Bartab: Point of Sale (POS)
Tab & balance management
Free · In-App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Are you running events where your guests have running tabs? Have an establishment with regulars? Tired of managing everyone's balance in a spreadsheet? Then Bartab is the app for you.
With Bartab you can:
• Set up your menu with items and prices, and track inventory with low-stock alerts.
• Update a guest's balance directly with each purchase — individually or for multiple guests at once.
• Manage your list of guests, with manual adjustments for special expenses or paying off tabs.
• Send balance notification emails to guests, and generate professional receipts and invoices in PDF format.
• Configure sales tax — set whether your prices are tax-inclusive or exclusive, with tax breakdowns on all documents.
• Track sales statistics by date, weekday, and item.
• Works seamlessly across iPhone and iPad, synced in real time across all your devices — and keeps working even with a poor connection or completely offline.
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more • Team & audit log — Add staff with their own PINs and access groups, and see every purchase, edit, and PIN change in a full activity log.
• Group orders — Pick a party of customers up front, then attribute each item you tap to a specific guest. Waiter-style ordering.
• Cart discounts — Apply a percent or fixed-amount discount to the whole cart or specific customers before finalizing. Savings show on receipts and invoices.
• Sales by staff — New Statistics screen breaks sales down per staff member for shift comparisons.
• More languages — Bartab is now available in Swedish, European Portuguese, and Brazilian Portuguese.
2.4.5 14 Jul
• Menu categories — group items into "Beer", "Cocktails" and so on, and swipe between category pages on the menu.
• Customer list — sort by name or balance, filter to open tabs only, and search by name.
• PIN protection — lock sensitive settings and screens behind a 4-digit PIN, with email recovery if you forget it.
• Self-checkout codes — give each customer a 4-digit code so they can check themselves out (great for bus trips and party rounds). Print an A4 sheet with everyone's code, or email all customers their code at once.
• Payment method & reference — record how a customer paid and add an optional reference when resolving a balance. Both show up on receipts and in transaction details.
2.4.4 4 Jul
• New Sales reports screen — get a sales summary by email, on demand or on a recurring daily, weekly, or monthly schedule. Send to your own address, your accountant, or a custom list of recipients.
• Customer replies to invoice, receipt, and balance update emails now go straight to your own inbox instead of info@bartab.info.
2.4.3 12 Jun
• Create invoices and receipts offline. They sync automatically once you're connected again.
• Add your own logo and use custom invoice and receipt titles. Your branding shows on PDFs and in customer emails.
• New Branding screen under Settings → Sales.
2.4.2 21 May
This version moves Bartab from account-required and paywalled to a freemium model, essentially replacing the 7-day trial with a sales based limit on free tier accounts and allowing use without creating an account first. Accounts can still be created to facilitate preserving data between install and sharing data across devices. The following methods are now available for sign in:
- Email and password
- Apple OAuth
- Google OAuth
The update also holds minor UX improvements for the balance update screen and some other places across the app.
2.4.1 12 May
This version moves Bartab from account-required and paywalled to a freemium model, essentially replacing the 7-day trial with a sales based limit on free tier accounts and allowing use without creating an account first. Accounts can still be created to facilitate preserving data between install and sharing data across devices. The following methods are now available for sign in:
- Email and password
- Apple OAuth
- Google OAuth
The update also holds minor UX improvements for the balance update screen and some other places across the app.
2.4 10 Mar
This relatively small update holds some UI and UX tweaks and improvements. It also takes care of a few bugs that slipped through the net in recent testing.
- Bartab now supports dark and light mode. It defaults to whatever the system setting is on the device.
- The app icon is updated to play nice with iOS 26+ tint functionality.
- The color scheme has been slightly modified and made more uniform across the app.
- There is now an option to automatically create a receipt when resolving a customers tab, as well as automatically sending it to the customer’s registered email address.
- The customer detail screen now has more easily accessible buttons for resolving a tab or creating a new invoice.
- Fixed a bug where loading too many profile pictures could cause the app to hang or sometimes even crash.
- Fixed a bug introduced in 2.3, where completing a purchase could take longer than intended
2.3.1 2 Mar
This update delivers a major user experience overhaul with a smoother ordering flow, smarter tax handling, favorites, and a refreshed look across the app.
New & Improved:
• iPad Side Cart – Keep your order visible while browsing the menu. Resize it by dragging the divider to fit your workflow.
• Redesigned Order Flow – A cleaner, faster order sheet makes reviewing and finalizing purchases easier than ever.
• Flexible Tax Configuration — set whether your prices are tax-inclusive or exclusive. Tax portions are now also included in receipts and invoices.
• Favorite Customers – Star your regulars so they always appear at the top of your customer lists.
• Improved Statistics – Cleaner charts, smoother date navigation, and a more polished presentation.
• Balance Email Updates – Send customers a balance summary directly from the app, complete with a shareable history link.
• Visual Refresh — Almost every screen in the app has been redesigned to look and feel more modern and polished, with a more cohesive feeling throughout.
As always, we’ve also made performance improvements and small refinements to keep everything running smoothly.
2.3 23 Feb
- Updated the screen for managing your subscription.
- Updated the screen seen when not subscribed, along with a refreshed paywall.
- Fixed a bug where your user information would not always be displayed.
- Fixed a bug where signing out sometimes required an app restart.
2.2.1 9 Feb
- Added a chat to directly contact the Bartab developer from inside the app.
- Added a roadmap for the future development of the app, where users can vote for their most wanted features and make requests of their own.
- Added functionality for proposing app translations and voting for existing proposals.
- Improved crash and error tracking, for quicker and easier resolving of bugs.
- Added app store review requests in certain places in the app. (If you haven't already, leave an honest review. It helps me a lot!)
2.2 2 Feb
New feature:
- Added stock tracking, with email and push notification alerts when stock levels reach a set threshold.
- Redesigned the menu item details screen and the screens for its various inputs.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug that intermittently logged users out.
- Fixed a bug that caused the menu to not properly adapt to sorting and column setting changes (iPad only).
2.1 10 Jan
- Enabled most of the features within the app to work completely offline. Changes made while offline will be propagated to the shared database once back online.
- Added all currencies (as defined by the ISO 4217 standard) to be selectable, with search functionality to ease selection.
- Added update notification and update history list.
- Made some updates the user details screen.
- Fixed a bug that caused some users to crash when asking to reset their password.
- Greatly improved the performance of the statistics views.
2.0 26/12/2025
- Made changes to calls to backend to improve load times and overall responsiveness
1.7.2 13/06/2024
- Added currencies: CAD, ZAR, JPY and ISK
- Improved sales tax input
1.7.1 09/06/2024
You can now:
‣ Create an invoice or receipt for a customer.
‣ Email, print or share these invoices and receipts.
‣ Resolve the balance of a customer with one click.
‣ Enjoy improved sync between devices on the same account.
1.7.0 11/03/2024
Fixed an issue where users with multiple devices would not have all devices up to date with the latest changes.
1.6.1 19/12/2023
With this update you can, among other things, enjoy:
‣ The new statistics tab, to keep on top of how sales are going.
‣ An updated UI for taking orders.
‣ Undoing or deleting transactions.
‣ An overhaul of the UI for iPad users.
‣ A better overall experience thanks to improvements, bug fixes and optimizations.
1.6 25/10/2023
Fixed an iOS 17 bug that caused some views to not update properly.
1.5.12 18/09/2023
Added missing functionality for sending balance updates to customers to iPhone settings menu.
1.5.11 18/09/2023
- Fixed a bug that caused crashes on devices with an older iOS version than iOS 16.
1.5.10 04/05/2023
- Updated settings tab
- Improved performance when making changes with very many menu items or customers in the system
1.5.9 03/03/2023
- Reworked in-app notifications to be less intrusive.
1.5.8 23/02/2023
- Fixed a bug where ordering multiple items with RFID tags would not register correctly.
1.5.7 22/02/2023
- Made some performance improvements for the main ordering screen.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent you from editing a customer's information or add a note when adjusting their balance.
- Added food icons for menu items and revamped the icon picker.
- Fixed several issues with ordering with RFID tags.
1.5.6 15/02/2023
General:
- Some improvements to overall performance.
- Added ability to tap purchase alert to hide it.
iPhone specific:
- More intuitive navigation, with everything menu related in the menu tab, customer related in the customer tab and bartender related in the bartender tab.
- Improvements to the screen for payment information.
- Added a toggle for adding sales tax to each purchase.
- Added toggleable onboarding, on by default when missing menu items or customers.
iPad specific:
- Fixed a bug where you had to click a customer three times to show them in the settings view.
1.5.5 27/01/2023
• Team & audit log — Add staff with their own PINs and access groups, and see every purchase, edit, and PIN change in a full activity log.
• Group orders — Pick a party of customers up front, then attribute each item you tap to a specific guest. Waiter-style ordering.
• Cart discounts — Apply a percent or fixed-amount discount to the whole cart or specific customers before finalizing. Savings show on receipts and invoices.
• Sales by staff — New Statistics screen breaks sales down per staff member for shift comparisons.
• More languages — Bartab is now available in Swedish, European Portuguese, and Brazilian Portuguese.
more Version 2.4.5 14 Jul
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