“I only had three.” The tab says five.

How a spot’s night goes

Things start moving after work. People come in for one bottle and stay for three. A table of friends puts everything on one tab and adds a round every half hour. Somebody leaves early and pays for theirs. Khebab comes off the grill, and the music gets louder. The last table settles after eleven, and then somebody has to count the crates.

The two arguments every spot knows come at the end. The customer who’s sure they only had three. And the count in the morning, when the crates say one thing and the money says another, and there’s no way to tell whether the difference was drunk, given away or never rung up.

A tab that remembers every round

Tap what the table’s having and Set this aside. The sale waits in your tabs under the name you give it: the corner table, the birthday lot, the regular from the garage. Open tabs sit as cards with the first three lines on each and how many more, so you can see what a table’s had from across the counter.

When they want another round, tap their card and add it. Every round stays on the sale, at the price it was rung at that night. So when “I only had three” comes at the end, the tab shows all five, and nobody has to accuse anybody of anything. On Pro it also shows who served each round.

Crates, counted as bottles

On Pro, Tabworthy counts your stock in the unit you sell in. For a spot, that’s bottles. When crates come from the depot, you write down a delivery of the bottles they hold, not “two crates”. Every bottle rung up comes off by itself.

At closing, count what’s in the fridge and the crates. The app already knows how many there should be, so the difference is what left without a sale. Broken bottles and the round on the house for the birthday, you write off as broken or given away. Whatever’s still missing after that is the number to ask about.

A drink that’s hit zero doesn’t block the till. The tile warns you and a second tap still sells it, because a till that refuses a sale over a count nobody updated loses you real money. And a drink you’ve never counted says “not counted yet”, never 0.

Money, late at night

Cash works out the change. MoMo goes to their phone as a prompt, and the sale only closes when the money has actually arrived, so nobody leaves on a screenshot at midnight. If a prompt’s taking its time, Keep selling lets it wait while you serve the next person.

People lean on the counter. One tap hides every cedi figure on the screen and leaves the counts and names, so nobody leaning over can read the night’s takings.

Staff behind the bar

On Pro, everyone behind the bar signs in with their own PIN, and every sale remembers who rang it up. A shared till can lock after every sale, so the next person signs in as themselves. A shift opens the drawer with a float and closes with a count, and the till already knows what cash should be there, so short or over shows by person, the same night. Staff and PINs and closing up go through it.

A day that ends at two

A spot’s night doesn’t stop at midnight, so your business day doesn’t have to. Set the hour your day starts, say 5am, and the drinks sold at one in the morning count with the night they belong to. The report reads “Today · since 5am” and shows the night: what came in, cash against MoMo, what’s still on tabs, what sold most.

The regulars

The customer book keeps a regular’s name and number, what they owe right now and when they were last in, so a tab that runs to Friday sits under their name, not on a scrap of paper. On Pro you can reward the ones who keep coming: pick a drink, pick how many visits, and the till tells you when the next one’s on the house. A night counts as one visit, however many tabs they open.

What it doesn’t do yet

It doesn’t keep track of empties or crate deposits. It doesn’t split one tab between friends, take money off for a happy hour, or print to a printer. It counts in bottles, not crates, so the multiplying happens once, when a delivery comes in. And MoMo needs a network: when the signal goes, cash carries on and everything catches up later.