Comparison
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.
Comparison
TapListLive vs Arryved: Tap List or Whole Register
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.
The short answer
If your register is the thing that fights you, Arryved is built around how breweries actually serve, and replacing your point of sale will fix problems a menu tool cannot reach. If the register is fine and the only broken thing is that the screens, the website and the QR menu keep showing beer you no longer have, TapListLive fixes that this month with no hardware, no staff retraining and no conversation with a payment processor. A register change is a project; correcting the tap list does not have to be.
TapListLive and Arryved side by side
| What you are deciding | TapListLive | Arryved |
|---|---|---|
| Primary job | Keep the tap list correct on every screen, the website and the QR menu | Take payment and run beer service, with menus built from register items |
| What it replaces | Nothing, it sits next to whatever register your bar runs today | Your point of sale, including hardware, tabs and how staff ring a round |
| Scope | One job, the tap list and every surface it appears on | Service, payment, tabs and reporting across the whole taproom |
| Cost of change | A URL on the screens and one new habit at the coupler | A register project with hardware, training and a careful first weekend |
| Who uses it | The person who changes the keg, on a phone in the walk in cooler | Management plus every bartender, since it is what they ring sales on |
| Menu source | The keg change itself, recorded once and published everywhere at once | The item list the register is built on, maintained with your pricing |
| Fit | A taproom happy with its register and unhappy with its menu accuracy | A taproom outgrowing a general restaurant register built for table service |
| Pricing shape | Flat monthly tiers, One Taproom $29, Brewpub $69, Multi Location $139 | Vendor pricing, confirm current terms with them directly before comparing |
The right hand column says what kind of product Arryved is and who it is built around, not what it charges or ships this quarter. What a product covers moves over time, so verify where it stands today. TapListLive is published by MLJ, SASU and this page is written by Jimenez Julien.
Choose TapListLive when
- Your register works and replacing it is not this year's project.
- Your menus are wrong because of timing, not because of a messy item list.
- You want the fix live this month without retraining the whole bar staff.
- Your tap wall screens are TVs and you simply want them to be right.
Choose Arryved when
- You are replacing a restaurant register that never fit tabs or yard service.
- You want payment, tabs and service handled by one brewery focused vendor.
- The menu trouble is really an item list and pricing problem in the register.
The register and the tap wall are different projects
Arryved is a point of sale built around how breweries serve: tabs that stay open, service at the bar and out in the yard, and a menu that comes from the same item list the register rings. If you are replacing a general restaurant system that never fit beer service, that is the shape of the problem it exists to solve.
TapListLive does not ring a sale. It assumes you already have a register you are not eager to rip out, and that swapping it just to fix the tap list would be a large project chasing a small failure. It behaves like an add on rather than a migration, which is why most taprooms can have it running before their next keg change.
When the menu problem is really a register problem
Sometimes menus are wrong because the item list is a mess: last summer's saison still active, three spellings of the same hazy IPA, and prices only the closing manager knows. Publishing that cleanly does not help. Cleaning up the register does, and a new register can be the moment you finally do it.
Other times the item list is fine and the failure is human timing. The keg changed at 7:40 and nobody told the screens, the website or the tables. That is the failure TapListLive removes, and it does so without touching payments, staff logins or your card processing.
Switching cost and the season you do it in
Changing a point of sale in a taproom is a genuine project: hardware on the bar, staff training, and a nervous first weekend where every round takes longer. Most operators schedule that for a slow stretch in January or February, not for patio season and never in the week of an anniversary release.
Adding a tap list tool is a smaller commitment. You put a URL on the screens, embed the list on your website, print fresh QR cards and teach one habit at the coupler. If you are not ready for a register project, the tap list can still stop lying to guests this week.
Questions people ask before they choose
Does TapListLive replace my point of sale?
No. It does not take payment, run tabs or hold your item list. It handles what is on tap and every place that list appears, and it sits alongside whatever register you already run behind the bar.
Can my register menu and TapListLive disagree?
They can, so plan for it. Decide that the keg change gets recorded in TapListLive first, then have whoever manages the register mirror price and item changes there. Most disagreements come from a beer being removed in one place only.
We are shopping for a new register anyway, so what then?
Then judge brewery focused point of sale options on their own terms, because that is the bigger decision by far. Ask each of them to show you what a keg change looks like on a busy night and how fast your website and QR menu follow. Add a dedicated tap list tool if that answer is slower than you want.
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Comparison
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.
Watch one keg change before you pick
A head to head table is a reasonable way to narrow the field, but the real test is the sixty seconds after a keg blows on a Saturday. Book a short demo and we will swap a keg on a sample tap wall while you watch the bar screens, the website list and the QR menu move together. Bring whichever question this page left open.