The Open Source Bar Program · Live demo — field-tested at Agave & Rye

## Welcome — let's map your bar

This program lives in Chrome on your computer. We guide you step by step the first time. When setup is done, you land in your home base — the dashboard you return to every cycle.

- Name your bar and build your station map — plug-and-play
- Walk the bar by voice — placement only, not quantities yet
- Reconcile into a spreadsheet you can audit and correct
- Approve the map, run your first count, then open home base

Better voice notes = less cleanup later

Built-in phone dictation (iPhone Notes, Android keyboard) works, but it garbles brand names, bottle sizes, and fast bar-room speech — especially on a ladder with music in the background.

Wispr Flow (iPhone/Mac) is built for this: hold a button, talk naturally, export clean text. Strong alternatives: VoiceInk (Mac, open source), Whisperboard or TypeWhisper (iPhone, on-device). Any of these beat raw phone mic for a full back-bar walk.

No special app required — but if your first upload looks rough, try one of the above before your next bar.

AI connection is optional during setup — connect anytime under Settings → API management.

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Step 1 · Get started

## Your Operation

You can run as many bars as you need — dining room, patio, event station. Each gets its own page to build wells and stations. You name each bar on the next step.

Planning a voice walk? A dedicated dictation app (Wispr Flow, VoiceInk, Whisperboard) saves hours of cleanup compared to speaking straight into Apple Notes.

Inventory cycle (days) — shared across all bars

Step 2 · Build your bar

Build Your Bar

This whole page is one bar — every station below belongs to it. Starter templates run wells first, then back bar, then coolers. Reorder, rename, remove, or add your own.

well Main · Service · Point back bar Main · Point · Service walk in Wine · Beer · Walk-in

Add a Station

Step 3: Walk

Walk the bar

## Your Bar

Each station you mapped belongs to this bar only. Upload or paste your walk notes below.

How it works

Easiest option: Use Upload Notes below to upload notes from your phone. Speak into iPhone Notes, Google Keep, Samsung Notes, or any app that exports `.txt` or `.md` — then transfer the file to this computer and upload.

Or paste your voice notes directly in the box. Say each station name, then every product on that station.

Example

"Well one: Tito's vodka, Ketel One, Tanqueray gin… Back Bar Top Shelf: Patron Silver, Don Julio 1942…"

If you don't know what to say here, go back to Step 2 — you need your station map before you can walk the bar.

What happens when you upload

Real bar walks are messy — and that's expected. Fast speech, ladder work, and phone transcription turn "Herradura Reposado 1L" into something unrecognizable. The first pass is a draft placement, not a perfect inventory list.

Bottle sizes default to `750ml` until you correct them. Brand names may land on the wrong station or split into fragments. You'll fix names, sizes, and categories in the next steps — and again on the road every cycle. Upload is the starting line, not the finish.

Accepts `.txt` · `.md` · `.markdown` · `.rtf`
iPhone Notes · Google Keep · Samsung Notes · plain-text exports
From iPhone Notes, export as Markdown or .txt (not PDF).

Stop — review your map before you continue. We turned your voice notes into a draft list. Names will be wrong. Sizes will default to 750ml. You must clean this up here (or in a spreadsheet) before moving on.
Bottle sizes are the #1 mistake. Many liter bottles look like 750s (and vice versa). If you said "liter" or "leader" in your notes, check every row — wrong size breaks your inventory math later.

Choose how you want to fix this:

What we heard | Product name | Station | Size | OK? |
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---

Spreadsheet workflow

1. Download the correction sheet (.csv opens in Excel, Numbers, or Google Sheets).
2. Edit `product_name`, `station`, and `size`. Set `size_verified` to `yes` when you're sure.
3. Import the saved file below — we match rows by `bottle_id`.

Keep the header row. Don't delete the `bottle_id` column.

Can't figure this out? Download the sheet and hand it to a manager. Or continue with our best guess — you'll fix it again in Step 5 Review (not ideal, but it works).

Add a Bottle

Step 4 · Reconcile

## Reconcile Your Map

We'll turn your walk into an auditable draft map and spreadsheet with intentional blanks for anything unclear. With AI connected, reconciliation gets smarter — otherwise we use what you parsed.

Step 5 · Review

## Review & Confirm

Here's your complete inventory map for . Edit anything that needs fixing.

Step 6 · Count

## First Live Inventory Count

Count quantities and bottle levels against the approved map. This becomes your baseline for every future cycle.