Restaurant inventory management software, from walk-in to bar
StockZip is restaurant inventory management software for the whole back of house — count the walk-in, the dry storage, and the bar on a phone, set a par on every item, and catch a shortage the morning before you 86 it, not the night you do.
Free forever for 100 items · no credit card · counts the walk-in even with no signal
A day in the life with StockZip
Open. The chef scans the QR on the walk-in door and taps through the par list — a dozen items, about six minutes. Three are under par from last night’s service and land on the order list.
Delivery lands. The line cook scans each case into the dry-storage folder as it goes on the shelf, so the count moves the moment the box does — no clipboard, no “I’ll enter it later.”
Prep and bar count. The prep cook runs the back-of-house and bar lists, and the dated perishables — cream, fresh fish, produce — get their expiry logged so the oldest stock is the first thing pulled.
Pre-shift. The bar manager pulls the low-stock view on a phone — two bottles under par, a case of tonic — and preps the reorder before the doors open instead of mid-rush.
Close. A short-dated case of cream gets written off with a note, and the movement stays on the record — so waste is a number you can see next week, not a guess at month end.
How the work flows
Walk-in, dry storage, bar, prep line — each is a folder with its own item list and its own QR code on the door. Load your existing sheet in by CSV and you are counting the same afternoon.
The team scans the QR on each area and counts what is inside — tap a row, type the number, move on. The first count sets baselines; every count after overwrites the quantity and feeds the low-stock view.
Give each item a minimum — half a pan of demi-glace, three bottles of Campari, two cases of San Pellegrino. Anything at or below its par surfaces in low-stock so the order is built before service, not after the 86.
Turn the shortlist into a purchase order to your vendor, then scan the delivery in against it so what was ordered, what arrived, and what is on the shelf all reconcile on one record.
Frequently asked questions
Free restaurant inventory spreadsheet
Not ready to set up an app yet? Start with the free inventory spreadsheet — a walk-in and bar count sheet you can fill in today and import into StockZip later.
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Free for 100 items, no credit card, and your signup price is your renewal price.