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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.
Honest answers — nos included
9 AM – 10 PM
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.
Seven: Owner, Manager, Cashier, Stock Keeper, Auditor, Kitchen, Bar — each with fixed, defined access.
Not currently — the seven roles are fixed.
Via a 4-digit PIN, in addition to email/password login.
Yes — after 15 minutes of inactivity.
Not currently.
Yes — 5 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.
Nothing stops working. Your software keeps running exactly as before — you only lose access to support and updates until you renew.
Licenses are machine-bound; contact support to discuss a transfer.
A Windows 10 or 11 PC (desktop or laptop) with at least 4GB RAM and 500MB of free disk space — most PCs already in use at a bar or restaurant counter meet this.
No — Windows-only.
A thermal receipt printer (58mm or 80mm) is supported via standard Windows printer drivers. The printer itself is sourced separately, not bundled with HotelBarDost — any standard 58mm/80mm thermal printer works.
HotelBarDost includes a guided setup wizard for first-run configuration. Setup time varies by how much menu, stock, and pricing data you're entering — we don't quote a fixed number of minutes, but the wizard is built to get a single counter billing within one sitting.
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, 7 days a week.
HotelBarDost Support — reach us directly by WhatsApp or call at 8421470722, or email hotelbardost@gmail.com.
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.
The best bar billing software handles three things generic restaurant POS doesn't: peg-level (not bottle-level) liquor stock deduction, one-click excise register generation in your state's format, and offline operation so billing never depends on internet. HotelBarDost is built around exactly these three, for ₹17,000 one-time.
Yes — HotelBarDost is a one-time ₹17,000 purchase with an optional ₹3,000/year support plan, not a monthly or annual subscription. Most bar POS competitors in India charge ₹1,500–5,000+ a month.
HotelBarDost's GST & Excise module generates FLR 1/A (daily) and FLR-4 (monthly) style registers directly from your billing and stock data, exportable as PDF or CSV in one click — no manual compilation from purchase slips and physical counts.
Peg billing software deducts liquor stock by the actual peg poured (e.g. 30ml or 60ml), not by the whole bottle. This closes the gap where over-pouring, under-billing, and theft normally hide between a bottle being opened and finished.
HotelBarDost does — it's a Windows desktop application that runs fully offline, with no cloud dependency for billing, stock, or reports. Many cloud POS platforms require internet or only tolerate short offline windows before syncing.
A standard 750ml bottle yields 25 pegs at 30ml, or about 12 pegs at 60ml. HotelBarDost calculates this automatically per brand and pour size, deducting the correct bottle fraction the moment each peg is billed.
FLR 1/A is a daily excise register format used by Indian excise departments, tracking brand-wise opening, purchased, sold, and closing stock. HotelBarDost generates a register in this style directly from your billing data.
A restaurant POS is built around table/kitchen workflows and treats liquor as an add-on. A bar POS needs peg-level stock deduction, GST/excise split on a single bill, and excise register generation as core features, not bolt-ons — which is the gap HotelBarDost is built for.
Free trial or demo — we'll walk you through HotelBarDost.