Choosing a tool
Three honest comparisons for the person deciding where a taproom tap list lives and what else has to come along with it.
Every taproom hits the same question once the wall gets past a dozen handles: where does the list actually live. Some operators run it out of the register, some out of a brewery production system, some out of a menu platform tied to a consumer beer app, and plenty still run it out of a chalk marker plus a website nobody has edited since March. Each of those answers assumes a different shape of business behind it.
These pages are written for the person who changes the keg, not for a procurement committee. They stay at the level of scope and fit, because what a taproom manager has to decide is whether a tool is trying to run the register, the cellar records and the menu at once, or whether it is trying to do one thing well in the sixty seconds after a keg blows on a Saturday. We do not quote anyone else's prices or terms here, so confirm those with the vendor.
TapListLive vs Untappd for Business
Untappd for Business suits a taproom that wants its beer list found by app users, while TapListLive suits one that wants every screen and menu correct the second a keg changes.
TapListLive vs DigitalPour
DigitalPour suits an operator who wants keg inventory and menus in one connected system, while TapListLive suits one who wants the tap list right everywhere and nothing more to maintain.
TapListLive vs Arryved
Arryved suits a taproom replacing its point of sale and its whole service flow, while TapListLive suits one that likes its register and only wants the tap list to stop lying.
Free tools
Two working calculators for the numbers taprooms argue about most: what one keg actually returns, and what clean lines cost in hours.
Working document
Four stages for staging, swapping and publishing a keg change without a bad pour or a menu that lies to the table by the window.
Written comparisons only carry you so far, because every tap wall has its own coupler types, its own screen situation and a cooler laid out by whoever was there first. Send us your handle list and we will walk a keg change through it on a call short enough to fit between deliveries. Nothing to install before you look.