Partender - Bar Inventory App Reviews

Great app, price tag is impractical for a small business and should be disclosed upfront. Also there are user added bottles that have incorrect full / empty lines. When you take a picture for upload the "full" and "empty" lines should be customizable and accurate. For $300/mo, however, they should really have everything- I shouldnt have to add it. Added several bottles during the trial period and when I went to use them in the app they were inaccurate.

Seems to work alright for products that are in their database, but good luck if you have to create your own bottle. At least half of my product is not in their database, making this useless. The bottles I created were so inaccurate that I was better off going back to the pen and clipboard. Prepare yourself when you see the monthly fees.

I shopped around for other technology and services for doing inventory. Nothing came close for both price and ease of use.

The fact they try to claim this app is accurate is ridiculous. Even more so is they try to claim inventory can be done in 15 mins. Not worth their ridiculous price.

Partenders user friendly system helped us reduce inventory to a simple 15 minute process from 4 hours. The reporting and analytics it offers,as well as automatic purchase orders, are extremely helpful. Setup was a pain, but it was so worth it.

For anyone who knows the pains of spending hours and hours doing bar/restaurant inventory, this app was made with you in mind. After the setup with the helpful staff, it now only takes me 15 minutes to do inventory. This is a life saver and a $$$$$$ saver!! Basically paid for itself in 2 months! Thanks Partender.

This app is completely useless! I can input about 70% of my bar, but its a total crap shoot whether it will actually add anything, or save anything! And then youre completely screwed if you have to add something that isnt native to their database, because when you do that it erases absolutely everything! I tried just setting up my bar, not even inputting counts, and after spending over an hour inputting items, only to have them erased, Im giving up. Totally broken and useless.

When we first started using Partender it cut out the brunt of the man-hours we spent doing inventory enabling us to do it on a per shift-basis! Now with the web portal and analytics, it makes the process of calculating our pour costs a breeze. The usage reports and variance analysis give a clear picture as to whats actually happening in my business and make it easy to deal with problems affecting our bottom line.

Taking inventory, and dealing with the numbers, has always been the most hated chore for me and my crew. Hours of tedium followed by more hours of tedium with no clear benefit. Now that I have Partender, inventory is so easy that we bust it out weekly, no problem. And we get really useful numbers out of it! We did have to spend some time setting it up, but it was no more time than our old inventory process and now that we are set up inventory is a snap.

Having operated notable, high-end hotels like Four Seasons, Trump, and Omni (as well as having seen Partender increase the bottom lines of my small, independent bars), Partender’s savings are no joke. Aside from the time & money savings, what I’m most grateful to Partender for is the effect it’s had on my staff — I’ve seen junior and senior bar and shift managers rise & train faster, make drinks faster (since Partender has helped organize my bars by providing us "a blueprint” of how our shelves should be laid out), and make more money (aka work happier) because we’ve saved so much money from labor and bev cost that I gave some of it back to my staff to incentivize them to keep up the good work. Not to mention, Partender prevented me from running out of stock this month for St. Patrick’s Day, and I can’t even imagine how much more we made by having enough Jameson in stock. Maybe I could have done this without Partender, but it sure would have taken me much longer than two weeks to get this organized and would have been such a headache. For the price of a dozen drinks a month, Partender’s done so much for all of my businesses. I cannot recommend it highly enough. Thank you.

I am usually super skeptical about using applications in the business place, but this app is by far the biggest time saver for a bar manager, it turns a 2 hour job into less than 30 minutes. You can have multiple devices doing the work so you and your bar team can get this taken care of efficiently. No more late Tuesday nights counting liquor! The data exports directly to an easy to process data sheet. I have been following this app waiting for it to be "polished" and finally with this last update it has really made the difference. I recommend this to any bar manager and restaurant owner that values their time and accuracy.

Just started using the new app version and it runs really smoothly. I love how I can count inventory in my walk-in, where there is no wifi, and rely on the app to sync my data when I am connected again. This is a really great improvement!

Great update. Only problem is the run report never finishes. Its trying to sync for about over an hour to the point where I just give up

Worse than an excel sheet. Move a bottle? Its slow. Show the line? Its inaccurate. Approximation in = garbage out. The entire app is based off of estimating liquor levels and gives a false estimate. I evaluated my inventory and saw it was entered from an angle that resulted in counts being off entirely...

This thing cuts my inventory down to a few minutes. My liquor variety is pretty limited, but having the app separate by area makes it rocket fast. The report is easy to read, and is on excel, which is great for me. My only complaint is the initial set-up time, but they pretty much walked me though it. Wish I could give it 4.5 stars.

After piloting Partender for 6 months at 3 locations and seeing huge ROI, we just expanded to 8 more of our outlets. What’s crazy is that setting up Partender this time (which took 4 hours on the old version) only took about 2 hours — and on a larger inventory (about $85K) compared to the last bar (about $45K). Honestly, the updates to Partender is incredible — I’ve never experienced such great service from a technology company, let alone a startup. It feels like every week there’s something new I’m getting for free (incredible). I can always call in and speak to a real person, and on top of that, I know my voice is heard because they literally released something I asked for a week after I suggested it. Before Partender, we had to start inventory Sunday at 8pm in order to finish by 2am (sometimes later) and meet our Monday order time. Since we started using Partender over a year ago, we start at 8pm and finish by 9pm. The newly-updated app (again), is incredibly fast (kudos to Team Partender!) This feels like magic and I’m so excited to see more on the app and online! PS. I really, really love that whenever I login on the app or online, there always seems to be a new feature, a new look, or a new value. It’s refreshing to say the least. Thank you.

Ive used Partender for the past year or so and its been the best tool ive used for inventory management. Props for the updates! The low connectivity was one of the issues i had ( even with that, it was still way faster than paper and pen). Im glad thats fix!! You guys have spoiled me! I cant ever go back to paper and pen. Im still nerding out on your portal!

It took a little while to add everything in the app since I had to take some pictures, but it was worth it in the end. Used to take 3 hours, and now takes about 45min. Report and PO are all automated. Makes ordering easier. Im about to start using the online beverage cost feature. Ive already caught 1 bartender stealing, which will alone save me more than what this thing cost. Cant imagine going back to manual inventory!