Tabology review
A bar-focused POS for managing tabs, beverage stock, pour costs and age checks.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
Tabology is a cloud POS for bars, restaurants and cafés, with an iPad EPOS app and a web-based back office. Its bar-focused workflows cover opening and managing customer tabs, processing sales and payments, tracking beverage and product inventory, and producing hospitality reports. Bars that need to keep open orders moving while monitoring drink stock and age checks are its clearest fit. The listed company-size fit is small and mid-market, so operators in those ranges can assess it against their front-of-house needs.
Tab management is a central strength: staff can split, transfer or merge tabs and orders, which supports changes to how a group pays or moves an order. Beverage inventory tracking sits alongside pour-cost and beverage-variance monitoring, connecting stock control with attention to drink costs. The age-verification workflow addresses restricted sales, while offline sales operation supports continued sales when the system is offline. These capabilities give Tabology a distinctly bar-oriented scope rather than a generic emphasis on hospitality reporting alone. Bars seeking these linked workflows may find that focus useful; buyers whose priority is a different type of venue operation should compare alternatives that better match it.
Pricing is published: POS Essentials costs $49 a month, POS Pro $79 and POS Partner $129, with paid add-ons such as extra iPad terminals ($49 a month), the Mini POS iPhone app ($25) and kitchen display screens ($15). The EPOS app runs on iPad and the back office in a web browser, so venues need iPads for the till. Beyond bars, it serves restaurants and cafés too, with bookings, kitchen and stock management and mobile ordering. It is a stronger candidate for small and mid-market bars prioritizing tabs, beverage controls, offline sales and age checks than for venues that want to run their tills on Android tablets.
Tabology pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Open, split, transfer and merge customer tabs and orders
- Track beverage inventory, pour costs and beverage variance
- Support offline sales and age checks for restricted sales
- Where it doesn't
- No free trial; a 14-day temporary POS licence is a $29 one-off
- The EPOS app runs on iPad only; there is no Android app
Tabology fact sheet, pricing and score →
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