PourIQ vs Bevager (Now Craftable): Quick Buyer's Guide

Bevager is not really Bevager anymore. The product rebranded to Craftable in February 2020 and has since moved upmarket, targeting mid-market and enterprise restaurant groups with AP automation, distributor EDI, and three-way invoice matching. PourIQ stayed focused on single-unit bars at a flat $75 per month. These two tools now serve genuinely different customers, which is the first thing any operator searching “PourIQ vs Bevager” in 2026 should know.

This is the short version. For the detailed history and the full feature table, read the PourIQ vs Bevager comparison.

What happened to Bevager?

Bevager launched around 2015 under FNBTech, Inc. as a cloud bar inventory and procurement platform. In February 2020, FNBTech consolidated Bevager and its food-focused sibling Foodager into a single product and rebranded the whole thing as Craftable. The bevager.com URL still resolves, but it redirects to craftable.com. Product releases, support content, pricing, and hiring all run under the Craftable brand through 2025 and into 2026.

An operator searching “Bevager” in 2026 is actually evaluating Craftable. The old Bevager product is frozen in place. Understanding that is the starting point for any comparison.

What is Craftable today?

Craftable is now a mid-market and enterprise platform. It covers purchasing, receiving, inventory counts, recipe costing, variance reporting, analytics, and an AP automation layer with three-way invoice matching. Craftable connects to more than 100 POS systems, including enterprise platforms like Oracle Micros, plus newer tools like SpotOn, Revel, and TouchBistro. On the distributor side, Craftable connects to major beverage suppliers through EDI.

Named Craftable customers on the public site include Kimpton Hotels, Hakkasan Group, bartaco, and PopStroke. That customer base sits firmly in the mid-market and enterprise segment. Craftable holds 4.5 out of 5 stars on Capterra across 123 reviews, with 98 percent positive sentiment.

What is PourIQ in one paragraph?

PourIQ is a flat-rate bar inventory app priced at $75 per month per location, unlimited staff logins included. It was built for single-unit bars and small groups that want bar-specific features without enterprise pricing. The feature set covers real-time inventory, tenthing, by-the-glass tracking, recipe costing, menu engineering, variance reports, keg tracking, POS integration with Toast, Square, Clover, Lightspeed, and Aloha, and offline mode.

How does pricing actually compare?

Craftable does not publish pricing on craftable.com. The commonly cited reference point is approximately $99 per user per month, which comes from the Capterra Craftable listing. Real Craftable deals are negotiated and can include per-location fees, implementation charges, training, and tiered modules such as AP automation. The final number depends on the scope.

PourIQ lists $75 per month per location on its pricing page. Unlimited users, no contract commitment, no setup fee.

For a single bar with five staff logins (a GM, two assistant managers, two bar leads), the math looks like this:

PourIQ: $75 per month flat. $900 per year.

Craftable: $99 per user per month at the Capterra rate. For five users that is $495 per month. Annual cost is $5,940 before any setup fee, implementation charge, or add-on module.

The difference for a single-bar setup is roughly $5,340 per year before implementation costs. The gap widens as staff counts grow, because Craftable is per-user and PourIQ is per-location.

Who does Craftable fit today?

Craftable is the right answer for mid-market groups and enterprise chains that actually need AP automation and distributor EDI. The AP automation layer supports OCR invoice capture, matching against purchase orders and receiving records, and routing through approval workflows. For a group processing hundreds of invoices a week, this is a material time savings.

The distributor EDI connections matter when managers are placing dozens of orders weekly and reconciliation needs to happen without manual re-keying. The 100 plus POS integrations matter when the group runs Oracle Micros in a casino and Toast in a resort lobby bar. None of this is overkill for an enterprise hotel group, which is exactly the target customer Craftable is built for.

Who does PourIQ fit?

PourIQ is built for the segment Craftable used to serve before the rebrand. Single-unit bars, neighborhood bars, cocktail bars, and small multi-unit groups where each location still counts its own bar, invoices flow to a bookkeeper rather than a controller, and the operational priority is pour cost and shrinkage, not enterprise AP workflow.

For a 40-seat cocktail bar doing $60,000 a month in beverage, three-way invoice matching is not the problem. Knowing whether the well vodka is getting over-poured on Saturday night is the problem. That is the job PourIQ is built to do.

Is the Craftable rebrand a reason to switch?

If you were on Bevager before 2020 and the product kept working for your bar, the rebrand itself is not a reason to leave. If you are shopping new in 2026 and searching “Bevager,” the thing to understand is that the product roadmap is now pointed at enterprise customers. Recent development investment has gone toward AP automation, distributor EDI, and enterprise reporting, not toward making the bar setup faster for a single 40-seat cocktail bar.

Reviewers on Capterra have specifically noted that mapping pours for the bar side of Craftable can feel less intuitive than the food side. For bar-first operators without a controller or AP team, the product has moved away from the segment, which is the main reason to consider a bar-specific tool instead.

Who should pick which?

Pick Craftable if: you run a mid-market restaurant group with 10 or more locations, centralized purchasing, a dedicated AP team, and need three-way invoice matching, distributor EDI, and enterprise POS integration. The platform is built for this tier and the price math works at scale.

Pick PourIQ if: you run a single-unit bar or a small group without a dedicated AP staff, your invoices flow through a bookkeeper rather than a controller, and the core operational need is pour cost, variance reporting, and shrinkage control. Flat $75 per month pricing and bar-specific feature focus match the operation.

The honest next step

The category of “bar inventory software” covers both Craftable and PourIQ on paper. In practice, they are two different products for two different segments. Before picking either, run your weekly variance through our pour cost calculator to see where the money is actually going. If the answer is “invoice reconciliation is killing us across 15 locations,” Craftable is worth the conversation. If the answer is “my well vodka variance is 11 percent and my manager does not know why,” a bar-specific tool like PourIQ is the better fit.

For the full history, pricing breakdown, and feature table, read the PourIQ vs Bevager comparison. For PourIQ details, visit mypouriq.com. For Craftable, visit craftable.com.

The PourIQ Team