Jery vs Backbar
Backbar covers beverage inventory, stock counts and ordering. Jery connects those jobs with drink costing through house batches, prep planning based on forecast sales and menus built from the same recipes.
Jery might be a better fit if
- Your drinks use house batches, and you want costs, ABV and allergens to update through them.
- You want your sales forecast to guide what the team preps.
- You want menus built, designed and published from the same recipes.
- You want Jery to draft changes for you to review and approve.
Side by side
What each one does for a cocktail bar, from its own public pages. "Not listed" means we couldn't find it on Backbar's site.
| Capability | Jery | Backbar |
|---|---|---|
| Counting & stock | ||
| Count on a phone, area by area | Yescount area by area, in your chosen shelf order | Yesweb and mobile, multiple storage locations |
| Count by voice | Yeshands-free, asks when a name could mean two bottles | Not listed |
| Count by scanning barcodes | Yesscan to count a bottle or to add a new one | Not listed |
| Variance between counts | Yes, by valuebetween two counts, with paperwork gaps flagged first | Yesusage and comparison reports; cost variance alerts on Professional |
| Buying | ||
| Invoices read automatically | Yessend them by email, file, photo or chat; Jery checks each line and the totals | Professional planphoto upload on Essential, automatic entry on Professional |
| Ordering from par | Yesorders from par or forecast, sent from Jery, received against the order | Yes1-click ordering on paid plans |
| Price move named on the drinks it hits | Yesshows which drinks are affected and suggests prices to restore their margins | Alertscost variance alerts on Professional |
| Recipes & costing | ||
| Recipe costing | Yesfrom what you actually paid | Yeson Essential and Professional |
| Cost through nested pre-batches | Yesincludes nested house batches when costing each drink | Not listed |
| ABV, dilution and allergens from the spec | YesABV, dilution, allergens and vegan status | Not listed |
| Menus & sales | ||
| POS sales | NightlyToast, Square, Clover and Oracle Simphony direct; any other POS by file | Real timedepletions on paid plans; Toast, Square and Shift4 named |
| Menu design, print and QR menu | Yesdesign studio, print PDFs, QR page | Not listed |
| Menu engineering | Yesstars, workhorses, puzzles, rework | Reportsfinancial metrics on Professional |
| Planning & help | ||
| Nightly revenue forecast | Yesnightly sales ranges up to four weeks ahead, compared with actual results | Not listed |
| Prep list from the nights ahead | Yesuses confirmed forecasts to build prep lists and suggested orders | Not listed |
| Assistant on your own data | Drafts, you approveanswers questions using your bar's data and drafts changes for your approval | Not listed |
| Team & bars | ||
| Users | Whole team includedwith roles you define | Unlimitedon every plan |
| Roles and permissions | Yesyour own roles, permission by permission | Professional planuser permissions |
| Several bars | Yesgroup dashboard, stock transfers and shared recipe library | Per locationunlimited locations on paid plans |
Sources, checked October 3, 2026: Backbar pricing · Backbar home. Products change; if something here is out of date, tell us at hello@jery.ai and we'll fix it.
Switching from Backbar
Bring your Backbar export into Jery. Review the imported products and suggested matches before approving them. Nothing is saved until you do.
- Drop your Backbar export into JeryProducts, sizes and prices as a spreadsheet, plus recipes if you keep them there. Every row is previewed; products you already have are linked.
- Forward your last invoicesJery reads each line, checks the totals and uses the approved prices to update your drink costs.
- Compare your stock countsAfter your second count, Jery shows what's unaccounted for in bottles and dollars.
| What Jery found | Status |
|---|---|
| Tanqueray London Dry 1 L · Base Spirits › Gin | Ready |
| Campari already in your bar | Linked, not added twice |
| Buffalo Trace Bourbon new size: 1.75 L | New container |
| Amaro Nonino no category in the file | Jery's guess, check it |
| Cocchi di Torino close to "Cocchi Vermouth di Torino" | Same product? |
Questions
More in the FAQ.
Can I run Jery and Backbar side by side for a while?
Yes. Import your Backbar export into Jery and keep counting in Backbar until you trust the numbers. Nothing in Jery touches your Backbar account.
Can Jery cost a drink that uses a house syrup?
Yes. Jery costs each house syrup or pre-batch as its own recipe, then includes that cost in every drink that uses it. The same applies when one batch contains another. ABV, dilution and allergens also carry through the recipes.
Can I count by scanning barcodes?
Yes. Scan a bottle on the shelf to count it, or scan a new one to add it. You can also count by tap or out loud, area by area.
Will Jery read my Backbar recipes?
Yes, if you can export them as a spreadsheet. Jery brings the recipes into the import queue, where you can check each drink before saving it.
Does my POS connect?
Toast, Square, Clover and Oracle Simphony connect directly and sync every night, with more connectors on the way. Any other POS works from its sales export. See integrations.
Bring your Backbar data into Jery
Early access is free for your whole team, with no card. Founding bars keep 30% off list for 12 months on annual billing. Plans from $149 per bar a month, billed annually.