Open a tab on a credit card (pre-auth). Order items on the tab all night. Split check at the end (evenly, per item, or custom). Tip preset buttons. Stripe card-present or traditional card swipe. Built for a neighborhood bar, gastropub, cocktail lounge that needs more than a notebook but less than Toast at $100+/mo.
Pre-auth on card at entry. Tab stays open. Bartender adds rounds. Customer leaves whenever — tab settles on exit with final tip prompt.
Evenly across N people. Per item with assignment to guests. Custom dollar amounts. Multiple cards on one tab. Group of 8 paying 7 different ways — handled.
18% / 20% / 25% buttons. Custom tip. Fair-tipping suggestions based on pre-tax subtotal (not pre-tax + tax). Pool-tip tracking for distribution to staff.
Drinks, food, modifiers. Happy hour price overrides by time. Out-of-stock toggle when keg blows. 86 list visible to bartenders.
End-of-night: sales, cash drawer reconciliation, per-bartender sales + tip pool, per-table avg check. Daily + weekly + monthly reports.
Flask + session auth. Runs on the bar's counter tablet. Stripe Terminal integrated. Your customer + sales data stay yours.
Hosted plans are early-access. Self-host today; email tim@dangercorn.net to join the waitlist.
bartab is one of 220+ verticals scaffolded from the same template. Each gets a working skeleton for free; individual ones get promoted to full products as demand surfaces.