Basic
$49.99 a month
You set it up and you run it.
- Automatic deduction on every sale
- Recipes, par levels, low-stock alerts
- Sales and usage reports
- Email support
Ingredient-level inventory for Clover bars, cafés & restaurants
The count
runs itself.
VenueCore watches your point of sale and takes the exact ingredients out of stock on every sale. Every plate, every pour, every shift — your count and your pour cost stay honest, without anyone counting during service.
Built for Clover venues. On Square or Toast? We’re not for you yet — both are next.
What actually happens
One burger, start to finish
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01
The order fires
A server rings in a smash burger on your POS, cash or card. Nobody opens an app. Nobody writes anything down.
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02
We read its recipe
You told VenueCore once what’s in it: six ounces of beef, a slice of cheddar, a bun. It knows which tub and which case to take them from, and opens the next one when the current one runs out.
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03
Stock comes down
The exact amounts leave inventory within seconds, with a record of which sale caused it. That’s the whole loop, and it runs all service.
Ground beef
−6.0 oz
84.0
84.0
oz
Cheddar
−1.0 oz
31.5
31.5
oz
Brioche bun
−1 ea
24
24
ea
Plate cost $5.28 · sells for $16.00 · margin 67.0%
What it adds up to
By Sunday night, this is waiting for you
Every deduction is a line in a ledger. A week of them is the report you’ve been building by hand — what sold, what it used, what it cost, and what it earned.
| Item | Sold | Ingredients used | Cost | Revenue | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smash Burger | 164 | 984 oz ground beef · 164 buns | $866 | $2,624 | 67.0% |
| Margherita Pizza | 98 | 882 oz dough · 392 oz mozzarella | $480 | $1,764 | 72.8% |
| Gin and Tonic | 142 | 284 oz gin · 568 oz tonic | $739 | $1,562 | 52.7% |
| Espresso Martini | 87 | 174 oz vodka · 87 shots espresso | $602 | $1,218 | 50.6% |
| Totals | 491 | — | $2,687 | $7,168 | 62.5% |
Variance
Ground beef should read 78.0 oz. You counted 74.5. A gap of 3.5 oz across 164 burgers — about half a patty. That’s actual against theoretical, the number worth arguing about, and now you have it.
Reorder
Mozzarella and tonic crossed their par levels Thursday. Both are already drafted as a reorder, waiting for you to send it.
Any stretch of days, by item, ingredient or category. Export it and hand it to your accountant.
Beyond the count
Where the rest of your margin leaks
Deduction covers what you sold. The waste log covers what you didn’t — the spill, the spoiled cream, the heavy pour — and the margin table tells you which menu items earn their spot.
- SpilledVodka · 2.0 oz$0.86
- SpoiledHeavy cream · 1 qt$3.20
- Over-pourHouse gin · 1.5 oz$0.63
Logged in two taps behind the bar, priced automatically, totaled by week. Waste stops being a shrug and becomes a number.
- Margherita Pizza72.8%Earns its spot — push it
- Espresso Martini50.6%Your priciest pour — watch it
- Loaded Fries41.2%Raise it a dollar or shrink the plate
Every item’s real cost against its price, from the same recipes that run your deductions. No second spreadsheet.
Counting by hand isn’t hard. Doing it every week for a year is.
VenueCore won’t catch a heavy pour, a spilled pint, or a bottle that walks out the back door. Nothing can. What it does is keep an honest running count between your physical counts, so the gap you find at the end of the month is small, and you can see where it came from.
— Eric Chernichaw, founder. He runs his own venue on VenueCore every night. Why he built this →
Getting started
Three plans, same software
Every plan runs the whole system. What you are choosing is how much of the setup you want to do yourself. Thirty days free, card required to start, cancel any time before it ends and you pay nothing.
Recommended
Pro
$79.99 a month
We set it up with you, start to finish.
- Everything in Basic
- We build your recipes with you
- Menu, ingredients and stock configured for you
- AI assistant — 50 questions a month
- Training until you are running it yourself
Enterprise
$119.99 a month
Full setup, unlimited AI, and a direct line.
- Everything in Pro
- Unlimited AI assistant for questions about your bar
- AI recipe suggestions from your menu
- A direct line for anything you need
One flat price. No per-location, no per-seat metering — run one bar or three, the number doesn’t move.
Try the full demo with no card and no POS connection. We never sell your data — disconnect deletes your credentials instantly.
Card payments handled by Stripe — we never see or store your card number.
On Clover and want billing on your statement instead? The App Market listing is in review. Email us and we’ll tell you the day it’s live.
Questions
The parts people ask about
- Which bottle does it come out of?
- The open one. VenueCore tracks containers individually, uses what’s already open before breaking a seal, and opens a fresh bottle mid-pour when the current one can’t cover it. Run three bars and it takes from the bar that sold it.
- What about a double, or a swap?
- Modifiers carry their own recipes. A double adds its extra ounce, an oat-milk swap deducts oat milk instead of whole. Ordinary tickets already work — you don’t restructure your menu.
- Do cash sales work?
- Yes. Cash takes Clover a little longer to mark paid, so we keep re-checking until it lands rather than deducting an order that might get voided.
- What if a drink is refunded or comped?
- Stock goes back. A refund reverses the exact amounts that came out, against the same bottles.
- Do I have to enter my whole menu?
- No. Your menu syncs from your POS. You attach recipes to the items you care about — most bars start with their top ten and cover the bulk of their pours in an afternoon.
- What happens to items I never get to?
- They simply don’t deduct, and we list them for you, so it stays a visible to-do rather than a silent hole in your counts.
- Can I try it before connecting my POS?
- Yes. Open the demo — a full venue with stock, recipes and sales, including a button that rings up a sale so you can watch it deduct. It touches nothing real. No signup and no card.
- What if I want to leave?
- Cancel any time; you keep access through the period you’ve paid for. Disconnecting your POS deletes the stored credentials immediately and keeps your data, and deleting your account removes everything for good.
More in the full FAQ, or email [email protected] and a person will answer.