Questions bars ask about Jery
How Jery works, what it asks of your team, your data, your POS and what it costs. If your question isn't here, ask it in your application: a person reads every one.
Questions by topic
Getting started
What is Jery?
Jery is bar management software for cocktail bars. It costs every recipe and pre-batch, counts stock by phone or voice, reads supplier invoices to keep prices current, builds and designs the menu, reads sales straight from your POS, and forecasts the prep, with an assistant that drafts the work for you to approve.
How long does setup take?
Most of setup is reviewing what Jery read. Bring the recipe book, the menu, a stock sheet or a photo of the back bar, and Jery reads it into drafts you check before anything saves. Scan barcodes to add bottles. A recipe Jery can't read is flagged rather than saved. How setup works.
Can I start with just one drink?
Yes. Bring one spec in, price its bottles from your last invoice, and you see what it costs today. Everything else can follow when you're ready.
My bar isn't on Jery. Can I sign up myself?
Not on your own. During early access bars join by application, and whoever runs your bar makes the call. Apply with them, or send them the page written for bartenders.
I got an invite. How do I get in?
Sign in with a one-time code Jery emails you, or with Google. There's no password. Sign up from the invite and you land straight in your bar. An invite stays open for 31 days; if yours has lapsed, ask for a new one.
Your data & trust
Will Jery change my numbers on its own?
No. Ask for a change and Jery lists exactly what it will do; nothing saves until a person approves it, and cancel writes nothing. Where a change applies live, like a menu design, Jery shows it first or leaves it one undo away. Every record keeps a History, and Jery's edits are labeled as Jery's.
Where do the assistant's answers come from?
From your bar's own data, and for technique questions from a curated bartending library with sources named. Jery doesn't search the web and never invents a price or an ABV. When it can't know, it says so. Ask Jery.
A guest asks if a drink has nuts. Can I trust it?
Jery reads the spec. Allergens come from the ingredients, through every house batch in the drink. Missing data shows as a blank, never as "none", and allergens Jery suggested stay marked unverified until a person confirms them.
If our bar manager leaves, does the program leave with them?
No. Specs, batches, menus and prices belong to the bar, and every change keeps a name, a time and the value before and after. Owners and admins hold the team.
Can I control who sees costs and margins?
Yes. Build your own roles and choose, feature by feature, what each one can see and change: costs and margins, invoices, menus, counts, the team. Give the floor the specs and the count, and keep the money with the managers. The printed spec book never shows cost or price either.
Can I take my data out?
Yes, any time. Inventory as Excel or CSV, approved invoices as a coded CSV or a zip of the originals, sales by item as CSV, order sheets as Excel or CSV, and menus as print-ready PDFs.
Stock, counts & ordering
Does it work on a phone?
Yes. The iPhone and Android app carries the whole bar: the specs, the stock count and Ask Jery. Each area counts on its own, so the back bar, the store room and the cellar can be counted by different people on the same night. Menu design and planning the nights are made for a bigger screen.
Will it pin what's unaccounted for on whoever was working?
No. Stock variance is worked out per item, between two counts, in bottles and by value. Jery never splits it by shift or by person, and it flags likely paperwork gaps first, before anyone calls it loss.
Can I send orders to suppliers from Jery?
Yes. The order fills against your pars, or from the forecast on Pro, in whole bottles at last known prices. Check it, send it to the rep from Jery, and receive the delivery against the invoice when it lands. Jery takes no cut and adds no markup. Stock & counts.
Can I count by scanning barcodes?
Yes. Scan a bottle on the shelf and Jery finds it in your inventory and asks how much is left; scan one you don't stock yet and Jery adds it, with its name, size and strength filled in. You can also count by tap or out loud, part bottles included. Stock & counts.
Sales, POS & forecasts
Does it work with my POS?
Toast, Square, Clover and Oracle Simphony connect directly and sync every night, voids and refunds included. Any other POS works from its sales export as CSV or Excel, and Jery remembers the file's layout. Sales land nightly, so they run through yesterday. Integrations.
Does it cover food?
Jery is built for drinks. Food sales from the same POS can be grouped under Food, with an estimated margin you set, so they're included in the night's sales and profit totals.
How good is the forecast?
Each night up to four weeks out shows a likely range, and every past night is scored against what you actually took. At the Marlowe, our sample bar, 20 of the last 28 nights landed inside the range. A new bar starts simple and sharpens as its history grows. Forecast & prep.
Groups
Can I see all my bars together?
Yes. Every bar runs on its own data and team, from one sign-in, and the group view puts them side by side: sales, margin, stock and stock variance, bar by bar. For hotels & groups.
If I change the house spec, does every bar get it?
If you want it to. A spec in the group's shared library goes out to every bar that pours it, and each bar still costs it from its own invoices. A new bar can also start as a copy of an existing one: recipes, batches, menus, designs and settings come across; the team and billing stay behind.
Our bars are in different countries. Does that work?
That works. Each bar has its own currency, units and tax, filled in from its country at setup, and the group view reads every bar side by side. Talk to us when you set up a group across countries and we'll plan it with you.
Pricing
What does it cost?
Core is $149 and Pro is $299 per bar a month, billed annually, with your whole team included. Early access is free, and bars that join now become founding bars: 30% off list for 12 months on annual billing, once billing starts. See pricing.
What happens when early access ends?
You get notice before billing reaches your bar, and you pick Core or Pro. If you pick neither, your bar goes read-only for 60 days and nothing is deleted.
Is there a free plan?
No. Free plans cost real money to run once AI reads your invoices and recipe books. Early access is free, and after it every bar gets a 30-day Pro trial with no card.

Ask anything else on a call
A person reads every application, usually within two working days.
