Bevager vs PourIQ: How Two Bar Inventory Tools Diverged

Bevager became Craftable in February 2020 and has since moved upmarket into mid-market and enterprise restaurant groups with AP automation and distributor EDI workflows. PourIQ stayed focused on single-unit bars at a flat $75 per month. These two tools now serve genuinely different operations.

The short version is that a side-by-side feature table no longer tells the whole story. The two products share a category label, but the customers, the pricing model, and the product roadmap have moved in opposite directions. This article compares them as they exist today in 2026, with sources cited where available.

What did Bevager become?

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 under a single platform and rebranded the combined product as Craftable. The announcement ran on the craftable.com blog and the rebrand is also reflected on Crunchbase.

The bevager.com URL still resolves, but it redirects to craftable.com. Most public documentation, pricing pages, support content, and product release notes now live under the Craftable brand. For purposes of this comparison, Bevager and Craftable refer to the same underlying product, with Craftable being the active name.

Craftable covers purchasing, receiving, inventory counts, recipe costing, variance reporting, analytics, and an accounts payable automation layer with three-way invoice matching. The platform supports more than 100 POS integrations, including Toast, Square, Clover, Lightspeed, Oracle Micros, and Aloha. On the distributor side, Craftable connects to major beverage suppliers through EDI.

Publicly named Craftable customers include Kimpton Hotels, Hakkasan Group, bartaco, and PopStroke. That customer base sits firmly in the mid-market and enterprise segment rather than the single-bar segment.

What is PourIQ?

PourIQ is a bar inventory platform priced at a flat $75 per month per location. Pricing is per location, not per user, with unlimited staff logins included. There is no hardware requirement and no setup fee on the public pricing page.

PourIQ was built by a team of bar operators in Virginia Beach and is positioned for single-unit bars and small groups. The feature set focuses on the tasks a bar manager handles every week:

• Real-time inventory with phone-camera barcode scanning
• Visual tenthing for bottle-level counts
• BTG (by the glass) tracking
• Recipe costing and menu engineering
• Variance reporting by item, bartender, and shift
• Keg and draft line tracking
• Par levels and reorder points
• POS integration with Toast, Square, Clover, Lightspeed, and Aloha
• Guest-facing QR menu with live 86 updates
• Offline mode for walk-in counts

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Who does each product serve today?

Craftable’s public customer logos, recent product investment, and pricing model all point to mid-market and enterprise restaurant groups. The platform is built to span food and beverage across multiple locations, consolidate purchasing, and automate accounts payable at scale. Hotels, casino resorts, and multi-unit chains are the stated targets.

PourIQ is built for single-unit bars, neighborhood bars, cocktail bars, and small multi-unit groups that want bar-specific features without enterprise pricing. The product does not include food inventory, multi-entity AP automation, or distributor EDI, and it does not try to.

The category label “bar inventory software” covers both products, but the working day of a Craftable admin at a 15-hotel group looks very different from the working day of a PourIQ user running a 40-seat cocktail bar.

How does pricing compare?

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

PourIQ lists a flat price of $75 per month per location on mypouriq.com. Unlimited users are included, and there is no contract commitment on the public pricing page.

Because the two pricing models are structured differently (per user and negotiated versus flat per location), the easiest way to compare is to run the math on a realistic single-bar setup.

What does each cost per year for a single bar?

Assume one bar with five staff logins: a GM, two assistant managers, and two bar leads.

PourIQ: $75 per month flat for the location, unlimited users included. Annual cost is $900.

Craftable: At the Capterra-referenced rate of $99 per user per month, five users is $495 per month. Annual cost is $5,940 before any setup fee, implementation charge, or add-on module. Actual negotiated pricing may differ in either direction.

The dollar difference at this venue size is roughly $5,040 per year before any implementation costs are added on the Craftable side. This is the math that matters most for single-location operators.

For a five-location group with 25 total user logins, the same rough math produces $4,500 per year on PourIQ ($75 x 5 locations) versus roughly $29,700 per year on Craftable before add-ons. A group with a dedicated AP team running three-way invoice matching across dozens of vendors may view that delta as justified. A group without that infrastructure probably will not.

Where does Craftable win?

There are several areas where Craftable offers capabilities PourIQ does not currently match.

AP automation and three-way match. Craftable’s invoice ingestion layer supports OCR-based 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.

Distributor EDI and supplier depth. Craftable connects directly to major beverage distributors through EDI, which reduces manual order entry and speeds up reconciliation. PourIQ currently handles vendor orders through simpler workflows.

POS integration breadth. Craftable lists more than 100 POS integrations, including enterprise systems such as Oracle Micros, plus newer platforms such as SpotOn, Revel, and TouchBistro. PourIQ currently integrates with five POS systems.

Food plus beverage in one platform. Craftable (via the former Foodager) covers food inventory, menu costing, and recipe management in the same product as the beverage side. PourIQ is bar-focused and does not handle food inventory.

Enterprise customer track record. Craftable has named reference customers at the scale of Kimpton, Hakkasan, and bartaco. The product has been in market since 2015 under its original brand and continues active development through 2025 and 2026.

Review depth. Craftable holds a 4.5 out of 5 rating on Capterra across 123 reviews, with 98 percent positive sentiment. That is a substantial public review history.

Where does PourIQ win?

PourIQ also has areas where it offers a cleaner fit.

Transparent flat pricing. PourIQ publishes its price on the pricing page at $75 per month per location, unlimited users included. There is no sales negotiation required to get a quote.

Lower total cost for single-unit operators. For a single bar with multiple staff logins, PourIQ runs approximately $900 per year versus approximately $1,188 or more per year on Craftable at the Capterra-listed per-user rate. The gap widens as staff counts grow.

Bar-specific feature focus. Visual tenthing, BTG tracking, and phone-based barcode scanning are built for the specific motions a bar manager makes during a weekly count. Craftable reviewers on Capterra have noted that the platform’s bar setup can feel less intuitive than its food workflows.

Simpler implementation for small operators. PourIQ is designed to be set up by a bar manager without a dedicated implementation team. Craftable, by reviewers’ accounts, involves more upfront configuration and benefits from professional onboarding.

Per-location pricing rather than per-user. For venues with multiple managers and bar leads, flat per-location pricing scales predictably. Per-user pricing scales with headcount.

What do Craftable users say in reviews?

Capterra hosts 123 reviews of Craftable with an overall rating of 4.5 out of 5. Common themes from the positive reviews include strong analytics, effective invoice ingestion, and responsive customer support during onboarding.

Common themes from the more critical reviews include implementation effort, the challenge of configuring bar-specific pours and recipes correctly on the first pass, and lingering catalog items that are difficult to clean up after the fact. One reviewer specifically noted that mapping pours for the bar felt counter-intuitive compared to the food side of the product.

PourIQ does not yet have a significant public review history. The product is in active rollout with a small number of beta bars and does not currently have a Capterra or G2 profile with review volume. Readers weighing the two should factor the review-history gap into their own decision.

Sources referenced above: Capterra Craftable listing, Software Advice Craftable profile.

Which product fits which operator?

A useful way to read this comparison is by operator profile.

Single-unit bar or cocktail bar. A single location doing $40,000 to $120,000 a month in beverage revenue generally does not need three-way invoice matching or distributor EDI. Flat $75 per month pricing, bar-focused counts, and variance reporting are typically the core needs. PourIQ is the closer fit.

Two to five location group without dedicated AP staff. If each location still counts its own bar and invoices flow to a bookkeeper rather than a controller, the simpler tool and lower total cost of PourIQ often matches the operating model. Craftable becomes more relevant once centralized purchasing and a dedicated AP function exist.

Mid-market group with 10 or more locations, centralized purchasing, and a controller. The AP automation, distributor EDI, and consolidated vendor management that Craftable has built over the past several years are the actual product being purchased at this tier. The per-user pricing math starts to make sense relative to the staff time saved.

Hotel group, casino, or enterprise restaurant group. Craftable’s named customer base sits here. Enterprise POS integration requirements, food and beverage consolidation, and multi-entity reporting are the relevant differentiators.

Is Bevager still actively developed?

The Bevager brand is effectively frozen. The active product, roadmap, blog content, hiring, and funding announcements all run under the Craftable name through 2025 and into 2026. FNBTech continues to invest in the product, with recent work concentrated on AP automation, distributor integration, and enterprise reporting rather than on the bar-specific setup workflows.

Operators searching for “Bevager” will land on Craftable and will be evaluating the current Craftable product, not a 2019 version of Bevager.

Bottom line

Craftable is the right answer for mid-market restaurant groups and enterprise chains that need AP automation and distributor EDI workflows. PourIQ is the right answer for single-unit bars and small groups that want a flat-priced bar-specific tool. Details at bevager.com (which redirects to craftable.com) and mypouriq.com.