The count itself, area by area
A stocktake in StockLens is a sequence of areas — cellar, back-bar, spirits store, bottle fridge. You pick an area, choose how you want to count it, and work through it. Nothing is written up afterwards, because every line is costed as it is entered.
- CountFlow for guided counting on a phone, one-handed
- Smart Sheet Capture if you prefer to print StockLens count sheets and photograph them afterwards
- Record full casks and kegs plus individual remaining-volume or fill estimates
- Part-full bottles recorded individually rather than averaged
Cask and keg counts with a clear basis
Set the correct container capacity, then record full containers and each partial fill or remaining volume. Match reviewed draught sales to the right measure to compare theoretical usage with your count. StockLens does not convert dip inches or weighing-scale readings into volume.
Tied, free, leased or managed
Tied houses can load a pubco price list as a CSV and refresh it whenever it changes. Free houses can hold more than one supplier price per product and compare them. Managed groups can roll each venue's stocktake into group reporting.
Bringing stocktakes in-house
Operators typically use StockLens to run their own counts more often than an external stocktaker would visit, and keep the stocktaker for periodic assurance. Whether you drop the stocktaker entirely is your call — the reports are the same either way.
ProofTrail: who counted what, and when
Every line records who entered it, when, and which photo or sheet it came from. When a variance question comes up three weeks later, the answer is in the stocktake rather than in someone's memory.