to end.
Upload invoices
Photograph or upload a distributor invoice. PourCast parses every line and updates the cost of each ingredient it matches — with a confidence score on every match.
Cost recipes
See ingredient cost, total recipe cost, menu price, and margin in one place — with a weather badge that tells you at a glance whether each drink is hitting your target.
Track what needs you
When a cost moves, every recipe using it recalculates automatically. The dashboard surfaces the drinks drifting over target and names the culprit ingredient.
Watch your price weather
Ingredient costs are tracked by category with trend direction, so you see which prices are climbing before they eat your margins.
Built for the work ordinary costing tools do not understand.
The Lab helps beverage teams cost real cocktail prep and turn finished outputs into reusable recipe components — with true yield and cost per ounce.
Enter your base spirit and infusion ingredient, the steep time, and the yield after straining. PourCast returns a total component cost and a cost per ounce.
Build a syrup or cordial from its inputs — sweetener, liquid, acid — and let PourCast track the finished volume so your per-ounce cost is real, not estimated.
Batch a cocktail from its source inputs at any volume. PourCast tracks the finished yield so your per-ounce cost stays honest at scale.
Take a batched spec, set the production volume, vessel, and gas type, and get a true per-ounce cost for draft and nitro cocktails.
Cost a freezer-door batch from its source spirits and dilution so the pour you serve carries an accurate number.
Also supports Clarification, Extraction, Fat Wash, Carbonation, Oleo / Shrub, and custom workflows.
Works Alongside Your POS
Toast tells you what sold. PourCast helps your bar understand what it costs, what changed, and whether the menu is still priced correctly.
Use PourCast alongside Toast, SpotOn, MarginEdge, spreadsheets, or your current workflow today. Native Toast and SpotOn sync — so a sale automatically reconciles against your real ingredient costs — is coming soon.
How PourCast compares.
MarginEdge and Craftable are strong, established food-and-beverage back-office platforms. PourCast is purpose-built around cocktail and beverage programs specifically — with the depth and scale to grow from a single bar to a multi-property portfolio.
| PourCast | MarginEdge | Craftable | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beverage specialization | Purpose-built for cocktail & beverage programs from the ground up | Food-first; beverage costing is a secondary, paid add-on | Broad food & beverage platform; beverage is one part of a wider suite |
| What's included at that price | $249/mo — full product, nothing gated behind an upsell | $350/mo base; beverage costing add-on brings it to $500/mo | Starting at $250/mo; multi-department & enterprise tiers are custom-quoted |
| Advanced prep costing | Built in — infusions, syrups, batches, clarifications, and more | Not offered | Not offered |
| Margin "weather" view | Yes — sunny to storm at a glance | No | No |
| Multi-property portfolio | Built in — single bar to multi-property groups, one login | Supports multi-unit operations | Built for multi-unit & enterprise groups |
Competitor pricing and features per each vendor's own public materials and vendor-supplied G2/Capterra pricing data, accessed July 2026. MarginEdge and Craftable are broader food-and-beverage back-office platforms with real strengths outside bar-specific costing; this comparison reflects capabilities relevant to a beverage program's needs specifically, not an overall product ranking.
Built for beverage programs, not one type of venue.
PourCast starts with the real work happening inside a beverage program: invoices, ingredients, recipes, margins, and prep. The same foundation supports a range of operations without replacing an existing POS or finance system.
Designed so organization and multi-location visibility can be added without forcing every property into identical local costs.
Simple all-access pricing.
One plan. Full product. No separate Lab tier.
All-Access
per location
- Invoice upload
- Ingredient pricing
- Recipe costing
- Menu margin visibility
- Lab & prep costing
- Large-format ice tracking
- Full product access
- Founder-led onboarding
No separate Lab tier.
Behind the bar
Built from behind-the-bar experience.
PourCast was created by a bartender and hospitality operator after years of watching beverage teams manage pricing, recipes, prep, and margins across spreadsheets, notes, POS reports, and disconnected tools. It's the costing system that experience wished existed.
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