For Bars & Pubs

Bar & pub POS — skip the queue,
not the round.

Let customers order from their table. No more waiting at the bar, no more lost sales. Perfect for busy Friday nights.

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Built for bar service

Features that understand the flow of bar ops.

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Table QR Ordering

Customers scan, order, pay - all from their seat. More rounds, less waiting.

02

Quick Payments

Card and mobile payments for fast checkout. Keep the drinks flowing.

03

Order Tracking

Track every order by table. See what's been ordered and when.

04

Digital Drink Menu

Showcase your full selection with photos, descriptions, and real-time updates.

05

Order Notifications

Alert bar staff when orders come in. Audio chimes for busy nights.

06

Peak Hours Analytics

Know your busiest times. Staff accordingly and never be caught short.

The table ordering difference

Why bars are switching from counter to table.

Traditional Bar Service

✕ Long queues at the bar
✕ Customers leave rather than wait
✕ One bartender = one customer at a time
✕ Difficult to track orders by table

With SmakSpace

✓ Order from your seat instantly
✓ More rounds = more revenue
✓ Bartenders focus on making drinks
✓ Clear order tracking per table

Digital menus

Showcase your selection.

A hosted QR drink menu is free to start — NZ$0 forever, no card. Your digital menu can be as simple or detailed as you like. Photos, descriptions, categories - make it easy for customers to find what they want. Upgrade to take table orders from NZ$49/mo, commission-free.

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Organize by type: Beers, Wines, Spirits, Cocktails

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Add descriptions and photos for every drink

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Highlight specials and daily promotions

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Mark items as sold out in real-time

Bars & pubs FAQ

What bar and pub operators ask before going table-side.

Bar POS prioritises speed at the bar: fast drink ordering, spirit + mixer combos, table-side ordering so customers don't queue, and clean order tracking. SmakSpace covers the ordering side of bar service — drink menus with modifier combos, rounds ordered from the table QR, and orders routed to a bar screen with audio alerts (Professional and Enterprise). Classic open-tab workflows and per-bartender sales splits aren't built in today — we'll tell you straight if those are must-haves for your venue.

Not as a classic open tab — SmakSpace doesn't hold a tab open for settlement at the end of the night or pre-authorise a card against it. What works well in practice: customers order and pay per round from the table QR (no queue, cards stay in pockets), or run staff-confirm mode so the bar approves each round before it fires. If open tabs are a dealbreaker for your venue, tell us — that feedback shapes the roadmap.

Each table has a numbered QR sticker. Customers scan, see the drink list, build a round, send to the bar. The order appears on the bar screen with the table number in big letters — bartender pours and a runner brings it out. Customers stop queueing, bar throughput goes up.

Yes. The customer ordering page is designed for spiky concurrency — 200 orders firing within a 60-second window during the Friday-night peak is handled cleanly. The bar screen shows orders in arrival sequence so nothing gets missed in the spike, and audio alerts give an immediate cue for staff.

Not per-bartender today. Orders are tracked by table and by channel (QR table order vs counter), tips are recorded on each order, and daily reporting covers sales and product mix — but SmakSpace doesn't currently attribute individual orders to individual bartenders for per-staff splits. If per-bartender attribution matters for your tipping model, raise it with us before you commit.

Sports bars and gastropubs, yes: bookings + KDS + QR table ordering cover the F&B flow, and your digital menu can be shown on any screen in the venue. Bottle shops are a weaker fit — SmakSpace is hospitality-first and has no barcode-scanning retail workflow, so a dedicated retail POS serves a bottle shop better. We'd rather tell you that now than after you've signed up.

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Bar & pub POS — skip the queue, not the round.