Bar & Pub Accounting Software | HelloBooks.ai Accounting software for bars and pubs: liquor stock at weighted-average cost, excise duty payable, and cover charge income tracked as separate lines.
HelloBooks.ai is accounting software for licensed bars and pubs — not a generic POS ledger asked to guess at liquor cost and excise duty after the fact. HelloBooks tracks Liquor Stock, Excise Duty Payable and Cover Charge Income on separate lines, so bev cost and excise exposure are visible at a glance instead of buried in a single blended bar-sales figure, whether you operate as a private limited company or an LLC.
Liquor stock gets the attention a bar's biggest inventory line deserves. Bottles and kegs are tracked perpetually as stock is purchased and depleted, valued at weighted-average cost so BevCost% reflects the latest cost as supplier prices shift, by category — spirits, beer, wine and mixers.
Excise duty is where a generic ledger falls short for this industry. Licensed outlets accrue excise duty on the liquor they sell, ahead of each filing cycle. HelloBooks tracks Excise Duty Payable as its own liability, by category, so what's outstanding stays visible instead of getting mixed into general payables.
Bar and pub accounting software for liquor stock, excise duty payable, and cover charge income tracking
Bar & Pub BookkeepingBuilt for liquor stock and excise duty, not just POS totals.
See Liquor Stock, Excise Duty Payable and Cover Charge Income on separate lines, tracked at weighted-average cost, instead of one blended bar-sales figure.
- Liquor Stock tracked perpetually at weighted-average cost, by category.
- Excise Duty Payable tracked as its own liability, accrued per filing cycle.
- Cover Charge Income kept separate from liquor cost and excise duty.
Live-style mockup · liquor stock & excise duty
Bottles and kegs, valued the way they're actually costed.
Liquor Stock is HelloBooks' core inventory account for a bar — tracked perpetually as stock is purchased and depleted, valued at weighted-average cost so BevCost% reflects the latest cost as prices shift.
- Stock tracked by category — spirits, beer, wine, mixers — at weighted-average cost.
- Purchases and depletions logged as they happen, not reconciled once a month.
- Kept separate from Excise Duty Payable and Cover Charge Income.
What you owe on liquor sold, tracked as its own liability.
Licensed outlets accrue excise duty on the liquor they sell, ahead of each filing cycle. HelloBooks tracks Excise Duty Payable as its own liability, by category, so what's outstanding stays visible instead of getting mixed into general payables.
- Excise Duty Payable tracked by liquor category, against the current filing cycle.
- Accrual and settlement history kept alongside the current balance owed.
- Kept separate from Liquor Stock cost and Cover Charge Income.
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