AccuBar Inventory Tracking System - A Product Spotlight

For wine enthusiasts with large cellars, keeping track of wine has always been a challenge. AccuBar has a combination of features that are of benefit to anyone handling large quantities of wine.

Restaurant owners and bartenders have been using AccuBar to keep track of their liquor inventories. Many sommeliers and wine collectors are now seeing how useful having a hand-held computer system like AccuBar can be.

For the past decade, G4 Technologies Corp. has been working on this system and their new AccuBeer system, which tracks keg inventory. AccuBar has streamlined taking inventory, making it much more accurate and less time-consuming. AccuBeer, which was launched in beta tests at the end of 2006, can determine how much is remaining in each keg to within a pint. This has been a boon for bars because it can tell how much has been consumed not only at the end of the night but during a shift changes. This has improved employee accountability but also allowed workers to prepare for an evening rush and know they have enough product on hand. Other industries have adapted AccuBar to track other inventories, including china, textiles, and even food.

So, how can AccuBar help wine collectors? First, AccuBar reads any barcode found on any commercially purchased wine and the user enters the number of bottles. If the wine doesn’t have a barcode, AccuBar will assign it one, which can be printed to neck hangers or other labels to attach to bins or shelves. Once these are in the system, the user just scans and enters the number of new bottles.