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Billing, liquor stock, GST & excise, Khata, shifts, reports, backup, licensing, hardware, and limitations — answered honestly, including what HotelBarDost does not currently do.
An offline Windows desktop POS and operations system for Indian bars, restaurants, and bar-restaurants, covering billing, liquor stock, GST/excise register generation, Khata, and cash reconciliation.
Small-to-mid-size Indian bars, restaurants, and combined bar-restaurants, particularly in Maharashtra.
English and Marathi.
No — it's a Windows desktop application that runs fully offline.
Mentark Tech Private Limited.
Billing is a one-tap flow: add items, tap Generate Bill — GST and liquor excise are calculated automatically.
Cash, UPI, Card, and Khata (customer credit).
Yes — orders can be held and resumed.
Yes — percent or fixed discount, with fixed discounts capped at the subtotal.
Not currently — each bill is settled with a single payment method.
Not currently supported.
The order is cancelled and the table is freed; note that cancelling does not currently reverse liquor stock already deducted.
Not currently supported — there's no refund workflow.
Yes — any past bill can be reprinted.
Yes — peg sizes from 30ml to 2,000ml, with automatic bottle-to-peg stock deduction.
Yes — with issue-to-counter and return-to-store transfers logged.
Yes — the excise licence fields include licence number, type (FL-III/FL-BR-II/CL-III), district, and capacity.
No — the Bar Orders screen currently shows order history, not a live, real-time ticket queue.
No — Kitchen Orders shows a history of billed food items, not a real-time kitchen queue.
Yes — categories and menu items are fully manageable, with icons and sort order.
Yes — inventory items can be flagged as liquor or non-liquor, with separate stock tracking.
Yes — every bill automatically splits food and liquor subtotals and applies GST and excise separately.
Yes — one Khata ledger covers all credit sales regardless of item type.
When a peg is sold, HotelBarDost deducts the corresponding fraction of a bottle (based on bottle size and peg size) from counter stock automatically.
Yes — pricing calculates from cost plus a commission you set (fixed ₹/bottle or percent).
Yes — 90+ Indian liquor brands (beer, gin, rum, vodka, whisky, wine) are pre-seeded on setup.
Not as a dedicated category currently — recorded via a manual stock adjustment.
Not currently supported.
HotelBarDost shows health badges (Out/Critical/Low/In Stock) and warns at the point of billing.
Yes — food GST % (default 5%) is configurable in Settings.
No — a single configurable GST rate is applied, not a CGST/SGST/IGST breakdown.
Yes — GSTIN is captured at setup and printed on every receipt.
A daily excise register format widely used by Indian excise departments, tracking brand-wise opening/purchased/sold/closing stock. HotelBarDost generates a register in this style.
A monthly excise statement format. HotelBarDost generates a monthly register in this style, exportable as PDF.
HotelBarDost generates FLR 1/A and FLR-4 style registers from your recorded data. Verify the exact format against your state's current requirements before submission.
Yes — both the daily and monthly registers can be exported as PDF (and CSV), or printed directly.
Only Owner and Manager roles.
Yes — TP number and date are tracked on every liquor purchase.
An informal customer-credit practice common in Indian F&B businesses. HotelBarDost lets you bill on a customer's name and track/collect payment later.
Yes — partial collections reduce the outstanding balance; the remainder stays open.
No — Khata is tracked by customer name, not a full customer record system.
Not currently.
Not currently — no SMS/WhatsApp reminder integration exists.
Yes — supplier name, phone, email, address, and GSTIN can be recorded.
Not currently via the UI.
Not currently.
Not currently supported.
Yes — moving a purchase from draft to confirmed auto-updates stock.
Expected cash (opening + cash sales) is calculated automatically and compared against actual counted cash at close, with variance flagged.
Yes — a warning appears above a ₹100 shortfall.
Yes — automatically, every time a shift closes.
Food/liquor sales split, discount, comparison vs. yesterday, hourly breakdown, table performance, and shift summary.
Only excise registers currently support PDF export; sales/analytics reports support CSV export and print.
Not currently — there's no custom report builder.
No — HotelBarDost doesn't generate a P&L.
Automatically on software version changes, daily, and on every shift close — plus manual backup any time.
Two local locations: the application data folder and your Documents folder.
No — backups are plain database files, not encrypted.
HotelBarDost detects corruption and attempts an automatic restore from a valid backup on startup; corrupted files are preserved with a timestamp.
Yes — restore is available with a safety backup taken first.
Five: Owner, Manager, Cashier, Kitchen, Bar — each with fixed, defined access.
Not currently — the five roles are fixed.
Via a 4-digit PIN, in addition to email/password login.
Yes — after 15 minutes of inactivity.
Not currently.
Yes — 2 days, fully featured.
₹17,000 one-time purchase + ₹3,000/year optional support.
No — it's a one-time perpetual, machine-bound activation plus flat annual maintenance.
[CLIENT INPUT REQUIRED — not documented in source]
Licenses are machine-bound; contact support to discuss a transfer.
A Windows PC (desktop or laptop). [CLIENT INPUT REQUIRED: minimum specs]
No — Windows-only.
A thermal receipt printer (58mm or 80mm) is supported. [CLIENT INPUT REQUIRED: confirm whether bundled or separately sourced]
HotelBarDost includes a guided setup wizard for first-run configuration. [VERIFY BEFORE PUBLISHING: source material references a setup wizard but does not give a verified time estimate — avoid stating a specific number of minutes unless re-confirmed]
58mm and 80mm thermal printers, using Windows printer drivers.
Yes — configurable copy count.
No — it uses the Windows print API rather than raw ESC/POS commands.
No — it runs completely offline.
Locally on your own PC — not in a vendor cloud.
Not currently — there's no remote/cloud dashboard.
Phone/WhatsApp 8421470722, email hotelbardost@gmail.com, 9 AM–10 PM.
[VERIFY BEFORE PUBLISHING — see §02.3 name conflict]
No — single-terminal only.
No.
No.
No — no customer master record exists.
No — there's no auto-update mechanism.
HotelBarDost works fully offline with a flat annual cost; cloud POS typically requires internet and a monthly subscription but may offer multi-terminal and remote access. See full comparison.
Yes — many owners use HotelBarDost for floor operations and Tally for broader accounting; HotelBarDost is not an accounting/GST-filing replacement.
Manual systems work at small scale, but the cost of a billing or stock-tracking error typically exceeds the cost of software as volume grows.
Free trial or demo — we'll walk you through HotelBarDost.