Describe your storage areas and count routine. Makeform creates a bar inventory form for staff to record bottle levels, full units, and supplies by location.
Send completed counts to Google Sheets, Slack, and Zapier.
Sample prompts for the builder
Choose a prompt, adapt it to your shelves, or send it to the Makeform builder.
Audience
Bar staff counting the main bar and liquor room
Format
Sectioned count sheet with bottle-level choices
Prompt size
261 chars
Example form structure
Sectioned count sheet with bottle-level choices
Counter, date, shift, and location
Sealed bottles by product
Open bottle level
Damaged or missing stock
Ready for manager review?
Suggested routing tags
Opening count
Closing count
Reorder review
Name each item's location and counting unit so cases, bottles, and partial bottles stay distinct.
Step 1
Identify
product, package, and location
Step 2
Count
sealed, open, and loose units
Step 3
Flag
low, missing, damaged, or expired
Step 4
Review
manager checks totals and reorders
Cleaner inventory counts
A useful form removes guesswork about where to count, which unit to use, and how to report stock that needs attention.
Arrange spirits, beer, wine, mixers, and supplies in the order staff encounter them, with storage locations clearly named.
Record cases, bottles, loose cans, keg levels, or eaches instead of leaving staff to interpret one generic quantity field.
Ask for details when an item is below par, damaged, missing, expired, or different from the expected delivery.
Built around bar operations
Start with the workflow closest to your operation, then replace sample products and par levels with your own list.
Count every storage area and beverage category before purchasing or variance review.
Create a shorter list for premium spirits and other products that managers monitor between full counts.
Capture a focused opening or closing count with the station and staff member attached.
Collect on-hand amounts beside target levels and make low-stock items easy to identify for ordering.
Inventory workflow
Turn the way your team already walks the bar into a structured form that is quick to complete on a phone.
List the service bars, coolers, storerooms, categories, package sizes, and counting units your team uses.
Replace examples with your product names, arrange them by the physical route, and mark essential count fields required.
Publish a link that staff can open on a phone at the shelf, cooler, storeroom, or bar station.
Use submissions to check low-stock flags, investigate exceptions, and prepare the next purchase list.
Choose a counting method
Paper and blank spreadsheets can hold totals, but a guided form can ask the right unit and exception question while staff are still beside the stock.
Field guide
Build the form around the decisions a manager makes after counting: what is on hand, where it is, what changed, and what needs action.
Count details
Attach the staff member, date, shift, count type, and location so managers can distinguish full inventory from spot checks.
Product identity
Include brand, expression, flavor, package size, and storage location where those details prevent two similar items from being combined.
Count units
Use numbers for sealed units and a consistent fractional scale for open liquor. State the unit beside every input.
Condition
Do not let broken, expired, spoiled, or missing items disappear inside the on-hand number. Give staff a clear condition choice and a place to explain the issue.
Par and reorder
Show the par level and ask whether replenishment is needed. Collect order amounts only for low stock.
Review
End the submission with exceptions, delivery differences, and review status. This creates a clean handoff without asking staff to send a separate message after counting.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for managers replacing paper count sheets or an unstructured stock spreadsheet.
It helps staff record liquor, beer, wine, mixers, garnishes, and supplies. Each count identifies the staff member, date, location, product, unit, condition, and exceptions.
Include counter, date, shift, count type, location, product, package size, quantity, partial bottle or keg level, par, condition, reorder flag, and notes. Separate sealed and partial units.
Use one repeatable method. A dropdown can offer full, three-quarters, half, one-quarter, or empty. If you weigh bottles, label the measurement and unit clearly.
Yes. Create sections for each bar, cooler, and storeroom, or let staff select a location before showing its products. Follow the physical counting route.
Yes. Show par beside the current count and ask whether to reorder. Conditional fields can collect quantity and notes for low, unavailable, damaged, or expired items.
Yes. Makeform offers unlimited free forms and responses, so you can generate, edit, publish, and use the bar inventory form without a response cap. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
Yes. Share the published link for counting at the bar, cooler, or storeroom. Short product groups arranged by location make mobile entry easier.
Counts arrive as Makeform submissions. Review them in the inbox or send data to Google Sheets, Slack, or Zapier for purchasing and follow-up.
Replace the count clipboard.
