Payment closes the tab in your POS
Each payment posts to the open tab in your POS and goes through your existing processor. The itemized receipt goes out the moment it clears, with every drink, the taxes and the tip.
Guests follow their tab on their phone as rounds are rung in, split it by drink and pay themselves, and the tab closes in your POS with an itemized receipt.
A tab that updates with every round
Drinks show up on the guest's phone as your bartenders ring them in, at the price they were rung in at. Comps and discounts show too, and the tab stays open after someone pays their part.
- Live tab pulled from your POS
- Comps and discounts shown as applied
- Stays open for the next round
Split the tab by drink
Guests split by drink, split evenly or pay a set amount, and each one picks their own tip. What's left to pay updates on everyone else's phone.
- Split by drink, evenly or by amount
- Tip suggested on the pre-tax subtotal
- Remaining balance updates for the group
Supplier invoices coded as they arrive
Invoices from your beer, wine, liquor and food suppliers come in by email, PDF or supplier portal. Each one is read and coded to beer, wine, spirits or food before anyone carries it to the office.
Last-minute supplies and staff expenses, with receipts
Limes from the grocery store, ice on a busy night, a replacement keg coupler. The receipt is captured from a photo or email, matched to the card or sent for reimbursement, and posted to your books with its taxes.
Why teams switch
Closing time is when tabs go wrong.
At last call everyone wants to close out at once, and there's one card machine for the whole room.
Each guest pays from their own phone at the table, and the tab closes as they pay. No one waits in line for the terminal.
A group argues over the tab because they can't remember who ordered the last round.
Guests watch every round land on the tab as it's rung in, then split it by drink when it's time to pay.
Beer, wine, liquor and food invoices from different suppliers pile up in the office.
Each supplier invoice is read and coded as it arrives, and a price increase on something you order every week gets flagged.
The products that do the work.
Each product works on its own, and when you run two, the same record carries from the receipt to the ledger entry.
Pay at table
A QR code on each table opens the live bill, so guests can split it, tip and pay from their phones without waiting for a server to bring the terminal.
Digital receipts
Digital receipt software that turns every sale at your POS into an itemized electronic receipt, hosted online and delivered by app, SMS, email or API.
Loyalty
A loyalty program that lives on the digital receipt. Customers have nothing to carry or download, and they earn points on the items they actually bought.
Expense management
Capture receipts, categorize expenses and check policy compliance as expenses are submitted.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What people ask us before they sign up.
A bar tab app lets guests see their open tab on their phone and pay it without waiting for staff. With Smartbills there's nothing to download: guests scan the QR code on the table, watch drinks appear as they're rung in, split the tab and pay. The tab closes in your POS and the receipt goes out right away.
No. The QR code opens a page in the phone's browser. Guests who already use the Smartbills app can pay with a saved card and keep the receipt there, but no one has to install anything to pay their tab.
The tab stays open. Anything rung in after a payment shows up as a new balance for the rest of the group, who can pay it the same way or at the terminal. Your POS always has the final word on what's owed.
Square, Toast, Clover, Lightspeed and Shopify POS, the same systems Smartbills gets digital receipts from. If your POS can show an open tab and take a payment against it, guests can pay from their phone. Payments go through your existing processor wherever the integration allows it.
Each guest picks their tip on their own screen, starting from a suggestion on the pre-tax subtotal that they can change. The tip posts to the tab with the payment and flows into your tip pooling and payroll the same way a terminal tip does.
Yes. Every guest who pays gets an itemized receipt for their share by text, email or the app, with each drink, the taxes and the tip. It's ready for an expense report without photographing a paper slip.
Staff take a photo of the receipt in the app, and receipts that arrive by email are read from a connected mailbox. Each purchase is matched to the card charge or queued for reimbursement, and supplier invoices are coded as they arrive.
Get started
Try it on your next Friday night.
Connect your POS, put a code on each table and let guests close their own tabs.